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SUMMARY:Provenance Research in the Fight Against Looting
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a Zoom lecture by Sara Aly\, Griffith Institute: \n“Provenance Research in the Fight Against Looting”\nSunday\, February 22 2026\, 3 PM PST \nRegister in advance for this lecture:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/MvauTi1wT0OHniyDLJXJHw \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the lecture. \nThere are a few things you should know before you join the lecture: \n* Advance registration is required. When you click on the link to “Register in advance for this lecture” you will receive instructions by email on how and when to join\, along with a link on which you will click to join the meeting. Save the email\, as you will need the link it contains to join the meeting. Please register now. Please do not share the join link with anyone\, it is unique to your email address. Try to join at least 10 minutes before the meeting. When you do join the meeting\, be prepared to be put in the waiting room until the lecture starts at 3 pm. This is a security measure. \n* If you haven’t already installed Zoom\, you should download and install the Zoom program (app) well before you try to join the meeting. There IS an option to use your web browser to join the meeting instead of the Zoom program\, but the browser interface is limited and depends greatly on what browser and what operating system you’re using. \n* For tutorials on how to use Zoom\, go to https://learn-zoom.us/show-me. In particular\, “Joining a Zoom Meeting” should show you what you need to do to join our lecture. \n* All meeting attendees can communicate with everyone\, or with individual participants\, using the chat window\, which can be opened by clicking on the chat button and which you can probably find at the bottom middle of your Zoom viewing screen. Participants will be encouraged to hold their questions for the speaker until after the lecture\, and will also be encouraged to address their questions for the speaker to everyone\, not just to the speaker\, so that all can see them. “Everyone” is the default chat option. \nIf you have any questions\, please email glenn@glennmeyer.net or arcencZoom@gmail.com. \nAbout the Lecture: \nSince the days when the pharaohs ruled over Egypt\, funerary materials have been affected by the greed of people. An enormous amount of wealth was invested in preparations for the afterlife\, but often this richness represented by gold and precious minerals in the funerary equipment became the booty of many\, rather than the resting place for one. Unfortunately\, the scale of destruction due to the ongoing looting is greater today than ever and several illegally sourced artefacts from Egypt constantly appear on the art market. Authorities consistently work to detect these objects by tracing the activity of dealers and galleries\, but a lot still needs to be done. Source countries require tougher laws and international legislation needs to become stricter. Moreover\, the knowledge of specialists must be employed in a systematic way to assist in the rescue of these objects. Museum curators should implement due diligence\, learn about the art market\, and understand how to conduct provenance research. This practice helps with the identification of looted artefacts by analysing an object and comparing it with published examples of the same kind\, allowing its origins to be identified and some lost archaeological context to be recovered. \nAbout the Speaker: \nSara Aly’s research focuses on the circulation of illicitly sourced Egyptian artefacts on the art market\, following a collaboration that started 6 years ago with the Circulating Artefacts project at the British Museum. Her MA dissertation at the University of Manchester (2023) examined upper coffin fragments appearing on the art market. Since 2023\, she has been a member of the Franco-Egyptian Archaeological Mission of Western Thebes\, working at the Ramesseum\, where she analyses coffin and cartonnage fragments. From 2023 to 2025 she worked as an Art Market Expert at the British Museum helping to identify and recover missing items from the museum’s collection. Now based at the Griffith Institute\, Sara is studying the archival material of J.J. Clère related to his documentation of Egyptian objects in the possession of antiquities dealers and collectors between the 1930s and the 1980s. \nAbout Northern California ARCE: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://www.facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://arce-nc.org\, https://bsky.app/profile/khentiamentiu.bsky.social\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/provenance-research-in-the-fight-against-looting/
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SUMMARY:“She is the Son of Bastet”: Gender in Papyrus Louvre 32308
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Rachel Barnas\, UC Berkeley: \n“She is the Son of Bastet”: Gender in Papyrus Louvre 32308\nSunday\, January 25\, 2026\, 3 PM PST\nMELC Lounge\, Room 254 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\nBecause of nearby construction\, please allow extra time to park your vehicle. \nThis is an in-person lecture and is not virtual. No registration is required.\nThe lecture will be recorded for later publication on the chapter’s YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE \nAbout the Lecture: \nMagic was a tool for dealing with a host of everyday problems in ancient Egypt\, from headaches and snakebites to bad luck and nightmares\, and employed a wide variety of strategies accordingly. Underlying many of these different strategies was a shared reliance on the power of analogy\, which was used to impose a desirable mythological template on immediate\, everyday reality. To accomplish this superposition\, tools\, problems\, and even the speaker or subject of a spell could all be assigned mythic identities\, ensuring that success was already predestined. \nWhat happened\, though\, when there was a mismatch between the divine identity needed and some aspect of the subject’s everyday self? This situation presents itself in the case of one amuletic papyrus\, Papyrus Louvre 32308\, in which a female patient is cast as multiple male deities. Such casting raises a number of questions: Was this gender conflict seen as a problem? How does the text navigate this apparent conflict? Why not just pick some female deities and avoid the problem altogether? Exploring the answers to these questions through close reading of the Louvre papyrus and comparison to similar spells can help us refine our notions of when the bounds of gender could or could not be pushed in ancient Egypt and why\, revealing just how much ancient magical texts can tell us about their users. \nAbout the Speaker: \nRachel Barnas is a PhD candidate in the Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures department at UC Berkeley. She received her B.A. in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from Yale University in 2013 and her M.A. in Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations from the University of Toronto in 2020\, both with a focus in Egyptology. Her dissertation project examines patterns of literary and grammatical device usage in Ramesside non-funerary magical texts\, as a means of analyzing the relationship between how the ancient Egyptians used language and how they experienced and understood their world. She has also worked in both curation and epigraphy\, including as Terrace Research Associate at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and as a member of the IFAO team documenting the tomb of Padiamenope (TT33). \nAbout Northern California ARCE: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://www.facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://arce-nc.org\, https://bsky.app/profile/khentiamentiu.bsky.social\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/she-is-the-son-of-bastet-gender-in-papyrus-louvre-32308/
