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SUMMARY:Megiddo: Past\, Present\, and Future
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Zachary Dunseth\, University of California – San Diego will deliver the Kershaw Lecture. A reception and chance to talk with the speaker will be held afterwards.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/megiddo-past-present-and-future-2/
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SUMMARY:The Archaeology of Ancient Greek Dress
DESCRIPTION:The Barbara Tsakirgis Memorial Lecture Time TBA
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-archaeology-of-ancient-greek-dress-3/
LOCATION:TBA (Rockford)\, Rockford\, IL\, United States
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SUMMARY:New Insights into Changing Lifeways in Ancient Nubia
DESCRIPTION:Brenda J. Baker\, PhD\nProfessor of Anthropology\nCenter for Bioarchaeological Research\nSchool of Human Evolution and Social Change \n“New Insights into Changing Lifeways in Ancient Nubia”\nThe Bioarchaeology of Nubia Expedition (BONE) focuses on the area between the Fourth and Fifth Cataracts of the Nile River in northern Sudan\, enriching our understanding of the extent to which people peripheral to core areas where state-level societies operated were integrated. Interconnections are evident from the Kerma period (c. 2500-1500 BCE) on\, incorporating exotic items such as carnelian and Red Sea mollusc shell beads and Egyptian vessels\, though local craft production is evident. Analysis of strontium isotopes from tooth enamel shows a decrease in mobility throughout the Kerma period in this area\, likely reflecting a shift in subsistence practices. Late Meroitic through Post-Meroitic period burials from the Qinifab School site cemetery (used c. 250-1450 CE) include extra-local items indicative of continuing access to far-flung exchange networks despite the construction of a network of stone-walled forts in the region and evidence of conflict commencing during this time. Inclusion of archery equipment in the graves of several males coincides with high rates of trauma reflecting interpersonal violence. These trends suggest that the disintegration of the Meroitic empire led to ongoing incursions and that control by the kingdom of Makuria and conversion of the local populace to Christianity was fraught. Avulsion of lower incisor teeth in nearly 10% of adult males and females became a new marker of identity in late Meroitic to medieval people of the region and new work reveals that tattoos were also far more common in ancient Nubia than previously recognized. \nBiography\nBrenda J. Baker is a professor of anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change\, a core faculty member of the Center for Bioarchaeological Research and curator of the ancient Nubian collections housed at ASU. She directs the Bioarchaeology of Nubia Expedition (BONE) in northern Sudan and is the founding co-editor-in-chief of Bioarchaeology International (2015-present). Baker taught previously at Tufts University (1992) and Minnesota State University Moorhead (1993-94)\, and was director of the Repatriation Program and curator of Human Osteology at the New York State Museum from 1994-1998. She has served on the Executive Committee of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists (2012-2015)\, as an associate editor of the International Journal of Paleopathology (2010-2015) and Journal of Human Evolution (2020-present)\, and was a founding Steering Committee member of the Western Bioarchaeology Group (2012-2022). She is also a founding member of the American-Sudanese Archaeological Research Cener\, serving on its advisory panel (2017-present). Baker’s teaching includes upper-division undergraduate courses such as the Global History of Health\, Life and Death in Ancient Egypt\, Bioarchaeology\, undergraduate and graduate courses in human osteology\, and graduate courses in Paleopathology\, Children and Childhood in the Past\, Nubian Bioarchaeology\, and field methods. \nRegistration is required. Follow this link to register: https://asu.zoom.us/meeting/register/VrIBqv9sQ_CwgC39LZu8MQ#/registration
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/new-insights-into-changing-lifeways-in-ancient-nubia/
LOCATION:Zoom\, 4985 SW 74th Court\, Miami\, FL\, 33155\, United States
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SUMMARY:There Is More To Egypt than Tut: Challenges for Egyptology and Egyptologists
DESCRIPTION:The Archaeological Institute of America\, Westchester Society\, and the New York chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt are pleased to present to present the following free online symposium “There Is More To Egypt than Tut: Challenges for Egyptology and Egyptologists.” \nDate: May 2\, 2026\nTime: 10:00 AM-1:00 PM ET. \nThe program is hosted by the Rye Free Reading Room. To register click here. \nThe purpose of the symposium is to do exactly what the title expresses. King Tutankhamun is the universal face of Egypt to the world. Egypt is blessed with an abundance of art\, architecture\, and writing. But there is more to the study of Egypt than material objects. \nThe speakers in this symposium will address issues in chronology based on the First Intermediate Period\, the Hyksos based on the Second Intermediate Period\, race and Nubia\, women and the relation of Egyptology to other “ologies.” \nThere will be a ten minute break between the third and fourth speakers. \nPeriodization and the creation of a new Egyptian History\nThomas Schneider\, Professor of Egyptology and Near Eastern Studies (on leave 2023-7)\,\nUniversity of British Columbia \nThe conventional periodization of ancient Egyptian history as a sequence of ‘kingdoms’ and ‘intermediate periods’ (and subperiods\, such as “the Ramesside period”\, dynasties) is a legacy of the 19th and early 20th c.