Agenda

SUDAN: Past and Present of a Country, a Memory, an Archaeological Heritage

10.00 Greetings
Francesco Vacchiano (Rector’s Delegate for International Cooperation)
Ghalia Garelnabi Babiker (NCAM Acting Director General)
Ikhlas Abd El Latief (NCAM Director of Museums Department)

10.30 Introduction Francesca Iannarilli (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

10.45 Keynote: Nuha Abdelhafiz Abdelaziz (Khartoum University – Erasmus+ Ca’ Foscari), Sudanese heritage in confronting armed conflict

11.15 Keynote: Emanuele Morezzi (Politecnico di Torino), Myriam Pilutti Namer (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Chiara Tomaini (Istituto Veneto Beni Culturali), Protecting Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict

12.00 Voices from Sudan: Mohammed Altom (National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums of Sudan), Zuma archaeological site during the war: problems and solutions

12.30 Panel discussion chaired by Emanuele M. Ciampini (Sapienza University of Rome) with the Members of the Italian Mission in Sudan – Jebel Barkal

13.00 Lunch Break

15.00 Ongoing projects: Francesca Iannarilli (Ca’ Foscari of Venice), with Friends of Sudan and LISA Project, Being in Sudan without being in Sudan: education, dissemination and community

15.20 Ongoing projects: Sara Mohammed Mamon (Khartoum University - Erasmus+ Ca’ Foscari) – Elena Tesser (Laboratorio di Analisi dei Materiali Antichi IUAV), Paleolithic Stone Tools in the El Ga’ab Depression, West of Dongola: An Archaeological and Geological Study

15.40 Documentary film projection: Donatella Usai (Centro Studi Sudanesi e Sub-Sahariani - MAECI), Fisher-hunter- gatherers: inhabitants of the White Nile in recent prehistory

16.30 Discussion and closing remarks

Info: francesca.iannarilli@unive.it
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