The recordings of the Invisible Networks seminar are now available. Thanks are due to the Audiovisual Media Service of the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Seville for their excellent work in making this possible.
The International Seminar Invisible Networks: patronage in Old Kingdom funerary cult was organised by the research project ‘Invisible Networks: patronage in Old Kingdom funerary cult’ funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities of the Government of Spain (PID2022-142974NA-I00). Held on 6 March 2025 in the Aula Diego Angulo of the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Seville, the seminar brought together all the members of the project who shared the latest advances in their research with members of the university community and the general public.
Here are the links to each of the presentations:
Opening of the seminar by Dr María Antonia Carmona, Dean of the Faculty of Geography and History of the University of Seville, Dr José Carlos Saquete, Director of the Department of Ancient History and Dr José Miguel Serrano, Professor of Egyptology at the University of Seville.
Dr Raúl Sánchez Casado (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain): El proyecto Redes Invisibles: desenredando las redes del culto funerario del Reino Antiguo
Dr Juan Carlos Moreno García (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France): Culto funerario y sociedad en Elefantina: una ventana a las relaciones sociales ocultas en una sociedad provincial
Dr Uroš Matić (University of Essen, Germany): Gender, violence and inequality in Old Kingdom Egypt
Dr Émilie Martinet (Université Paris IV Sorbonne, France): Some thoughts on the emergence of provincial elites and the process of social stratification (Old Kingdom)
Iker Fresneda Pérez (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain): Los artesanos como propietarios de monumentos funerarios en el Reino Antiguo
Dr Francisco Borrego Gallardo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain): Origen y desarrollo inicial del concepto de 'veneración' en el culto funerario del Reino Antiguo
Dr Rémi Legros (Université de Lyon, France): Spatial clues for the identification of invisible patronage
Dr Leire Olabarria (University of Birmingham, UK): Sustentando relaciones: parentesco y patronazgo como modelos de reciprocidad asimétrica en el antiguo Egipto
