Filming for 'Eye on the Needle' resumes this week, after a brief hiatus for other projects. We're excited about getting our teeth back into this project, and I'm equally keen to try out my post-training skills in front of camera. It's a steep learning curve, this tv stuff, but exciting when you get a bunch of rushes, and rewarding to see a final product on the horizon.
Let's hope we can do some good with it.
Saturday, 13 October 2012
Thursday, 11 October 2012
New Website
My new website www.drpaulharrison.com is now live. Aimed primarily at our media friends, this is the home to my projects (the upcoming documentary, Eye on the Needle, my forthcoming book, 'Profane Egyptologists', and forthcoming radio shows and public lectures).
Watch this space for news on upcoming shows. I will continue to post here, less sporadically than before, I hope, once I've done an overhaul on the aesthetics.
Watch this space for news on upcoming shows. I will continue to post here, less sporadically than before, I hope, once I've done an overhaul on the aesthetics.
Wednesday, 13 June 2012
New Website
Primarily aimed at our media friends, I'm putting a new site together as a form of online resumé/snapshot of 'me, me, me!' I hope that together with Past Preservers, it will help make my work more visible to folks seeking ruggedly handsome Egyptologists. Well...a man can dream.
It also, more importantly, will host interviews and videos of me promoting aspects of the research, including my upcoming publication of 'Profane Egyptologists: The Reconstruction of Ancient Egyptian Religion', the 'Eye on the Needle' documentary (watch this space) and my comic book project in association with Dr Will Brooker's (aka 'Dr Batman') forthcoming DCU parody, 'My So-Called Secret Identity'. . I hope this will make the works more accessible to anybody interested in these subject, including the participants who very kindly gave their time to help me complete my thesis on ancient Egyptian religion.
Watch this space...
It also, more importantly, will host interviews and videos of me promoting aspects of the research, including my upcoming publication of 'Profane Egyptologists: The Reconstruction of Ancient Egyptian Religion', the 'Eye on the Needle' documentary (watch this space) and my comic book project in association with Dr Will Brooker's (aka 'Dr Batman') forthcoming DCU parody, 'My So-Called Secret Identity'. . I hope this will make the works more accessible to anybody interested in these subject, including the participants who very kindly gave their time to help me complete my thesis on ancient Egyptian religion.
Watch this space...
Monday, 27 February 2012
Interviewed on Resonance FM for Egypt in Comic Books.
For those of you who missed me waxing comics-lyrical last night on Resonance FM, here's a link to the podcast, which covers aspects of the use of Egypt in modern comic books.
Big thanks to Alex Fitch of Resonance FM for putting this up so quickly!
Enjoy!
Thursday, 23 February 2012
Egypt and Comics: Mythology and Pop Art Reflections
"Asterix, Tintin, Thundercats, Dr Fate, Promethea and Hawkman - comics have engaged with Egypt in a range of different ways. In this talk Dr Paul Harrison analyses the manner in which Western conceptions of Egypt, heritage and legacy are portrayed in mainstream comics. Q & A included"
As advertised on the BBC,
The last one was standing room only, so please ensure you get there early. I have high hopes for this one,
Dr P
Success!
It is with great pleasure that I announce the successful attainment of my PhD. There are many of you who contributed to my research over the last four years, some of whom were instrumental (you know who you are) and to you guys I offer a huge thank you.
I know it cannot have been easy to trust an unknown entity, particularly an academic, entrenched within a hegemonic 'positivist' discipline, but I'm very grateful that you did, and I would like to assure everybody that the subjects of reconstructed and revived Egyptian religion, Egyptian Paganism, and Kemeticism received serious and balanced discussion in my work (which will be available in publication soon enough).
I also offer thanks to those academics and friends who have helped me out along the way. You know who you are.
Yours,
Dr Paul Harrison, BSc MA PhD
Monday, 30 May 2011
'Space archaeology'
For those that may have missed it (which seems impossible by now), Dr Sarah Parcak of the University of Alabama has made a number of 'archaeological discoveries' utilising satellite imagery, including 'More than 1,000 tombs and 3,000 ancient settlements.' This is, of course, hugely significant to our field, and i hope it will bring in more interest, research, funding (makes the archaeological world go round), and ultimately more people into the folds of Egypto...what? 'ology'? 'Mania'? Perhaps too pejorative.
Either way, this is sure to attract attention for a while, and hopefully open up new opportunities both within Egypt for the local populace, and without for the various interest groups involved. It is important to remember, however, that such tools are only that: tools. They can be used constructively or...well, not so positively, and I hope these resources are well-managed. We also need to remember that discovery is not excavation, nor is it interpretation, one of the most fundamental, and fundamentally overlooked, aspects of our field. My hope is that we are not so swept up in scientific advancement that we forget the dangers of the positivistic mindset, so evident in early Egyptology.
However, this represents a form of 'progression', in some sense, for Egyptology and archaeology everywhere, and I for one am curious about the possibilities on the horizon...
Either way, this is sure to attract attention for a while, and hopefully open up new opportunities both within Egypt for the local populace, and without for the various interest groups involved. It is important to remember, however, that such tools are only that: tools. They can be used constructively or...well, not so positively, and I hope these resources are well-managed. We also need to remember that discovery is not excavation, nor is it interpretation, one of the most fundamental, and fundamentally overlooked, aspects of our field. My hope is that we are not so swept up in scientific advancement that we forget the dangers of the positivistic mindset, so evident in early Egyptology.
However, this represents a form of 'progression', in some sense, for Egyptology and archaeology everywhere, and I for one am curious about the possibilities on the horizon...
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