International Colloquium | Tutankhamun And Carter: Assessing The Impact of a Major Archaeological Find | Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation | 16th - 17th February 2023

International Colloquium 
Tutankhamun and Carter: Assessing the impact of a major archaeological find

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
February 16-17, 2023

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The International Colloquium Tutankhamun and Carter: Assessing the impact of a major archaeological find will be held in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, on the 16th and 17th February 2023. It will be a presential event but it will be also available on online streaming.

The event takes place as part of the cultural programme organized during the exhibition Faraós Superstars, held in the Temporary Galleries of the Foundation between 25th November 2022 and 6th March 2023.

The Colloquium aims at gathering scholars interested in the study of Egyptian collections and their recent history, with a particular focus on the tomb of Tutankhamun, Howard Carter’s career, and his enrolment with art collectors.

This meeting is organized by the Centre for History of the University of Lisbon and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, on the occasion of the 1st Centenary of the opening of Tutankhamun’s burial chamber. To attend the event in person, registration must be submitted until the 10th February 2023 to [email protected]. Given the limited seats, it is advisable to assure an early registration.

The event will be available in live streaming. The link will be provided in due time.

​Organising Committee:
João Carvalho Dias (FCG)
Jorge Rodrigues (FCG)
Nuno Simões Rodrigues (CH-ULisboa)
Fátima Rosa (CH-ULisboa)
Rogério Sousa (CH-ULisboa)

Scientific Committee:
Gabriele Pieke (CIPEG, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen)
Tine Bagh (CIPEG, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek)
Isabel Pombo Cardoso (DCR FCT NOVA)
Abraham Fernández-Pichel (CH-ULisboa)

PROGRAMME
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​FEBRUARY 16 (THURSDAY)

10h00 | Opening of the registration desk

11h00-12h00 | Keynote address 1

Richard Bruce Parkinson (University of Oxford)
A Chronicle No Longer Gold: Re-presenting the Oxford Archive in 2022

12h00-12h30 | Opening session

12h30-14h00 | Lunch

14h00-15h40 | 1st Panel. Carter and Tutankhamun’s tomb

Carole Jarsaillon (École Pratique des Hautes Études) – The Tutankhamun Affair in the Lacau archives: the diplomatic stakes of a discovery

Daniel Carvalho (UNIARQ – Center of Archaeology of the University of Lisbon; LAQU – Quantitative Archaeology Lab of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) – The archaeological thought in Howard Carter: on manuals, methods and tools in the excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun

Jenny l. Cashman (Polytechnic School, Pasadena) – The Laboratory in the Tomb Next Door: Lucas and the Science of Conserving Tutankhamun’s Treasures

Lyla Pinch (Royal Ontario Museum) – The remains of the South Wall in the Tomb of Tutankhamun

15h40-16h40 | Keynote address 2

Nozomu Kawai (Kanazawa University) – Understanding the Reigns of Tutankhamun and his predecessors from the objects in the Tomb of Tutankhamun

16h40-17h00 | Coffee break

17h00-18h40 | 2nd Panel. Re-discovering Tutankhamun’s find

André J. Veldmeijer & Salima Ikram (American University in Cairo) – Materials, Technologies, and Archaeological Documentation

Manon Y. Schutz (Universität Münster, University of Oxford) –The furniture that shapes our world. A re-examination of Tutankhamun’s beds, chairs, and thrones

Inês Torres (CHAM – Centro de Humanidades, Universidade Nova de Lisboa) – Tutankhamun’s Miniatures: The Power of Small-Scale Objects in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Customs

Ghada Mohamed (Cairo University) – ʺAbsolutely new in type‶: The anthropomorphized signs on the monuments of king Tutankhamun

19.30h | Conference Dinner

​FEBRUARY 17 (FRIDAY)

09h30-11h40 | 3rd Panel. The impact of Tutankhamun’s find

José Sales (Centro de História – Universidade de Lisboa; Centro de Estudos Globais da Universidade Aberta) e Susana Mota (Centro de Estudos Globais da Universidade Aberta) – Tutankhamun in Portugal. Reports in the Portuguese press (1922- 1939)

Nuno Simões Rodrigues (Centro de História – Universidade de Lisboa) – The impact of Tutankhamun’s tomb discovery in Agatha Christie ‘s novels and short stories

Fátima Rosa (Centro de História – Universidade de Lisboa) – Leonard Woolley saw with the eye of imagination”: the discoveries at Ur in the 1920s

​Jasmine Day (Independent Researcher; Ancient Egypt Society of Western Australia Inc) – Hearts of Glass: Identifying the styles and sources of the Neiger brothers’ Egyptian Revival jewellery

José Pérez Negre (Universidad de Alcalá de Henares) – The ‘Tutanchamun’ exhibition of the years 1980 and 1981 in Germany and its research, museographic and sociological repercussions. The definitive recognition of ‘the Egyptian’ in society

Lorenzo Zaccaria (Centro de Estudos Clássicos – Universidade de Lisboa) – The beat of the Pharaoh: Verdi’s Aida and the long thread of cultural fascination for Ancient Egypt

11h40-12h00 | Coffee break

​12h00-13h00 | Keynote address 3

Tom Hardwick (Houston Museum of Natural Science) – Tutankhmammon. Howard Carter, Calouste Gulbenkian, and the market for Egyptian art in the 1920s

​13h00-14h30 | Lunch

14h30- 16h10 | 4th Panel. Tutankhamun and pop culture

Valentina Santini (University of Birmingham, CAMNES) – Tutankhamun, the Pop Idol: The Tut-Mania Phenomenon and Its influence on the Wider Public

Anna L. Pearman (Vincennes University) – Howard Carter’s 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamen’s Tomb: Its Impact on Archaeology and the Media”

Abraham Fernandez Pichel (Centro de História – Universidade de Lisboa) – The influence of the discovery of Tutankhamun on contemporary cinema and comics

Valentin Boyer (École du Louvre) – “Tut-mania” through the Iconography of Egyptian Exlibris

16h10-16h30  | Coffee break

16h30-17h50 | 5th Panel. Tutankhamun and the legacy of Amarna

Dimitri Laboury (F.R.S.-FNRS – University of Liège) – The Man behind the Mask. On Royal Portraiture in Post-Amarna Art

Katja Broschat (Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum) – Tutorial ‘How to change your predecessors’ names into Tutankhamun’

Rogério Sousa (Centro de História – Universidade de Lisboa) – Tutankhamun and post-amarnian visions of afterlife

17h50-18h50 | Conclusions.
​Discussant: Daniela Picchi (Museo Civico Archeologico in Bologna)