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Silvia Zago

Dr Silvia Zago
BA, MA, PhD, FHEA

Lecturer in Egyptology
Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology
Part of
School of Histories, Languages and Cultures
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Contact

S.Zago@liverpool.ac.uk

https://liverpool.academia.edu/SilviaZago

Professional Activities

Selected Professional Activities

Event Role

  • Investigating the Early Ramesside Iconographic Tradition at Deir el-Medina: The Case of Theban Tomb 265 (Amenemipet), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Current Research in Egyptology 2024, Liverpool, 2024) (Event Role)
  • Divine Embodiment and (Re)birth in the Abydos Ritual Landscape, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, The North East Ancient Egypt Society, Durham, 2024) (Event Role)
  • (Other) Worlds in Comparison: Afterlife Notions between Egypt, Greece, and Rome, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Liverpool Classical Association, 2024) (Event Role)
  • Storie dell’altro mondo: la morte e l’aldilà in antico Egitto, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Museo Egizio, Turin, 2023) (Event Role)
  • Tales of the Otherworld: Death and the Duat in Ancient Egypt, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, American Research Center in Egypt, New England Chapter, 2023) (Event Role)

Grant Application Assessment

  • External Post-submission (German Academic Exchange Service, 2024 - present) (Grant Application Assessment)

Internal Administrative or Committee Role

  • PGR (Postgraduate Research) Co-Lead (Department, 2024 - present) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
  • ACE Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead (Department, 2022 - 2023) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
  • ACE Outreach Lead (Department, 2022 - present) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)
  • Liverpool Schools Classics Project Coordinator (Department, 2022 - present) (Internal Administrative or Committee Role)

Conference Roles

  • From the Mersey to the Nile: Studying the Rosetta Stone in Liverpool (Victoria Gallery & Museum, University of Liverpool, 2022)

Event Roles

  • Investigating the Early Ramesside Iconographic Tradition at Deir el-Medina: The Case of Theban Tomb 265 (Amenemipet), Keynote/Plenary by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Current Research in Egyptology 2024, Liverpool, 2024)
  • Tales of the Otherworld from Egypt to the Classical World, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 2024)
  • Divine Embodiment and (Re)birth in the Abydos Ritual Landscape, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, The North East Ancient Egypt Society, Durham, 2024)
  • (Other) Worlds in Comparison: Afterlife Notions between Egypt, Greece, and Rome, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Liverpool Classical Association, 2024)
  • "None who Departed Comes Back Again”: Death and the Otherworld in Ancient Egypt, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Carlisle and District Egyptology Society, 2024)
  • Storie dell’altro mondo: la morte e l’aldilà in antico Egitto, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, Museo Egizio, Turin, 2023)
  • Tales of the Otherworld: Death and the Duat in Ancient Egypt, by Invitation (Talk/Lecture, American Research Center in Egypt, New England Chapter, 2023)

Expert Opinions

  • Expert Contributor, The Database of Religious History (University of British Columbia, 2021 - present)

External Administrative or Committee Roles

  • Doctoral Dissertation External Reviewer, Invited (University of Pisa, 2023)

Grant Application Assessments

  • External Post-submission (German Academic Exchange Service, 2024 - present)

Internal Administrative or Committee Roles

  • PGR (Postgraduate Research) Co-Lead (Department, 2024 - present)
  • ULTRA Network Mentor (University, 2024 - present)
  • Member of the Garstang Museum of Archaeology Stakeholder Group (School / Institute, 2022 - present)
  • ACE Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee member (Department, 2020 - present)
  • ACE Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead (Department, 2022 - 2023)
  • ACE Outreach Lead (Department, 2022 - present)
  • Liverpool Schools Classics Project Coordinator (Department, 2022 - present)
  • ACE Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Deputy Lead (Department, 2021 - 2022)
  • Undergraduate Dissertations Coordinator (Department, 2021 - 2022)
  • ACE Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Lead (Department, 2021)
  • ACE Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Deputy Lead (Department, 2020 - 2021)

Media Appearances

  • L'Aldilà Egiziano, Kemet - L'antico Egitto in podcast (Invited, November 2024)
  • Manchester Museum: Funerary papyri, YouTube (Invited, July 2023)
  • Storie dell’altro mondo: la morte e l’aldilà in antico Egitto, Museo Egizio Turin and YouTube channel of the Museo Egizio (Invited, April 2023)
  • The Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, YouTube ('Tell Me A Story' channel) (Invited, January 2022)

Professional Body Memberships

  • Higher Education Academy (Fellow, 2023 - present)
  • Egypt Exploration Society (Member, 2023 - present)
  • International Association of Egyptologists (Professional Membership, 2022 - present)
  • Royal Historical Society (Early Career Member, 2021 - present)
  • American Research Center in Egypt (General Member, 2015 - present)
  • Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities (Board Member, 2013 - 2016)

Publication Reviews

  • Peer Reviewer, Invited (Materia Sacra: the Materiality of Religion in Ancient Egypt from the Dynastic to the Byzantine Period [special issue of Religions], Pre-publication)
  • Peer Reviewer, Invited (Prague Egyptological Studies, Pre-publication)
  • Peer Reviewer, Invited (Egitto e Vicino Oriente, Pre-publication)
  • Peer Reviewer, Invited (New Classicists Journal, Pre-publication)
  • Peer Reviewer, Invited (The Archaeological Review from Cambridge, Pre-publication)
  • Peer Reviewer, Invited (Journal of the Society for the Studies of Egyptian Antiquities, Pre-publication)