What a powerful opening sequence to today's #EOTalks by @cparen 🙏🏾 #MummiesAncestors
Charlotte is discussing the post mortem biography, journey, and treament of "The Young Man", who is now at the @ROMtoronto.
"What is a conservator's responsibilities to human remains, to the stories that they hold?" @cparen #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
We are now hearing from @aliceestevenson #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
"The public expects to see mummies. The Egyptian mummies have become the museum" - @aliceestevenson on the role of mummies in British museums #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
"If we want to be giving back humanity to these individuals, that engages an active process of addressing these [colonial] stereotypes" @aliceestevenson. She then evokes Janet Marstine's idea of museum ethics as contingent + radically transparent #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
Now moving on to @Sanchita_writes: "I cannot speak of conserving human remains in abstract"
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"As a conservator I was trained as a material expert...but conservators know that the treatment and materials we use can be harmful to ancient dead people and descendant communities." @Sanchita_writes
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"Indigenous Elders have reminded us again and again that ancestors are not resources: They are human beings." @Sanchita_writes #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
Our next speaker is Ahmed Elgharably, 5th yr medical student at Imperial College London: "What there is significantly less lit. about is the disciplines that interact with human remains." #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
"Why is it that mummies that are displayed in museums... are treated in a certain way, which is very different than the way we medically treat human bodies?" -Ahmed Elgharably #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
Ahmed Elgharably discusses the postmortem treatment of people who have donated their bodies to science and the ethics that surrounds their medical treatment. #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
Ahmed Elgharably highlights the ethical codes that currently frames the treatment of bodies given to science: consent, how long the body will be kept for, and what will be done with the body, and how it will be buried. #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
"Why is it that when we look at hospital and museum ethical framework they look similar, but that things are different in practices?" Ahmed Elgharably then discusses the "Granville mummy" box at the @britishmuseum and the recent "mummy voice" story #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
"What museums can learn from medicine is the art of letting go" - Ahmed Elgharably #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
Last but not least: @GawadHeba, who "managed to defy Petrie's curse"!
"When it comes to human remains, where are modern Egyptians in the conversation?" @GawadHeba discusses how @excavatedegypt is working to recenter Egyptian voices in the conversation #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
Bringing an Egyptian on a panel is a frequent quick fix that is unjust and doesn't solve the issue. @GawadHeba on how Egyptology ought to do better #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
This is how people interact with their ancestors. We shouldn't be limiting how they feel. This is an emotional process. We need to shift our perception on what the idea of continuity actually means. - @GawadHeba w shoutout to #Fayoum communities and @Fayoumer's work
This is how people interact with their ancestors. We shouldn't be limiting how they feel. This is an emotional process. We need to shift our perception on what the idea of continuity actually means. - @GawadHeba w shoutout to #Fayoum communities and @Fayoumer's work
This is how people interact with their ancestors. We shouldn't be limiting how they feel. This is an emotional process. We need to shift our perception on what the idea of continuity actually means. - @GawadHeba w shoutout to #Fayoum communities and @Fayoumer's work
Social media is a wonderful way to connect with Egyptian communities. @GawadHeba discusses the comics @Nasser_Junior and her worked on, incl. those on the colonial legacies of mummy dispersal #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
"Can you wrap me up too so I can travel abroad?" Egyptians often tell @GawadHeba when learning about mummy dispersal. Cause Egyptians are most often refused access to the places where mummies are kept today, and this too, is a colonial legacy. #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
Egyptians mummies are displaced and disposessed human beings. Comic 👇🏾: Parallel btw the dehumanizing treatment of mummies in museums & the treatment of Egyptian migrant workers in the Gulf, by @Nasser_Junior @GawadHeba @excavatedegypt #EOTalks #MummiesAncestors
Shoutout to @ZeinabHashesh's reflection on the emotional entanglements that characterize Egyptian responses to the display of ancient Egyptian remains. For @GawadHeba ethical strategies should come first from local communities (who are in general for reburial), not science.
A question by @mokersel on whether we should use the word 'mummy' at all. @GawadHeba is strongly against it. @cparen: using the word 'mummy' participates in objectifying the remains.
I owe all of you an apology for having used the word way too many times in this live thread!
The Q&A is 🔥 Much gratitude to the panelists, the @TheEES & everyone who joined us today. The event has been recorded and will be uploaded shortly on Everyday Orientalism's youtube page 🙏🏾 @cparen @GawadHeba @Sanchita_writes @aliceestevenson @CGraves88 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8eX7QfYMmcAquvS1NFhESg
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The conversation continues! https://twitter.com/cparen/status/1295768581658030086
As we're processing today's convo on #MummyAncestors, @usamaligad highlights the relationship btw the treatment of ancient Egyptian remains & the retrieval of papyri from cartonnage. I see there a powerful thread with @papyrologyatman's Oct.23 #EOtalks on the materiality of texts
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