The Museum of Cultural History’s Egyptology Symposium 2022: Emotions and Rituals in Egyptian Texts and Iconography

A large number of Egyptian texts and iconography demonstrate the dualistic relationship between rituals and emotions in ancient Egyptian culture. At this symposium, world-leading researchers on the subject share their recent contributions to this fascinating research area.

Stone relief

Relief with mourning scene in the tomb of Ankhmahor, Saqqara, c. 2300–2150 BCE. Photograph: Chris Naunton via Twitter.

We welcome you to this symposium where Norway's most recent doctor of Egyptology, Pål Steiner, who has undertaken highly relevant investigations on rituals and emotions in ancient Egyptian culture, will give a talk on this subject. In addition, Tara Prakash and Atena Ungureanu – two of the world’s leading researchers on rituals and emotions in Egyptian art – will present their work. Like Steiner, Ungureanu has just recently obtained her doctoral degree and, as such, made a significant contribution to the topic.

The exhibition Emotions in Antiquity and Ancient Egypt at the Historical Museum sheds light on this dualistic relationship in ancient Egyptian culture. The exhibition contains selected artefacts from the Museum’s Collection of Classical Antiquities and Egyptian Collection. Each one tells a story related to emotions of the time. But together they reveal feelings that are similar at different times and places: love and joy, grief and mourning, hope, fear and awe.

Programme

14.00 Welcome
by Marina Prusac-Lindhagen, Associate Professor at the Museum of Cultural History

14.15 Ferocious Anger and Crippling Fear: Reading the Emotions within Ancient Egyptian Art
by Tara Prakash, Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston

15.15 Break

15.30 Conveying emotions in mourner scenes at the Late Period elite tombs in Asasif, Thebes
by Atena Ungureanu, PhD at the University College London

16.30 Break

16.45 Purity and Anger
by Pål Steiner, PhD and Senior Academic Librarian at the Head of Education Support, University of Bergen

17.45 Concluding Comments
by Anders Bettum, Curator-in-Chief at Intercultural Museum, Oslo and Associate Professor at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo

Published Nov. 28, 2022 4:31 PM - Last modified Nov. 30, 2022 8:25 AM