Symposium Schedule

Symposium Schedule

All talks will be approximately 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes for questions/discussion.

8:30 am Registration table opens (Strong Hall Fourth Floor)

9:00-9:10 Welcome Remarks, Dean Matthews & Dr. Troche

Session 1 Museum Studies

9:10-9:35 Dr. Lisa Saladino Haney "Gateway to the West: Offering Trays and Soul Houses in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology"

9:35-10:00 Rozanne Klinzing "Meret-it-es, Beloved of her Father – A coffin set from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art”

10:00-10:35 Student Posters – Imagined Museum Exhibitions (Strong Hall Fourth Floor)

Comments on Student Research, Dr. Kennedy

Session 2 Religious Studies

10:40-11:05 Dr. Matthews "Remembering Egypt"

11:05-11:30 Dr. Anne Austin "Revealing the Practice of Tattooing in Ancient Egypt"

11:30-11:55 Dr. Sarah Chapman "The Role of rdw in the Egyptian Embalming Ritual"

Lunch Break

12:00-2:00 Lunch is on your own

Educators’ Workshop by invitation

Session 3 Egypt in the Roman Empire

2:05-2:30 Dr. Julia Troche “The Roman-Nubian Frontier during the reign of Augustus: Archaeological Evidence from Talmis, Meroë, and Qasr Ibrim”

2:30-2:55 Dr. Bryan Brinkman "An Uneasy Relationship: Osiris and Serapis in the Roman World"

Session 4 Ancient Egypt in the Modern Period

3:00-3:25 Dr. Kathleen Sheppard "Republic of Letters: Egyptologists in Egypt at the turn of the century"

3:25-3:50 Clara Wright "Studying Egypt Through the Magic Lantern: Bringing an Obsolete Technology Back into the Light"

3:50-4:15 Stacy Davidson "Egypt, Illinois"

4:15-4:20 Closing Remarks

4:20-5:00 ARCE Interest Group/Local Chapter Meeting

Symposium Student Posters

*denotes students present at poster session, and ^a indicates student is volunteering their time at the symposium and/or educators’ workshop as part of a service-learning project.

“The Relationship of Divinity and Authority in the Ancient Near East”

Elisabeth Barber*^a, Kylee Evans, Hannah Fuller*^a, Austin Yokum

“Burial Rites in Ancient Egypt”

Samantha Jester*^a, Jacob Keyser, Nicholas Uxa, Ryan Wentz

“Power Depictions in Ancient Egypt”

Matthew Ortmann, Luke Scott, Ryan Steen, Allison Turner, Kamila Zendran*^a

Group 4

Simon Ales, Holly Griffin, Jessica Helm^a, Trenton Maxwell^a, Alyssa Weitkamp^a

Group 5

Emily Comer^a, Thomas Hammon^a, Lacy Hardesty^a, Noah Roush^a

“Power in the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt”

Anthony Bocanegra, Grayson (William) Bradford, Kiersten Delly, Andrew Mayer, Jordan Phillips, Megan VanHoosen^a