The Archaeo-Oriental Studies Research Group at the University of Warsaw organizes a webinar on the theme of “Power, Space, Culture”. The full day of presentations will end with a round-table discussion.
The webinar’s program includes an international line-up of speakers. They will discuss cases from Africa and the Near East.
The webinar will take place on Thursday, 16th February at 10 am on Zoom.
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- Joanna Jurewicz (University of Warsaw) – How to become a king. A cognitive analysis of making power meaningful
- Tomasz Michalik (Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw) – Between cultural differences and cognitive universals. Preliminary results of the eye-tracking research on understanding visual representations of power – Old Dongola case study
- Kinga Turkowska (University of Warsaw) – Tiglachin monument as an Ethiopian lieux de mémoire and its symbolic power
- Anna Klingofer-Szostakowska (University of Warsaw) – The City of David: Narratives of space and time
- Alula Yohannes Tadesse (Hamburg University, Center for Ethiopian and Eritrean Studies) – Ethiopian monuments, Scriptures, and magnificently built churches as symbolic. representations of space and power
- Wolbert Smidt (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena) – “Finfine” before Addis Ababa: an Oromo sacred and political space erased by a new Menilikian spatial system of power
- Magdalena Pinker (University of Warsaw) – The expression of power in architecture of medieval Islamic capitals
- Maria Carmela Gatto (Polish Academy of Sciences) – Signs of power in an ancient borderscape in the making: the case of the First Nile Cataract region
- Robert G. Morkot (Independent Researcher) – King’s Wives and the negotiation of royal and elite power in the 18th and early 19th Dynasties
- Dániel Takács (University of Warsaw) – The appearance of power in some liminal areas of ancient Egypt
- Iwana Hartmann (University of Pretoria) – The emergence of power between the San and Khoikhoi in precolonial South Africa
- Richard Alan Northover (University of South Africa) – Power, space and culture: The case of the Southern African San
Full program of the webinar and Zoom link: PDF
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