Final Programme
All times are Japan Standard Time (JST). This is the final programme (as of 3 July 2026), incorporating presenter withdrawals and additions after the Third Circular. Session rooms (A/B/C) run in parallel. The full programme is also available as a PDF below.
Download the Programme (PDF)Download the 3rd Circular (PDF)
Standard presentations are 20 minutes followed by 5 minutes of Q&A; short presentations are 10 minutes. Posters must be A0 portrait (1189 × 841 mm) and are shown in two sessions — A (core time 12 July) and B (core time 14 July).
Presenters are kindly requested to use their own device (laptop, tablet, or smartphone) whenever possible. All rooms are equipped with a projector connected via HDMI. Please test your connection during the break before your session. A venue PC is available as a backup — in that case, submit your files (original + PDF) to staff before the morning sessions or during the lunch break for afternoon sessions.
Session A: Mount Saturday, 11 July, 11:00–12:30
Session B: Mount Monday, 13 July, 09:00–10:00
Mounting materials (tape) will be provided by the Organising Committee. Presenters must remove their own posters after each session.
| 11:00 | Registration | ||
| 13:00-14:00 | Welcome and Opening Ceremony Chair: So Miyagawa (University of Tsukuba) Opening Remarks: Tokihisa Higo (CRE 26 Tokyo Organising Committee, University of Tsukuba) Address from the Supporting Institutions: Prof. Kyosuke Nagata (President, University of Tsukuba) Address from the Guest of Honour: H.E. Mr. Ragui Mohamed Mohamed Eletreby (Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Arab Republic of Egypt) Greetings from the CRE Permanent Committee: Maarten Praet Events & Venue Information: Ayano Yamada (Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties) | ||
| Session 1: Old Kingdom Chair: Geirr Lunden | Session 2: Graeco-Roman Egypt Chair: Becky Clifton | Session 3: Religion and Cosmology in the New Kingdom Chair: Mennah Aly | |
| 14:10-14:35 | A New Analysis of Flint Production in the Eastern Delta. The Case of Tell Basta Victoria Vázquez Hernández | Tombs, Titles, and Trades: Defining Occupational Groups in the Ptolemaic Theban Necropolis Lauren Dogaer | Forty-Two Judges Revisited: Transition of the Idea of the Declaration of Innocence During the New Kingdom Tokihisa Higo |
| 14:40-15:05 | Riverine Terminology in the Names of Personifications of the Old Kingdom Mortuary Domains Illia Semenenko | Augustus as Zeus Eleutherios ― A Liberator of Egypt? Rikiya Sato | "And there was light!" ‒ Notes on the Creation of Light in New Kingdom Laudatory Texts (ca. 1539-1077 BCE) Guilherme Borges Pires |
| 15:10-15:35 | Categorical Perception of Red-Coated Open Ware in Old Kingdom Giza Izumi Nishibata | A New Identification of Sah in the Sky Gyula Priskin | The ἰr.t n⸗f dmἰ Formula in the Journey to Sais and Buto in the Theban Tombs of the 18th Dynasty Tancrède de Ghellinck |
| 15:40-16:05 | The Sealer as a Household Dependent in the Old Kingdom Raúl Sánchez-Casado | Between Malefactor and Benefactor: Ptolemy VIII and Animal Cults Marina Shimizu | |
| 16:05-16:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:30-17:15 | Keynote Lecture 1 | The Ancient Egyptian Objects of the Tokyo National Museum: Seven Stories from the Museum's Lesser-Known Past Dr Takuzo Onozuka (Tokyo National Museum) Chair: Taichi Kuronuma | ||
| 17:15-18:15 | Welcome Reception | ||
| 18:15-18:30 | Transfer to Tokyo National Museum (Ueno) | ||
| 18:30-20:00 | Museum Tour at Tokyo National Museum | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Registration | ||
| Session 1: Amarna Chair: Seria Takenouchi | Session 2: Language Chair: Marwan Kilani | Session 3: Cult and Priesthood Chair: Guilherme Borges Pires | |
