Performing Tutankhamun: One Hundred Years of Retellings is a hybrid workshop, taking place on July 1st, in person at the University of Birmingham (Edgbaston campus) and online via zoom.
The year 2022 marks the centenary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, unearthed by a team of Egyptian excavators led by Howard Carter and financed by the fifth Earl of Carnarvon. In the hundred years that followed, in what ways have media and performance contributed to the retelling and reshaping of this historic moment and the discovery’s cultural aftermath? Whose voices have been amplified, and whose marginalized? Where has historical accuracy given way to creative license? What audiences have been catered to, and what does this tell us about the ways in which Egyptology is ‘consumed’?
The workshop is dedicated to answering the above questions. The day will include live presentations, a roundtable of invited speakers (Elizabeth Frood, Fatma Keshk, and Richard Parkinson), and an original performance based on the tomb discovery informed by archival sources held at the Griffith Institute (Oxford).
For the full program see here
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