Saturday 3rd October 9am Registration, tea and coffee
9.25am Dr Karen Exell Curator, Egypt and the Sudan, The Manchester Museum Welcome
9.30am Dr Shomarka Keita The Peopling of the Nile Valley: Geography, Linguistics, Archaeology and Human Biology Research Affiliate, Howard University and Smithsonian Institution
Session 1: The 'African-ness' of ancient Egyptian culture (Chair: Kimani Nehusi/Karen Exell)
10.15am Dr Kimani Nehusi Egypt in Afrika and Afrika in Egypt University of East London
10.50am Dr Alain Anselin Some Notes about an Early African Pool of Cultures from which=2 0Emerged Egyptian Civilization University of Antilles-Guyane
11.10am Dr Amon Saba Saakana Karnak House Publishers and Intef Institute The Contested Nature of Ancient Egypt
11.30am Dr Ana I. Navajas-Jiménez The Pre-dynastic bos primigenius as a Royal Image of Territory, Boundaries and Power in its African Context Oxford University
11.50pm Dr Abdul Salau Did Yoruba Originate from Ancient Egyptians? A Response to Detractors of J.O. Lucas Michigan State University
12.10pm Ferg Somo The Bantu Rosetta Stones Kiswahili-Bantu Research Unit for the Advancement of the Ancient Egyptian Language
12.30pm Lunch break
Session 2: Egypt from an African Perspective (Chair: José Lingna-Nafafé /Karen Exell)
1.30pm Dr José Lingna-Nafafé West African Perspectives on Ancient Egypt: African Renaissance Birmingham University
2.05pm Dr Dellé Odeleye How Impartial Are Modernist Perspectives of Ancient Egyptian Town Planning? Anglia Ruskin University
2.25pm Solange Bumbaugh Meroitic Pilgrimage and Worship at the Temple of Isis located on Philae Island University of Chicago
2.45pm Dr Linda Hulin Reclaiming Libyan Archaeology Oxford University
3.05pm Tea and coffee
Session 3: Interpretations of Ancient Egypt in the West (Chair: Sally-Ann Ashton/Karen Exell)
3.30pm Dr Sally-Ann Ashton Curating Kemet The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
4.05pm Lyra Monteiro Ancient Egypt as an Ancestor Culture in Early 19th Century Black American Thought Brown University
4.25pm Dr Clyde Ahmad Winters Public Understandings of Ancient Egypt in the Formation of Dalit and African American Identities and History Curriculum Governors State University, University Park, Illinois
4.45pm Dr Bill Manley Petrie's Revolutions: The Case of the Qurneh Queen National Museums Scotland
5.05pm Charles A. Grantham Unwrapping of Egyptology Northeastern Illinois University
5.25pm Professor Gloria Emeagwali Ancient Egypt in World History Text Books Central Connecticut State University
6.15pm Professor Adebayo Folorunso Contesting Egypt: Facts, Rhetorics or Sentiments University of Ibadan
7.00-9.00pm Reception
Sunday 4th October 11.15am-11.35am Robin Walker Selling Ancient Nubia to the Black Community: An Exercise in Damage Limitation Director of Education, Black History Studies Ltd
11.35am-12.45pm Public discussion with the key speakers, chaired by Robin Walker
1.45-3.45pm Nubian Spirit: The African Legacy of the Nile Valley - film screening followed by a Q&A session with the Director, Louis Buckley
Posts: 13012 | From: Chicago | Registered: Jan 2006
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This sounds like a wonderful and educational seminar. However, since I am in the US and I have no hope of traveling to the UK in Oct., I will imagine what it's like to participate in the discussion. To anyone who attends: Take notes, tell us all about it when you get back!!!!!!!!!!
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Any updates? The conference has came and went already. I was looking very forward to any potential recordings.
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Using primarily linguistic evidence, and taking into account recent archaeology at sites such as Hierakonpolis/Nekhen, as well as the symbolic meaning of objects such as sceptres and headrests in Ancient Egyptian and contemporary African cultures, this paper traces the geographical location and movements of early peoples in and around the Nile Valley. It is possible from this overview of the data to conclude that the limited conceptual vocabulary shared by the ancestors of contemporary Chadic-speakers (therefore also contemporary Cushitic-speakers), contemporary Nilotic-speakers and Ancient Egyptian-speakers suggests that the earliest speakers of the Egyptian language could be located to the south of Upper Egypt or, earlier, in the Sahara. The marked grammatical and lexicographic affinities of Ancient Egyptian with Chadic are well-known, and consistent Nilotic cultural, religious and political patterns are detectable in the formation of the first Egyptian kingships. The question these data raise is the articulation between the languages and the cultural patterns of this pool of ancient African societies from which emerged Predynastic Egypt.
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You can read a copy of my paper " Public Understandings of Ancient Egypt in the Formation of Dalit and Afro‐American Identities and History Curriculum" from the Conference here:
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Does anyone have access to the paper by Dr Abdul Salau Did Yoruba Originate from Ancient Egyptians? A Response to Detractors?
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I'm mad I missed this thread a couple years ago.
I guess that makes Manchester University "Afrocentric" as well along with Cambridge and Oxford! LOLPosts: 26322 | From: Atlanta, Georgia, USA | Registered: Feb 2005
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