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: Manifestation and Cosmic Immanence of the Sacred Female Divine Female Archetypes The Earthly/Social Status of Women in Ancient Egypt The Earthly/Social Status of Women in the Mediterranean Basin Key&-Role Individual Women Epigraphic, Literary and Linguistic Sources The Earthly/Social and Heavenly Status of Women in Coptic Egypt Aesthetics, Beauty and Women Gender Studies

International Conference Organized by the Hellenic Institute of Egyptology, the Universidade Aberta of Lisbon, the Centre of History of the Lisbon University, the Writing & Scripts Centre of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina and the Hellenic Society for Aesthetics, under the Auspices of the Association of Greek Women Scientists