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‘Alexandria: (Re)activating Common Urban Imaginaries’ offered a training process that aimed to nurture the historical, societal and artistic knowledge and skills of both heritage and arts professionals. This collective knowledge was generated through a series of 4 workshops specifically addressed at a general audience and professionals such as archaeologists, historians, curators, urbanists, architects, students, artists and scientists.

The themes and set-up of each workshop were developed and communicated over the project’s course. Each address one or more of the exhibition’s themes and was tailored to the organising partner’s area of expertise. The trainings took place in Leiden (Leiden University), Morlanwelz (Musée Royal de Mariemont) in October 2022, Brussels (BOZAR – Centre for Fine Arts),Aarhus (Kunsthal) and Alexandria throughout 2023.

Alexandrian Echoes: A dialogue

Symposium – June 8, 2023 – Organized at the Institut français d’Egypte à Alexandrie.

The ambition of the project “Alexandria: (re)activating common urban imaginaries” was to ‘think with Alexandria’ in order to create new ideas at the intersection of heritage, cultural innovation and the development of (Mediterranean and European) metropoleis […]

  • Public symposium: ‘The global cosmopolis. Past, present and future of the city of Alexandria’

    Public symposium – January 20-21, 2022 Leiden – Old Observatory (https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/old-observatory) room B 104 and online (how to connect) Founded by Alexander the Great, Alexandria developed into the economic and cultural centre of the ancient world during the third century BCE. In the final two centuries BCE, Alexandria truly was a world city, a cosmopolis […]

  • Training of professionals: ‘Ancient Alexandria and its cultural heritage’

    Workshop proposed – 28-29th October 2022 Royal Museum of Mariemont (http://www.musee-mariemont.be/index.php?id=19019) The Royal Museum of Mariemont organised two days of conferences for the general public, presented by international specialists on ancient Alexandria. Friday 28 October at BOZAR was devoted to ancient and recent archaeological research, both on land and underwater, with an overview of the […]

  • Alexandrian Echoes: A dialogue

    Symposium organized at the Institut français d’Egypte à Alexandrie, June 8 2023, by Leiden University, Mucem and Marwa Benhalim. Registration for the Symposium on the 8th of June : click here The ambition of the project “Alexandria: (re)activating common urban imaginaries” was to‘think with Alexandria’ in order to create new ideas at the intersection of […]