Day 3
Thursday 21 November 2024
The full program is available in English and Arabic, as is the abstract booklet.
Photos by Yusef Mahfuz Imbarak, Wendy Doyon, and Marleen De Meyer
Coffee Breaks & Registration Day 3
Morning Roundtable. The cultural heritage of Quft: past, present & future
The final day of the conference opened with an inspired poetry recitation by Rabi‘a Ali Mustafa Shahat and his son Ibrahim Rabi‘a Ali Mustafa from Quft, who composed poems to commemorate the conference. Reis Ali Farouk Sayyid Mahmud then led a momentous and impassioned presentation on “The Sons of Quft, the Unknown Soldiers of Egyptology,” with Omer Farouk Sayyid Mahmud, Ayman Farouk Sharid Mohammed, Ashraf al-Amir Kamil Siddiq, Amar al-Amir Abd al-Hakim Sadiq, Khayri Mohammed Hakim al-Sadiq, Mustafa Mahmud Sadiq Mahmud, Ahmed Mas‘ud Fahim Ahmed, Sayyid Jalal Khalil Adam, Sa‘id Fakry Mahmud Qenawy, Mohammed Antar Gad al-Rab Hamad Shaduf, and Shirqawi Abbas Abd al-Rahman. Their presentation focused on Qufti family history and traditions of excavation, restoration, and moving stones, illustrated with historic photographs of their grandfathers and great grandfathers at work on archaeological sites throughout Egypt.
Session 6: Who Puts the Work in Fieldwork?
Engaging work and comparative perspectives from Tina Beck (FU Berlin), Maximilian Georg (ÖAW), and Felix Relats Montserrat (Sorbonne)
Session 7: Archive Archaeology (II)
A round of fantastic research projects in the history of Egyptian Egyptology from Hend Mohamed (Minya), Mostafa Tolba (FU Berlin), and Ahmed Mansour (BibAlex)
Session 8: The Field and Its Frontiers
A final session dedicated to comparative and transnational perspectives on archaeological labor from Allison Mickel (Lehigh), Anawar Mahagoub (Michigan), Geoff Emberling (Michigan), Eric Cline (GWU), Emma Baysal (Bilkent), and Bernarda Marconetto (Córdoba), followed by a closing discussion reflecting on conference themes and new directions in the history of Egyptology.
Cleveringa Lecture & Closing Reception
The conference ended on a high note with an outstanding and thought-provoking lecture by Bonnie Effros, Professor of History at the University of British Columbia and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, whose Cleveringa Lecture on critical approaches to the history of archaeology in North Africa and the Middle East was introduced by Harco Willems (KU Leuven). Participants made their way to the NVIC rooftop one last time for a happy evening of music, conversation, and goodbyes after three wonderful days.
