Alain ZIVIE is a former scientific member of the Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO) and research director emeritus at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). He has founded, along with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Mission archéologique française du Bubasteion (MAFB), which he manages. President and founder of the Association Hypogées (www.hypogees.org), which aims to support the work of the MAFB, he was also, during his career, professor at the École du Louvre, Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, W.K. Simpson Visiting Professor at the American University in Cairo, Visiting Scholar at Harvard University. He is the author of numerous publications. Alain ZIVIE and his team have led archaeological surveys in Saqqara for the last thirty years, in the framework of which were discovered a set of important tombs which give new insights —and sometimes upset— our knowledge of the pre-Amarna, Amarna and post-Amarna Periods: e.g. the tombs of the vizier and father of the god 'Abdiel ('Aper-El), of the artist Thutmes, and of the wet nurse of Tutankhamun and great of the harem, Maïa.

Alain ZIVIE will present the keynote lecture “CHAMPOLLION 1822 - CARTER 1922: deux figures et deux découvertes inégalables” [Friday June 17, 2022, 6:00 PM, IN FRENCH].

Elizabeth FROOD is Associate Professor of Egyptology, Fellow of St Cross College, and Honorary Fellow of The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. Born in Aotearoa New Zealand, she received her first degrees from the University of Auckland and her doctorate from Oxford. Elizabeth is a specialist in Egyptian non-royal self-presentation, including biography and graffiti. She co-directs the Karnak Graffiti Project in collaboration with the Centre Franco-Égyptien d’Étude des Temples de Karnak. Elizabeth FROOD has worked on a number of collaborative book projects, including Ancient Egyptian biographies: contexts, forms, functions (2020) and Scribbling through history: graffiti, places and people from antiquity to modernity (2018). She is author of Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt (2007) and of articles on topics ranging from potters to religion. In 2020, as then director of Oxford’s Griffith Institute, Elizabeth presented the BBC documentary Tutankhamun in Colour.

Elizabeth FROOD will present “Introducing Tutankhamun (in Colour): negotiations and transformations” [Friday 17 June 2022, 7:15 PM].

Widely acclaimed as one of Britain’s leading independent production companies, Blakeway make world-renowned films for television and cinema, and for clients across the world. Their programmes are driven by a creative visual style and commitment to making films that are uniquely compelling, entertaining and highly ambitious. Their have worked with everyone from national institutions, national treasures and visionary artists to vulnerable people in highly sensitive circumstances, and won awards in every major television award ceremony – BAFTAS, Griersons, Royal Television society awards and Emmys. The team at Blakeway audio has a long and successful track record of working with organisations to deliver high quality audio production, across all media platforms.

Blakeway has produced the documentary “Tutankhamun in Colour” which will be broadcast, as part of the symposium, on the launch evening [Friday 17 June 2022, 7:45 PM].

Julie DESJARDINS is a doctoral student in Art History at the University of Quebec in Montreal, directed by Professor Valérie Angenot. Her research interests focus on wood craftsmanship, its uses and representations. For her doctoral thesis, she analyzes and studies the depictions of wood in the ancient Egyptian iconography, and in particular objects designed as simulacra, emulating the veins or phytological characteristics of different wood species. She is a member of the epigraphic mission at Karnak, The Great Hypostyle Hall Project, under the direction of Jean Revez (UQAM) and Peter Brand (University of Memphis), for whom she acts as a research assistant both onsite (missions of 2017 and 2019) and in the laboratory. She is also a research assistant for the Wedjat Project under the direction of Valérie Angenot (UQAM), as well as a teaching assistant at the History Department of UQAM.

Julie DESJARDINS will present “L’égyptologie à Montréal: les études universitaires et la recherche” [Saturday June 18, 2022, 1:30 PM, IN FRENCH].

Véronique LACROIX is a PhD student in Art history at UQAM, directed by Valérie Angenot, and in cotutelle with Paris Sorbonne University, directed by Pierre Tallet. Véronique LACROIX is particularly interested in the history of women in Ancient Egypt. After a Master's thesis on the role of foreign women in Egyptian matrimonial alliances, her doctoral research now focuses on the study of female royal iconography and the borrowings, by royal women, of the traditional male pharaonic visual discourse. Winner of the prestigious Luc-D'Iberville-Moreau scholarship in 2021, she currently devotes her time to pursuing her research, alternating stays between Montreal and Paris. She is also a member of the multidisciplinary research Project Wedjat, directed by Valérie Angenot, which involves, among other things, the reconstruction of a facsimile of an Egyptian tomb at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

Véronique LACROIX will present “L’égyptologie à Montréal: les collections et projets muséaux“ [Saturday June 18, 2022, 1:30 PM, IN FRENCH].