| 09:30-09:55 | Streets in Action: A Social Reading of Street Life at Ancient Amarna Tracy Joan Lakin | A Linguistic Analysis of the Coptic Translation of Plato's Republic 588b-589b in Nag Hammadi Codex VI,5 Kokoa Nabatame | The Great One of All the Gods: Tracing the Origins and Symbolism of the Cattle Cult Urška Furlan |
| 10:00-10:25 | Production and Intra-Site Distribution of Faience Amulets in the New Kingdom: A Case Study of Amarna Himari Hasegawa | Register and Speaker-Related Perspectives on Spatial Categories in a Late Osirian Liturgy Svenja Damm | On the Logic of Syncretism: A Case Study of Sekhmet Kechu Huang |
| 10:30-10:55 | Everyday People and Everyday Objects at Tell el-Amarna: (Con)Textualising the Urban Landscape Erin Casey | The Hieroglyphic Signs Aa2/Aa3 as Buboes: A Palaeographic- Clinical Hypothesis Guillermo Suay | A Group of Sun Temple Priests Attested on Sealings from the Pyramid Complex of Raneferef David Jeřábek |
| 10:55-11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 1: Burial Customs Chair: Seria Takenouchi | Session 2: Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries Chair: Elena Luise Hertel | Session 3: New Kingdom Frontiers Chair: Uroš Matić | |
| 11:30-11:55 | Typology of Collar Designs in the Ptolemaic Burial Equipment for Determining the Provenance Keita Fukuda | Translating Iufaa with the Help of Artificial Intelligence Diana Míčková | Rethinking the Egypt‒Mittani Border through the Amarna and Idanda Archives Francesco I. De Magistris |
| 12:00-12:25 | Approaches to Identifying Anthropoid Coffins in Two- Dimensional Ancient Egyptian Art Yunyao Chen | The Olive Green Pigment at Mmi's Decorated Burial Chamber, Geser Almoudir Site. Saqqara. Egypt Ashraf Youssef Ewais | Body Techniques for Carrying Weight at the Egyptian-Nubian frontier: Bioarchaeological Evidence from Tombos in a Broader Perspective Jared Carballo-Pérez |
| 12:30-12:55 | Mentuhotep “Buau”: The Tomb of an 11th dynasty Administrative Official Rediscovered Maarten Praet | Mapping Pathyris: Integrating 3D Urban Modelling with Papyrological Databases Aneta Skalec, Wojciech Ejsmond, Julia Chyla, Jakub Stępnik | |
| 12:55-14:30 | Lunch Break | ||
| Afternoon: Short Presentations & Posters | |||
| SP Session 1: Religious and Funerary Traditions Chair: Tokihisa Higo | SP Session 2: Conservation & Restoration Chair: Mohamed Youssef | SP Session 3: Museum Collection Chair: Wojciech Ejsmond | |
| 14:30-14:45 | Female Tomb Ownership in the Old Kingdom: Evidence from the Memphite Necropoleis Irena Benešová | Textile Mounts: An Integrated Approach to the Preservation and Exhibition of Museum Collections Mohamed Yosri Ramadan Hussien, Hend Yassin, Menna Allah Mohamed, Enas Mohamed, Sara Ismael | |
| 14:45-15:00 | Scientific Publish to Stone Anthropoid Lid Coffin Priest Hounu, the Priest of King Ramsess Mortuary Temple in Abydos in Late Period Hend Mahmoud Ali | An Integrated Scientific and Analytical Approach to the Conservation and Exhibition of Thutmose III's Mummy Shroud Hend Yassin | Displaying the Forgotten Agents of the Petrie Museum: Indigenous Agency and Photographs in Museums Displays Maia Nolan |
| 15:00-15:15 | Between Transformative Destruction and Apotropaic Protection: Reconsidering the Paradoxical Nature of God Shezmu in Ancient Egyptian Religion Mennah Aly | Collecting Egyptian Antiquities in Pre-War Japan: Art, Specimens, and Cultural Reception Yuka Ito | |
| 15:15-15:45 | Coffee Break | ||
| 15:45-16:30 | Poster Session A — core time (foyer) | ||
| 16:30-17:15 | Keynote Lecture 2 | The Formation of an Egyptian Collection and Its Role in Education and Public Engagement -In case of The Ancient Orient Museum, Tokyo- Dr Keiko Tazawa (The Ancient Orient Museum, Tokyo) Chair: Ayano Yamada | ||
| 17:15-18:45 | Transfer to The Ancient Orient Museum (Ikebukuro) | ||