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SUMMARY:Zoom Lecture: Forgotten Saint-Simonian Travelers in Egypt
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a Zoom lecture by Dr. John David Ragan\, Independent Scholar (PhD\, NYU): \nForgotten Saint-Simonian Travelers in Egypt\nSunday\, January 11 2026\, 3 PM PST \nRegister in advance for this lecture:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/cAzvIld9RvanelhVxNRq1A \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nThere are a few things you should know before you join the lecture: \n* Advance registration is required. When you click on the link to “Register in advance for this lecture” you will receive instructions by email on how and when to join\, along with a link on which you will click to join the meeting. Save the email\, as you will need the link it contains to join the meeting. Please register now. Please do not share the join link with anyone\, it is unique to your email address. Try to join at least 10 minutes before the meeting. When you do join the meeting\, be prepared to be put in the waiting room until the lecture starts at 3 pm. This is a security measure. \n* If you haven’t already installed Zoom\, you should download and install the Zoom program (app) well before you try to join the meeting. There IS an option to use your web browser to join the meeting instead of the Zoom program\, but the browser interface is limited and depends greatly on what browser and what operating system you’re using. \n* For tutorials on how to use Zoom\, go to https://learn-zoom.us/show-me. In particular\, “Joining a Zoom Meeting” should show you what you need to do to join our lecture. \n* All meeting attendees can communicate with everyone\, or with individual participants\, using the chat window\, which can be opened by clicking on the chat button and which you can probably find at the bottom middle of your Zoom viewing screen. Participants will be encouraged to hold their questions for the speaker until after the lecture\, and will also be encouraged to address their questions for the speaker to everyone\, not just to the speaker\, so that all can see them. “Everyone” is the default chat option. \nIf you have any questions\, please email glenn@glennmeyer.net or arcencZoom@gmail.com. \nAbout the Lecture: \nThis lecture and a book with the same title tell the stories of two French women and a French African man\, travelers connected to the Saint-Simonian utopian socialists\, who came to work for the Egyptian government in the 1830s. They have been marginalized and excluded from the historical record\, because they were women\, not part of the colonial elite\, or of mixed racial heritage. This history brings them alive through extensive archival research and vibrant storytelling. \nThere is Suzanne Voilquin\, a practicing midwife in Cairo who was involved in left-wing popular politics in Paris and became the editor of one of the first feminist newspapers ever published (1832–34). The second traveler\, Thomas Ismayl Urbain\, was born in French Guyana\, where his mother was born a slave and his father was a French sea captain. “Jehan d’Ivray” is the pen name of the third traveler\, a teenage woman who married an Egyptian studying medicine in France\, and traveled with him to Egypt in 1879. She wrote more than twenty books\, including a retrospective look at Suzanne Voilquin and women in the Saint-Simonian movement\, bringing the story full circle to another generation. \nTheir stories brilliantly illustrate the paradoxes of nineteenth century colonialism in Egypt. Suzanne Voilquin grew up in the Parisian working class and sympathized deeply with Egyptians but initially exoticized the differences between Egypt and her home country\, while Urbain\, a literary pioneer in black pride\, nevertheless joined the French army and saw his role in the colonial occupation as a means of helping indigenous people. These characters transcend the neat binary of East and West and offer a rich\, nuanced window onto the experiences of French travelers in Egypt during the nineteenth century. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. John David Ragan has a PhD in history from New York University and degrees from the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne\, the University of Cincinnati\, and Binghamton University. He has traveled in fifty countries\, across Europe\, North Africa\, Latin America\, New Zealand\, Australia\, Southeast Asia and the Himalayas\, studying French in Paris\, Arabic in Cairo and Tunis\, German in Berlin\, and Spanish in Salamanca and Mexico City. He is a working member of Laborers Union Local 942\, Fairbanks\, Alaska\, and has published two books and numerous articles. \nAbout Northern California ARCE: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://www.facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://arce-nc.org\, https://bsky.app/profile/khentiamentiu.bsky.social\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/zoom-lecture-forgotten-saint-simonian-travelers-in-egypt/
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SUMMARY:Book talk & Signing - Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a book talk and signing by Dr. Rune Nyord\, Emory University: \n“Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife” \nSunday November 9\, 2025\, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time\nMELC Lounge\, Room 254 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\nBecause of nearby construction\, please allow extra time to park your vehicle. \nThis is an in-person lecture and is not virtual. No registration is required.\nThe lecture will be recorded for later publication on the chapter’s YouTube channel. \nAbout the Lecture: \nThe overall model for understanding the ancient Egyptian afterlife in scholarship and popular culture alike is well known: The ancient Egyptians believed in a post-mortem judgement that would determine their fate in the afterlife\, being either rewarded with an eternal life of bliss or punished with painful annihilation. However\, in my new book Yearning for Immortality\, I argue that for the most part these ideas were in place well before the decipherment of hieroglyphs and thus draw more on Greek and especially Christian frameworks for life after death than on ancient Egyptian ones\, meaning that our model for understanding the Egyptian afterlife is due for a fundamental rethinking. This lecture covers some of the main results presented in Yearning for Immortality before turning to the question\, raised only briefly in the last chapter of the book\, of what such a rethinking might look like. If we cannot read texts like the “Book of the Dead” as straightforward descriptions of the Egyptian afterlife\, then what sources can we draw on to get a sense of ancient Egyptian ideas of life and death? And correspondingly\, what strategies for reading and viewing funerary texts and art can we use to approximate an indigenous understanding as opposed to one projecting Western models of postmortem existence? \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Rune Nyord is Associate Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Emory University\, where he is also Chair of the Art History Department. His