Alice Stevenson invited to give Sir Charles Nicholson Lecture 2022

In the invited lecture entitled 'Challenging Collections: Ancient Egypt in the Museum 1822–1922–2022', which took place on 14 September at the University of Sydney's Chau Chak Wing Museum, Alice Stevenson discussed the histories of material excavated in Egypt and the different motivations for collecting. 

Alice traced some of the histories of material excavated in Egypt and scattered around the world, examining the many different motivations for collecting Egypt between 1822 and 2022, including in Australia, Canada, Ghana, Japan, and the UK.

Her lecture also considered material from the 1820s when hieroglyphs were first substantially deciphered, through to the 1920s when the world became enamoured with the boy king Tutankhamun, and to the present day with the legacies this leaves us in the 21st century.

Alice specialises in the archaeology of Predynastic Egypt and research on museum collections. Her recent publications include Scattered Finds: Archaeology, Egyptology and Museums (UCL Press, 2019), The Oxford Handbook of Museum Archaeology (Oxford University Press, 2022), and Egyptian Archaeology and the Twenty-First-Century Museum (Cambridge University Press, 2022).