From Tawny Holm <tholm@psu.edu>:linebreak========================linebreaklinebreakAll are invited to the Penn State University & University of Memphis joint conference, "New Ideas and Approaches to Ancient Egyptian Religion," to be held in person on Monday, Oct. 12, 9am-6pm, 121 Borland, at Penn State's main campus.linebreaklinebreakSchedule below.linebreaklinebreak9:00-9:15 am – Opening remarkslinebreaklinebreakMorning Session: “The End is Where We Start From”linebreak Chair: Anna Peterson, Penn State Universitylinebreak9:15-9:45 am – Antonio J. Morales, University of Alcalá, "The Creation of the God Amun, or the Materialization of a Theban Political Agenda"linebreak9:45-10:15 am – Marie-Lys Arnette, Johns Hopkins University, "Regressus ad Uterum: Some Aspects of Rebirth in the Afterlife as Reflected in Egyptian Funerary Texts"linebreak10:15-10:30 am – Respondent – Rebecca Wang, Penn State Universitylinebreaklinebreak(10:30-11:00 am coffee break)linebreaklinebreak11:00-11:30 am - Rita Lucarelli, University of California, Berkeley, "Agents of Punishment and Protection: Rethinking the Demonic in First Millennium BCE Egypt"linebreak11:30 am-12:00 pm - Joshua A. Roberson, University of Memphis, "Shamanism, Dreaming, and the Fractal Mind: New Hypotheses on the Origins of the Egyptian Cosmological Books"linebreak12:00-12:15 am – Respondent – Michael Beshay, Penn State Universitylinebreak12:15-1:15 – Discussionlinebreaklinebreak(1:15-2:30 pm lunchlinebreaklinebreakAfternoon Session: Reading the Unwritten and Writing the Unreadlinebreak Chair: Gonzalo Rubio, Penn State Universitylinebreak2:30-3:00 pm – Solange Ashby, University of California, Los Angeles, "Researching Non-Literate Societies"linebreak3:00-3:30 pm – Marina Escolano-Poveda, University of Liverpool, "The Egyptian Hermes Revisited: Towards a New Understanding of the Hermetica in Context"linebreak3:30-3:45 pm – Respondent – Mathias Hanses, Penn State Universitylinebreaklinebreak(3:45-4:15 coffee break)linebreaklinebreak4:15-4:45 pm – Tawny Holm, Penn State University, "Canaanite Gods in Egypt: The Case of Baʿal"linebreak4:45-5:00 pm – Respondent – Michael Stahl, Penn State Universitylinebreak5:00-6:00 pm - Discussionlinebreaklinebreak--- linebreak