Spring/Summer 2020 Updates

Due to the continued uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, the SSEA Toronto Chapter has decided to cancel all remaining events for the Spring 2020 calendar. This includes the New Years Dinner in July and all summer programming. The May lecture to be given by Sherine El Sabaie will be postponed to the Fall. We thank all our …

Brandi Hill: “Visualizing Power: Researching Representations of Twelfth Dynasty Royal Women”

Join us on November  14 for a lecture given by Dr. Brandi Hill. Dr. Brandi Hill received her Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Egyptology from Swansea University this past July. She began her exploration of Twelfth Dynasty royal female art at theUniversity of Memphis where she completed her Master’s degree in Art History at the …

The SSEA Fall Course 2019 (Finished)

Title: The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife What happens to the human personality after death?  Does it dissolve as do the molecules of the body, back into the star stuff we are made of?  Does some part of us, a soul, a spirit, survive death?  The Ancient Egyptians pondered these issues and formed elaborate …

SSEA 2022-2023 Course Series

2022-course-registration-form-2Download 2022 Course Title: Egyptian Iconography in the Ancient Near and Middle East When: Every Saturday from November 5 to 26, 2022 at 1 pm (EDT) Instructor: Chana Algarvio (MA Student at the University of Toronto) Where: Online via Zoom (link will be sent prior to the course start date) Cost: $60/members; $80/non-members Payment Options: …

C. Redmount “Academic Legos: Hibeh’s Sheshonq I Temple”

Join us in August for our last talk of the summer to hear the latest updates on work at the site of El-Hibeh by Dr. Carol Redmount, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and Director of the El-Hibeh Project. Dr. Redmount will present an informal talk in the Near and …