Event: ‘Daughters of Isis’ study day – Saturday February 16th 2013

Daughters of Isis: Women in Ancient Egypt

Saturday 16th February 2013

Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PT.

A series of presentations examining the lives, roles, health and deaths of ancient Egyptian women. Presented by Egyptology Online in association with the KNH Centre for Biomedical Egyptology.

 

 

 

 

PROGRAMME

9.15	REGISTRATION: tea/coffee
9.45	Welcome and Introduction
10.00	Vanishing Queens: Three Mummy Mysteries Dr Joyce Tyldesley
10.45	Medical Care for Women in Pharaonic Egypt Roger Forshaw
11.15	BREAK
11.45	Women and Literacy Dr Glenn Godenho
12.30	A Little of What you Fancy Pauline Norris
1.00	LUNCH (please make own arrangements)
2.00	The 2013 Bob Partridge Memorial Lecture Women’s Religious Roles during the Late Period: The lives and afterlives of Asru and Tasheriankh Dr Campbell Price
3.00	BREAK
3.30	The Mystery of a Wooden Cane found in an OK Female Burial: an Accessory Staff or a Walking Aid? Iwona Kozieradzka-Ogunmakin
4.00	What Skeletal Evidence can tell us about Women in Ancient Egypt Emily Marlow
4.30	Conclusion

Further details and booking information here.