EST Seminars - Egittologia Pisa

EST – Egyptological Seminars under the Tower

A new cycle of international conferences/seminars in Pisa “EST“, acronym of “Egyptological Seminars under the Tower“, has been scheduled at the University of Pisa (Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere).

The main aim is to bring international emerging and established scholars in Pisa in order to present their recent or ongoing research (including archaeological results) or to discuss particular targeted topics. The event aims to have a simple and regular format: a) a single lecture; or b) a round-table with two or more speakers discussing a common topic.

Seminars for the academic year 2025-2026

April 2026

1/04/2026

Prof. Andrea Manzo, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
Una prospettiva eccentrica sul Medio Regno. Indagini italo-egiziane sul porto di Mersa/Wadi Gawasis e sul suo entroterra
Gipsoteca di Arte Antica (Piazza S. Paolo All’Orto 20, Pisa) – 11.45-12.30

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY PROGETTO DI ECCELLENZA 2023-2027

March 2026

26/03/2026

Dr. Anna Consonni, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Firenze

Dall’Egitto a Firenze. Esporre e raccontare i reperti della Spedizione Franco-Toscana

Gipsoteca di Arte Antica (Piazza S. Paolo All’Orto 20, Pisa) – 11.45-12.30

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY PROGETTO DI ECCELLENZA 2023-2027

19/03/2026

Dr. Alessia Amenta, Musei Vaticani

L’Egittologia a Roma nei documenti del Fondo Ungarelli (San Carlo ai Catinari): Riscoperta del ruolo di Luigi Maria Ungarelli nella prima Egittologia scientifica

Aula Magna, Palazzo Boileau (via Santa Maria 85, Pisa) – 11.45-12.05

Dr. Mario Cappozzo, Musei Vaticani
L’Egittologia a Roma nei documenti del Fondo Ungarelli (San Carlo ai Catinari): Luigi Maria Ungarelli biblista egittologo al servizio della Chiesa di Roma

Aula Magna, Palazzo Boileau (via Santa Maria 85, Pisa) – 12.10-12.30

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY PROGETTO DI ECCELLENZA 2023-2027

12/03/2026

Dr. Jan Moje, Freie Universität Berlin
From an ‘Idolon Aegÿptiacum’ to an Egyptian museum. The development of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin from the 17th to the early 19th century
Gipsoteca di Arte Antica (Piazza S. Paolo All’Orto 20, Pisa) – 11.45-12.30

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY PROGETTO DI ECCELLENZA 2023-2027

11/03/2026

Prof. Markus Messling, Käte Hamburger Centre CURE-Universität des Saarland
On Cultural Death: Champollion’s Pisan revelations
Gipsoteca di Arte Antica (Piazza S. Paolo All’Orto 20, Pisa) – 11.45-12.30

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY PROGETTO DI ECCELLENZA 2023-2027

4/03/2026

Prof. Patrizia Piacentini, Università degli Studi di Milano
Egittologia e interdisciplinarità: il caso dell’Egyptian-Italian Mission at West Aswan
Gipsoteca di Arte Antica (Piazza S. Paolo All’Orto 20, Pisa) – 11.45-12.30

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY PROGETTO DI ECCELLENZA 2023-2027

February 2026

26/02/2026

Prof. Wolfram Grajetzki, University College London

Ancient Egyptian society – modern societies. How the modern shapes the ancient world

Aula Magna, Palazzo Boileau (via Santa Maria 85, Pisa) – 11.45-12.30

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY PROGETTO DI ECCELLENZA 2023-2027

18/02/2026

Prof. Paola Buzi, Sapienza Università di Roma
Gemelle diverse. Egittologia e Coptologia: due discipline al servizio dello studio dell’Egitto antico, tra affinità e differenze
Gipsoteca di Arte Antica (Piazza S. Paolo All’Orto 20, Pisa) – 11.45-12.30

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY PROGETTO DI ECCELLENZA 2023-2027

October 2025

21/10/2025

Prof. Yann Tristant, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Unveiling Dendara’s Pharaonic Past: New Insights from the Cemetery
Gipsoteca di Arte Antica (Piazza S. Paolo All’Orto 20, Pisa) – 16.00-16.45

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione VOLO

16/10/2025

Prof. Antonio J. Morales, Universidad de Alcalá
Identifying material and textual sources in the study of early Theban ideologies
Gipsoteca di Arte Antica (Piazza S. Paolo All’Orto 20, Pisa) – 16.00-16.45

