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.
Abstracts are now available. You can also download a booklet of the Agenda, Speaker biographies for the Symposium and abstracts of the Colloquium papers here.
Weekend Overview
ALL TIMES IN EASTERN (TORONTO) TIME.
| Date | Time | Event | Where | |
| Friday 3rd November | 9am - 5pm | Scholars' Colloquium - Day 1 | A series of brief presentations on work and research on Ancient Egypt | 4 Bancroft Avenue, Toronto |
| Friday 3rd November | 7pm - 8pm |
Annual General Meeting of the SSEA/SÉÉA |
For all SSEA/SÉÉA members | 2nd Floor, 4 Bancroft Avenue, Toronto |
| Saturday 4th November | 9am - 5pm | 'Sakkara: Where the Pyramids were born' | 47th Annual Symposium | Koffler Auditorium, 569 Spadina Avenue, Toronto |
| 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, Toronto |
THE FULL AGENDA
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FRIDAY NOV. 3: COLLOQUIUM DAY 1 |
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TIME |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
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9:00 – 9:05 |
Welcome and Introduction |
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9:05-9:35 |
Michele Marcolin |
“More esteemed than any foreign ruler”: Iny’s Biography Once Again |
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9:35-10:05 |
Anett Rózsa |
“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? |
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10:05-10:35 |
Nenad Marcovic |
The Mendesian Ram at Memphis: Reconstructing a Memphite Priestly Family during the Saite-Persian Era |
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BREAK 10:35-10:45 |
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10:45-11:05 |
Wahid Omran |
Resurrection in Akhmim: Exploring El-Salamuni Necropolis |
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11:05-11:35 |
Marta Kaczanowicz |
Butchering Queens and Ailing Princesses: Saite Royal Women |
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11:35-12:05 |
Aleksandra Pawlikowska- Gwiazda |
“(…) they came north this year and bought 3 diplae of wine (…)”. Mud stoppers and the wine trade in Late Antique Western Thebes |
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LUNCH 12:05 – 1:15 |
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1:15-1:45 |
Emanuele Casini |
Between the lines: the case study of tomb n. 39 in the Valley of the Queens examined in the light of unpublished archival documents |
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1:45-2:15 |
Christina Geisen |
“Turn around, place yourself on the back, and be blind” or how the agency of Heka effects the victory over evil creatures |
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BREAK 2:15-2:30 |
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2:30-3:00 |
Matthieu Hagenmϋller |
“Catch the thief!” Police iconography in private tombs from the Old to the New Kingdom |
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3:00-3:30 |
Alessandro Piccolo |
On the Source of the NEῖᴧoΣ |
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BREAK 3:30-3:40 |
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3:40-4:10 |
Mennah Aly |
"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 |
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4:10-4:40 |
Silvia Nigrelli |
:Blindness in the Ebers Papyrus: A New Interpretation of the Term Spt. |
| 4:40-5:10 |
Ilaria Sieli |
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 |
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5:10 |
WRAP-UP | |
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SYMPOSIUM: Sakkara: Where the Pyramids were Born Saturday November 4, 2023 |
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TIME |
SUBJECT |
SPEAKER |
ZOOM/ IN-PERSON |
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9:00 AM |
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION |
In-Person |
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9:30 AM |
Sakkara: A Brief History |
Ron Leprohon |
In-Person |
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10:30 |
Turning Points: Mariette's Discovery of the Serapeum |
Mark Trumpour |
In-Person |
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10:50 |
BREAK |
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11:00 |
Saqqara Cemetery in the Third Dynasty |
Miroslav Barta |
On-Line |
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12:00 |
LUNCH |
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1:00 PM |
The legacy of the Pyramid Texts: new insights from Saqqara |
Christelle Alvarez |
In-Person |
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2:00 PM |
10 MIN. BREAK |
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2:10 |
Recent New Kingdom discoveries |
Christian Greco |
On-Line |
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3:10 |
The Anubis Cemeteries and Animal Cults |
Paul Nicholson |
In-Person |
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4:10 PM |
BREAK |
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4:20 |
Setna Khaemwase in Ankhtawy: The Memphite Necropolis in Demotic Tales and Legends |
Steve Vinson |
In-Person |
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5:20 |
END |
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SUNDAY NOV. 5: COLLOQUIUM DAY 2 |
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NOTE: Clocks moved back one hour overnight. Please check the time |
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TIME |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
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12:30-1:00 |
Paul Nicholson, Henry Bishop-Wright |
Of Ibises and Baboons: the acquisition and breeding of sacred animals at North Saqqara |
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1:00 1:30 |
Deborah Sweeney |
Looking for Mutemwia (i) |
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BREAK 1:30-1:45 |
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Virtual Poster 1:45-2:05 |
Ariadne Argyros |
The Widow's Lament: Mourning Women in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Rituals |
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Virtual Poster 2:05- 2:25 |
Shelby Navone |
Beyond Grave Concubines: Redefining the Narrative and Unraveling the Complex Symbolism of 'Isis-Aphrodite' Terracotta Figures in Greco-Roman Egypt |
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Virtual Poster 2:25-2:45 |
Elizabeth Learning |
Constructing the Cosmos: Developing the Iconography of Astronomy in the Predynastic Period |
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BREAK 2:45-3:00 |
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3:00-3:30 |
Miriam Bueno Guardia |
Frontality and dance in New Kingdom art |
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3:30-4:00 |
Krystal Pierce |
An Egyptian House in a Canaanite City: Building 1500 at Beth-Shean in Light of New Kingdom Egyptian Cultural Identity |
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4:00-4:30 |
Jinyan Wang |
Up for grabs? The Levant between Egypt and Babylonia at the fall of Assyria (630–567 BCE) |