Three Egyptologists Walk Into a Bar: Disseminating Egyptological Scholarship in Portuguese

Description

The first podcast about ancient Egypt in Portuguese—Três Egiptólogues Entram Num Bar, or Three Egyptologists Walk into a Bar—was started in 2022. Our original goals in starting this podcast were to communicate Egyptological research to a broader audience, and to do it in an unpretentious way that might convince those not otherwise interested in the ancient world to listen. Now, with hundreds of listeners and a growing audience, the importance of that goal—and the potential for projects such as these to disseminate scholarship—has become clear. Egyptology in lusophone countries, primarily Brazil and Portugal, has for a long time been considered peripheral. The interest this project continues to generate, as well as the growing body of innovative scholarship by Portuguese speaking Egyptologists, demonstrates that there is both interest in the discipline and the ability to pursue that interest in these countries. What is often lacking are the resources and infrastructure needed to support those who wish to pursue an Egyptological career. The downward trend of the humanities seen in the United States and Europe is even more prominent in countries where such disciplines were not well supported in the first place, and the need to demonstrate the relevance of our studies—of not only ancient Egypt, but of the ancient world as a whole—continues to grow. This paper will discuss the challenges but also the great pleasure involved in communicating scholarship to the general public, as well as argue for the absolute necessity of doing so.

Period	7 Aug 2023
Event title	XIIIth International Congress of Egyptologists: The Future of Ancient Egypt
Event type	Conference
Conference number	XIII
Location	Leiden, NetherlandsShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International