Workshop ‘Authority of State and Church in Nubia, its Expression in Costumes’

On 12 and 13 April 2024, a workshop titled ‘Authority of State and Church in Nubia, its Expression in Costumes’ will take place.

This is part of the research project ‘Costumes of Authority. The Image of Royalty and Clergy in Christian Nubia’ (NCN, Polonez bis). The purpose of the workshop is to discuss the costumes of the authorities of the Kingdom of Makuria, in the context of the pre-Christian tradition of Nubia, as well as Byzantine and Ethiopian cultures.

The workshop will take place at the Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw and will be in hybrid form.

If you are interested in attending online please contact Karel Innemée, k.innemee@uw.edu.pl.

For further information, please follow announcements on our website https://nubianauthorities.archeologia.uw.edu.pl/index.php/activities/.

The programme of workshop is available here.