Jean REVEZ has been a professor in the History department of the University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM) since 2007. Holder of a bachelor's degree from Concordia University (Liberal Arts College/history) in Montreal, Jean REVEZ completed his doctoral studies in Egyptology at the University of Paris-IV Sorbonne and at the University of Heidelberg. His fields of specialization cover royal ideology through the terminology of kinship, the cultural relations between Egypt and Nubia, and the contribution of technology to Egyptian epigraphy in Pharaonic monuments, in particular through the case of the temple of Amun-Re at Karnak. He has been co-director of the UQAM-University of Memphis mission to Karnak since 2011, the objective of which is to study and publish the scenes that adorn the 130 or so columns erected in the Great Hypostyle Hall of the temple of Karnak, and to reassemble the hall, partly collapsed, through the means of photogrammetry.

Jean REVEZ will present “'Je tiens l’affaire!': Jean-François Champollion et le déchiffrement des hiéroglyphes égyptiens” [Saturday June 18, 2022, 2:30 PM, IN FRENCH].

Vanessa DESCLAUX is curator at the Department of Manuscripts at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in charge of the Ancient Egyptian, Christian Near East and Orientalist papers collections. She is the curator of the exhibition “L’Aventure Champollion. Dans le secret des hiéroglyphes” (BnF, April 12-July 24, 2022), with Guillemette Andreu-Lanoë and Hélène Virenque. She holds a PhD in Egyptology, and is the author of a dissertation submitted in 2014, dealing with the Appeal to the Living, out of which she published several articles. She is also co-founder and editor of the online research notebook L'Antiquité à la BnF https://antiquitebnf.hypotheses.org/.

Orient & Mediterranean researcher – UMR 8167, associated with HiSoMA-UMR 5189, member of the excavation French mission of Coptos, a site about which she has posted an online database of objects unearthed in the 19^th and early 20^th centuries. COPTOS - Coptite Objects Survey in Museums https://coptos.mom.fr/.

Vanessa DESCLAUX will present “Champollion inconnu: enquête chez les biographes et dans les manuscrits du savant” [Saturday June 18, 2022, 3:45 PM, IN FRENCH].

Born in 1975, Christian GRECO has been Director of the Museo Egizio since 2014. He managed a refurbishment of the museum building and a renovation of its galleries, completed on March 31^st 2015, whereby the Museo Egizio was transformed from an antiquities museum into an archaeological museum. Trained mainly in the Netherlands, he is an Egyptologist with vast experience working in museums. He curated many exhibition and curatorial projects in the Netherlands, Japan, Finland, Spain and Scotland. While at the head of the Museo Egizio, he has set up important international collaborations with museums, universities and research institutes all across the world. Christian Greco is currently teaching courses in the material culture of ancient Egypt and museology at the University of Turin and Pavia, and he is Visiting Professor at the New York University in Abu Dhabi. Fieldwork is particularly prominent in Greco’s curriculum, since 2011 he has been co-director of the Italian-Dutch archeological mission at Saqqara. Greco’s published record includes many scholarly essays and writings for the non-specialist public in several languages. He has also been a keynote speaker at a number of Egyptology and museology international conferences.

Christian GRECO will present “Salvolini revisited: from Champollion’s pupil to independent scholar” [Saturday 18 June 2022, 4:45 PM].

Aidan DODSON is honorary full Professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol, UK. He studied at Durham, Liverpool and Cambridge Universities, being awarded his PhD by the latter in 1995, and was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003. He was Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo for the Spring of 2013, and Chairman of the Egypt Exploration Society from 2011 to 2016. Professor DODSON is the author of more than 25 books (on both Egyptology and modern naval history), including four on the Amarna Period: Amarna Sunrise (2014); Amarna Sunset (2009, 2nd edition 2018); Nefertiti, Queen and Pharaoh of Egypt (2021); and Tutankhamun, King of Egypt (to be published autumn 2022).

Aidan DODSON will present “Tutankhamun, King of Argos, the Pharaoh who Changed Sex and Other Stories” [Sunday 19 June 2022, 10:30 AM].

Marc GABOLDE is a former scientific member of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (IFAO) in Cairo and professor / researcher at the University Paul Valéry - Montpellier III. He works within the Nilotic and Mediterranean Egypt team, part of the Archeology of Mediterranean Societies unit (UMR 5140). Since September 2020, he has been on a delegation to the Centre franco-égyptien d'étude des temples de Karnak (CFEETK, CNRS UAR 3172), to complete the study and publication of the memorial built by Ay for Tutankhamun. His main work concerns the history of the end of the 18^th dynasty. Marc GABOLDE has directed and participated in several archaeological expeditions including the Valley of the Queens, Balat, Tebtunis, and the royal necropolis of Tell el-Amarna. He is the author of several books on the post-Amarna period, most recently Tutankhamun (Pygmalion 2015), and he has written 82 scientific articles.