| 18:45-20:30 | Museum Tour at The Ancient Orient Museum, Tokyo | ||
| Session 1: Settlement Archaeology Chair: Taichi Kuronuma | Session 2: Historiography Chair: Geirr Lunden | Session 3: Architecture Chair: Maarten Praet | |
| 10:00-10:25 | A Spatial Analysis of Daily Life Pottery Vessels from Tell el-Retaba Ania Weźranowska | It All Fell on Deaf Ears: Proposals for a British Archaeological Institute in Egypt Andrés Martín García de la Cruz | Ancient Egyptian Architectural Plans: The Construction Process of Tombs in the Valley of the Kings Fiona Burdette |
| 10:30-10:55 | Buried Close to Home: The Development of the Tell Edfu Necropolis Émilie Sarrazin | Consuming Egypt at Home: Visual Possession, Status, and David Robertsʼ Prints in mid Nineteenth-Century Britain Fenfang Dong | Royal Palaces, Governor Residences and Elite Mansions: Preliminary Findings from an Assessment of Palatial Buildings from Egyptʼs Old to Middle Kingdom Periods Daniel Elcoat |
| 10:55-11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| Session 1: Terracotta Figurines Chair: Keita Fukuda | Session 2: Texts and Inscriptions Chair: Lauren Dogaer | Session 3: Funerary Texts Chair: Tokihisa Higo | |
| 11:30-11:55 | Underneath Isisʼ Skirt: A Study of Trans-Cultural Negotiations of Decorum, Nakedness and Gender Politics in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt Through Female Terracotta Figurines Anouk Everts | Stone Carved Manuscripts. Hieratic Stelae in the Third Intermediate Period Elena Luise Hertel | ʻTheir entrails to those who belong to the sky, their blood to those who belong to the earthʼ: The Representation of Posthumous Punishment in the Pyramid Texts Hannah Elisabeth Osborn |
| 12:00-12:25 | From Embodied Use to Recontextualization: Contextual Mobility and the Identity of Religious Objects in Roman Egypt Mutsumi Okabe | The Unedited Stela of Niankhinpu from Gebelein (Turin, S. 14092) Michele Maurici | The Religious and Funerary Significance of Uniqe Mythological Vignettes the Papyrus of Ḏd-Ḫnsw- ꞽw.f -ꜥnḫ Radwa El-kemaly |
| 12:30-12:55 | Terracotta Figurines from Thonis-Heracleion - Evidence of ʻPopular Religionʼ? Leonie Hoff | No Synchronisms After All? The End of Bakenrenef and the Chronology of the Proto-Saite Line John Rogers | A Newly Attested Variant of the Shabti Spell from Tell El-Deir Cemetery, New Damietta Dalia Mohamed Goda |
| 12:55-14:45 | Lunch Break | ||
| Afternoon: Short Presentations | |||
| SP Session 1: Material Culture Chair: Pauline Elisabeth Allaire | SP Session 2: Digital Humanities Chair: So Miyagawa | SP Session 3: Crossing Boundaries Chair: John Rogers | |
| 14:45-15:00 | Re-Excavating Akhmerutnisut: The Second Season of the Mastaba of Akhmerutnisut Documentation Project Inês Torres, Luiza Osorio G. Silva, Maarten Praet, Mohamed Khalifa, Moriah Hughes, Eman Essam, Guilherme Borges Pires | From Calipers to Laser Scanning: Methodological Advances in Anthropology and Their Application to Ancient Egyptian Human Remains of a Subaltern Community in Zawyet Sultan Pia Lorenz | |
| 15:00-15:15 | Tracing Textile Production in Ancient Egypt: Weaving Tools as Archaeological and Egyptological Evidence Mariam Elreweny | Automated Fibre Pattern Matching for Reconstructing the Fragmentary Book of the Dead of Ramose Joel Sams | Meretseger on Anthropoid Coffins of the Third Intermediate Period: Theology, Social Crisis and Moral Surveillance Deratsa Erato-Maria |
| 15:15-15:30 | Hairdos and Doings: Materiality, Craft, and Embodiment in Ancient Egyptian Wigs Beth Wang | Investigating the Writing Culture of Greco-Roman Egypt in the Digital Age: Updates from the EGRAPSA Project Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| SP Session 1: Writing and Scribes Chair: Elena Luise Hertel | SP Session 2: Human Practices and Cultural Interactions Chair: Mutsumi Okabe | SP Session 3: Ancient Egypt Across Periods Chair: Andrés Martín García de la Cruz | |
