Symposium 2022 - Weekend Agenda
The 2022 SSEA Symposium weekend was held from Friday, November 4th 2022 to Sunday, November 6th 2022. That year, the weekend was hybrid, with presentations and attendance both In Person and Online.
The year's themed Symposium on Saturday November 5 was Digging into Egyptology's Past and Present. The agenda of papers and events is given below.
Weekend Overview
Friday Nov. 4, 9am - 5:15pm: Scholars’ Colloquium Day 1, presenting a series of brief presentations on current work and research on Ancient Egypt.
Friday, Nov. 4, 7 pm – 8 pm: The Annual General Meeting of the SSEA/SÉÉA, for all SSEA/SÉÉA Members
Saturday, Nov. 5, 9 am – 5 pm: "Digging in to Egyptology's Past and Present". The 46th Annual Symposium
Sunday, Nov. 6, 12 pm – 5:10 pm: Scholars’ Colloquium Day 2, a continuation of the brief presentations begun on Day 1
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 4
Venue: 246 Bloor Street West (at Bedford Street), Room 548
8:30am REGISTRATION OPENS
9:00 - 9:05 Welcome and Introduction
9:05 - 9:35 Architectural and Strategic features of Egyptian military bases: Northern Sinai and Syria-Palestine in Dynasties 19-20
(online) Marie Saito (Independent Scholar)
9:35 - 10:05 Pedon, son of Amphinnes: A Game of Donors?
(online) Alessandro Piccolo (Independant Scholar, formerly La Sapienza-Università di Roma)
10:05 - 10:35 Remarks on some aspects of the anthropomorphic Djed-pillar in ancient Egyptian ritual scenes
(online) Ghada Mohamed (Cairo University, Cairo)
Break
10:45 - 11:05 Brooklyn 52.127a-b: Considerations on the Eleventh Dynasty Box-Coffin and cover of Mayet
(Poster online) Susannah Marshall (University of Liverpool, UK)
11:05 - 11:35 Out for a jaunt to Giza: The King's Son Amenmose and his monuments revisited
(online) Anna Charlotte Dietrich (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
11:35 - 12:05 Birth-bed and Beyond
(in person) Charlotte Beryl Rose (Independent Scholar)
Lunch Break
1:15 - 1:45 Two words for 'word'? The difference between mdw and mdwt: A study of Egyptian lexicography
(in person) Jordan Furutani (University of Toronto)
1:45 - 2:15 Show me your palette and I will tell you who you are - or pretend to be
(online) Alisée Devillers (University of California, Los Angeles: UCLA)
Break
2:30 - 3:00 Re-examining the implications of lapis-lazuli in Egypt's Predynastic Period
(in person) Thomas Greiner (University of Toronto)
3:00 - 3:30 Royal and bovine imagery at the dawn of state formation
(in person) Maria Szwec (University of Toronto)
Break
3:40 - 4:10 Cattle in Egypt and Beyond Its Borders During the Old Kingdom
(in person) Eleutério Abreu De Sousa (Macquarie University)
4:10 - 4:40 A Repositioning of Theban Tombs in Ancient Egyptian Art History
(online) Harry Lillington (Auckland, New Zealand)
4:40 - 5:10 Letters to the Living not the Dead: Insight from some personal correspondence into ancient Egyptian life and personalities
(online) Sue Thorpe (Auckland, New Zealand)
5:10 - 5:15 WRAP-UP
NOVEMBER 5
47th SSEA / SÉÉA SYMPOSIUM, SATURDAY 5 November, 2022
Digging Into Egyptology's Past and Present
Venue: Koffler Auditorium, 569 Spadina Avenue
8:30 REGISTRATION OPENS
9:00 Opening Welcome and Introduction
9:10 - 10:10 Bonaparte, the Description and the Birth of Egyptology
Andrew Bednarski
10:10 10:50 The Decipherment and its Aftermath: The Franco-Tuscan Expedition to Egypt and Champollion's Critics
Jackie Jay
Break
11:05 - 11:35 "There appears little hope of any valuable discovery": Early Explorers and Museums.
(via Zoom) John Gee
11:35 - 12:05 Karl Richard Lepsius and the Early Years of German Egyptology
Katja Goebs
Lunch Break
1:05 - 2:05 Shit Archaeology: Fertilizer and the Popularization of Victorian Egyptology
Meira Gold
2:05 - 2:45 Two Founding Fathers of Egyptian Archaeology: George Reisner's Expansion of Flinders Petrie's Field Methods
(via Zoom) Peter Der Manuelian
Break
3:00 - 3:20 Bridging Egyptology and Christian Studies: The Excavations of Oxford's Grenfell and Hunt
Kerry Muhlestein
3:20 - 4:05 The untold Egyptian story of King Tut
(via Zoom) Okasha el-Daly
4:05 - 5:05 Excavating the Past: Recent discoveries in Egypt in the last 50 years
Mohamed Ismael Khaled
5:05 - 5:10 WRAP-UP
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6
Venue: Koffler Auditorium, 569 Spadina Avenue
12:00 - 12:30 Dorothy Mackay in Thebes
(online) Marta Kaczanowicz (University of Warsaw)
12:30 - 1:00 The gazelle of Anukis and the Theban Western Mountain
(online) Amgad Joseph (Helwan University, Cairo)
Break
1:10 - 2:10 Poster Presentations (20 mins. each)
1:10 - 1:30 Preventative conservation in Egyptian excavations - agents of deterioration 5, "pests": The case of active termite infestation
(online) Antje Zygalski (Independent Conservator)
1:30 - 1:50 L'Iconographie du combat dans les sources funéraires égyptiennes
(online) Matthieu Hagenmuller (The Sorbonne, Paris)
1:50 - 2:10 Solar transformation processes in Hatshepsut's coronation scenes in the Red Chapel
(in person) Virginia Martos Armenteros (University of Toronto)
Break
2:20 - 2:50 The business of Egyptian archaeology: Charles Trick Currelly and the National Museums of Scotland
(online) Dan Potter (National Museums of Scotland)
2:50 - 3:20 Excavation permissions and Export permits: Examining collecting in mid-19th century Egypt through the archives of Alexander Henry Rhind
(in person) Margaret Maitland (National Museums of Scotland)
Break
3:30 - 4:00 The first Egyptian artefacts in Canada: The Quebec Palace intendant's amulets
(online) Guillaume Sellier (Laval C.S.)
4:00 - 4:30 Lepsius' work inside the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak and the quality of the drawings published in the Denkmäler
(in person) Jean Revez (Université du Québec à Montréal - UQAM)
4:30 - 5:00 Luxor, then and now
(in person) Gayle Gibson (Royal Ontario Museum)
5:00 - 5:10 WRAP-UP
