Symposium 2022 Weekend Agenda
The 2022 SSEA Symposium weekend will be held from Friday, November 4th 2022 to Sunday, November 6th 2022. This year the weekend will by Hydrid, both In Person and Online. Register now via Eventbrite at:
This year's themed Symposium on Saturday November 5 is Digging into Egyptology's Past and Present. The agenda of papers and events has been finalised, in the table below. Speaker Biographies are now available; Abstracts are being added as they become available.
Weekend Overview
ALL TIMES IN EASTERN (TORONTO) TIME.
NOTE: THERE IS A TIME CHANGE ON SATURDAY NIGHT WHEN
CLOCKS MOVE BACK ONE HOUR
| Friday Nov. 4, 9 am – 5:15 pm |
Scholars’ Colloquium Day 1, presenting a series of brief presentations on current work and research on Ancient Egypt. Speaker names and abstracts will be placed online closer to the Weekend. The Colloquium schedules are now established. |
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Friday, Nov. 4, |
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 | |||
| Time | Scholar & Affiliation | Title | |
| 8:30 A.M. | REGISTRATION OPENS | ||
| 9:00 - 9:05 | Welcome and Introduction | ||
| 9:05 - 9:35 (online) |
Marie Saito (Independent Scholar) |
Architectural and Strategic features of Egyptian military bases: Northern Sinai and Syria-Palestine in Dynasties 19-20 | |
| 9:35 - 10:05 (online) |
Alessandro Piccolo (Independant Scholar, formerly La Sapienza-Università di Roma) |
Pedon, son of Amphinnes: A Game of Donors? | |
| 10:05 - 10:35 (online) |
Ghada Mohamed (Cairo University, Cairo) |
Remarks on some aspects of the anthropomorphic Djed-pillar in ancient Egyptian ritual scenes | |
| 10:35 - 10:45 | Break | ||
| 10:45 - 11:05 (Poster online) |
Susannah Marshall (University of Liverpool, UK) |
Brooklyn 52.127a-b: Considerations on the Eleventh Dynasty Box-Coffin and cover of Mayet | |
| 11:05 - 11:35 (online) |
Anna Charlotte Dietrich (Austrian Academy of Sciences) |
Out for a jaunt to Giza: The King's Son Amenmose and his monuments revisited | |
| 11:35 - 12:05 (in person) |
Charlotte Beryl Rose (Independent Scholar) |
Birth-bed and Beyond | |
| 12:05 - 1:15 |
Lunch Break |
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| 1:15 - 1:45 (in person) |
Jordan Furutani (University of Toronto) |
Two words for 'word'? The difference between mdw and mdwt: A study of Egyptian lexicography | |
| 1:45 - 2:15 (online) |
Alisée Devillers (University of California, Los Angeles: UCLA) |
Show me your palette and I will tell you who you are - or pretend to be | |
| 2:15 - 2:30 | Break | ||
| 2:30 - 3:00 (in person) |
Thomas Greiner (University of Toronto) |
Re-examining the implications of lapis-lazuli in Egypt's Predynastic Period | |
| 3:00 - 3:30 (in person) |
Maria Szwec (University of Toronto) |
Royal and bovine imagery at the dawn of state formation | |
| 3:30 - 3:40 | Break | ||
| 3:40 - 4:10 (in person) |
Eleutério Abreu De Sousa (Macquarie University) |
Cattle in Egypt and Beyond Its Borders During the Old Kingdom | |
| 4:10 - 4:40 (online) |
Harry Lillington (Auckland, New Zealand) |
A Repositioning of Theban Tombs in Ancient Egyptian Art History | |
| 4:40 - 5:10 (online) |
Sue Thorpe (Auckland, New Zealand) |
Letters to the Living not the Dead: Insight from some personal correspondence into ancient Egyptian life and personalities | |
| 5:10 - 5:15 | Wrap-Up | ||
| SATURDAY NOVEMBER 5 | ||
| 46th SSEA / SÉÉA SYMPOSIUM | ||
| Digging Into Egyptology's Past and Present | ||
| Venue: Koffler Auditorium, 569 Spadina Avenue | ||
| Time* | Title | Speaker |
| 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 |
| 10:50 - 11:05 | Break | |
| 11:05 - 11:35 | "There appears little hope of any valuable discovery": Early Explorers and Museums. | John Gee (via Zoom) |
| 11:35 - 12:05 | Karl Richard Lepsius and the Early Years of German Egyptology | Katja Goebs |
| 12:05 - 1:05 | 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 | Peter Der Manuelian (via Zoom) |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | 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 | Okasha el-Daly (via Zoom) |
| 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 | |
| * Note that these times assume a short period for questions following each talk | ||
| SUNDAY NOVEMBER 6 Please Note: Toronto Time Changes Today to Eastern Standard Time |
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| Venue: Koffler Auditorium, 569 Spadina Avenue | ||
| Time | Scholar & Affiliation | Title |
| 12:00 - 12:30 (online) |
Marta Kaczanowicz (University of Warsaw) |
Dorothy Mackay in Thebes |
| 12:30 - 1:00 (online) |
Amgad Joseph (Helwan University, Cairo) |
The gazelle of Anukis and the Theban Western Mountain |
| 1:00 - 1:10 | Break | |
| 1:10 - 2:10 | Poster Presentations (20 mins. each) | |
| 1:10 - 1:30 (online) |
Antje Zygalski (Independent Conservator) |
Preventative conservation in Egyptian excavations - agents of deterioration 5, "pests": The case of active termite infestation |
| 1:30 - 1:50 (online) |
Matthieu Hagenmuller (The Sorbonne, Paris) |
L'Iconographie du combat dans les sources funéraires égyptiennes |
| 1:50 - 2:10 (in person) |
Virginia Martos Armenteros (University of Toronto) |
Solar transformation processes in Hatshepsut's coronation scenes in the Red Chapel |
| 2:10 - 2:20 | Break | |
| 2:20 - 2:50 (online) |
Dan Potter (National Museums of Scotland) |
The business of Egyptian archaeology: Charles Trick Currelly and the National Museums of Scotland |
| 2:50 - 3:20 (in person) |
Margaret Maitland (National Museums of Scotland) |
Excavation permissions and Export permits: Examining collecting in mid-19th century Egypt through the archives of Alexander Henry Rhind |
| 3:20 - 3:30 | Break | |
| 3:30 - 4:00 (online) |
Guillaume Sellier (Laval C.S.) |
The first Egyptian artefacts in Canada: The Quebec Palace intendant's amulets |
| 4:00 - 4:30 (in person) |
Jean Revez (Université du Québec à Montréal - UQAM) |
Lepsius' work inside the Hypostyle Hall at Karnak and the quality of the drawings published in the Denkmäler |
| 4:30 - 5:00 (in person) |
Gayle Gibson (Royal Ontario Museum) |
Luxor, then and now |
| 5:00 - 5:10 | Wrap-Up | |