\, partially informed by a chronological grid conveyed in Manetho’s Aigyptiaca. This conventional sequencing of history is perpetuated in all recent histories of ancient Egypt\, whose narratives and summary chronological tables make something appear historical that is mere practical convention. Despite the fact that Egyptological scholarship has fundamentally changed our understanding of Egyptian history over the past 100 years\, the field has never attempted any alternative historical periodization that assesses phenomena of historical (dis)continuity and cohesion based on current knowledge. This lecture will discuss the importance of periodization as a historiographical tool and chart a way forward towards a new periodization of Egyptian history. \nPrior to coming to University of British Columbia in 2007\, he taught at multiple institutions. From 2018-20\, he was Associate Vice President (International) at the Southern University of Science and Technology in Shenzhen\, China. From 2016-7\, he served in a part-time role as Advisor to the President at Quest University Canada. From 2014-8\, he was a member of the UBC Senate and worked\, among other projects\, on a Responsible Conduct of Research Initiative by the Dean and Vice Provost\, Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies. From 2021-2022\, he was the founding Executive Director of the Pacific Alliance of Liberal Arts Colleges (PALAC). On January 1\, 2023\, he took up the position of Chief Executive of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities (www.apru.org). \nHe is the founding editor of the “Journal of Egyptian History” (2008-2014) and was the editor of “Culture and History of the Ancient Near East” (Brill\, 2006-2013) and “Near Eastern Archaeology” (American Schools of Oriental Research\, 2012-2018). \nThere’s more to Egypt than Egyptians\nDani Candelora\, College of Holy Cross \nIn Egyptology\, the Hyksos are at best dismissed as an irrelevant blip in pharaonic power\, and at worst vilified as the invading barbarians of Manetho’s narrative. Ongoing research\, both reinvestigating well-known texts and uncovering new archaeological evidence\, has shown that neither are accurate. Instead\, the Hyksos were multicultural rulers with links to broader West Asian power networks\, and their reigns influenced Egyptian culture in arenas from warfare to religion\, technology to language. Despite being accepted as Egyptian kings by most Egyptians\, and even respected by later Egyptian dynasties\, the negative Theban political rhetoric has overwhelmingly colored the Hyksos’s treatment in the field. These kings are an important part of Egyptian history\, and should be recognized for the legacy they left behind. \nDanielle Candelora is the Assistant Professor of Classics and Egyptology at the College of Holy Cross. She received her B.A. from Brown University\, her M.A. from the University of Chicago\, Oriental Institute (now Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures)\, and her Ph.D. in Egyptian Archaeology from the University of Chicago\, Oriental Institute (now Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures). Her dissertation was “Redefining the Hyksos: Immigration and Identity Negotiation in the Second Intermediate Period” and she has maintained that interest in her academic career. Her research and teaching interests are Immigration and Identity Negotiation\, Egyptian/Near Eastern/Mediterranean Art\, Architecture\, Material Culture\, and Archaeology\, Interdisciplinary Theoretical Approaches to Identity\, Border Construction and Maintenance\, Strategic Use of Art and Architecture in Self Representation and Politics\, Cross-Cultural Exchange of Artistic Motifs and Technological Transmission\, Ancient Art and Archaeology in Museum Collections\, Egyptian Intermediate Periods. She just published Immigration and Borders in Ancient Egypt. Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context\, (Cambridge University Press) and is working on The Hyksos and Immigrant Communities in the Second Millennium BCE: Foreign Identities and Their Impact on Egypt. \nTrue Colors: Racecraft in the Archaeology of Egypt and Sudan\nDr. Uroš Matić\, University of Graz\, Austria \nThis paper examines how ideas about “race” have shaped the study of ancient Egypt and Sudan from the nineteenth century to the present. Rather than treating race as a biological fact\, it uses the concept of “racecraft” of Karen Fields and Barbara J. Fields to show how race developed as a changing set of assumptions and interpretations. Drawing on theories from the history and sociology of knowledge\, especially the work of Ludwik Fleck\, the study explores how racial thinking continued to influence archaeology even after it was officially rejected. Finally\, the study reassesses changes in ancient Egyptian representations of Nubians. Earlier interpretations viewed the significant mid–Eighteenth Dynasty changes in Nubian iconography as artistic documentation of real physical features of newly encountered populations in Upper Nubia. In contrast\, this paper demonstrates that these visual changes primarily reflect shifts in ancient Egyptian political and ideological strategies.I am an archaeologist and Egyptologist specialized in violence\, ethnicity\, gender and settlement archaeology of ancient Egypt. \nHe obtained my PhD at the Institute for Egyptology and Coptic studies of the University in Münster in 2017. His doctoral thesis deals with violent treatments of enemies and prisoners of war in New Kingdom Egypt. The thesis was marked with a double summa cum laude and rewarded with Philippika prize for 2018 of the German publishing house Harrassowitz. It was also awarded with the Best Publication Award of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 2020. \nFrom 2018 to 2019 he conducted Post Doc research at the Institute for Egyptology and Coptic studies of the University of Münster on cosmetic substances and utensils in Egyptian New Kingdom Nubia. During this research he was a guest scholar at the OREA-Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. This research was conducted within the German DAAD PRIME Post Doctoral program for 2018-2019. \nHe was a lecturer at the University of Münster (2016-2021)\, University of Vienna (2022)\, University of Innsbruck (2024-2025) and University of Graz (2022-present). \nWomen of a Fractured State: First Intermediate Period Women’s Agency and Visual Literacy\nSue Kelly\, Czech Institute of Egyptology\, Charles University\, Prague. \nThe dissolution of Old Kingdom centralised authority catalysed a profound evolution in women’s visual literacy\, unique in Egyptian history. While Memphite tradition governed female figures through rigid\, passive constraints\, the fracturing of state control during the First Intermediate Period allowed women’s iconography to deviate from established canons\, reflecting a more expansive visual vocabulary. \nThis lecture examines the emergence of female agency through the deliberate manipulation of artistic codes. Rather than a byproduct of provincialism\, this transition reflects a systematic shift in women’s funerary representation. Six iconographic transitions: the adoption of male-coded striding postures; the inclusion of authoritative attributes like the staff and ankh; the renegotiation of spatial positioning on monuments; the representation of expanding social categories; the integration of active gestures; and rare chromatic anomalies\, such as using red skin to signify female vitality are examined. \nFurthermore\, these self-presentations provide textual records of women adopting both ‘ideal’ and ‘career’ biographies—the dual pillars of Egyptian self-thematisation. By adopting these new modes of representation\, women challenged Old Kingdom decorum and asserted a sophisticated\, distinct presence in the visual record. These are\, fundamentally\, ancient female voices articulating how they chose to be commemorated for eternity. \nSue Kelly is an Egyptologist and early-career researcher whose work sits at the intersection of social theory and the material record. Her research focuses on the ‘Social Power’ of ancient Egyptian women\, across the dynasties one through to eleven.\, employing a data-driven approach to reconstruct the agency\, influence\, and contributions of women within the complex hierarchy of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period. Her overarching aim is to continue the longitudinal study to map developments\, transitions\, and changes across the four different political environments: state formation\, maturation\, collapse\, and reunification. \nHer book\, Unveiling Female Social Power (c. 3080–2180 BCE)\, serves as a testament to this methodology. By conducting a statistical analysis of female titles\, Dr. Kelly challenges long-standing narratives that have historically marginalized women’s roles in Egyptian statehood. Her work demonstrates that female agency was not a peripheral phenomenon but a vital\, functioning component of the socio-political infrastructure\, measurable through the distribution of titles and the management of elite resources. \nDr. Kelly earned her PhD in 2021 and completed her initial post-doctoral fellowship in 2023 at Macquarie University\, Sydney. She is currently concluding a prestigious Marie Curie Actions Fellowship at the Czech Institute of Egyptology. \nThere’s nothing new about that! How Egyptology can offer fresh perspectives on contemporary scientific and societal challenges\nFrederik Rogner\, Vienna\, Austria \nAt the dawn of Egyptology’s third century\, Egyptologists have both successfully received and adapted approaches from other fields\, and themselves developed hypotheses and methods which can be fruitfully applied to the study of diverse cultural phenomena\, far beyond the boundaries of Egyptology and of ancient Egypt. At the same time\, Egyptological outreach that is deliberately aimed at the wider academic community and tries to actively contribute to ongoing interdisciplinary discourses\, remains rather low. \nThis paper addresses these issues\, with a particular view to the scientific and societal relevance and potential of humanities at large. I will conclude by addressing two areas where insights from Egyptology can offer perspectives and strategies for better understanding (and\, as a result\, dealing with) seemingly ‘new’ challenges in contemporary society\, namely AI driven image production and expressions of political power. \nFrederik Rogner has obtained his BA in Ancient Civilizations and his MA in Egyptology and in Classical Archaeology from the University of Basel. In 2019 he completed his binational doctoral studies at the University of Basel and the École Pratique des Hautes Études – Université Paris Sciences et Lettres. His PhD thesis deals with issues of visual narrativity and pictorial storytelling and their application in the ancient Egyptian New Kingdom. He was a member of the Graduate school of Eikones\, the Center for the Theory and History of the Image in Basel. Rogner’s research interests include multimodal synergies of pictures and writing in ancient Egypt\, the semantics of form and layout in two- and three-dimensional space\, and the use of images as communicative tools throughout human history. He has conducted several research projects at the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (Leiden) and at the University of Geneva. He currently holds a position in the Austrian federal administration. \nContact Information:\nDr. Peter Feinman\nPresident\nAIA Westchester Society \nVice President\nARCENY Society \nPresident\nInstitute of History\, Archaeology\, and Education\nfeinmanp@ihare.org
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/there-is-more-to-egypt-than-tut-challenges-for-egyptology-and-egyptologists/
LOCATION:Rye Free Reading Room\, 1061 Boston Post Road\, Rye\, NY\, 10580\, United States
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SUMMARY:Spectacles of Cultural Heritage Destruction in Global Media
DESCRIPTION:Charles Eliot Norton Memorial Lectureship
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/spectacles-of-cultural-heritage-destruction-in-global-media-2/
CATEGORIES:AIA Lecture Program
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