The Inaugural Annual Brunner Lecture in Egyptology
University of Liverpool
‘The Art of Writing: Ancient Egyptian Artists and the Origins of Alphabet’
Prof. Dimitri Laboury


Thu 21st March 2024 5:15PM (Doors Open at 5:00PM)

502 TEACHING HUB Lecture Theatre 3, Liverpool, L3 5TR

The Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool is delighted to announce the inaugural Annual Brunner Lecture in Egyptology, open to the public and to members of the University.

The lecture will be given by Professor Dimitri Laboury, Chair of ancient Egyptian Art History at the University of Liège, Belgium.

After the lecture, there will be a drinks reception open to all those attending: please sign-up here on Ticketsource in order that we can plan for catering.

Dimitri Laboury is specialized in the study of Ancient Egyptian cultural history through the art of Pharaonic civilization. During this last decade, he devoted most of his research efforts to the analysis of painterly practices in the Theban Necropolis, a famous site on the UNESCO world heritage list, and more generally on the study of artists, their role and status in ancient Egypt. He made most of his career as a researcher of the Belgian National Foundation for Scientific Research – FNRS at the University of Liège, Belgium, where he has recently been appointed as full professor for a newly created chair of ancient Egyptian art history.

This venue is Building 502 (D6) on the campus map:

Forthcoming Exhibition



The exhibition ‘Creatures of the Nile’ will run from May to October 2024 At the University of Liverpool’s Victoria Gallery and Museum,

open to the public every Tuesday-Saturday, free of charge.

It will feature the Egyptian and Sudanese collections of the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, with additional artefacts on loan from National Museums Liverpool and Manchester Museum.


BOOK SALES
At each Society meeting held in Mayer Hall a selection of Egyptology books is available for sale at very reasonable prices.