Wednesday 24.6.2009
13.15 Official opening
13.30 Christopher Eyre: The Man whose Father is Still Alive, and the Younger Brother: Social Status and Kinship Categories
14.15 Gema Menendez: Deir el-Medina stelae and other inscribed objects in Cairo Museum
15.00 Andreas Dorn: Pyramidia in Gräbern deponieren
15.45 Coffee break
16.15 Deborah Sweeney: The Art of Prayer: gender, status and age on private stelae from Deir el-Medîna
17.00 Rob Demarée: Some “new” ostraca
17.45 Virpi Perunka: Private Chapels of Deir el-Medina as a part of the Sacred Landscape of Western Thebes
18.30 Presentation of the Institute for Asian and African Studies (Unioninkatu 38 B)
Thursday 25.6.2009
09.30 Heidi Jauhiainen: Feasts at Deir el-Medina
10.15 Kristina Lahn Dumke: Die Verehrung der Qedeschet in Deir el-Medina
11.00 Slawomir Rzepka: Rock-graffiti in Western Thebes
11.45 Lunch break
12.45 Kathlyn M. Cooney: The Context of 20th and 21st Dynasty Theban Funerary Arts Production
13.30 Deborah Cilli: A new Corpus of Hieratic Ostraca from the Kings’ Valley (KV47)
14.15 Matthias Müller: Ostraca from the Mortuary Temple of Merenptah
15.00 Coffee break
15.30 Patricia Berg: Travelling in the texts from Deir el-Medina
16.15 Pavel Onderka: The Deir el-Medina Collection of the National Museum, Prague
19.00 Reception at the University Main building
Friday 26.6.2009
09.30 Richard Mandeville: Wage Accounting in Deir el-Medina
10.15 Ben Haring: The earliest necropolis records: workmen’s marks of the Eighteenth Dynasty
11.00 Yasmin El Shazly: Representations of Sequences of Royal Ancestors on Deir el-Medina Monuments
11.45 Lunch break
12.45 H.-W. Fisher-Elfert: A strike in the reign of Merenptah? (Pap. Berlin P. 23000 and P. 23301)
13.30 Arlette David: Orality of Agreement, Literacy of Conflict: Legal Written Genres in Deir el-Medina
14.15 Miriam Müller: Deir el-Medina in the dark – the Amarna period in the history of the village. Workmen moving to Akhetaten?
15.00 Coffee break
15.30 Hana Navratilova and Renata Landgrafova: The scribes of Deir el-Medina and the ancient Egyptian love songs
16.15 Gregor Neunert: Prestigeanspruch in Deir el-Medine
17.00 Jaana Toivari-Viitala: The People and Environment research project funded by the Finnish Academy
19.00 Conference dinner
As the conference forms part of the anniversary programme of the Finnish Egyptological Society, the speakers will also have an opportunity to visit the 40th Anniversary Exhibition of the Finnish Society to be held in Loviisa town.
Saturday 27.6.2009
10.30–12.00 Bus to Loviisa town
12.00–14.00 The exhibition Egypt! in Loviisa Town Museum
14.00–16.00 Lunch in restaurant Degerby Gillet
16.00–17.30 Cocktail in Dr. Jaana Toivari-Viitala’s garden
17.30–19.00 Bus to Helsinki