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione VOLO

2/10/2025

Prof. Miroslav Barta, Charles University, Praga
The Old Kingdom Cemeteries at North Saqqara rediscovered
Aula C, Centro Congressi Le Benedettine (Piazza S. Paolo a Ripa D’Arno 16, Pisa) – 16.00-16.45

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione VOLO

September 2025

25/09/2025

Prof. Ahmed M. Mekawy Ouda, Cairo University
al-Athar al-Qadima, ‘ancient monuments’, in the writings of Ahmad Lutfi al-Sayyid Pasha
Gipsoteca di Arte Antica (Piazza S. Paolo All’Orto 20, Pisa) – 10.00-10.45

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione VOLO

23/09/2025

Dr. Chris Naunton
Egyptology vs Conspiracy Theory: why Egyptologists really matter in the 2020s
Gipsoteca di Arte Antica (Piazza S. Paolo All’Orto 20, Pisa) – 16.00-16.45

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione VOLO

12/09/2025

Prof. Kara Cooney, University of California, Los Angeles
Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione VOLO

Seminars for the academic year 2023-2024

June 2024

10/06/2024
Dr. Nicola Barbagli, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Universität Trier
Il faraone Domiziano: la rappresentazione dell’ultimo dei Flavi nella cultura egizia
Aula SAL-1, Palazzo ex-Salesiani (Via dei Mille 19, Pisa) – 16.30-17.30

December 2023

20/12/2023
Prof. Nozomu Kawai, Kanazawa University
New Excavation at North Saqqara: Revealing the development of funerary landscape through millennia
Aula Magna, Palazzo Boileau (Via Santa Maria 85, Pisa) – 12.00-13.00
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione VOLO

19/12/2023
International Conference
Being Well in Ancient Egypt: Health and Healing as Interpretative Instruments in the Study of Ancient Societies
Centro Congressi “Le Benedettine” (Piazza S. Paolo a Ripa d’Arno 16, Pisa) – 10.30-17.30
Programme
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione VOLO

October 2023

19/10/2023
Dr. Hannah Brittany Page, University of Pisa
Exploring the Manufacture of Middle Egyptian Clay Figurines through Chemical Analysis
Aula Magna, Palazzo Boileau (Via Santa Maria 85, Pisa) – 10.00 am
Dr. Arianna Sacco, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna
Mettendo insieme i pezzi: le reti della ceramica nell’Egitto dell’età del Bronzo medio
Aula Magna, Palazzo Boileau (Via Santa Maria 85, Pisa) – 11.00 am
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione VOLO

Seminars for the academic year 2022-2023

March 2023

23/03/2023
Dr. Carlos Gracia Zamacona, Universidad de Alcalá
The MORTEXVAR project: Valuing variability in Earlier Egyptian mortuary texts
Aula Pao A1, Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 15, Pisa) – 3.00 pm

Seminars for the academic year 2019-2020

March 2020

17/03/2020
Prof. João Zilhão, ICREA Research Professor at Universitat de Barcelona
“The Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic and Neandertal-to-modern human transitions in Europe”
THE SEMINARS HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE GLOBAL HEALTHY EMERGENCY

December 2019

16/12/2019
Dr. Daniela Picchi, Responsabile Sezione Egiziana del Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna
“L’Egitto a Bologna: una storia cittadina di antichità, collezionisti e musei”
Aula Magna, Palazzo Boileau (Via Santa Maria 85, Pisa) – 11.30 am
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione VOLO

16/12/2019
Prof.ssa Rosanna Pirelli, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”
“Iside in Campania: evidenze del culto in contesti pubblici e privati”
Aula Magna, Palazzo Boileau (Via Santa Maria 85, Pisa) – 10.15 am
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione VOLO

November 2019

07/11/2019
Prof. Robert Rollinger, Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
“How the Mediterranean became Mediterranean. Some neglected pieces of evidence for the history of the mental mapping”
Aula PAO D-1, Palazzo Carità, (Via Pasquale Paoli 19, Pisa) – 12.00 pm
Seminario di studi organizzato nell’ambito del progetto di eccellenza del Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forma del Sapere – Università di Pisa

06/11/2019
Prof. Robert Rollinger, Institut für Alte Geschichte und Altorientalistik, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
“Contextualizing the Achaemenid-Persian Empire: What does empire mean in the first millennium BCE?”
Aula PAO D-2, Palazzo Carità, (Via Pasquale Paoli 19, Pisa) – 10.15 am
Seminario di studi organizzato nell’ambito del progetto di eccellenza del Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forma del Sapere – Università di Pisa

