Programme ICYE 2019, Leiden University:
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Wednesday 21 August
15.00-17.00 Registration @ Rijksmuseum van Oudheden
17.15-17.30 Word of welcome from the organising committee, Prof. dr. Olaf Kaper, professor of Egyptology at Leiden University and H.E. Amgad Abdel Ghaffar, Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt in the Netherlands
17.30-18.00 Opening lecture I: H.E. dr. Khaled el Enany, Minister of Antiquities of the Arab Republic of Egypt: Presentation on Egyptian Archaeology and Current projects
18.00-18.30 Opening lecture II: dr. Ramadan Hussein, University of Tübingen: Death Care Industry in Saqqara: The Discovery of a Saite-Persian Mummification Complex (The Saqqara Saite Tombs Project)
18.30-19.30 Opening drinks (RMO)
Thursday 22 August
Start programme @ Lipsius building
09.00-11.00 Morning session I
09.00-10.00 Keynote lecture: dr. Willemijn Waal: Eternal peace and brotherhood on a silver tablet. Reconstructing the original treaty document of Ramses II and Hattusili III
10.00-11.00 Plenary presentations (3 x)
Silvia Callagher: The Meroitic palace of Natakamani at Napata: A paradigm of syncretism
Marco de Pietri: Some peculiar scribal features of an unpublished Amduat papyrus at the Archaeological Museum of the University of Pavia
Adel Kelany: Transportation methods in the ancient granite quarries at Aswan, Upper Egypt
11.00-11.20 Coffee break
11.20-13.00 Morning session II
11.20-13.00 Plenary presentations (5 x)
Elena Hertel: Reading the unreadable – digital tools to help with epigraphic challenges
Toon Sykora: Documenting Djehutihotep’s tomb in Deyr al-Barsha: Digital epigraphy and 3D recording
Hylke Hettema: Straight Egyptian Arabians: Finding the Pharaoh’s horse
Lawrence Webb: Have the British Museums successfully addressed early 20th century conceptions of prehistoric and ancient Sudan?
Jakob Schneider: Archaism in ancient Egypt – or what’s left of it
13.00-14.20 Lunch
14.20-16.00 Afternoon session I
14.20-16.00 Workshops & panel discussions
Panel discussion: Post-colonial Egyptology: Rennan Lemos (University of Cambridge), Wesam Mohamed (Aarhus University) and Hylke Hettema (Leiden University)
Workshops:
Abnormal Hieratic: dr. Koen Donker van Heel, followed by a demo of the datbase by Elena Hertel
Epigraphy: Prof. dr. Olaf Kaper
Digital Egyptology: Photogrammetry: Nicky van de Beek (MA)
Financing your research
How to write a proper CV: Linda Goltsche (MA)
How to write a proper cover letter: Linda Goltsche (MA)
16.00-16.40 Coffee break
Poster session:
Judith Jurjens: Being and becoming a scribe: The teaching of Khety and its use as an educational tool in ancient Egypt
Antonio Muñoz Herrera: New considerations on the dating and role of TT320 in the light of new discoveries of the C2 project
Ali Hassan: The geographical identity of power in the Thirteenth dynasty
Tokihisa Higo: Dualism applied to the concept of Maat
Hugh Cullimore: The hieroglyphics of Horapollo and its influence on high renaissance iconography
Multi-disciplinary session
16.40-18.00 Afternoon session II
16.40-17.40 Plenary presentations (3 x)
Divina Centore: Materiality and regionalisation of Egypt through the reassemblage of archaeological contexts of the end of the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period
Arianna Sacco: It’s a small world after all: Networks in ancient Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period
Kylie Cortebeeck: What’s in a type? Towards a regional characterisation of First Intermediate Period and early Middle Kingdom ceramics
17.40 Closing session
18.00 Doors open at the Hortus Botanicus
18.30 A brief history of the National Museum of Antiquities by Prof. Maarten Raven
19.00 Start congress dinner @ Oranjerie Hortus Botanicus
Friday 23 August
Programme @ Lipsius building
09.00-11.00 Morning session I
09.00-10.00 Keynote lecture: dr. Daniel Soliman:Collecting Egyptian antiquities in the year 2019
10.00-11.20 Plenary presentations (4 x)
Sofie Schiødt: Explaining illness in pharaonic Egypt
Gabriele Mario Conte: The disease-demon nsy: a case study of ancient Egyptian demonology
Mélie Louys & Martin Friess: Comparative study of two series of skulls from the XIth and XVIIIth dynasty
Asmaa Elsayegh: Recent discoveries: The sanitation system in Deir Anba Hadra
11.20-11.40 Coffee break
11.40-13.00 Morning session II
11.40-13.00 Plenary presentations (4 x)
Ivan Rodríguez Lopez: Experiences and challenges in deciphering the Book of the Dead papyrus Havana
Raizza Texeira dos Santos: Burying gods and goddesses: The role of divine statues in royal tombs of the New Kingdom
Valeria Tappetti: The solar hymns between text transmission and religious discourse: The New Kingdom and 25th-26th dynasties Theban productions
Guilherme Borges Pires: An organ, a word, a plan, a craft – cosmogonical processes and mechanisms in Egyptian New Kingdom Religious hymns
13.00-14.20 Lunch
14.20-15.40 Afternoon session I
14.20-16.00 Workshops & panel discussions (2 x 40 min)
Panel discussion: Ethics in Egyptology
Workshops:
Coffin workshop: Helbertijn Krudop
Ostraca & pottery: Sam Botan & Mink van IJzendoorn
