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Rethinking the visual aesthetics of ancient Egyptian writing

18 November 2021鈥20 November 2021, 9:00 am鈥5:00 pm

Detail from outer coffin of Khonsu, from Tomb of Sennedjem, Luxor, c.1270 bc. Egyptian Museum Cairo/photo 漏 Ju虉rgen Liepe

A virtual conference on ancient Egyptian writing, co-organised by Stephen Quirke (最准的六合彩论坛 Institute of Archaeology), will be held from 18-21 November.

This event is free.

Event Information

Open to

All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Prof Stephen Quirke

This virtual conference is co-organised by Stephen Quirke (最准的六合彩论坛), Rita Lucarelli (University of California, Berkeley) and Hany Rashwan (University of Birmingham); and hosted by the 最准的六合彩论坛听Institute of Archaeology听and the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (UC Berkeley).

With special thanks to the conference team: Rachel Barnas (University of California, Berkeley), Beatrice De Faveri (University of California, Berkeley), Walid Elsayed (Sohag University), Maysa Kassem (Fayum University), Jason Silvestri (University of California, Berkeley).听听听听听听听 听听

Programme

Thursday, November 18, 2021

  • Welcome and Opening remarks (Hany Rashwan, Rita Lucarelli, Stephen Quirke)
  • Welcoming Keynote Lecture: Wonderful signs: aspects of visuality in Ancient Egyptian (hand)writing, Ursula Verhoeven, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

Session 1: Pictorial realism and writing strategies

  • An art-historical perspective on New Kingdom monumental hieroglyphs, Marina Sartori, University of Basel.
  • Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs perception through embodied cognition and pictorial realism: towards an ontology of active imagination in Ancient Egypt, Andrea Pasqui, Politecnico di Milano, Todd Shimoda, Thinkers Tools, Inc., Stefano Natrella, Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera, Milano.
  • The devil is in the fishtail: Visual writing and written visuals in private tomb scenes, Nicky van de Beek, Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz.

Session 2: Reception and representation

  • Writing and Creation: Hieroglyphs in Egyptian religious discourse from the Graeco-Roman Period, Katherine Davis, University of Michigan.
  • Modes of reception and adaptation of the Egyptian writing in the inscribed Aegyptiaca from archaic Greece, Panagiotis Kousoulis, University of the Aegean.听
  • How to think in Hieroglyphs? Visual speech and the vocal discourse of the Heart: Logical strategies of the aesthetic representation in the Egyptian hieroglyph script, Amr El Hawary, American University of Cairo.听

Friday, November 19, 2021

Session 1: Creative deployment of glyphs

  • 鈥淭he signs revealed their forms. He called to them and they answered to him鈥: The anthropomorphized hieroglyphs as (inter)active image-text compositions in Ancient Egypt, Ghada Mohamed, Cairo University.
  • Calling out the name: towards a theory of embodiment for ancient Egyptian personal names, Julia Clare Francis Hamilton, University of Leiden.
  • The Importance of Being B3: Classifying msj in the Religious Hymns of the New Kingdom (ca. 1539-1077 BC) 鈥 between visual aspects and semantic implications, Guilherme Borges Pires, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Lisbon.
  • To Make Them See Your Majesty鈥: The Visual Program of the 鈥淧oetical Stela鈥 of Thuthmosis III, Scott Noegel, University of Washington.

Session 2: Written content and spatial context

  • The Visuality of Cursive Story Writing in Ancient Egypt, Nikolaos Lazaridis, California State University Sacramento, Tara Prakash, College of Charleston.听
  • Graphic syntax and ontology in the Book of Two Ways, Jordan Miller, University of Oxford.
  • Deciphering Akhenaten鈥檚 Art Style in Relationship to his Theology of Light, Mario H. Beatty, Howard University.
  • Crucible shape in Old Kingdom Metalworking Scenes: From Visual to Technical Interpretations, Ahmed Mansour, Bibliotheca Alexandrina鈥檚 Writing and Scripts Center.听

Session 3: Verbal-pictorial metaphors

  • Visual Poetics in ancient Egyptian and Chinese writings: A comparative study, Tian Tian, 最准的六合彩论坛.
  • Hidden Images of Ritual Power: A New Look at Crypt South 3 in the Temple of Hathor at Dendera, Barbara A. Richter, University of California, Berkeley.听
  • Encoding the Sacred:听 New Lights on Ramesside Enigmatic Writing, St茅phane Polis, University of Li猫ge; Philipp Seyr, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich.

Second Keynote Lecture

  • 鈥淟' 脡驳测辫迟别. Elle est tout pour moi, je suis tout pour elle.鈥: Rethinking the personal life of Jean-Fran莽ois Champollion (1790-1832), Yves Champollion, CEO of Wordfast LLC.

Saturday, November 20, 2021

Session 1: Innovation and writing practice

  • The names of Menhyt and Nebtu in the Litanies of Esna; or, the use of figurative writing in the definition of one goddess, Federica Pancin, Sapienza University of Rome.听听
  • Dances with Kings: movement and dance-related lexemes in the Pyramid Texts, Angelo Colonna, Sapienza University of Rome; Francesca Iannarilli, Ca鈥 Foscari University of Venice.
  • Writing strategies in Old Kingdom mortuary contexts: creativity, flexibility, and the potency of the hieroglyphic script, Christelle Alvarez, Freie Universit盲t Berlin.
  • Mutilated and left for dead? Revisiting the ancient Egyptian use of incomplete hieroglyphs of living beings, Rune Nyord, Emory University. 听

Session 2: Visual creativity of 鈥渄eterminatives鈥

  • Visualising meaning and reading organically: Towards an emic perspective on determinatives, Angela McDonald, University of Glasgow.听
  • Determinatives of the verb Hms峄 鈥渢o sit鈥 in context, or can sitting be kneeling? Edyta Kopp, University of Warsaw. 听
  • The (Other) World in Words: Determinatives as 鈥楾elltale鈥 Icons Encoding the Egyptian Duat, Silvia Zago, University of Liverpool.
  • Curse like an Egyptian: On the determinatives of verbs Stm and Sna, Ahmed Osman, American University of Cairo.

Closing Keynote Lecture

  • Evolution of simplicity and conspicuous communication in Sinai around 1900 BC. Looking at the old-new 鈥渉ieroglyphic鈥 beauty of early alphabetic writing, Ludwig Morenz, University of Bonn.