October 2019

31/10/2019
Prof. Willeke Wendrich, Dir. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, Joan Silsbee Chair of African Cultural Archaeology
Defining “pre-“. The UCLA Shire Archaeological Project in Ethiopia
Aula PAO D-1, Palazzo Carità, (Via Pasquale Paoli 19, Pisa) – 12.00 pm
Seminario di studi organizzato nell’ambito del progetto di eccellenza del Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forma del Sapere – Università di Pisa

30/10/2019
Prof. Willeke Wendrich, Dir. Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA, Joan Silsbee Chair of African Cultural Archaeology
“Populating the Past, Acknowledging the Present Ethno- Experimental and Community Archaeology”
Aula PAO D-1, Palazzo Carità, (Via Pasquale Paoli 19, Pisa) – 10.00 am
Seminario di studi organizzato nell’ambito del progetto di eccellenza del Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forma del Sapere – Università di Pisa

Prof. Tamás A Bács, dir. Institute of Ancient Studies e Department of Egyptology della Eötvös Loránd University di Budapest, Ungheria
“Of Artists and Patrons: lessons from a late Ramesside tomb-temple on Sheikh Abd el-Qurna”
Aula PAO D-1, Palazzo Carità, (Via Pasquale Paoli, 19, Pisa) – 12.00 pm
This event has been funded by the Prof. Anna Anguissola’s PRA: “Paesaggi funerari tra rito e società. Nuovi approcci allo studio delle necropoli nel mondo antico”

Seminars for the academic year 2018-2019

May 2019

15/05/2019
Dr. Susanne Beck, curator of the Egyptian Collection of the University of Tübingen
“The text of papyrus Leiden I 347: a genre yet to be determined – structure, content, and mistakes”
Aula Pao D1, Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 15, Pisa) – 12.00 pm

08/05/2019
Dr. Isabelle Régen, Ingénieur de recherche à l’Université Paul Valéry – Montpellier 3
“A Human-like crocodile and vice-versa. Pharaonic metaphors and comparisons”
Aula Pao D1, Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 15, Pisa) – 12.00 pm

02/05/2019
Dr. Melanie Pitkin, Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge
“Alterations and appropriations. An examination of some curiously modified false doors and funerary stelae from Egypt’s First Intermediate Period”
Aula seminari Sal 3, Palazzo ex-Salesiani, (Via dei Mille 19, 3° piano, Pisa) – 12.00 pm
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione VOLO

April 2019

09/04/2019
Dr. Claudia Näser, Institute of Archaeology – UCL London
“Provisions for the dead, ritual implements, luxury objects? Conceptualising burial equipment in New Kingdom elite contexts”
Aula Pao D1, Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 15, Pisa) – 12.00 pm

February 2019

22/02/2019
Prof. Kim Ryholt, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies – University of Copenhagen
“Antiquities Trade in Egypt in the late 19th and early 20th century”
Aula seminari Sal 3, Palazzo ex-Salesiani, (Via dei Mille 19, 3° piano, Pisa) – 10.00 am

November 2018

28/11/2018
Elsbeth Geldhof, conservator and researcher
“Making Paint in Ancient Egypt. Pigments, pens and brushes and how they would have been used”
Aula seminari Sal 3, Palazzo ex-Salesiani, (Via dei Mille 19, 3° piano, Pisa) – 12.00 pm
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione VOLO

Seminars for the academic year 2017-2018

June 2018

05/06/2018
Dr. Federica Ugliano, Università di Pisa
“Eliopoli (1903-1906): un dialogo tra archivi, reperti e scoperte recenti per una nuova interpretazione degli scavi di Ernesto Schiaparelli”
Aula seminari Sal 1, Palazzo ex-Salesiani, (Via dei Mille 19, 1° piano, Pisa) – 12.00 pm

May 2018

08/05/2018
Dr. Dietrich Raue, Museum of Leipzig / Director of Heliopolis mission
The Temple of the Sun – Excavations of the Egyptian-German Mission at Matariya/Heliopolis
Aula PAO D1, Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 9, Pisa) – 12.

April 2018

20/04/2018
Dr. Paul Whelan
The Symbiosis of King and Cult: Abydos in the Old Kingdom
Aula seminari Sal 1, Palazzo ex-Salesiani, (Via dei Mille 19, 1° piano, Pisa) – 12.00 pm
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione VOLO

23/04/2018
Prof. Richard Bussmann, Universität zu Köln
Religious practice in ancient Egypt: a view from archaeology and anthropology
Aula seminari Sal 1, Palazzo ex-Salesiani, (Via dei Mille 19, 1° piano, Pisa) – 12.00 pm
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione VOLO

March 2018

13/03/2018
Prof. Lorenzo Nigro, Sapienza – Università di Roma
Gerico e l’Egitto: una città e una civiltà. Riflessioni archeologiche alla luce degli scavi della missione italo-palestinese
Aula CAR 1, Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 9, Pisa) – 12.00 pm

