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SUMMARY: (Mobilities Group Event) Could we laugh colonialism away? Using Eg
 yptian comics to confront the colonial histories of its ancient past
DESCRIPTION: CMS Mobilities Research Group and Department of Ancient Medite
 rranean and Near Eastern Studies presents\, “Could we laugh colonialism awa
 y? Using Egyptian comics to confront the colonial histories of its ancient 
 past.” Please note that this is a hybrid event. RSVP below for the zoom lin
 k and/or the in-person location. Abstract This talk will showcase how […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><a href="https://migration.ubc.ca/research
 /research-groups/mobilities/">CMS Mobilities Research Group</a> and <a href
 ="https://amne.ubc.ca/">Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Easter
 n Studies</a> presents\, <em><strong>“Could we laugh colonialism away? Usin
 g Egyptian comics to confront the colonial histories of its ancient past.”<
 /strong></em></p><p><em>Please note that this is a hybrid event. RSVP below
  for the zoom link and/or the in-person location.</em></p><p><img class=" w
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 oads/sites/42/2023/11/231123-WU_Mobilities-event-300x168.png" alt="" width=
 "429" height="240" /></p><h3 style="text-align: center\;">Abstract</h3><p>T
 his talk will showcase how the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council Egyp
 t’s Dispersed Heritage project partnered with contemporary Egyptian comic a
 rtists to confront the colonial histories of the exporting of Egyptian heri
 tage to the world. It will introduce the Egyptian lived experience centred 
 approach adopted to amplify the voices\, views\, and validity of Egyptian c
 ommunity of descent in their ancestral heritage held by foreign institution
 s.</p><h3 style="text-align: center\;">Speaker Bio</h3><p>Egyptian heritage
  and museum specialist Heba Abd el Gawad is a research fellow at the <a hre
 f="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/ucl-institute-archaeology">Institute o
 f Archaeology\, University College of London</a>. She specialises in the hi
 story of Egyptian archaeology and Egyptian perceptions and representations 
 of ancient Egypt and has co-developed with Prof. Alice Stevenson the AHRC f
 unded project: ‘Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage: Views from Egypt’. She has been
  selected as one of the most influential 21 Egyptian women in 2021 for her 
 community work in the heritage sector.</p><p>She acknowledges her privilege
  and training in the colonial discipline of Egyptology and recognises the r
 ights of the wider Egyptian community in the knowledge production of their 
 past.</p><h3 style="text-align: center\;"><em>RSVP for this event has close
 d. Please join the next CMS Mobilities Group Event taking place on January 
 15th\, 2024.</em></h3>
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