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