research focuses on conceptions and experiences of representation\, ontology\, and personhood in ancient Egypt\, especially as evidenced in funerary culture\, and drawing on a combination of archaeological and textual sources. He is also interested in the history of the discipline of Egyptology and ways in which it continues to influence contemporary practices and interpretations. He is the author\, editor\, or co-editor of several books\, the most recent being the monograph Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife (Chicago 2025) and a co-edited special issue of Interdisciplinary Egyptology titled Egyptology in Dialogue (Vienna\, 2025). \n——————— \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ . \nAbout Northern California ARCE: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://www.facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://bsky.app/profile/khentiamentiu.bsky.social\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/book-talk-signing-yearning-for-immortality-the-european-invention-of-the-ancient-egyptian-afterlife/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 254 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, California\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Meanwhile…at Giza: The Central Field Cemetery in the Fifth Dynasty
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a Zoom lecture by Julia Puglisi\, Harvard University: \n“Meanwhile…at Giza: The Central Field Cemetery in the Fifth Dynasty”\nSunday\, October 19\, 2025\, 3 PM PDT\nThis virtual lecture will not be recorded. \nRegister in advance for this lecture:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/yukMKqdBSCO8QInIP4ViPA \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nThere are a few things you should know before you join the lecture: \n* Advance registration is required. When you click on the link to “Register in advance for this lecture” you will receive instructions by email on how and when to join\, along with a link on which you will click to join the meeting. Save the email\, as you will need the link it contains to join the meeting. Please register now. Please do not share the join link with anyone\, it is unique to your email address. Try to join at least 10 minutes before the meeting. When you do join the meeting\, be prepared to be put in the waiting room until the lecture starts at 3 pm. This is a security measure. \n* If you haven’t already installed Zoom\, you should download and install the Zoom program (app) well before you try to join the meeting. There IS an option to use your web browser to join the meeting instead of the Zoom program\, but the browser interface is limited and depends greatly on what browser and what operating system you’re using. \n* For tutorials on how to use Zoom\, go to https://learn-zoom.us/show-me. In particular\, “Joining a Zoom Meeting” should show you what you need to do to join our lecture. \n* All meeting attendees can communicate with everyone\, or with individual participants\, using the chat window\, which can be opened by clicking on the chat button and which you can probably find at the bottom middle of your Zoom viewing screen. Participants will be encouraged to hold their questions for the speaker until after the lecture\, and will also be encouraged to address their questions for the speaker to everyone\, not just to the speaker\, so that all can see them. “Everyone” is the default chat option. \nIf you have any questions\, please email glenn@glennmeyer.net or arcencZoom@gmail.com. \nAbout the Lecture: \nDespite the southern shift of the royal necropolises during the Fifth Dynasty\, the Giza Plateau remained an important locus of non‐royal burials until the end of the Old Kingdom. While explanations for choosing Giza as a necropolis after the Fourth Dynasty range from royal cultic activity to the perpetuation of generational funerary traditions\, the nearby settlements reveal a more complex picture of human activity on the plateau. \nAt the heart of this landscape lies the “Central Field\,” a cemetery whose characteristic landscape originated from its use as a quarry basin for the construction of Khufu’s pyramid. While often cast in historiography as a Fourth Dynasty site\, the Central Field is in fact dominated by tombs of the Fifth and Sixth Dynasties. Despite its significance for understanding the broader history of the Giza Necropolis\, the cemetery has not been extensively studied since the excavations of Selim Hassan (1886–1961) in the early twentieth century. \nDrawing on my ongoing dissertation research\, I here present new documentation from the Central Field\, including several previously unpublished Fifth Dynasty mastabas and their unique adaptations to the quarried terrain. Case studies include the tombs of Khafreankh (G 8840) and Nisutpunetjer (G 8740)\, excavated prior to the Egyptian initiatives\, alongside published monuments whose owners may be referenced in the Abusir archives: Rawer (G 8988) and Khuwiwer (G 8764 = LG 95). By combining an analysis of construction practices with the social history of those interred here\, this lecture explores the Central Field to understand the enduring draw of the Giza after the construction of its pyramids. \nAbout the Speaker: \nJulia Viani Puglisi received her B.A. in Classical Languages at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and an MA in Egyptology at Indiana University\, Bloomington. She is currently completing her PhD at Harvard University\, where her dissertation\, “Transformation at the Giza Pyramids: The Central Field Cemetery\,” examines landscape change in the quarry-cemetery of the Central Field. \nSince 2022\, Puglisi has been working in the Central Field at Giza with the support of an American Research Center in Egypt-Council of American Overseas Research Centers Fellowship (2022–2024) and the Margaret Weyerhaeuser Jewett Memorial Fellowship (2024). Her research investigates how anthropogenic sites are maintained\, reused\, and transformed over time. Drawing on archaeological documentation and 3D modeling\, she traces these changes to reconstruct a social history of the Giza Plateau after the pyramids were built. As a member of the Giza Project at Harvard\, Puglisi is producing improved site maps for use by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities\, while also working to protect the cemetery from human and environmental threats. \nAbout Northern California ARCE: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://www.facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://arce-nc.org\, https://bsky.app/profile/khentiamentiu.bsky.social\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/meanwhileat-giza-the-central-field-cemetery-in-the-fifth-dynasty/
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SUMMARY:The Iconographic and Spatial Role of Gate Guardian Demons in Deir el-Medina Tombs
