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Date(s) - 08/09/2025
11:00 am - 9:00 pm

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*Note: This ticket is only for Day 1. A separate ticket for Day 2 can be purchased via Eventbrite as well.*

Join us for our annual online conference on “Reception and Revival: Global Histories of ‘Egyptomania’”!

Programme for Day 1:

9:00am – 9:10am: Chair’s welcome

9:10am – 9:30am: Introductory Presentation

9:30am – 11:00am Panel 1: Heritage, Collections and Culture

9:30am-9:50am Dr Jasmine Day: An Aussie Digger in King Khufu’s Court: Frank Kirby’s soldier-collection of Egyptian antiquities

9:50am-10:10am Anastasija Golijewskaja: Local Echoes of Eternity: Egyptomania and Funerary Private Pyramids in Ukraine

10:10am-10:30am Susana Mota and José das Candeias Sales: “I MYSELF AM THE IDEAL!” Nefertiti and the Utopia of Amarna in a Portuguese Show

10:30am-11:00am Q&A

11:00am –11:30am BREAK

11:30am – 13:30pm Panel 2: Contemporary

11:30am-11:50am Matt Szafran: Egypt-on-Sea: The Egyptianising of British Seaside Resort Towns

11:50am-12:10pm Yukimi Hashimoto Ancient Egyptian Women in Japanese Narrative Culture: From the Taishō Era to the Present

12:10pm-12:30pm Mohga Abd El-Kawy & Reham Zaky: Social media Egyptomania: Media events as a promotional tool for the Egyptian cultural heritage

12:30pm-12:50pm Ariadne Douglas: The Reception of Ancient Egypt & Egyptomania in Modern Egyptian Discourse and Heritage

12:50pm-13:30pm Q&A

13:30pm – 17:00pm BREAK

17:00pm – 18:30pm KEYNOTE Dr Campbell Price & Dr Andy H. King: Oscar Wilde, Granville Bantock and The Sphinx

18:30pm – 19:00pm ISSE Updates: Membership, Dublin trip, Upcoming events

For more information on the conference and the abstracts, see https://www.issegyptomania.com/virtual-conference-2025