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Nubia is often viewed as a bygone, glorious civilization in an extravagant black world. Today, Nubian communities are divided between Egypt and Sudan, with the Egyptian Nubians scattered across displacement villages in Aswan and other urban centers, characterized by a sense of displacement and diaspora fueled by collective memory and imagination of the past. This webinar explores the complexity of Nubian collective memory and the role of gender within it. The speakers will discuss how modern Nubians imagine and narrate their past, focusing on the matriarchal aspects and their impact on contemporary communities. They will also analyze the importance of these narratives for Nubian identity in a highly politicized, marginalized, and patriarchal context, and how historical matriarchy narratives can be manipulated, appropriated, or perpetuated to support a patriarchal social structure.