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The closing conference of EGYLandscape programme will take place at Aix-en-Provence, 6-8 September 2022.  This three-year project, the first of its kind, aims to explore the historical landscapes of Egypt throughout the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries and is comprised of leading experts in a diverse array of specialties including archeology, history and environmental studies. Jointly funded by the French and German science foundations — Agence nationale de la recherche (ANR) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) — the EGYLandscape Project is co-directed by Prof. Nicolas Michel (Aix-Marseille University, France) and Prof. Albrecht Fuess (University of Marburg, Germany). (more information on the project)

PROGRAMME

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Aix-en-Provence, 6-8 September 2022

 Tuesday 6 September

Morning: A Tour of Aix-en-Provence

17h30 Albrecht Fuess & Nicolas Michel: Welcome and Introduction

18h00 Nelly Hanna, The American University in Cairo: Keynote Lecture (online)

Dinner at the restaurant

Wednesday 7 September

Each communication 20 minutes, plus 30 minutes for discussion after two communications

9h20 Welcome and coffee

Geoarcheology, Geohistory and Landscape

9h40-10h00 Anthony Quickel, Philipps Universität Marburg: Descriptions of Weather in Mamluk Sources

10h00-10h20 Maël Crépy, IFAO, Cairo (online): Reconstruction of the Environments and Landscapes of Egypt Since the 13th Century Through Geoarchaeology and Geo-history: Challenges, Hypotheses and Possibilities for Research

10h20-10h50 Discussion

10h50 Coffee break

11h20-11h40 Stuart Borsch, Assumption University, Worcester, MA: Human Impact on the Nile: 1348-1908 CE

11h40-12h00 Nicolas Michel, Aix-Marseille University: Towards a Geographical History of Pre-Modern Middle Egypt: Issues of Spatial and Temporal Scale

12h00-12h30 Discussion

12 h 30 Lunch

 

Tribes and Bedouins

14h-14h20 Yossef Rapoport, Queen Mary University of London: The Great Arab Rebellions, 1250-1350. A Re-appraisal

14h20-14h40 Adam Sabra, University of California, Santa Barbara: From al-Buhayra to Istanbul and Back Again: An Egyptian Tribal Shaykh in the Wider Ottoman World

14h40-15 h10 Discussion

15h10 Coffee break

 

On Economy

15h40-16h00 Alison Gascoigne, University of Southampton: Providing Pots for Cairo: Urban and Rural Resourcing of Medieval Ceramics Industries

16h00-16h20 Zoe Griffith, Baruch College, New York (online): Late-Eighteenth-Century Egypt: A ‘General Crisis’ or Structural Readjustment?

16h20-16h50 Discussion

Dinner at the restaurant

 

Thursday, 8 September

9h00 Welcome and coffee

On Land Status and Fiscality

9h20-9h40 Igarashi Daisuke, Waseda University, Tokyo (online): Rural Administration, Tax-Farming, and the Mutadarriks in Egypt from the Late 14th to the Early 16th Centuries

9h40-10h00 Magdi Guirguis, Kafr el Sheikh University: Coptic Monasteries’ Land-Holding of rizaq ihbasiyya, Thirteen-Eighteenth Centuries

10h00-10h30 Discussion

10h30 Coffee break

11h-11h20 Clément Onimus, Université Paris VIII–Vincennes–Saint-Denis: Political Radicality and Land Regime : Analysing a Revolutionary Moment in the Mamluk Era

11h20-11h40 Albrecht Fuess, Philipps Universität Marburg: Public vs. Private: Mamluk Land Reforms in the Eve of the Ottoman Threat

11h40-12h10 Discussion

12h10 Lunch

On Animals, Mankind and Hunting

13h30-13h50 Heba Saad, Alexandria University: Birds in the Political and Social Context During the Mamluk Period

13h50-14h10 Shereen Elkabbani, Library of Alexandria: Hunting in Mamluk Egypt: Entertainment for the Sultans and Furusiyya Practice for their Soldiers

14h10-14h30 Didier Inowlocki, INALCO, Paris: 1906, The Dinshaway Incident, or Dying for Animals

14h30-15h00 Discussion

15h00 Coffee break

On Landscape

15h30-15h50 Paulina Lewicka, University of Warsaw: On Water-Buffalo, Rice Fields and Vanishing Vineyards: A Survey of Innovations and Changes in the Agricultural Landscape of Egypt from the Arab Conquest to the 16th Century

15h50-16h10 Ghislaine Alleaume, IREMAM, CNRS: Water Management, Land Use, and Population in the Low Lands of Northern Delta 16^th-19^th C.

16h10-16h40 Discussion

16h40 Coffee break

17h00 Fabrice Dubertret: Presentation of the webGIS

18h00 Albrecht Fuess & Nicolas Michel: Final remarks

 

Friday, 9 September

For those who would like to stay a little longer: visit of the replica of the Grotte Cosquer (ca. 32000 BC): https://www.grotte-cosquer.com/en/homepage/

 and/or of the exhibition “Pharaon super-star” at the MUCEM, Marseilles: https://www.mucem.org/en/pharaoh-superstars