Sally Katary Memorial Lectures
The Society hosts an annual Lecture in memory of one of its former members, Dr. Sally L.D. Katary, who passed away in 2016. This is a fund raising event in aid of the Sally L.D. Katary Travel Scholarship.
Recent lectures have been recorded as virtual events held online. Current members have the option to view those lectures that are online by logging in to the Members' area.
30 MAY 2026, 1PM ET. A Hybrid Event
A Provincial Community of the Pyramid Age
Bodies and Identities in the Funerary Landscape of Zawyet Sultan
by Prof. Dr. Richard Bussmann
Provincial Egypt is a prism for studying social organization at the grassroots of ancient Egyptian society. The local elites have played a pivotal role for mediating central power in their communities. Much research is focused on the nomarchs of the late Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom. The rest of the provincial population has received far less attention, not least because members of mid- and low-ranking social groups have left few texts or visual material, so mut be approached via the material culture. This talk reviews current scholarship for social modelling and presents the results of fresh fieldwork from Zawyet Sultan, Middle Egypt, to explore which future avenues of research might shed new light on bodies and identities in provincial communities.
Speaker: Richard Bussmann studied Egyptology, Assyriology and Theology at the universities of Heidelberg, Berlin and Göttingen. He obtained his PhD in 2007 from the Free University Berlin with a thesis on the local community shrines of Egypt in the Third millennium. Bussmann was a lecturer in Egyptology and Egyptian Archaeology at University College London from 2010 to 2016 and is full professor of Egyptology at the University of Cologne since 2016. He leads an excavation project in Zawyet Sultan entitled "Archaeology and Heritage in Middle Egypt" and was recently awarded an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council for the project "SUBALTERNEGY: Subalternity in early Egypt". The project explores the social organization and cultural dispositions of low-status groups in the age of the pyramids. His research interests are the archaeology and society of ancient Egypt, comparative approaches to early complex societies, the integration of visual, material and written culture, and social and cultural theory in Egyptology.
Venue: Room 179, University College, 15 King's College Circle, Toronto
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31 May 2025, 1pm EST. A Hybrid Event
'If These Walls Could Talk! Women and Agency in the Funerary Complex of Mentuhotep II'
Prof. Antonio Morales (Associate Professor in Egyptology in the Seminar of Ancient History at the University of Alcalá (UAH)
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1 June 2024, 1pm EST. A Hybrid Event
'The Grand Egyptian Museum'
Dr. Eltayeb Abbas (Assistant Minister for Archaeological Affairs at the Grand Egyptian Museum and Professor of Egyptology at Minya University).
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10 June 2023, 1pm EST. A Hybrid Event
'The Pyramid of Sahura at Abusir - New Perspectives'
Dr. Mohamed Ismail Khaled (Würzburg University; Director of the Abusir Project)
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28 May 2022, 1pm EST An Online Event
'Women’s Work: Public and Private Power in Ancient Egypt'
Dr Jean Li (Toronto Metropolitan University)
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15 May 2021, 1pm EST An Online Event
'Gaining New Perspectives on the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak: The Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) - University of Memphis Project at Karnak'
Prof. Jean Revez (UQAM) and Prof. Peter Brand (University of Memphis)
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