Symposium 2020 - Weekend Agenda
Details of the Agenda for the weekend of the 2020 Annual Symposium/Colloquium can be found below. Due to Covid restrictions, all papers were presented remotely via Zoom. The Society wishes to thank Stephen Ficalora whose technical work with this, our first Zoom event, allowed our participants from around the globe to seamlessly hear the speakers.
Scholars' Colloquium Schedule,
Day 1 - Friday, November 6th
9:00am - 4:00pm EST
9:00 The Old Kingdom’s “Second Style”: Where Did It Come From and How Did It Get There?
Prof. Tara Prakash (College of Charleston)
9:30 New evidence of scenes related to the land Punt during the reign of Thutmosis III?
Linda Chapon (University of Granada, University of Tübingen)
10:00 Hathor, Mistress of Thebes, who is in Djeser-djeseru.. Role of the goddess on the courtyard of the Complex of Royal Cult in the temple at Deir el-Bahari
Ada Madej (University of Warsaw)
10:30 “I brought everything good from the country of the enemy even their clothes”: The Military and Civil items in the New Kingdom Plunder Lists
Gehad Mohamed Ibrahim Bakr (Minia University)
11:00 The Relationship between nHH and Dt with the Doors of Heaven
Mennah Aly (Helwan University)
11:30 Dancers and Mothers: Change and Continuity in Nude Female Figurines
Dr. Charlotte Rose (University of Pennsylvania)
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1:00 Les connexions théologiques et spatiales des temples de Khonsou et d’Opet à Karnak
Dr. Abraham I. Fernández Pichel (Membre associé Centre franco-égyptien d’étude des temples de Karnak (CFEETK))
1:30 The Coffin of Padikhonsu, ROM 906.28.10
Gayle Gibson (Royal Ontario Museum) and Mark Trumpour (In Search of Ancient Egypt in Canada)
2:00 The Symbolic Power of Monumental Enclosure Walls in Pharaonic Egypt
Oren Siegel (University of Chicago)
2:30 Flowing across the world: the adventures of Egyptian waterclocks
Prof. Sarah Symons (McMaster University)
3:00 Past and present perceptions of the Theban necropolis: unveiling the Queens’ Valley landscape
Dr. Emanuele Casini (University of Vienna)
3:30 The Mystery of the Unnamed Princess in the Tomb of Bint-Anath
Dr. Heather Lee McCarthy (New York University Epigraphical Survey to the Ramses II Temple at Abydos)
Saturday Nov. 7: Annual Symposium
Tombs of the Theban Hills
Work of the Theban Mapping Project
Kent Weeks
An Early Tourist Encounters the Theban Tombs: Mary MacDonald, 1859
Mark Trumpour
The Speculation about Civilised Cupidity, Virtuosi, and Antiquarians: Early Nineteenth Century Excavations at Thebes
John Gee
The Genesis of the New Kingdom Necropoleis of Thebes
Aidan Dodson
In the Footsteps of Theodore Davis in the Valley of the Kings
Donald P. Ryan
In the shadow of the Royals: The gated community necropolis of Deir el-Medina
Cedric Gobeil
Monumental Tomb Building at Thebes in the first millennium BC: the rediscovery of a late heyday
Julia Budka
Scholars' Colloquium Schedule,
Day 2 - Sunday, November 8th
10:30am - 3:00pm EST
10:30 Tombs of the Theban Hills – Their Reuse and Significance in the Late Period
Marta Kaczanowicz (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures (Polish Academy of Sciences))
11:00 The Visual Possibilities of Narrative in the Demotic Battle for the Prebend of Amun
Joseph Cross (University of Chicago)
11:30 The creation of the god Sarapis between Memphis and Alexandria: syncretism, adaptation and conciliation in Graeco-Roman Egypt
Prof. Joana Campos Climaco (Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM- Manaus-Brazil))
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1:00 Kleopatra II and Ptolemy VIII: The Impact of a Historically Imposed Rivalry
Dr. Tara Sewell-Lasater (University of Houston)
1:30 Manqabad: a Coptic monastery of Middle Egypt with strong influences from Pharaonic, Hellelistic, and Roman beliefs
Dr. Ilaria Incordino (University of Naples "L'Orientale")
Posters
from 2:00 pm
Egyptian Iconography in the Ancient Near and Middle East
Chana Algarvio (University of Toronto)
‘Serifs’ in painted hieroglyphs? Observations from the tomb of Inherkhâouy (TT 359) at Deir el-Medina
Elizabeth A. Bettles (Visiting Research Fellow at the NINO, Universiteit Leiden)
Thy Stature is Like to a Palm Tree
McCaela Michas (Brigham Young University)
Sally L.D. Katary Memorial Lecture
Day 2 - Sunday, November 8th
3:00pm - 4:30pm EST
A Theban Tomb at The Montreal Museum Of Fine Arts : With an introduction to the reading patterns of Egyptian tomb walls
Prof. Valérie Angenot (Université de Québec à Montréal and Perrine Poiron, UQAM/ Paris-Sorbonne)
Abstracts for all papers and presentations can be found here.