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC) invite you to attend a lecture by Jess Johnson\, UC Berkeley \n“The Iconographic and Spatial Role of Gate Guardian Demons in Deir el-Medina Tombs” \nSunday September 21\, 2025\, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time\nMELC Lounge/Rm 254 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\, UC Berkeley\nBecause of nearby construction\, please allow extra time to find a place to park. \nThis is an in-person lecture and is not virtual. No registration is required. The lecture will be recorded for later publication on the chapter’s YouTube channel. \nAbout the Lecture: \nMaterial culture from Deir el-Medina [DeM] contains multiple representations of demons. Yet there exists little study on how demons fit into religion in the settlement. While the broader scholarly definition of demon remains fluid\, conceptual ideas include aspects of protection\, liminality\, and the relationship between location and capability. Gate guardian demons (Book of the Dead [BD] 144-147)\, in particular\, are often cited because of their frequent textual and visual representation in papyri and\, notably\, Deir el-Medina tombs. These artisans equipped themselves with BD 144-147 in their tombs\, including text and wall paintings of the gate guardians\, thus prompting questions about the function of the visual representations (wall paintings)\, the function of gate guardians in the BD\, and the location of the scenes within the architectural space of the tomb. This talk uses materiality theory to study the relationship between text\, visual representation\, and architecture within the burial chambers in seven DeM tombs\, and considers how these factors influence DeM artisans’ visual representation and conceptualization of demons. Through this study\, we can better understand patterns of artistic production and preference\, and how and why texts and scenes were mapped onto tomb walls. \nAbout the Speaker: \nJess Johnson is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures department at UC Berkeley. She received her B.A. in Art History from New York University in 2013 and her M.A. in Egyptian Art History and Archaeology and a Graduate Certification in Museum Studies from the University of Memphis in 2016. Her dissertation takes advantage of the commonly overlooked vignettes and tomb wall paintings of the Book of the Dead and the intriguing demonic entities mentioned within it. Jess is also interested in the museological well-being of Egyptian collections. She has over ten years of experience working in museums within university settings\, galleries\, and auction houses. She hopes to continue both her Egyptological and Museum Studies passions interchangeably through pursuing a career as a Curator.\n———————\nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ .\nAbout Northern California ARCE:\nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://www.facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://arce-nc.org\, https://bsky.app/profile/khentiamentiu.bsky.social\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-iconographic-and-spatial-role-of-gate-guardian-demons-in-deir-el-medina-tombs/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 254 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, California\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pakhet of Speos Artemidos: An exercise in divine and demonic ontologies
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Beatrice De Faveri\, UC Berkeley \n“Pakhet of Speos Artemidos:\nAn exercise in divine and demonic ontologies” \nSunday August 24\, 2025\, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time\nMELC Lounge\, Room 254 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley \nThis is an in-person lecture and is not virtual. No registration is required. The lecture will be recorded for publication on the chapter’s YouTube channel. \nAbout the Lecture: \nThe lioness goddess Pakhet\, worshiped inside the Middle Egyptian rock-cut sanctuary known as the Speos Artemidos\, is renowned within the ancient Egyptian pantheon for her fearsome qualities. Usually depicted as a lion-headed woman\, her theonym can be translated as “The Slasher”\, a vivid image alluding to her aggressive nature. Despite her various theological associations with more benevolent deities the likes of Hathor and Isis\, most of Pakhet’s titles and epithets consistently emphasize the inherent violence of her figure\, along with her animal features. While this is rather common for the divine lionesses taking on the role of guardians of the sun god\, Pakhet’s attributes allow for an argument about her standing at the intersection between the category of the divine (nTry) and the elusive notion of the demonic. The identification of demonic ontologies within the ancient Egyptian religious thought remains a famously daunting task\, mostly due to systemic discrepancies between emic and etic definitions of what can be described as a “demon”. Nevertheless\, the analysis of textual sources of the Middle and New Kingdom related to the goddess offer some valuable insights for reconstructing Pakhet’s individual position with respect to the taxonomy of the divine and the demonic. This paper attempts to discuss some previously overlooked aspects of her conceptualization\, examined through the lens of the relation between Pakhet and the sphere of ancient Egyptian magic. \nAbout the Speaker: \nBeatrice De Faveri\, CPhil\, a fourth-year PhD student in Egyptology\, received her BA in Classical Archaeology from the University of Padua\, Italy. She then graduated from the University of Bologna\, Italy with an MA in Civilizations and Cultures of the Ancient World focusing on Egyptology. Since 2019\, she has been the second leading archaeologist of the IFAO (Cairo) – Museo Egizio (Turin) excavation in the Upper Egyptian site of Coptos (Quft).\nAs for her current research interests\, she specializes in ancient Egyptian magical texts\, and harbors a special interest in collections of spells for which a ritual purpose can be identified. Her research extends to the relation between magical and ritual texts and the material culture they generate. As an adjacent interest\, she has engaged in the investigation of the category of the ‘demonic’ in ancient Egyptian religious texts and practices. \n——————— \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ . \nAbout Northern California ARCE: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://www.facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://arce-nc.org\, https://bsky.app/profile/khentiamentiu.bsky.social\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/pakhet-of-speos-artemidos-an-exercise-in-divine-and-demonic-ontologies/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 254 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, California\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:In the Shadow of the Palace: The non-elite community of Deir el-Ballas as revealed by the settlement remains and tombs
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a Zoom lecture by Dr. Victoria Jensen\, UC Berkeley:\nIn the Shadow of the Palace: The non-elite community of Deir el-Ballas as revealed by the settlement remains and tombs \nSunday\, June 22\, 2025\, 3 PM PDT\nThis virtual lecture will be recorded for later posting on the chapter’s YouTube channel. \nRegister in advance for this lecture:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/…/register/Mr2bNJKXQu2YtfoJt4pTLw\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nThere are a few things you should know before you join the lecture:\n* Advance registration is required. When you click on the link to “Register in advance for this lecture” you will receive instructions by email on how and when to join\, along with a link on which you will click to join the meeting. Save the email\, as you will need the link it contains to join the meeting. Please register now. Please do not share the join link with anyone\, it is unique to your email address. Try to join at least 10 minutes before the meeting. When you do join the meeting\, be prepared to be put in the waiting room until the lecture starts at 3 pm. This is a security measure.