Abstract Book of the 2nd Egyptological Conference of HIE

Ladies in Heaven, but Women on Earth? The hypostasis of Women in ancient Egypt and in the  Mediterranean Basin, but also its possible relations to Jung's Psychology: from the distant past, until now, the Archetype of Femininity, the Sacred Female, the Great Mother, Virgin and Crone, is one of the most precious and catalytic in the Jungian Collective Unconscious, being at the same time the true vis vitalis for the societal processes that motivate History and cultural evolu tion. This is the theme of our 2nd Conference, which shall also try to focus on patterns of continuity and transformation of various related institutions, habits and archetypes, covering al most the whole Antiquity from the Pre–Dynastic down to the Late, Ptolemaic and Coptic Period (corresponding for all the other cultures to the time-span from c. 3000 BC to the five initial Centuries AD), whose specific topics and thematology shall be the following:

1. Manifestation and Cosmic Immanence of the Sacred Female
2. Divine Female Archetypes
3. The Earthly/Social Status of Women in Ancient Egypt
4. The Earthly/Social Status of Women in the Mediterranean Basin
5. Key&-Role Individual Women
6. Epigraphic, Literary and Linguistic Sources
7. The Earthly/Social and Heavenly Status of Women in Coptic Egypt
8. Aesthetics, Beauty and Women
9. Gender Studies