Conference
The Walking Dead II: The Making of a Cultural Geography
- Date
- Sunday 29 September 2019 - Tuesday 1 October 2019
- Location
- Ministry of Antiquities
Cairo
Programme
Sunday 29 September 2019: Religious Practices
| 09:30–10:00 | Doors open |
| 10:00–10:15 |
Welcome and Opening Address by H.E. Ambassador Maged Mosleh, Head of International Organisations, Ministry of Antiquities Opening Address by H.E. Laurens Westhoff, Ambassador of the Netherlands in the Arab Republic of Egypt |
| 10:15–10:30 | Introduction by Dr. Lara Weiss, Principal Investigator, The Walking Dead Project |
| 10:30–11:25 | Session 1 - Chair: Lara Weiss |
| 10:30–11:15 | John Baines (University of Oxford) – How to take the dead to the cemetery and keep them from walking where they are not welcome |
| 11:15–11:25 |
Discussion (Chair: Lara Weiss) |
| 11:25–11:45 | Coffee Break |
| 11:45-13:30 | Session 2 – Chair: Nico Staring |
| 11:45–12:30 | Elizabeth Frood (University of Oxford) – The greatest dead inhabit temple complexes and walk among structures and between complexes |
| 12:30– 13:15 | Chiara Salvador (University of Oxford) – ‘Socializing’ the sacred space: an analysis of graffiti and appeals to the living as social acts in Karnak. |
| 13:15– 13:25 | Discussion (Chair: Nico Staring) |
| 13:30– 15:00 | Lunch (at own expense) |
| 15:00-16:45 | Session 3 – Chair: Huw Twiston Davies |
| 15:00–15:45 |
Janne Arp (Georg–August Universität, Göttingen) – Figurations in the study of Egyptian religion: the case of Amarna |
| 15:45–16:30 |
Lara Weiss (Leiden University/Rijksmuseum van Oudheden) – Reconsidering the Gift |
| 16:30–16:45 | Questions & final discussion: Religious Practices (Chair: Huw Twiston Davies) |
Monday 30 September 2019: Transmission
| 09:25–11:40 | Session 1 – Chair: Huw Twiston Davies |
| 09:25–09:30 | Opening by Huw Twiston Davies |
| 09:30–10:15 | Gabriele Pieke (Reiss–Engelhorn–Museen, Mannheim) Remembering forward – on the transmission of pictorial representations in non–royal tomb decoration up to the New Kingdom |
| 10:15–11:00 | Joachim Quack (University of Heidelberg) – Establishing communication channels: remarks on the transmission of the Ritual of Opening the Mouth as a (not only) funerary text |
| 11:00–11:10 | Discussion (Chair: Huw Twiston Davies) |
| 11:10–11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30–13:10 | Session 2 – Chair: John Baines |
| 11:30–12:15 | Dimitri Laboury (University of Liège) – Image transmission and artistic creation in a cultural geography perspective |
| 12:15–13:00 |
Ramadan Hussein (University of Tübingen)– Coping with a tradition: three Saite text compositions from Saqqara |
| 13:00–13:10 | Discussion (Chair: John Baines) |
| 13:10–15:00 | Lunch (at own expense) |
| 15:00-17:00 | Session 3 – Chair: Ramadan Hussein |
| 15:00–15:45 |
Huw Twiston Davies (Leiden University) – The Book of the Dead at Saqqara in the New Kingdom: ambiguities, exceptions, and living religion |
| 15:45–16:30 |
Keynote by Prof. Dr. Ola El–Aguizy – The newly discovered tomb of the army General Iwrkhy |
| 16:30–16:40 | Questions & final Discussion: Transmission (Chair: Ramadan Hussein) |
Tuesday 1 October: Landscape
| 09:25–11:25 | Session 1 – Chair: Nico Staring |
| 09:25–09:30 | Opening by Nico Staring |
| 09:30–10:30 | Keynote by Prof. Dr. Hassan Selim – The mud seal of king Den from the tomb of Hemaka (Cairo Museum JE 70100) |
| 10:30–11:15 | Hana Navratilova (University of Reading) – Pyramid life in secondary epigraphy – cultural biography and regimes of historicity |
| 11:15–11:25 | Discussion (Chair: Nico Staring) |
| 11:25–11:45 | Coffee break |
| 11:45-13:25 | Session 2 – Chair: Faiza Haikal |
| 11:45–12:30 |
Henning Franzmeier (Roemer und Pelizaeus Museum Hildesheim) – Living, dying and getting buried in Pi–Ramesse: utilizing limited space in the Nile Delta |
| 12:30–13:15 |
Kevin Cahail (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) – Between town and temple: exploring the influences of royal, religious and social institutions on funerary landscape at South Abydos during the New Kingdom |
| 13:15–13:25 | Discussion (Chair: Faiza Haikal) |
| 13:25–15:00 | Lunch Break at own expense |
| 13:25-17:15 | Session 3 – Chair: Tarek Tawfik |
| 15:00–15:45 |
Andreas Effland (University of Hamburg) – Reinventing resurrection: early Ramesside ‘renaissance’ at Abydos |
| 15:45–16:30 | Nico Staring (Leiden University) – Biography of a necropolis: Saqqara in the Eighteenth Dynasty |
| 16:30–16:40 | Discussion & Final Discussion Landscape (Chairs: Nico Staring, Huw Twiston Davies, and Lara Weiss) |
| 16:40–17:00 | Coffee break |
| 17:00-18:00 | Session 4 – Chair: Tarek Tawfik |
| 17:00–18:00 | Keynote by Prof. Dr. Faiza Haikal – The flying dead (introduced by Tarek Tawfik) |