Ana Tavares, AERA co-field director, will be giving a talk titled “The architecture of social control: two case studies from Giza” that examines power relations through the architecture of the Heit el-Ghurab and the Khentkawes sites. The talk will be part of the “Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2015” international conference in Prague.

Location: Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague
Conference dates: June 22-26, 2015
Website: http://egyptologie.ff.cuni.cz/?req=doc:konference&lang=en
Information: The conference aims to cover all principal fields of Egyptology connected to relevant aspects of the history, archaeology, environmental features, philology, art history, religion and other related subjects concerning the pyramid fields and cemeteries of Abusir and Saqqara and their adjacent areas.