Symposium 2024 Weekend Agenda
The 48th Annual Colloquium and Symposium took place in Toronto on the weekend of 1st to 3rd November 2024. The event was both In-Person at the University of Toronto and Online via Zoom.
Friday, November 1, 2024 Scholars' Colloquium, Day 1
In-Person: Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations
4 Bancroft St., Second Floor Boardroom
9 – 9:10 Welcome and Intro
Mark Trumpour
9:10-9:40 Locks and flails: an observation on transfer of astral knowledge
Andreas Winkler
9:40-10:10 Bukhanef, devotee of Hathor – an unusual woman from Deir el-Medîna
Deborah Sweeney
10:10-10:40 A Collection of Ancient Egyptian Wooden Funerary Figures from Qubbet-el-Hawa at the Bournemouth Natural Science Society
Sam Powell
BREAK
11:00-11:30 Old but not dead data: the use of archives in the study of the archaeology of tomb reuse at Qubbet al-Hawā
Reuben Hutchinson-Wong
11:30-12:00 Sustaining Each Other: A Psychological and Anthropological Perspective on New Kingdom Iconography of Bereavement Scenes
Valentina Santini
LUNCH
1:00-1:30 Ecclesiastical Charity for the Poor through Theban Coptic Documents
Rowida Abobakr
1:30-2:00 The Demotic Inscriptions from the Serapeum of Memphis’s Gate in the Louvre Museum (N°420)
Amira Hamdy
BREAK
2:15-2:45 Snakes in the Brooklyn Medical Papyrus aka Snake or Snakebite Papyrus
Edmund Meltzer and Gonzalo Sanchez
2:45-3:15 Prophets in Ancient Egypt
John Gee
BREAK
3:30-4:00 On the Path to Becoming a Deity
Elisabeta Pana
4:00-4:30 Restoring the sarcophagus lid of Queen Takhat
Lyla Pinch-Brock
4:30 WRAP-UP
Saturday, November 2 Aswan: Source of Wonders
In-Person: Koffler Auditorium, 569 Spadina Ave., Toronto
9:00 – 9:10 Introductory Remarks
Dr. Kei Yamamoto
9:10 – 10:00 Aswan: A Fine Place to Spend Eternity
Gayle Gibson
10:00 – 11:00 The Emergence of an Ideological Border at Aswan: Boundary-Making in the First Cataract Region during the 4th and 3rd Millennia BCE
Oren Siegel
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30 Change and Continuity in the Town of Elephantine
Cornelius von Pilgrim (Keynote Speaker)
Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:30 Understanding the Necropolis of Qubbet el-Hawa: Beyond the Governors' Funerary Complexes
(via Zoom) Alejandro Jiménez-Serrano
2:30 – 3:30 Enriching Each Other: The Integral Relationship between Wadi el-Hudi and Aswan
Kate Liszka
Coffee Break
4:00 – 5:00 The Call of Isis: Visitors to Philae in the Graeco-Roman Period
Jitse Dijkstra
5:00 – 5:10 Concluding Remarks
Sunday, November 3, 2024 Scholars' Colloquium, Day 2
In-Person: Koffler Auditorium, 569 Spadina Ave., Toronto
VIRTUAL POSTERS
10:30-10:50 What is the Function of the Kneeling Woman Vessels from the 18th Dynasty
Kirsten Uyttersprot
10:50 11:10 Hellenizing the Pharaohs: Greek settlements leading to Ptolemaic dynastic rulership
Ana Belén Rumí Gutierrez
11:10-11:30 Social Media as an Academic Tool: The EGEPOA Project
Patricia Bou Pérez, Ana Díez-Flόres, Nerea López-Díaz and Clara Martínez-Moreno
FULL PRESENTATIONS
11:30-12:00 Jules Ratzkowski and the Egyptian Collection at the Château Ramezay Museum in Montreal
Jean Revez
LUNCH
1:00-1:30 Ancient Egyptian Influences across Toronto’s Architectural and Cultural Landscapes
Thomas Greiner and Stephen Ficalora
1:30-2:00 Reconstructing the biography of the Predynastic fishtails
Mona Akmal Nasr
2:00-2:30 The Despair of Taharqa: Some case studies on emotions in the royal inscriptions of Taharqa
Shih-Wei Hsu
BREAK
2:45-3:15 The Material Sourcing and Production of Upper Egyptian ‘Soul Houses’ at the Royal Ontario Museum
Megan Hanway
3:15-3:35 The Stela of Amun in Rome's Barberini Gardens
Mark Trumpour
3:35-3:40 WRAP-UP
