FREE London lecture: Professor William Y Adams, The Education of a Nubiologist
Event Info
Host: EES
Type: Education - Lecture
Time and Place
Start Time: Thursday, 12th August 2010, 6:30 pm
End Time: Thursday, 12th August 2010, 8:00 pm
Location: The EES
Street: 3 Doughty Mews
City/Town: London WC1N 2PG
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Description
"There have been many dramatic and unexpected turning points in my career but surely none as dramatic or as unexpected as the one that occurred on July 18, 1959. On that date Nettie and I ... found waiting a letter from UNESCO, offering me a position in the Republic of Sudan. ... It was only a four-month consulting contract but my instinct told me from the start that that beachhead could probably be enlarged once we were on the ground. Indeed it was; we stayed seven years. ... (As) water was scheduled to rise in five years and drown five thousand years of history, there wasn't a moment to lose ... neither the sense of urgency nor the sense of excitement ever left us." From The Road from Frijoles Canyon: Anthropological Adventures on Four Continents by William Y. Adams (Albuquerque, 2009).
We are delighted that Professor Adams will be joining us to share his memories of working in Egypt and Sudan, in a year when he and his wife Nettie have made major contributions to the Society's publications programme with the appearance of Qasr Ibrim. The Earlier Medieval Period (see the link above).