Lectures
Making memories in Middle Kingdom Egypt – Leire Olabarria
info@museitorino.it
011 44 06 903
From Monday to Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
On Thursday 22nd February 2024, at 6 pm, in collaboration with ACME (Amici e Collaboratori del Museo Egizio) we will host the lecture held by Leire Olabarria (University of Birmingham).
Often seen as material witnesses of a desire to commemorate, monuments need to be understood within a network of relations that includes humans, landscapes, and other monuments. Egypt, which has been frequently labelled as a culture of monumentality, provides a prime example to investigate this material dimension of memory. In this lecture I will take Middle Kingdom Abydos as a case study to explore the potential of monuments to create, foster, and perpetuate acts of memory. A repertoire of techniques could be used to prompt remembrance in this context, and I will focus on ideas of embodiment to characterise memory as a performative practice.
Leire Olabarria holds a DPhil in Egyptology from the University of Oxford. Currently she is a Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Birmingham, where she also acts as Academic Lead of the Eton Myers Collection. Her main research areas include kinship and marriage, ritual landscapes, monumentality, memory, funerary archaeology of the Middle Kingdom, and the construction of Egyptological knowledge. She is also interested in the reception(s) of ancient Egypt in popular culture, having published on heavy metal music and counterfactual literature.
The event will be held in English, admission is free with a reservation on Eventbrite. Click HERE to book your place.
The lecture will be broadcast via streaming on the Museum's Facebook page and Youtube channel
Often seen as material witnesses of a desire to commemorate, monuments need to be understood within a network of relations that includes humans, landscapes, and other monuments. Egypt, which has been frequently labelled as a culture of monumentality, provides a prime example to investigate this material dimension of memory. In this lecture I will take Middle Kingdom Abydos as a case study to explore the potential of monuments to create, foster, and perpetuate acts of memory. A repertoire of techniques could be used to prompt remembrance in this context, and I will focus on ideas of embodiment to characterise memory as a performative practice.
Leire Olabarria holds a DPhil in Egyptology from the University of Oxford. Currently she is a Lecturer in Egyptology at the University of Birmingham, where she also acts as Academic Lead of the Eton Myers Collection. Her main research areas include kinship and marriage, ritual landscapes, monumentality, memory, funerary archaeology of the Middle Kingdom, and the construction of Egyptological knowledge. She is also interested in the reception(s) of ancient Egypt in popular culture, having published on heavy metal music and counterfactual literature.
The event will be held in English, admission is free with a reservation on Eventbrite. Click HERE to book your place.
The lecture will be broadcast via streaming on the Museum's Facebook page and Youtube channel
info@museitorino.it
011 44 06 903
From Monday to Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.