\n* If you haven’t already installed Zoom\, I recommend that you download and install the Zoom program (app) well before you try to join the meeting. There IS an option to use your web browser to join the meeting instead of the Zoom program\, but the browser interface is limited and depends greatly on what browser and what operating system you’re using.\n* For tutorials on how to use Zoom\, go to https://learn-zoom.us/show-me. In particular\, “Joining a Zoom Meeting” should show you what you need to do to join our lecture.\n* All meeting attendees can communicate with everyone\, or with individual participants\, using the chat window\, which can be opened by clicking on the chat button and which you can probably find at the bottom middle of your Zoom viewing screen. Participants will be encouraged to hold their questions for the speaker until after the lecture\, and will also be encouraged to address their questions for the speaker to everyone\, not just to the speaker\, so that all can see them. “Everyone” is the default chat option.\nIf you have any questions\, please email arcencZoom@gmail.com. \nAbout the Lecture:\nThe site of Deir el-Ballas played a major role in the birth of the New Kingdom as a royal campaign headquarters of the Theban kings during their ultimately successful wars to expel the Hyksos. For several generations afterwards (c. 1550-1450 BC)\, a non-elite population lived in the shadow of the abandoned palace in this provincial town. Deir el-Ballas was excavated on behalf of the University of California in 1900-1901 by George Reisner under the sponsorship of Phoebe Apperson Hearst\, but was never published. Drawing on archival research and examination of hundreds of artifacts from the site that are held in the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley\, Jensen has reconstructed the excavations of the Hearst Expedition at the site\, particularly the cemeteries. Her research examines the community’s funerary practices and considers the cultural memory the residents held of their town’s illustrious past. \nAbout the Speaker:\nVictoria Jensen is a Senior Research Scholar in the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California\, Berkeley. She is a past President of the Northern California Chapter of ARCE. Victoria earned her B.A. in Political Science and M.A. in International Relations at the University of Chicago and had a career in grant administration before returning to graduate school to pursue a Ph.D. in Egyptology at the University of California Berkeley\, which she received in 2019. Her dissertation research has just been published as a two-volume monograph in the Harvard Egyptological Studies series\, entitled “The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Deir el-Ballas: The non-elite cemeteries of the 17th–19th Dynasties.” \nAbout ARCE-NC:\nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaArce\, https://arce-nc.org/\, or http://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/in-the-shadow-of-the-palace-the-non-elite-community-of-deir-el-ballas-as-revealed-by-the-settlement-remains-and-tombs/
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SUMMARY:Teaching Ma'at in Prison
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Rita Lucarelli\, UC Berkeley: \n“Teaching Ma’at in Prison” \nSunday May 4\, 2025\, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time\nRoom 56 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley \nThis is an in-person lecture and is not virtual. No registration is required.\nThe lecture will be recorded. \nAbout the Lecture: \nThe lecture will discuss the innovative experience of teaching a course on Ancient Egypt at San Quentin State Prison\, focusing on the engagement of incarcerated students with the subject matter. Dr. Lucarelli will detail the significance of discussing concepts such as Ma’at\, justice\, and ethics within the context of both ancient Egyptian culture and the contemporary experiences of the students. The results indicate that the study of Egyptology offers meaningful insights for rehabilitation and education\, breaking the boundaries of the prison environment and facilitating a unique learning atmosphere. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Rita Lucarelli is an Associate Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Culture\, and the Class of 1939 Chair of Undergraduate Education. She is the Faculty Curator of Egyptology at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology and a Fellow of the Digital Humanities at UC Berkeley. She is presently working at a project aiming at realizing 3D models of ancient Egyptian coffins\, the Book of the Dead in 3D. She is also completing a new monograph on demonology in ancient Egypt entitled Agents of punishment and protection: ancient Egyptian Demonology in the First Millenium BCE. Dr. Lucarelli teaches\, lectures and researches Egyptomania and the reception of ancient Egypt in the contemporary world\, in particular on the representation of ancient Egypt in Afrofuturism. She also teaches courses of Egyptology\, Comparative Religion and Interdisciplinary Writing at San Quentin State Prison through the Mount Tamalpais College (https://www.mttamcollege.org/). \nDr. Lucarelli studied at the University of Naples “L’Orientale\,” Italy\, where she received her MA degree in Classical Languages and Egyptology. She holds her Ph.D. from Leiden University\, the Netherlands. Her Ph.D. thesis was published as The Book of the Dead of Gatseshen: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Religion in the 10th Century BC. She worked as a Research Scholar and a Lecturer at the Department of Egyptology of Bonn University\, where she was part of the team of the “Book of the Dead Project”. \n—————- \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ . \nAbout Northern California ARCE: \nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://arce-nc.org/\, https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://khentiamentiu.org and https://bsky.app/profile/khentiamentiu.bsky.social. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/teaching-maat-in-prison/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 56 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a Zoom lecture by Dr. Kara Cooney\, UCLA: \nRecycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches\nSunday\, March 9\, 2025\, 3 PM PDT\nThis virtual lecture will be recorded. \nRegister in advance for this lecture:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/CwscA3JIRcqFh9owR0q6_Q \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. \nThere are a few things you should know before you join the lecture: \n* Advance registration is required. When you click on the link to “Register in advance for this lecture” you will receive instructions by email on how and when to join\, along with a link on which you will click to join the meeting. Save the email\, as you will need the link it contains to join the meeting. Please register now. Please do not share the join link with anyone\, it is unique to your email address. Try to join at least 10 minutes before the meeting. When you do join the meeting\, be prepared to be put in the waiting room until the lecture starts at 3 pm. This is a security measure. \n* If you haven’t already installed Zoom\, I recommend that you download and install the Zoom program (app) well before you try to join the meeting. There IS an option to use your web browser to join the meeting instead of the Zoom program\, but the browser interface is limited and depends greatly on what browser and what operating system you’re using. \n* For tutorials on how to use Zoom\, go to https://learn-zoom.us/show-me. In particular\, “Joining a Zoom Meeting” should show you what you need to do to join our lecture. \n* All meeting attendees can communicate with everyone\, or with individual participants\, using the chat window\, which can be opened by clicking on the chat button and which you can probably find at the bottom middle of your Zoom viewing screen. Participants will be encouraged to hold their questions for the speaker until after the lecture\, and will also be encouraged to address their questions for the speaker to everyone\, not just to the speaker\, so that all can see them. “Everyone” is the default chat option. \nIf you have any questions\, please email me at arcencZoom@gmail.com. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity Director \nAbout the Lecture: \nIn this lecture Kara Cooney will discuss her latest book\, Recycling for Death\, a meticulous study of the social\, economic\, and religious significance of coffin reuse during the Ramesside and early Third Intermediate periods. Funerary datasets are the chief source of social history in Egyptology\, and the numerous tombs\, coffins\, Books of the Dead\, and mummies of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Dynasties have not been fully utilized as social documents\, mostly because the data of this time period are scattered and difficult to synthesize. This book is the culmination of fifteen years of coffin study\, analyzing coffins and other funerary equipment of elites from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-second Dynasties to provide essential windows into social strategies and adaptations employed during the Bronze Age collapse and subsequent Iron Age reconsolidation. \nAbout the Speaker: \nKara Cooney is a professor of Egyptology at UCLA and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Specializing in social history\, gender studies\, and economies in the ancient world\, she received her Ph.D. in Egyptology from Johns Hopkins University. Her popular books include The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt\, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt\, and The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World. Her latest books include Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions\, Exploring Approaches (Routledge\, 2023) and Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches (The American University in Cairo Press\, October 2024). \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaArce\, or http://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/recycling-for-death-coffin-reuse-in-ancient-egypt-and-the-theban-royal-caches/
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SUMMARY:Women’s Rights in Marriage and Divorce in Ancient Egypt
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Alison Wilkinson\, Johns Hopkins University: \n“Women’s Rights in Marriage and Divorce in Ancient Egypt” \nSunday February 9\, 2025\, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time\nRoom 56 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley \nThis is an in-person lecture and is not virtual. No registration is required.\nThe lecture will be recorded. \nAbout the Lecture: \nThis talk presents a deep dive into the textual evidence for marriage and marital separation with a focus on the question: What rights did women have in these processes? New Kingdom and Demotic legal records together with New Kingdom letter correspondences are examined for the answers. The talk incorporates a recently reanalyzed Ostracon Deir el-Medina 439 for insights on a woman’s rights in divorce during the New Kingdom. The focus on textual sources aims to extrapolate the contemporary perspectives of marriage and divorce. The lexical and grammatical analysis presents insights into the process\, social implications\, and consequences of these social acts. Subtle differences arise in the role of men versus women\, most especially within the context of divorce. This “marriage” of gender studies and linguistic analyses uncovers subtle nuances concerning marital unions and separations within the culture of ancient Egypt. \nAbout the Speaker: \nAlison Wilkinson is a PhD Candidate at Johns Hopkins University\, Baltimore\, Maryland. She graduated with a Bachelors of Art with First Class Honors in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool\, Liverpool\, England in July 2018. She obtained her Masters of Art with Distinction in Egyptology at the University of Liverpool in November 2019. Her Master’s Thesis\, “The Language of ‘Divorce’ in New Kingdom Egypt\,” presents textual analyses into the cultural perceptions of marital separation. This research inspired Alison’s current Doctoral work on Hieratic and Demotic correspondences written by and to women. The aim of this research is to analyze gender dynamics through linguistic methodologies. \nIn April 2024\, Alison presented her paper “A Case of Adultery\, or a Woman’s Choice to Leave? A New Interpretation for O. DeM 439” at ARCE National\, Pittsburg. This paper re-examined the transcription\, translation\, and interpretation of Ostracon DeM 439 in order to argue the case of a woman leaving a marital union. For this paper\, she was awarded First Place in the Best Student Paper Competition. \n—————— \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ . \nAbout Northern California ARCE: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/womens-rights-in-marriage-and-divorce-in-ancient-egypt/
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SUMMARY:Aethiopia Abroad: The Role of Kush in a Network of Cultural Exchange in the Greater Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:Image caption:\nDécoration du mobilier\, 539-330 BCE (Achéménide)\nPlace of discovery : Suse ville royale donjon\nSB 3723\nDépartement des Antiquités orientales\, Musée du Louvre\n(© 2008 Musée du Louvre\, Dist. GrandPalaisRmn / Thierry Ollivier) \n———————- \nThe American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Peter Moore Johnson\, The Institute of Fine Arts\, NYU: \n“Aethiopia Abroad: The Role of Kush in a Network of Cultural Exchange in the Greater Mediterranean” \nSunday January 26\, 2025\, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time \nThis is a virtual lecture. To register\, please click on or go to this Zoom link:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMvdeGtqjorE9zCOtCkXeTPs4513tOivdCm\nThe lecture will not be recorded. \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the lecture. \nThere are a few things you should know before you join the lecture: \n* Advance registration is required. When you click on the link to “Register in advance for this lecture” you will receive instructions by email on how and when to join\, along with a link on which you will click to join the meeting. Save the email\, as you will need the link it contains to join the meeting. Please do not share the join link with anyone\, it is unique to your email address. Try to join at least 10 minutes before the meeting. When you do join the meeting\, be prepared to be put in the waiting room until the lecture starts at 3 pm. This is a security measure. \n* If you haven’t already installed Zoom\, I recommend that you download and install the Zoom program (app) well before you try to join the meeting. There IS an option to use your web browser to join the meeting instead of the Zoom program\, but the browser interface is limited and depends greatly on what browser and what operating system you’re using. \n* For tutorials on how to use Zoom\, go to https://learn-zoom.us/show-me. In particular\, “Joining a Zoom Meeting” should show you what you need to do to join our lecture. \n* All meeting attendees can communicate with everyone\, or with individual participants\, using the chat window\, which can