Ancient Civilisations and the Contemporary Academy We will investigate the changing understanding of the materiality of ancient civilisations, particularly ancient Egypt, through the contemporary academy and other forms of cultural production and consumption. By ‘contemporary academy’ we understand a modern organisation that does research, either a museum or a university. We want to discuss how new technologies are transforming the generation and transmission of knowledge and how a new wave of emerging scholarship requires a sound contemporary and ethical framework for both knowledge generation and dissemination. ——————– Wednesday, 13 November. 2025 Session C: Ancient civilisations and the contemporary academy (CIPEG & UMAC) Welcome by Chair CIPEG Tine Bagh and Chair UMAC Andrew Simpson 14:30–14:45 Melanie Pitkin, Unlearning entrenched ways of seeing: Practical insights into new ethical approaches for communicating Egyptian mummified human remains at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney 14:45–15:00 Ashley Arico, Publishing ancient Egypt in a digital age: Ancient Egyptian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago 15:00–15:15 Faten Kamal, Exploring Heritage and Human Remains: Bioarcheology and Museum Studies in Egypt 15:15–15:30 Ahmed Rashed, Mummies and Museology – A Civilization Rights Perspective 15:30–15:45. Meng-Chieh Tsai, Re-annotating Revelation and Reimagining Tafsir: Islamic Feminist Reconfiguration of Quranic Authority through Digital Humanities Tools 15:45–16:00 Min Ma, The Versions of the Four Medical Tantras Thangka Collected by the National Museum of China and a Comparative Study method