About Current Research in Egyptology conferences
CRE is a postgraduate conference set up to facilitate research and foster ties between students of British and worldwide universities who are conducting research in Egyptology.
Originally set up by students at the University of Oxford in 2000, the conference has been an annual event and has been hosted by major centres for Egyptology in the UK, including Liverpool, Birmingham, Durham, Cambridge, and again in Oxford in 2006. More recently the conference has grown considerably with the numbers of delegates at Swansea (2007) and Manchester (2008) markedly increasing. Now heading into its tenth year, CRE is again at Liverpool.

Each conference brings something new to the CRE organisation as a whole and it is anticipated that this will continue by ensuring that the conference is held routinely at all the universities in Britain which conduct research in Egyptology, not just of the Pharaonic period but also Palaeolithic, Neolithic, Coptic, Islamic and any other period of time that humans have been resident in the Nile Valley and associated regions.

Each year’s conference has an associated publication, a collection of submitted and peer reviewed papers that reflect the nature and diversity of the studies currently being conducted in Egyptology. Originally published by Archaeopress, the more recent publications have been with Oxbow and are readily on sale at the conference or online on the publishers’ websites.

Although a postgraduate conference, CRE also welcomes anyone with an interest in Egyptology to attend. With so many societies and groups with an active interest in Egyptological research it is of vital importance to CRE to foster these close ties.

CRE is set up in a democratic fashion, with each University who wishes to hold the conference submitting a presentation at the AGM. The successful university then has an organising committee that plans the next conference, while a permanent committee give assistance while also focusing on the more long term future of the conference. From 2009, and in order to allow as many students to participate in this process as possible, each person can only remain on the permanent committee for a total of three years, whether in one position or a number. The current positions are listed on the Contacts page.