Seminars for the academic year 2016-2017

May 2017

11/05/2017
Stefano Vittori, Università di Pisa
Metrica egiziana: un approccio morfologico
Sala riunioni 3, Palazzo ex-Salesiani (Via Dei Mille 19, Pisa) – 11.00 am

April 2017

6/04/2017
Workshop: “La production artisanale du bois dans l’Égypte ancienne: horizons sociaux, culturels et matériels” / “The craft production of wood in Ancient Egypt: social, cultural and material horizons“
Dr. Victoria Asensi Amoros, Techniques d’identification du bois et résultats obtenus sur la collection du Nouvel Empire
Dr. Patricia Rigault, Quelques cas concrets du département selon la mise en œuvre du bois : assemblages, placages, imitations….
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Service de Coopération et d’ Action Culturelle de l’Ambassade de France in Italie and Associazione VOLO
Sala riunioni 3, Palazzo ex-Salesiani (Via Dei Mille 19, Pisa) – 11.00 am

March 2017

24/03/2017
Dr. Massimiliano Nuzzolo, Charles University, Prague
Quando sorge il sole: architettura, religione e politica nell’Egitto della V dinastia
Aula CAR 1, Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 9) – 12.00 am

21/03/2017
Dr. Micol Di Teodoro, Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London
Organizzazione e gestione della manodopera temporanea durante il Medio Regno
Aula CAR 1, Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 9) – 12.00 am

16/03/2017
Prof. Susanne Bickel, University of Basel
Use concepts of the mid-18th dynasty Kings’ Valley: social and topographical questions
Aula Barone (BAR FIL), Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 9) – 12.00 am

9/03/2017
Workshop: “La production artisanale du bois dans l’Égypte ancienne: horizons sociaux, culturels et matériels” /
“The craft production of wood in Ancient Egypt: social, cultural and material horizons“
Dr. Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia, Le bois en Égypte ancienne: production, enjeux stratégiques et aménagement du territoire
Dr. Gersande Eschenbrenner-Diemer, Production et utilisation du mobilier funéraire en bois en Moyenne Egypte: l’atelier de Meir au début du Moyen Empire
Dr. Victoria Asensi Amoros, Techniques d’identification du bois et résultats obtenus sur la collection du Nouvel Empire
Dr. Patricia Rigault, Quelques cas concrets du département selon la mise en œuvre du bois : assemblages, placages, imitations….
Sala riunioni 3, Palazzo ex-Salesiani (Via Dei Mille 19, Pisa) – 9.30 am
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Service de Coopération et d’ Action Culturelle de l’Ambassade de France in Italie

8/03/2017
Dr. Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia, CNRS, UMR 8167 Orient & Méditerranée – Paris
The gods must be crazy!: Écrire de l’histoire sociale en Égyptologie?
Aula FIL 2, Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 9) – 10.15 am

February 2017

27/02/2017
Prof. Verena Lepper, Egyptian Museum and Papyrus Collection Berlin & Humboldt University Berlin
The world in Elephantine. Contact, exchange, identity
Aula CAR 1, Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 9, Pisa) – 12.00 am

23/2/2017
Prof. Andreas Stauder, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
Controlling symbolic forms : the signs buried in tomb U-j and early power
Aula Barone (FIL BAR), Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 9, Pisa) – 12.00 am

20/02/2017
Dr. Penelope Wilson, Durham University
Life in Miniature: Votive offerings at Sais
Aula CAR 1, Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 9, Pisa) – 12 am

14/02/2017
Dr. Christina Riggs, University of East Anglia
Photographing Tutankhamun: Archaeology, Colonialism, and Ancient Egypt
Aula LIVA, Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 9, Pisa) – 12.00 am

December 2016

20/12/2016
Dr. Anna Stevens, University of Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and Deputy Director of the Amarna Project
Death and the city: The cemeteries of Amarna in their urban context
Gipsoteca, (Piazza San Paolo all’Orto, 20 Pisa) – 10.30 am
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione Studentesca VOLO

19/12/2016
Dr. Gina Criscenzo-Laycock, Garstang Museum of Archaeology, Liverpool
The Garstang Museum: A University Collection Reinvented
Aula CAR 1, Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 9, Pisa) – 10.30 am
Dr. Campbell Price, The Manchester Museum “An Image as Perfect as the Ancestors”: The Purposes of Late Period Non-Royal Sculpture
Aula CAR 1, Palazzo Carità (Via Pasquale Paoli 9, Pisa) – 11.30 am
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN FUNDED BY Associazione Studentesca VOLO