Symposium 2026 - Weekend Agenda
Details of the 2026 SSEA Weekend Agenda are being posted as they become available. All events and sessions take place at the Humber College Downtown Campus, 4th floor, 59 Hayden St, Toronto. The event is also available online.
Only one ticket is necessary to enjoy all three days of Egyptology. Enrol for the whole weekend via our Eventbrite link:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ssea-50th-annual-symposium-feasts-and-festivals-in-ancient-egypt-tickets-1998381422630
SCHEDULE: COLLOQUIUM/SYMPOSIUM 2026
FRIDAY NOV. 6: COLLOQUIUM DAY 1
Humber Polytechnic, 59 Hayden St., 4th Floor
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TIME
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SPEAKER
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TITLE
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9:00−9:10
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Welcome and Intro
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9:10−9:40
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Kelly-Anne Diamond
(Villanova University)
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The Blind Harpist and the Question of Eunuchism in Ancient Egypt
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9:40−10:10
(ZOOM)
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Deborah Sweeney
(Tel Aviv University)
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Masculinity at work at Deir el-Medîna
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10:10−10:40
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Maryan Ragheb
(UCLA)
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Fashioning the Dead Across the Nile Valley: Shared Practices of Funerary Adornment of the 4th Millennium
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BREAK 10:40−11:00
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11:00−11:30
(ZOOM)
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Illia Semenenko
(Charles University, Prague)
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Topographic personifications in ancient Egypt as a religious and cultural phenomenon
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11:30−12:00
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Salvatore Bellavia
(Università di Messina)
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Incubation rituals in pre-Ptolemaic Egypt?
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LUNCH 12:00−1:00
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1:00−1:30
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Lianna Sternklar
(University of Toronto)
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Visualizing Royal Space: Iconographic Evidence for Palatial Architecture in the Amarna Tombs
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1:30−2:00
(ZOOM)
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Ruijie Yao
(University of Missouri-Columbia)
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Text and Archaeology in Memphis During the Late Middle Kingdom Transition: Reassessing the Annals of Amenemhat II
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2:00−2:30
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Cloé Caron
(Université de Québec à Montréal)
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Huddling “inside the arms of his father, inside the arms of Atum”: The Function and Meaning of a Recurring Phrase in the Pyramid Texts
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BREAK 2:30−2:45
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2:45−3:15
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Emilie Sarrazin
(Yale University)
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From Sepulcher to Shrine: The Mastaba of Izi at Tell Edfu
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3:15−3:45
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Lior Gautier
(Université de Québec à Montréal)
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Les vêtements des Judéennes d’Éléphantine d’après les contrats de mariage araméens
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BREAK 3:45−4:00
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4:00−4:30
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Robyn Gillam
(York University)
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From priestess to professor? Women and their roles in second millennium BCE Thebes
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4:30−5:00
(ZOOM)
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Gregory Mumford
(University of Alabama)
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Reassessing Egypt’s Eastern, New Kingdom Frontier
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5:00−5:30
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Lyla Pinch-Brock
(Royal Ontario Museum)
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Drawing the Alabaster Vessels from the Tomb of Kha and Merit housed in the Museo Egizio, Turin, for Publication
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WRAP-UP 5:30
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FRIDAY NOV. 6: ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
SSEA MEMBERS
Humber Polytechnic, 59 Hayden St., 4th Floor
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7 PM
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Annual General Meeting
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FOLLOWING
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Members’ Reception
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SATURDAY NOV. 7: Symposium, Feasts and Festivals in Ancient Egypt
Humber Polytechnic, 59 Hayden St., 4th Floor.
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TIME
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SPEAKER
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TITLE
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9:00−9:15
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Kei Yamamoto
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Welcome and Opening Remarks
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9:15−10:05
(ZOOM)
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Massimiliano Nuzzolo
(University of Turin)
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The Earliest Feast Calendar of Ancient Egypt: The Fifth Dynasty Sun Temple of Nyuserra in Context
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BREAK 10:05−10:20
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10:20−11:10
(ZOOM)
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Eva Lange−Athinadorou
(University of Würzburg)
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Sed-festival and Kingship: The Relief Decoration of the Gateway of Osorkon II in the Temple of Bastet in Bubastis
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11:10−12:00
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Carla Mesa Guzzo
(Toronto)
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Work Hard, Play Hard: Scenes of the Military in Festive Contexts
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LUNCH 12:00−1:15
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1:15−2:05
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Tara Prakash
(College of Charleston)
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Feelings and Festivals: Happiness in Late New Kingdom Monumental Art
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2:05−2:55
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Suzanne Onstine
(University of Memphis)
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Observe the Feast of the Gods… Song, Dance and Incense are his Foods
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BREAK 2:55−3:10
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3:10−4:00
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Lyn Green
(Toronto)
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Beyond Bread and Beer: The Art and Archaeology of the Banquet in Ancient Egypt
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4:00−4:50
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Betsy Bryan
(Johns Hopkins University)
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The Festivals of Drunkenness in the Temple of Mut: The Enactment and Intention of the Rituals
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CONCLUDING REMARKS 4:50−5:00
Speakers and attendees are invited to adjourn to the Bishop and Belcher Pub, just east at Hayden St. and Church St.
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The SSEA gratefully acknowledges the support of the Katary family through the Sally L.D. Katary Speakers’ Fund, which has made this Symposium program possible.
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SUNDAY NOV. 8: COLLOQUIUM DAY 2
Humber Polytechnic, 59 Hayden St., 4th Floor.
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TIME
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SPEAKER
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TITLE
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10:30−11:00
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Gayle Gibson
(Royal Ontario Museum)
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Unseen history: fragments of the Montuhotep Temple at Deir el Bahari at the Royal Ontario Museum
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11:00−11:30
(ZOOM)
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Yasmine Ayad
(Universite de Liège)
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Reconstructing the troubled history of a cylinder seal from Beth Shean (IAA J.911): untangling the material impression of Egyptian-Levantine interactions
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11:30−12:00
(ZOOM)
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Jean-Baptiste Poussard
(Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier)
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A Case Study in the Pseudoscientific and Pseudo medical Reinterpretation of Egyptology: Investigating “Egyptian Yoga”.
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LUNCH 12:00−1:00
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1:00−1:30
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Marianne Pinon
(Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier)
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The revival of the sd-festival in the Middle Kingdom: rethinking royal jubilee traditions
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1:30−2:00
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Thomas Greiner
(Toronto Metropolitan University)
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The Appearance of Lapis-Lazuli in Lower Nubia in the mid-Fourth Millennium BC and its Role in Contacts with Predynastic Egypt
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BREAK 2:00−2:15
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2:15−2:45
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Lanka Hamelin
(University of Toronto)
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Settlement Patterns in Greco-Roman Fayyum – urbanism and entanglement theory in a colonial context
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2:45−3:15
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Oren Siegel
(University of Toronto)
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On the Waters of Pharaoh: Fluvial Boundary Making in Middle and New Kingdom
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WRAP-UP 3:15−3:30
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Only one ticket is necessary to enjoy all three days of Egyptology. Enrol for the whole weekend via our Eventbrite link:
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ssea-50th-annual-symposium-feasts-and-festivals-in-ancient-egypt-tickets-1998381422630
