British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

10.30

Coffee

11.00  

Welcome and Introduction: Nicholas Postgate

11.30

UrIII to Old Babylonian: institutional continuities and discontinuities
Tonia Sharlach (Harvard)
Chair: Nicholas Postgate

12.30

Lunch

1.30

Is visible change real change? (dis)continuity in the administration of Egypt 2000-1700BC
Stephen Quirke (London)
Chair: John Tait

2.30

The Neo Babylonian Achaemenid transition
Michael Jursa (Vienna)
Chair: Amelie Kuhrt

3.30

4.00

Ancient foundations, new structures: the administration of early Islamic Egypt
Petra Sijpesteijn (Oxford)
Chair: Dorothy Thompson

5.00

Islamic rule, Turkish style: the survival of pre-Islamic statecraft in Seljuq Iran
Carole Hillenbrand (Edinburgh)
Chair: Chase Robinson

6.00

Reception

10.00

Dynastic change and institution adminstration in Southern Mesopotamia in the latter 3rd Millienium BCE: Evidence from seals and sealing practices
Richard Zettler (Pennsylvania)
Chair: Harriet Crawford

11.00

11.30

The rod and ring: royal iconography from Ur III to Middle Babylonian
Kathryn Slanski (Yale)
Chair: Roger Matthews

12.30

Lunch

1.30

Tradition, innovation and researching the past in Libyan, Kushite and Saite Egypt
Robert Morkot (Exeter)
Chair: John Tait

2.30

Persian conquerors, Babylonian captivators
Erica Ehrenberg (New York University)
Chair: Georgina Herrmann

3.30

Tea

4.00

Egypt and the Graeco-Roman world: the iconography of empire
Alan Bowman (Oxford)
Chair: Eleanor Robson

5.00

The Royal Hunt in Islamic Art: a symbol of power or the power of a symbol?
Sheila Canby (British Museum)
Chair: Oya Pancaroglu

Summary
Harriet Crawford