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ARCE Vancouver Chapter Lecture with Heba Abd el Gawad
Join us for our next virtual lecture on Egypt's Dispersed Heritage!
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Whose Egypt? Egypt and its Dispersed Heritage
Ever wondered how many Egypts there are out there? There is the Egypt imagined in museums, the one ending by the Byzantine period we read about it in Egyptology books, the eternal Egypt in official tourism campaigns, the one full of monuments void of people captured by Victorian and modern travellers, and the distorted Egypt in Western coverage of Middle Eastern news.
So, which and whose Egypt are we referring to when confronting archaeology’s colonial practices and its legacies? In this talk we will be reflecting on UCL’s AHRC funded Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project journey so far. Through the project’s outputs, we will learn about the challenges and opportunities, and the different Egypt’s they have encountered and learnt from.
Egyptian heritage and museums’ specialist Heba Abd el Gawad is the project researcher for the AHRC funded project: ‘Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage: Views from Egypt’ at the Institute of Archaeology, University College of London aimed at amplifying the voice, visibility, and validity of modern Egyptian communities in UK museums. She has previously led various curatorial roles in the UK including co-curating Two Temple Place’s 2016 Beyond Beauty: Transforming the Body in Ancient Egypt exhibition, project curator of the British Museum’s Asyut Project, and has guest curated Listen to her! Turning up the Volume on Egypt’s Ordinary Women exhibition at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. More recently, she was Museo Egizio Turin scientific coordinator for the Egyptian European EU funded “Transforming the Egyptian Museum in Cairo Tahrir Project” redisplaying the Old Kingdom galleries and introducing an operational Master Plan.
She specializes in the history of Egyptian archaeology and Egyptian perceptions and representations of ancient Egypt.
She has been selected as one of the most influential 21 Egyptian women in 2021 for her community work in the heritage sector.