Women Explorers in North Africa
BILNAS is excited to announce our first joint lecture with the Egypt Exploration Society (EES) – a fellow British Academy International Research Institute, which will explore the great contributions made to our understanding of the archaeology and other aspects of North Africa by European women explorers.
This online lecture will be presented by BILNAS’s archivist Dr Anne Marie Williamson, and combines Andrew Goudie’s extensive research on the subject with Anne Marie’s own findings from the BILNAS Archive.
Online via Zoom, free to attend, all welcome.
Please note the start times: 13:00 (UK) / 15:00 (Egypt) / 14:00 (Libya)
TO REGISTER please follow this link to the EES website: https://www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events/women-explorers-in-north-africa.html
About the Speaker
This event remains authored by Andrew Goudie but will now feature additional material from the new presenter BILNAS Archivist Dr Anne Marie Williamson.
Anne Marie holds an MA in Irish Literature from Queen’s University Belfast, and a PhD from Ulster University. Her doctoral research, completed in 2016 with the support of a D.E.L Research Studentship, focused on the mobilisation of the female body in Northern Irish women’s writing from 1900-2010.
For five years, Anne Marie was a Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham. In this role, she taught modules on the history, theory, and practice of dramatic writing and theatre production, and developed learning content for the school’s online master’s programme in Applied English.
In June 2023, Anne Marie completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Archives and Records Management (with Distinction) via distance learning at the University of Dundee. She is a member of the Archives and Records Association UK and Ireland, and an Associate Fellow of Advance HE. Since August 2024, she has served as the archivist for the British Institute for Libyan & Northern African Studies (BILNAS).