| 16:00-16:15 | Detour and Access: A Non-European Pedagogical Framework for Middle Egyptian Grammar Chenqing (Andy) An | From Coptos to the Red Sea: Routes, Praesidia, and Fiscal Practice in Roman Egypt Mar Jornet Toscano | El-Qariah Bil Dueir: News from a Nearly Lost Monastic Community from the Byzantine Period Walid Elsayed |
| 16:15-16:30 | Thinking in Groups: New Kingdom Group Writing and the Egyptian Mind Marwan Kilani | How Amarna Shaped Grief: A Psychological and Anthropological Analysis of Bereavement Body Gestures in TA26 Valentina Santini | Archival Archaeology at Gebelein: Revisiting the Northern Necropolis through Tomb GWRI 384 Wojciech Ejsmond, Taichi Kuronuma, Marzena Ożarek-Szilke, Aleksander Leydo, Aneta Skalec |
| 16:30-16:45 | Portable Monuments: Investigating Skeuomorphism and Intermediality in New Kingdom Manuscript Culture Marina Sartori | From Datasets to Dialogues: Revisiting Egyptian Funerary Evidence through Cross-Cultural Lenses Laura Michelini | |
| 16:45-17:30 | Keynote Lecture 3 | The Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection of Professor Emeritus Hachishi Suzuki and His Fieldwork Expedition for the UNESCO Nubian Salvage Project Prof Kyoko Yamahana (Tokai University) Chair: So Miyagawa | ||
| 17:30-19:00 | Free Time | ||
| 19:00-21:00 | Conference Dinner | ||
| Morning: Presentation | |||
| Session 1: Egypt and Ancient World Chair: Laura Michelini | Session 2: Society Chair: Tracy Joan Lakin | Session 3: Ritual Practice Chair: Marina Shimizu | |
| 10:00-10:25 | Egyptian Archive and Cultural Contact in the Neo-Assyrian Empire Sota Maruono | Social Consensus and Oracular Law in the Libyan Period Jason Silvestri | More Than a Splash of Red. Reassessing ṯr.w as a Functional and Symbolic Substance in Ancient Egypt Flavie Deglin |
| 10:30-10:55 | Assyrian Invasion as a Case of Cultural Trauma in Egypt Yasi Zhu | Elderly as Dependents in the Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period Uroš Matić | Metal Vessels in Cultic Contexts in Egypt during the First Millennium BCE: Building a Corpus and Methodological Perspectives Pauline Elisabeth Allaire |
| 11:00-11:25 | The Art of Religious Entanglement in the Kharga Oasis: An Unpublished Domestic Wall Scene Jasmine A. Smith | Tooth-Eating Worms in Ancient Egypt? Alix Sabot | Mapping the Logistics of Ritual: Digital and Theoretical Approaches to Ceramic Circulation in the Fifth Dynasty Sun Temples Giulia Magnani |
| 11:30-11:55 | Libyans before the Village: Libyan Groups in Western Thebes during the Late Ramesside Period Liwan Sun | The Art of Catching a Fish: Fishing Tools from Tell el-Retaba Beata Zaborowska | |
| 11:55-14:00 | Lunch Break | ||
| 14:00-14:45 | Poster Session B — core time (foyer) | ||
| Special Session by the Host Institution — Where Were They Taken? Reconstructing the Context of Egyptian Photographs in the Collection of the Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties — Ayano Yamada, Hideki Kikkawa, Mai Yamashita | |||
| 14:45-15:30 | Keynote Lecture 4 | From Petrie to Hamada: The Egyptian Collection of Kyoto University Prof Tomoaki Nakano (Chubu University) Chair: So Miyagawa | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | ||
| 16:00-16:20 | Closing Session Chair: Ayano Yamada | ||
| 16:20-18:00 | CRE Annual General Meeting | ||
| Full day | Excursion to Kamakura & Enoshima Island (optional) | ||
| 08:00 | Meet at the Marunouchi Building, Tokyo Station (meeting point) | ||
| 08:30 | Departure by chartered bus | ||
| 10:00-17:50 | Kamakura & Enoshima | ||
| 19:30 | Return to the Marunouchi Building (Tokyo Station) | ||
