Adam Fagbore
PhD Researcher
Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
Adenauerallee 18–22
D-53113 Bonn
+49 228 73 62566
afagbore@uni-bonn.de
Member of
- Research Area D - Labor and Spatiality
- Research Group Punishment, Labor and Dependency
Lecturer in Egyptology
Academic Profile
Institutional Punishment and Organized Violence as Normative Modes of Patronage, Labor, and Governance in Pharaonic Egypt
My project will analyse the balance between the role of deliberate displays of institutional violence and how various forms of punishment acted as modes of social organisation in the pre-classical world, in which state hierarchy in one context, is to be examined in relation to the degree of penetration of state power into hierarchical forms of behaviour at local level, and then how this overlaps with the role of patron; client obligation, of service and handing over of production in return for physical, social, and economic protection. My research interests in Egyptology centre on wider diachronic shifts seen in the development, conceptualisation, and suppression of royal mortuary traditions.
2019–2023
Ph.D. in Egyptology at the University of Bonn, Germany.
2016–2017
MA in Egyptology with Distinction at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
2013–2016
First Class BA in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
since 2020
Lecturer in Egyptology, Ägyptisches Museum, University of Bonn, Germany.
2019–2023
Research Associate, Bonn Centre for Dependency and Slavery Studies, University of Bonn, Germany.
2014–2018
Volunteer Assistant to the Curatorial staff at the Garstang Museum, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.
BA class "Mittelägyptische Lektüre III" (Year 3: Winter Semester) at University of Bonn
2023
BA class "Neuägyptische Lektüre I" (Year 3: Summer Semester) at University of Bonn
2022–2023
BA class "Mittelägyptische Lektüre III" (Year 3: Winter Semester) at University of Bonn
2022
BA class "Neuägyptische Lektüre I" (Year 3: Summer Semester) at University of Bonn
2021–2022
BA class "Mittelägyptische Lektüre III" (Year 3: Winter Semester) at University of Bonn
2020–2021
BA class "Mittelägyptische Lektüre III" (Year 3: Winter Semester) at University of Bonn
2022
"Freedom and Liberation in Pharaonic Egypt," Freedom and Liberation in Mediterranean Antiquity, International Conference 5-8 October 2022, at the University of Bonn, 6th October 2022.
2021
"Defining Freemen in Pharaonic Egypt," Neue Forschungen der Ägyptologie in Nordrhein-Westfalen at the Hofhörsaal des Institutes für Ägyptologie und Koptologie der Universität Münster, 2nd December 2021.
2021
"Punishment and the Revenue Extraction Process in Pharaonic Egypt," Punishment, Labour and the Legitimation of Power, International Conference 18–19th February 2021, at the Heinz Heinen Center for Advanced Study in Bonn, 18th February 2021.
2021
"Presentation of the Conference," Punishment, Labour and the Legitimation of Power, International Conference 18–19th February 2021, at the Heinz Heinen Center for Advanced Study in Bonn, 18th February 2021.
2020
"Punishment, Labour, and Dependency in the Rural Countryside of Pharaonic Egypt," Hull-Bonn-Leiden Seminar, at the University of Leiden, 25th November 2020.
2020
"Control and compulsion in the borderlands of Middle Kingdom Nubia," Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt, 3rd Lady Wallis Budge Egyptology Symposium at the University of Cambridge, 27th August 2020.
2020
"Patronage, Punishment, and the Peasantry in Pharaonic Egypt," Neue Forschungen der Ägyptologie in Nordrhein-Westfalen at the Egyptology museum, University of Bonn, 23th January 2020.
2019
"The Lexicon of Compulsory Labour in Old Kingdom Egypt," "Work" between notion, practice and concept: Searching for traces in Pharaonic Egypt, Egyptology Workshop, University of Bonn (Egyptology museum), 12th December 2019.
2019
Joint presentation with Ludwig Morenz on the Bonn Egyptology department project: "Arbeit" zwischen Begriff, Praxis und Konzept: Spurensuche im pharaonischen Ägypten," "Work" between notion, practice and concept: Searching for traces in Pharaonic Egypt, Egyptology Workshop, University of Bonn (Egyptology museum), 12th December 2019.
2019
"The Corvée and Fields of Sites of Coercion in Late Old and Middle Kingdom Egypt," European Labour History Network International Conference, International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam, 20th September 2019.
2021
Organiser of University of Bonn International Conference "Punishment, Labour and the Legitimation of Power," held at the Heinz Heinen Center for Advanced Study in Bonn on the 18th and 19th February 2021.
2019
Organiser of University of Bonn International Conference "'Work' between notion, practice and concept: Searching for traces in Pharaonic Egypt, held at the Egyptology Museum in Bonn on the 12th and 13th November 2019.
2019
Organiser of University of Bonn Workshop “Violence, Punishment, and Labour in Ancient Egypt”, held at the Egyptology Museum in Bonn on 15th January 2019.
- Member of the working group Free and Unfree Labour of the European Labour History Conference (ELHN)
Monographs, Special Issues, and Edited Volumes
- 2023. As editor. With Christian de Vito and Eric Vanhaute. Punishing Workers, Managing Labour. International Review of Social History 68(S31).
Peer Reviewed Articles and Chapters
- 2023. "Punishment, Patronage, and the Revenue Extraction Process in Pharaonic Egypt." In International Review of Social History 68(S31): 53–71.
- 2023. With Christian de Vito. "Introduction: Punitive Perspectives on Labour Management." In International Review of Social History 68(S31): 1–14.
- 2022. "The Amduat Tomb of Ahmose I at South Abydos: Defining Selective Archaism in Royal Funerary Architecture as Forms of Cultural Expression." In Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 50: 87–107.