be opened by clicking on the chat button and which you can probably find at the bottom middle of your Zoom viewing screen. Participants will be encouraged to hold their questions for the speaker until after the lecture\, and will also be encouraged to address their questions for the speaker to “everyone” in the chat window\, not just to the speaker\, so that all can see them. “Everyone” is the default chat option. \nIf you have any questions\, please email me at arcencZoom@gmail.com. \nGlenn Meyer\nNorthern California ARCE ePublicity Director \nAbout the Lecture: \nThe history of Nubia during the seventh to fifth centuries BCE has been written with an over-reliance on the veracity of non-native\, primarily Greek\, sources. In Herodotus’ Histories the scholar describes the region as an idealized utopia notable for its raw materials and a formidable fighting force. However\, Kush’s role extended beyond being just a geographical region to be pillaged for mercenaries and material wealth. It was a crucial trade partner in a period of internationalism and cultural exchange in Northeast Africa and the greater Mediterranean. A perceived dearth of representational evidence from Nubia abroad during this period reinforces the notion that Kush’s only influence was as a place to be exploited. When artistic evidence is marshaled to consider Kush’s influence\, analysis has tended to rely solely on stereotypical depictions of Nubians identifiable through stylistic ethnic markers such as physiognomic features and bodily adornment. While this approach has been used to identify Nubian presence abroad\, it hasn’t accounted for the significance these depictions hold in their local contexts and for their widespread prevalence. This lecture argues that Kushite representational conventions established in the seventh century circulate beyond the borders of Nubia and become integrated into a larger international koine. This process will be presented through a corpus of objects which span both time and place\, charting the development of Kushite influence through the Nile River Valley north to Egypt\, where it then spreads to the Near East and the Aegean. Iron Age networks of cultural exchange have traditionally only considered the bordering civilizations of the Mediterranean; this talk aims to show the influence of this peripheral sub-Saharan African kingdom. By integrating Africa into these networks of exchange\, this analysis will urge for new ways of looking at objects and materials which have traditionally been overlooked by conventional approaches to Western art history. \nAbout the Speaker: \nPeter Moore Johnson is a PhD Candidate at The Institute of Fine Arts\, New York University. He is currently the Marcia and Jan Vilcek Curatorial Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. His research focuses on Kushite-era material culture and self-presentation in ancient Egypt and Nubia. His dissertation\, Aethiopia Abroad\, is a collections-based project that charts the influence and spread of Kushite material culture across the greater Mediterranean in the second half of the 1st millennium BCE. His previous field experience includes the Innsbruck-Leiden Excavations at Satu Qala\, Iraq\, the NYUIFA Excavations at Sanam Temple\, Sudan\, and the NYUIFA Excavations at Abydos\, Egypt. He has several years’ experience in museum and curatorial work\, including internships at the Brooklyn Museum of Art\, Oriental Institute Museum\, Cleveland Museum of Art\, RISD Museum\, and the Delaware Museum of Natural History\, in addition to curating shows in New York\, Chicago\, and Providence. He holds an MA from the Institute of Fine Arts\, NYU and a BA (Hons.) in Egyptology from Brown University.\n———————\nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ . \nAbout Northern California ARCE: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/aethiopia-abroad-the-role-of-kush-in-a-network-of-cultural-exchange-in-the-greater-mediterranean/
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SUMMARY:Rediscovering Egypt's Lost Dinosaurs
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Matt Lamanna\, Carnegie Museum of Natural History: \nRediscovering Egypt’s Lost Dinosaurs \nSunday December 15\, 2024\, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time\nRm 56 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley \nThis is an in-person lecture and is not virtual.\nThe lecture will not be recorded. No registration is required \nAbout the Lecture: \nEgypt’s vast archaeological record and engaging material culture have long excited people around the world\, but did you know that this region’s history stretches back well into the Mesozoic Era\, or Age of Dinosaurs? In the early 20th century\, a series of German expeditions recovered fossils of several new and extraordinary ~95-million-year-old dinosaur species from the Bahariya Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert\, most famously the enormous sail-backed semi-aquatic predator Spinosaurus aegyptiacus. Tragically\, however\, all these fossils were destroyed during a British Royal Air Force bombing of Munich in late April 1944. In 2000\, a collaborative Egyptian-American research team became the first scientists to discover dinosaur fossils in the Bahariya Oasis in nearly a century; among these were a partial skeleton of a new and gigantic sauropod (long-necked plant-eating dinosaur) that was later named Paralititan stromeri. More recently\, researchers from the Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center in Mansoura\, Egypt have collected additional\, important dinosaur fossils from Bahariya\, and moreover have expanded their paleontological efforts to include geologically younger (~75-million-year-old) sites in the Kharga and Dakhla oases. Foremost among their finds from the latter is another new sauropod\, Mansourasaurus shahinae\, which constitutes one of the best-preserved late Mesozoic-aged land-living backboned animals known from the entire African continent. Collectively\, these discoveries have cast unprecedented light on Egypt’s remarkable dinosaurs\, helping to restore a scientific legacy that was lost during the Second World War. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Matt Lamanna is the Mary R. Dawson Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and the senior dinosaur researcher at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania. Originally from the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York\, he received his B.Sc. from Hobart College in 1997 and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1999 and 2004. Within the past 26 years\, he has directed or co-directed field expeditions to Antarctica\, Argentina\, Australia\, China\, Croatia\, Egypt\, Greenland\, and the western United States that have resulted in the discovery of more than 20 new species of dinosaurs and other fossil animals from the Cretaceous Period\, the third and final time period of the Age of Dinosaurs; indeed\, he is one of only a handful of people to have found dinosaur fossils on all seven continents. Lamanna served as chief scientific advisor to Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s $36M “Dinosaurs in Their Time” exhibition and has appeared on television programs for PBS (NOVA)\, the Discovery Channel\, the National Geographic Channel\, the History Channel\, A&E\, the Science Channel\, and many more. \n———————- \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ . \nAbout Northern California ARCE: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/rediscovering-egypts-lost-dinosaurs/
