Symposium 2023 - Weekend Agenda
The 2023 SSEA Symposium weekend was held from Friday, November 3rd 2023 to Sunday, November 5th 2023.
Details of the Agenda for the weekend of the 2023 Annual Symposium/Colloquium can be found below. All venues were in Toronto.
Weekend Overview
Friday 3rd November 9am - 5pm: Scholars' Colloquium - Day 1 A series of brief presentations on work and research on Ancient Egypt (4 Bancroft Avenue)
Friday 3rd November 7pm - 8pm: Annual General Meeting of the SSEA/SÉÉA followed by Members' Reception For all SSEA/SÉÉA members (2nd Floor, 4 Bancroft Avenue)
Saturday 4th November 9am - 5pm: 'Sakkara: Where the Pyramids were born' 47th Annual Symposium (Koffler Auditorium, 569 Spadina Avenue)
Sunday 5th November 12:30pm - 4:30pm: Scholars' Colloquium - Day 2 Continuation of brief presentations begun on Day 1 (including Virtual Poster session) (Koffler Auditorium, 569 Spadina Avenue)
FRIDAY NOV. 3: COLLOQUIUM DAY 1
9:00 – 9:05 Welcome and Introduction
9:05-9:35 "More esteemed than any foreign ruler": Iny’s Biography Once Again
Michele Marcolin
9:35-10:05 "Hail to You, Khonsu-in-Thebes-Neferhotep, the Noble Child who Came Forth from the Lotus!" A Demotic Magical Spell with a Lunar Child Deity?
Anett Rózsa
10:05-10:35 The Mendesian Ram at Memphis: Reconstructing a Memphite Priestly Family during the Saite-Persian Era
Nenad Marcovic
BREAK
10:45-11:05 Resurrection in Akhmim: Exploring El-Salamuni Necropolis
Wahid Omran
11:05-11:35 Butchering Queens and Ailing Princesses: Saite Royal Women
Marta Kaczanowicz
11:35-12:05 "(…) they came north this year and bought 3 diplae of wine (…)". Mud stoppers and the wine trade in Late Antique Western Thebes
Aleksandra Pawlikowska-Gwiazda
LUNCH
1:15-1:45 Between the lines: the case study of tomb n. 39 in the Valley of the Queens examined in the light of unpublished archival documents
Emanuele Casini
1:45-2:15 "Turn around, place yourself on the back, and be blind" or how the agency of Heka effects the victory over evil creatures
Christina Geisen
BREAK
2:30-3:00 "Catch the thief!" Police iconography in private tombs from the Old to the New Kingdom
Matthieu Hagenmϋller
3:00-3:30 On the Source of the NEῖᴧoΣ
Alessandro Piccolo
BREAK
3:40-4:10 "The eastern door of heaven is open to you. Nut has embraced you. She whose hair is long, and whose breasts hang down": The Embracing Arms and the Heaven’s Doors
Mennah Aly
4:10-4:40 Blindness in the Ebers Papyrus: A New Interpretation of the Term Spt.
Silvia Nigrelli
4:40-5:10 Lower Nubia from Chiefdom to State: The Development of A-Horizon Royalty and its Relations with Early Egypt Through the Analysis of the Cemeteries of Sayala and Qustul
Ilaria Sieli
5:10 WRAP-UP
NOVEMBER 4
48th SSEA / SÉÉA SYMPOSIUM, SATURDAY 4 November, 2023
Sakkara: Where the Pyramids were Born
9:00am WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
9:30 - 10:30 Sakkara: A Brief History
Ron Leprohon
10:30 - 10:50 Turning Points: Mariette's Discovery of the Serapeum
Mark Trumpour
BREAK
11:00 - 12:00 Saqqara Cemetery in the Third Dynasty
Miroslav Barta (On-Line)
LUNCH
1:00 - 2:00 The legacy of the Pyramid Texts: new insights from Saqqara
Christelle Alvarez
BREAK
2:10 - 3:10 Recent New Kingdom discoveries
Christian Greco (On-Line)
3:10 - 4:10 The Anubis Cemeteries and Animal Cults
Paul Nicholson
BREAK
4:20 - 5:20pm Setna Khaemwase in Ankhtawy: The Memphite Necropolis in Demotic Tales and Legends
Steve Vinson
5:20pm WRAP-UP
SUNDAY NOV. 5: COLLOQUIUM DAY 2
12:30 - 1:00 Of Ibises and Baboons: the acquisition and breeding of sacred animals at North Saqqara
Paul Nicholson, Henry Bishop-Wright
1:00 - 1:30 Looking for Mutemwia (i)
Deborah Sweeney
BREAK
1:45 - 2:05 Virtual Poster: The Widow's Lament: Mourning Women in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Rituals
Ariadne Argyros
2:05 - 2:25 Virtual Poster: Beyond Grave Concubines: Redefining the Narrative and Unraveling the Complex Symbolism of 'Isis-Aphrodite' Terracotta Figures in Greco-Roman Egypt
Shelby Navone
2:25 - 2:45 Virtual Poster: Constructing the Cosmos: Developing the Iconography of Astronomy in the Predynastic Period
Elizabeth Learning
BREAK
3:00 - 3:30 Frontality and dance in New Kingdom art
Miriam Bueno Guardia
3:30 - 4:00 An Egyptian House in a Canaanite City: Building 1500 at Beth-Shean in Light of New Kingdom Egyptian Cultural Identity
Krystal Pierce
4:00 - 4:30 Up for grabs? The Levant between Egypt and Babylonia at the fall of Assyria (630–567 BCE)
Jinyan Wang
4:30 WRAP-UP
