On the Outskirts?: The Past(s) and Future(s) of Brazilian and Portuguese Egyptology

Description

Recently, discussions in Egyptology have started to focus more on the development of the discipline, and particularly on how it should move forward in the years to come. An important part of such development needs to be the inclusion of scholarship produced outside so-called Egyptological “centers,” primarily in Europe and the United States, not only for the sake of inclusion but also for their potential to modify the discipline from within by adding voices dissimilar from those featured in mainstream scholarship. Though not very well known in a global context, Egyptology by Portuguese-speaking scholars continues to grow and to produce scholarship of interest and relevance to the field as a whole. This talk aims to give an overview of the investigation of Egypt and Nubia and its main scholars in both countries, from its inception to the present, as well as introduce an editorial project pioneered by the four speakers. This project, which is currently underway, seeks precisely to emphasize the future(s) of not only Portuguese-speaking Egyptology, but through it (and other “peripheral” scholarly traditions) also of Egyptology as a whole. We aim to bring to the fore the potential of the scholarly creativity characteristic of non-mainstream contexts of investigation to the center, thus moving towards a more equitable field through collaboration rather than simply critique.

Period	3 Dec 2022
Held at	American Research Center in Egypt, United States
Degree of Recognition	International