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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

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

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

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

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,  596 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,  596 Spadina Ave., Toronto

NOTE: Clocks moved back one hour overnight. Please check the time

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

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

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.

 

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