From 26 to 29 June, the 2nd Ibero-American Conress of Young Egyptology Researchers (II CIJIE) will take place, organised by PhD and master's degree students from the UAB with the support of the Department of Antiquity and Medieval Studies and the Institute of Ancient Middle Eastern Studies.
The congress, free of charge and available online, brings together new researchers in Ibero-American Egyptology and continues the path initiated by the first congress (I CIJIE), organised by the University of Alcalá in 2021. The meeting serves as a forum for the exchange of interests, methodologies and theoretical perspectives, and to highlight the dynamism that Egyptology is currently showing in several Ibero-American countries, in this case represented by its younger generations: graduates (or equivalent), master's degree students and graduates, and doctoral students and recent PhDs.
According to the organisers, the large and varied number of papers to be presented predicts a very intense and enriching conference, in which practically all the fields encompassed by a discipline as broad as Egyptology will be represented. Over the course of four days, the more than 50 papers by young researchers from Spain, Argentina, Cuba, Portugal and Brazil, and other countries, will be divided into seven sessions, ranging from the pre-dynastic period to the Roman period: archaeology and art, gender and society, history, religion and the funerary world, digital humanities, collections, and literature and philology.
The congress will also include an inaugural and a closing lecture by Josep Cervelló Autuori and Joan Oller Guzmán, both professors at the UAB. There will also be three keynote lectures, given by María Belén Castro, from the University of La Plata; Cintia Gama-Rolland, from the Musée des Confluences in Lyon; and Daniel M. Méndez Rodríguez, from the University of La Laguna.
With this year's edition, the UAB contributes to consolidate the congress and to continue promoting Egyptological research in Ibero-American countries, as well as to create networks for scientific discussion among researchers who are in the early stages of their academic development.
