International workshop for postgraduate students from Greece and Egypt Alexandria, 3-7 July 2022

This international workshop is addressed to postgraduate students from Greece and Egypt interested in the material culture of death in the eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic and Roman times. Invited speakers working on burial contexts, funerary art and architecture shall present thematic and interdisciplinary ways of analysis in which funerary archaeology provides insights on individuals and social groups. Themes that will be discussed include issues of wealth display, social, ethnic and religious identities, the social roles of particular groups of people (e.g. children, women, the elderly, elite or non-elite individuals), and the impact that major historical events may have had on the way individuals or specific groups of individuals treated their dead.

The workshop is organized by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) and the Archaeological Society of Alexandria (ASA), in collaboration with the Alexandrian Center of Hellenistic Studies (ACHS) of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, within the frame of the Memorandum of Understanding that was signed between ASA and NKUA in 2021.

Attendance of the workshop is free of charge. For public health and logistical reasons, however, it is necessary to register for the event by June 15, 2022. For this purpose please contact the workshops’ coordinators Assist. Prof. Nikolas Dimakis (nikdimakis@arch.uoa.gr) and Dr. Kyriakos Savvopoulos (savvopoulos1977@gmail.com).