Photography as a tool for seeing: Nicola Dell’Aquila (MA)
Using your skills on the job market: Linda Goltsche (MA)
15.40-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.00 Afternoon session II
16.00-18.00 Plenary presentations (6 x)
Halely Harel: ‘…and they all made a BRT’: Semitic loanwords in New Kingdom texts as cultural goods
Lucia Langerak: Gardiner F27 and animal categories in Ramesside Egypt
Juan José Archidona Ramírez: The systematic use of dots in abnormal hieratic administrative texts
Ida Christensen: Papyrus Carlsberg 101: An astrological manual from the Tebtunis temple library
Patricia Zulli: Disruptive elements in Ancient Egyptian literature: A structural analysis
Jorke Grotenhuis: Regional variation in coffin texts
20.00 Movie night (Lipsius): Al Mummia, with a short introduction by Egyptian film collector Hans van den Berg
Saturday 24 August
Programme @ Lipsius building
09.00-11.00 Morning session I
09.00-10.00 Keynote lecture: dr. Sarah Schrader: Osteoarchaeology in the Nile Valley: What bones can tell us about ancient life
10.00-10.40 Workshops:
Practical aspects and challenges of doing research in Egypt: dr. Carina van den Hoven
Using the database at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo: Marwa Bdr El Din (MA)
Art history: dr. des. Frederik Rogner
Lonneke Delpeut: Presentation skills
10.40-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-13.00 Morning session II
11.00-13.00 Plenary presentations (6 x)
Megan Clark: The iconography and identity of paddle dolls: Gaudy or godly?
Anneke Stracke: A large statue of Taweret: Examining a large statue of Taweret and its find location, in relation to other large statues of the goddess, in order to determine its original context
Seria Yamazaki: Adorning the deceased: Middle Kingdom jewellery in object friezes and in reality
Marina Sartori: Perspectives on agency in New Kingdom Theban tombs
Héloise Smets: About ‘’archaism’’ of slaughter scenes in Late Period tombs in the Theban region
Meg Lisle: ‘One who answers’: Female mourners in New Kingdom funerary ritual
13.00-14.00 Lunch provided by the ICYE 2019 committee: Koshari!
14.00-16.00 Afternoon session I
14.00-16.00 Plenary presentations (6 x)
Benedikt Fuchs: New officials from the court of Sahure
Helen Neale: Level of the Nile flood of Year X: The Nile flood records of the late Middle Kingdom as an ideological tradition
Francesco de Gaetano: Commanders and soldiers of the Oryx nome: An example of military personnel and army manpower for early Middle Kingdom Egypt
Kimberley Watt: The locus of behind the scenes: Administrative spaces
Eva Maria Hemauer: Transforming elites and dying empires: The influence of the Levantine-Egyptian upper class on the Late Bronze Age collapse
John Rogers: A ‘’diplomatic intermediary’’ of the early Saite era: Pakheref, ‘’Overseer of waterways’’, and his statues
16.00-16.40 Coffee break
Poster session:
Asmaa Ibrahim: Unpublished collection of pottery in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Hayley Goddard: A tale of two and a half mummies: An intrusive burial from the tomb of Karabasken (TT391)
Jayme Rudolf Reichart: A catalogue of garden scenes from 24 private Theban tombs dated to the 18th dynasty pre-Amarna
Marie-Emmanuelle Dauphin: My kingdom for a bark shrine: New inquiries of Ramesses III’s temple in Karnak
Tessa Litecky: All the king’s horses: Stable management in New Kingdom Egypt
Dagmara Haładaj: Protection of the body of the Deceased expressed by the iconographic composition of guardians holding lizards, knives and snakes
Georgie Whittock: The hare above the waterline – researching an unprovenanced raised relief from Cyfarthfa Castle Museum, Merthyr Tydfil (Wales, UK)
Elissa Day: Where do the duties of the vizier fit within the realm of ancient Egyptian texts?
Egyptology in Leiden session
16.40-17.40 Afternoon session II
16.40-17.40 Plenary presentations (6 x )
Bente Blasgaard Jensen: The personal wealth of Dhutmose
Anne Drewsen: Spinning for the gods?
Veerle van Kersen: The Wiedemann collection of mummy wrappings at the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels
Carmen Muñoz Perez: Putting the right amulet on the mummy: A new approach of ancient Egyptian texts
17.20-19.00 Closing session
Sunday 25 August
Congress excursion
Morning – 10.00 AM
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden / Museum of Antiquities: Time to explore the Egyptian collection on your own.
Afternoon – 12.30 PM
Two options:
- A tour on the canal with a boat viewing Leiden from the water, including lunch, followed by a typical local beer-tasting at Brouwerij Pronck, including Dutch snacks. Afterwards we will go for a city tour through Leiden on foot. Costs: €38,-
- An excursion to the Coptic Church in Leidschendam, where we will be welcomed by the Coptic priest who will tell us something about the history of the Coptic Church in the Netherlands and show us around. We will also have a very Egyptian lunch here, after which we will return to Leiden by bus to join in for the city tour through Leiden on foot. Costs: €30,-
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