Marc GABOLDE will present “Les voyages extraordinaires de quelques objets provenant de la tombe de Toutankhamon” [Sunday June 19, 2022, 11:30 AM, IN FRENCH].

Valérie ANGENOT holds a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Brussels. She is the director of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Semiotic Studies and professor at the Department of Art History at UQAM, where she notably teaches Egyptian art and the Semiotics of art. Her research interests focus on the hermeneutics of Egyptian iconography, and in particular on the study of tropes as cognitive mechanisms involved in the elaboration of Egyptian images and language. She is the director of the Wedjat Project – Crossing Perspectives between Ancient Egypt and the Modern West, an experimental research in cognition and semiotics of the reception of images, using eye-tracking technologies (SSHRC grant). This project is part of a museum programme in partnership with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. It was through a semiotic analysis of obscure (for a modern viewer) Amarna works of art, that she discovered, in 2019, that two of Akhenaten's daughters might have succeeded him on the throne of Egypt, before the reign of Tutankhamun.

Valérie ANGENOT will present “Rendre à Neferneferouaton ce qui appartient à Neferneferouaton: le matériel usurpé de la tombe de Toutankhamon” [Sunday June 19, 2022, 2:00 PM, IN FRENCH].

Perrine POIRON holds a Ph.D in Egyptology and History (UQAM/Sorbonne-Université). She specializes in pharaonic ideology during the Third Intermediate Period, in cultural memory and cultural identity and their impact on the official protocol. She works in Egypt with the Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project, a joint field survey of the University of Memphis & UQAM, and she is a postdoctoral fellow on the Wedjat Project (UQAM, dir. V. Angenot). She has worked as a consultant for Ubisoft on Assassin's Creed Origins and Discovery Tour. She also collaborated with Ubisoft and Google on the Hieroglyphics Initiative launched by Google in 2020 as Fabricius. Perrine POIRON is also President of the Association for Ancient Near-Eastern Studies in Montreal.

Perrine POIRON will chair the panel discussion “Who was the queen-pharaoh who preceded Tutankhamun on the throne: Nefertiti, Meritaten or Neferneferuaten-Tasherit?” [Sunday 19 June 2022, 3:00 PM].

Vincent LABELLE is a master's student in History at the University of Quebec in Montreal. His M.A. dissertation, which he is currently writing under the direction of Jean Revez and Valérie Angenot, aims to study the way the ancient Egyptians experienced old age during the Pharaonic era, through its literary and figurative expressions. Since 2019, he has been a member of the epigraphic mission in the Great Hypostyle Hall of the Temple of Karnak (UQAM and U. of Memphis), within the framework of which he has already participated in a field mission and carried out laboratory work at UQAM.

Vincent LABELLE will lead the poster session “Why study Egyptology in the 21^st century?” [During the 3 days].

Founded in 1969, the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities/Société pour l’Étude de l’Égypte ancienne is a pan-Canadian non-profit organization aimed at disseminating recent research in Egyptology, to a public coming from various backgrounds, and at encouraging studies in this field, in particular by offering scholarships. Founded more than 20 years ago, its Montreal Chapter organizes about ten events each year (conferences, seminars) and other activities (benefit events, workshops for the general public) which contribute to promoting the immense richness of this several thousand-year-old civilization. Associated to the Department of History at UQAM, the Montreal Chapter of the SSEA also makes its collection of Egyptological books available to its members and students.

The SSEA volunteers will conduct the three children's workshops:

• “Initiation to hieroglyphic writing” [Saturday June 18, 2022, from 2 to 6 PM]

• “The tomb and the mummification of Tutankhamun” [Sunday June 19, 2022, from 10 AM to 12:30 PM]

• “Egyptian legends, tales and myths” [Sunday June 19, 2022, from 2 to 5 PM]

Cloé CARON has been president of the Montreal Chapter of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities since 2015. She has just completed her PhD in Egyptology at UQAM, conducted jointly with the University of Montpellier 3. Her thesis concerned the study of the primordial entity that the ancient Egyptians called the Nu(u) and of the different meanings and functions that this notion endorses in the Pyramid and Coffin Texts. She has published a few articles on cosmogonic and cosmographic notions including "Des hommes de larmes, des hommes de tristesse ? La conception anthropogonique dans les Textes des Sarcophages” (2015) and “Nun: a Traditional and Static Conception? The Evolution of the Conception of Primeval Matter between the Middle and the New Kingdoms” (2019). She took part in four epigraphic missions of the Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project (UQAM & U. of Memphis).

Cloé CARON will lead the three SSEA children's workshops.