Giovedì 11 dicembre e venerdì 12 dicembre si svolgerà a Pisa il convegno internazionale dal titolo “Recentering the Formation of Modern Egyptology: Egypt, Pisa and Livorno 1770s–1825”.
L’evento è organizzato dall’Associazione VOLO – Viaggiare Oltre L’Orizzonte con i contributi per le attività studentesche dell’Università di Pisa.
Programma
Giovedì 11 Dicembre
Aula Magna, Palazzo Matteucci (Piazza Torricelli 2)
9:00-9:15
Welcome and institutional greetings
Prof. Stephen Quirke (University College London)
Prof. Gianluca Miniaci (University of Pisa)
9:15-9:30
Gianluca Miniaci (University of Pisa)
Pisa 1825–1826: Ippolito Rosellini and its Historical Context
9:30-9:50
Matteo Calcagni (University of Pisa)
Commerce, Culture and Continuity: Tuscan–Egyptian Trade from the 16th to the 18th Century
9:50-10:10
Alessandro Orengo (University of Pisa)
La comunità armena di Livorno come centro di commerci e di produzione culturale nei secoli XVII-XIX
10:10-10:30
Despina Vlami (Academy of Athens) – online
From Alexandria to Livorno. The Greek merchant diaspora and the trade of Egyptian antiquities in the 19th century
10:30-10:50
Andrea Addobbati (University of Pisa)
Il mistero del magazzino delle mummie nella Livorno del ‘700
10:50-11:20
Coffee Break
11:20-11:40
Daniela Picchi (Museo Civico Archeologico, Bologna)
Not Just a Matter of Mummies
11:40-12:00
Mattia Mancini (University of Pisa)
The Arrival of Egyptian Antiquities at the Port of Livorno in the first half of the 19th Century
12:00-12:20
Lucia Patrizio Gunning (University College London)
Caught between two systems: Consul Henry Salt and diplomatic collecting in the Ottoman Empire
12:20-12:40
Anne Haslund Hansen (National Museum of Denmark)
Egyptian artefacts in Copenhagen – the revision of the Royal Danish Kunstkammer in 1826
12:40-14:30
Lunch
14:30-14:50
Jane Murphy (Colorado College, USA)
The Sciences in and of Egypt, c. 1750-1825
14:50-15:10
Stephen Quirke (University College London)
On integrating economic, intellectual and social histories of Egypt with the Egyptological histories of archaeology and of museums: practical prospect or interdisciplinary impasse?
15:10-15:30
Clare Lewis (University College London)
Between archives, libraries, museums and learned societies: spaces, places and impulses behind the inception of Egyptology in academia
15:30-16:00
Coffee break
16:00-16:20
Hend Mohammed (Minya University, Egypt)
Rosellini and the Rituals of Reception: Hospitality under Muhammad Ali in Comparative Perspective (1800s–1820s)
16:20-16:40
Daniele Cianchi (Biblioteca Universitaria di Pisa)
Ippolito Rosellini oltre l’Egittologia: la direzione della Biblioteca Universitaria di Pisa
16:40-17:00
Mattia Mancini (University of Pisa)
Pisa 1825–1826: Ippolito Rosellini and its world’s first academic class of Egyptology
Venerdì 12 Dicembre
Museo della Grafica (Palazzo Lanfranchi – Lungarno Galileo Galilei 9)
9:30-12:00
Informal workshop amongst the speakers
12:00-12:30
Alessandro Tosi (University of Pisa)
Keynote Lecture – Sedotti dalle piramidi: l’Egitto nelle arti dell’Ottocento Toscano
12:45-13:30
Inauguration and visiting of the exhibition “Ippolito Rosellini, Pisa e la nascita dell’Egittologia moderna”
