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AEMES Friday 7th to Sunday 9th May 2010 Weekend Conference

AEMES hosts a Study/Conference Weekend with the EES (Egypt Exploration Society) & PEF (Palestine Exploration Fund)

Draft Programme

Friday:
17:00 – 18:00 Registration
18:30 Dinner
19:40 Chairman’s welcome
19:45 Margaret Beaumont: “Archives,Scripture and Kinglists – how Ancient Egypt and Palestine saw their own History” The Baker Memorial Lecture

Saturday:
08:30 Breakfast
09:20 AEMES Annual General Meeting
10:15 – 11:15 EES Patricia Spencer: The Egypt Exploration Society– The Early Years
11:25 Tea/coffee
11:45 – 12:45 PEF Felicity Cobbing: Discovering Jerusalem: The Palestine Exploration Fund in the Holy City
13:00 Lunch
14:20 – 15:20 EES Aidan Dodson: The Egypt Exploration Society at Abydos
15:30 Tea/Coffee
16:00 – 17:00 PEF Rupert Chapman: Ahab’s House of Ivories: The Palace of Ancient Israel
18:15 Dinner
19:30 Evening event to be announced.

Sunday:
8:30 Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30 PEF Felicity Cobbing: From Cairo to Jerusalem: The Beersheba Campaign of 1917
10:40 Tea/Coffee
11:00 – 12:00 EES Aidan Dodson: The Egypt Exploration Society at Saqqara
12:15 Lunch
13:20 – 14:20 PEF Rupert Chapman: Herod the Great: Egypt, Rome and Palestine
14:30 Tea/Coffee
14:50 – 15:50 EES Chris Naunton: The EES Lucy Gura Archive– What it contains and why we should preserve it
16:00 Close

For infomation about booking, please email Debbie on khepera@tamador.freeserve.co.uk

Full details of the speakers and their topics will be forwarded on booking. Conference Fees & Booking Form

The College is set in pleasant surroundings and offers accommodation in either single or twin-bedded rooms, which are equipped with hand-basins and tea/coffee-making facilities. Soap and hand-towels are provided.

Fully accessible ground floor rooms: A limited number are available on request. Some of these rooms include emergency pull cords and can be supplied with monitoring equipment for the hard of hearing. All signage is also in Braille. All downstairs bathrooms/shower rooms are fully accessible with emergency pull cords.

TV facilities are available in the house lounges and in the main reception/dining area.

Fully licensed bar: This is a located on the first floor of the main building accessed by stairs or passenger lift

Induction loop facilities are available in the lecture hall.

Any specific accommodation or venue queries prior to the event should be addressed with the organisers AEMES, and during the event with the College Reception (who will be available all weekend) or any AEMES Committee member.

Free car parking in the College grounds.

(Please note that the organisers reserve the right to adjust the programme should unavoidable circumstances arise.)