ASTENE Summer Conference
Programme
Saturday 24 July
09:45 - 10:00 - Welcome
10:00 - 11:15 - Keynote: Patrick Hart & Valerie Kennedy: Robert and Henrietta Liston in Constantinople: Translations and Transitions Link for tickets.
11:15 - 11:30 – Break
11:30 - 13:00 - Panel 1 - Women Travellers Link for tickets.
Charlotte Kelsted: “There was this condescending attitude”: British women travellers to Mandate Palestine
Amber Zambelli: “World’s Most Unusual ‘Girl Friday’”: Eileen Salama and the American Foundation Arabian Expedition
Bryony Renshaw: Kaleidoscopic Reflections on the Nile 1873-4: One Journey through the Eyes of Marianne Brocklehurst, Amelia Edwards and Jenny Lane
13:00 - 14:00 – Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 - Panel 2 – Travel & the History of Science Link for tickets.
Joachim Ostlund: Lost and Found: The Swedish scientific knowledge of Ancient Egypt, c. 1710−1740
Kathleen Sheppard: A “floating headquarters and working laboratory”: James Breasted’s Nile travel and professional Egyptology in America
Abeer Eldany and Neil Curtis: James Andrew Sandilands Grant (1840-1896)
Sunday 25 July
10:00 - 11:30 - Panel 3 - Journeys Across Time Link for tickets.
Janet Starkey: ‘Purses of Gold’: Dignitaries who travelled from Ottoman lands to Edinburgh in the 1730s
Daniele Salvoldi: One Travel, Three Narratives: A Comparative Reading of d’Athanasi, Finati, and Ricci’s Misadventures in Lower Nubia
Gina Derhard and Jan Ciglenečki: “Nudos amat heremus”: Egyptian travel accounts of the Latin Church Fathers
11:30 - 11:45 – Break
11:45 - 13:15 - Panel 4 – Authorship: Methods and Modes Link for tickets.
Paul Auchterlonie: The First Two Books Published in Devon on the Middle East: How Ellis Veryard (1657-1714) and Joseph Pitts (1663?-1739) Viewed Egypt
Leila Salem: South American Writings of Tutankhamon. Víctor Mercante and the Egyptology at the 1920s in Argentina
Imene Gannouni Khemiri: Shifting the Gaze? Imagining Tunis in Robert Lambert Playfair’s Travels in the Footsteps of Bruce in Algeria and Tunis (1877) and Handbook for Travellers in Algeria and Tunis (1878)
13:15 - 14:15 – Lunch
14:15 - 15:45 - Panel 5 - Personal Narratives Link for tickets.
Anastasija Golijewskaja: Artemy Rafalovich travel to Egypt in 1846-49, his impressions and barely known book.
Gemma Renshaw: What can be done in a winter at Thebes – Robert Hay, October-Dec 1825
Sarah Ketchley: ‘They Came to Egypt: Databases and Digital Editions of 19th Century Nile Travelogues’