SIMPOSIO ACADEMICO 

             ACADEMIC COLLOQUIUM



        (FROM INTERNET - COMING EVENT)

        (DE INTERNET - PROXIMO EVENTO)




           SCHOLARS' COLLOQUIUM 2003

          Friday, 7th November, 2003

             PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE



9:25 - 9:30 Brief Address by the Chair

9:30 - 10:00 Emergence of the Egyptian Unified State: Observations on
the reign of Den 

Gary Milakovic, University of Toronto 

10:00- 10:30 A new fort-temple and other discoveries at Tell Tebilla
(E. Delta) 

Dr. Gregory Mumford, Director, Survey and Excavation Projects in Egypt 

10:30 - 10:45 coffee break

10:45 - 11:15 The Egyptian Fortifications in the Second Cataract: A
Military-Strategic Survey 

Tom Smyth, University of Toronto 

11:15 - 11:45 The Thought, the Word, the Form: Hieroglyphic Amulets in
Pharaonic Egypt (2649 B.C.E. –– 2246 B.C.E.) 

Alan Kirkland, University of Indiana-Bloomington 

11:45 - 1:15 lunch break

1:15 -1:45 Archaeological Investigation at Tell el-Masha'la, Eastern
Delta, Egypt 

Prof. Sabrina Rampersad, University of Toronto 

1:45 - 2:15 Painters and Plunderers: Nina and Norman de Garis Davies
and the Tomb of Anen 

Lyla Brock, Cairo (Dept Associate, Near Eastern & Asian Civilizations,
Royal Ontario Museum) 

2:15 - 2:45 Egyptian Heroic Myth: Origins and Significance 

Prof. Vincent A. Tobin, St. Mary's University, Halifax 

2:45 -3:00 coffee break

3:00 - 3:30 The Ritual of ‘Opening of the Mouth’ in the Tomb of Pharaoh
Seti I (TT17) 

Prof. Mariam Ayad, University of Memphis 

3:30 - 4:00 Initiation and the Egyptian Temple 

Prof. John Gee, Brigham Young University, Utah

4:00 - 4:30 Inequality in Predynastic Egypt 

Prof. Juan José Castillos, Uruguayan Institute of Egyptology in
Montevideo 



Held in Rm. 149, 5 Bancroft Ave., on the Main Campus of the University
of Toronto
[Earth Sciences Complex:, between Huron St. and Spadina Ave., south of
Willcocks]
Doors open at 9:00; Admission free; all welcome 


Please Note: This Schedule is subject to change