LOCATION:Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:Archives in the Crocodile: The Tebtunis Crocodile Papyri As the Missing Link between Ptolemaic and Roman Notarial Practices
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Leah Packard-Grams\, UC Berkeley: \nArchives in the Crocodile: The Tebtunis Crocodile Papyri\nAs the Missing Link between Ptolemaic and Roman Notarial Practices \nSunday November 17\, 2024\, 3 PM  Pacific Standard Time\nRoom 56 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley \nThis in-person lecture will not be virtual or recorded.\nNo registration is required for the lecture. \nAbout the Lecture: \nOne of the most important finds of Egyptian papyri was discovered entirely by accident. An Egyptian workman (whose name the excavators do not report) broke open a crocodile mummy he had found while digging\, and beneath the linen mummy bandages were hidden papyrus archives that reveal the history of the “lost century” of ancient Egypt. The documents found stashed inside the 36 votive crocodile mummies at the site of Tebtunis are everyday papers\, but their value and uniqueness is hard to overstate: The texts are from the 1st century BCE\, a time when Egypt’s documentary record plummets. In this century\, Egypt was in its last decades of native rule under Cleopatra’s father Ptolemy XII\, and the Roman Republic was peering at the bounty of Egypt with an eye toward conquest. The archives in the Tebtunis crocodiles show a glimpse of everyday life in this period of uncertainty\, offering insights into the economic conditions and state-mandated notary practices of the lost century of Egypt’s history. \nThese crocodile papyri have never been examined in a holistic way that considers their archaeological assemblage of votive artifacts\, the full extent of the subarchives\, or the importance of the crocodile temples to the documents themselves. This is precisely what this project proposes to remedy.  \nAbout the Speaker: \nLeah Packard-Grams an interdisciplinary ancient historian\, papyrologist\, and archaeologist in UC Berkeley’s interdisciplinary program (AHMA) currently writing her dissertation on the topic of today’s lecture. Her primary interests include Greek and Demotic papyrology\, the archaeology of Greco-Roman Egypt\, and the materiality of ancient textual artifacts. She is part of two excavations in Egypt (El Hibeh with UC Berkeley + Amheida with NYU). She is passionate about diversifying the field of ancient history to include those accounts of people who have been historically marginalized\, and strives to bridge the disciplinary divides that artificially separate archaeology\, papyrology\, and Egyptology. \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ . \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/archives-in-the-crocodile-the-tebtunis-crocodile-papyri-as-the-missing-link-between-ptolemaic-and-roman-notarial-practices/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:A Field of Their Own: Putting the Women of Egyptology in Their Place
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Kathleen Sheppard\, Missouri University of Science and Technology: \nA Field of Their Own: Putting the Women of Egyptology in Their Place\nSunday October 13\, 2024\, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time\nRoom 56 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley \nAbout the Lecture:\nBook Talk – Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age\nhttps://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250284358/womeninthevalleyofthekings \nA woman\, to paraphrase Virginia Woolf\, must have money and a site of her own if she is to do archaeology. Woolf was talking about writing fiction\, but the point remains: women must be free from domestic cares\, even just for a little while\, if they would be professionally productive. The women who worked in archaeology around the turn of the twentieth century understood this situation keenly\, and some were able to live out their freedom in a variety of ways. In this talk\, the lecturer will (re)introduce several women in the history of Egyptology who carved out spaces of their own through excavation\, patronage\, and publication and who shaped the discipline with their expertise. \nAbout the Speaker:\nDr. Kathleen Sheppard is a Professor in the History and Political Science department at Missouri S&T in Rolla\, Missouri. She earned her MA in Egyptian Archaeology at University College London in 2002\, and her PhD in History of Science from the University of Oklahoma in 2010. Her first book was a scientific biography of Margaret Alice Murray (2013) that focused on Murray’s life and career\, both in and out of Egyptology. She has spent her whole career telling the stories of women in Egyptology. Her latest book\, Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age (St. Martin’s Press\, 2024) is a grand retelling of the history of Egyptology through the work that women did. \n———-\nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ . \nAbout ARCE-NC:\nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/a-field-of-their-own-putting-the-women-of-egyptology-in-their-place/
CATEGORIES:International Archaeology Day,Lecture
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SUMMARY:In the Shadow of Egypt’s Last Pyramid: Uncovering the Ahmose Cemetery and Its Historical Implications
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Emily Smith-Sangster\, Princeton University: \nIn the Shadow of Egypt’s Last Pyramid:\nUncovering the Ahmose Cemetery and Its Historical Implications \nSunday September 15\, 2024\, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time \nRoom 175 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley \nThis in-person lecture will be recorded for later publication on YouTube. \nAbout the Lecture: \nIn early 2023\, the Abydos South Project (ASP) began its inaugural season working on a plot of land to the local north of the Ahmose Pyramid. The goal of the season was to explore this area of the concession in the hopes of better understanding its use history. This area\, previously unexcavated save for shallow test trenching in 1966 by the EAO\, and surface collection in 1993 by the Ahmose and Tetisheri Project\, had been identified as the possible location of the Ahmose Pyramid Town. \nASP’s excavations\, however\, discovered that this area was\, in fact\, a large elite necropolis used for an exceedingly brief period of time. While analysis is still in progress\, it is clear that this discovery offers significant data that will help us develop our understanding of expressions of elite agency and identity in the cemeteries of Abydos\, while also allowing us to further contextualize elite activity at this site within the wider history of the early New Kingdom. \nThis lecture will discuss these excavations and resulting discoveries\, while also highlighting the impact this discovery will have on our understanding of the Ahmose period at Abydos and beyond. \nAbout the Speaker: \nEmily Smith-Sangster is a Ph.D. Candidate in Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and Associate Director of the Abydos South Project. Her dissertation investigates the construction and expression of post-mortem identity during the early New Kingdom at Abydos\, with a particular focus on the Ahmose Cemetery. Her work interacts with themes of landscape\, sensorialism\, gender\, and embodiment. \n————-\nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ . \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, and https://khentiamentiu.org.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/in-the-shadow-of-egypts-last-pyramid-uncovering-the-ahmose-cemetery-and-its-historical-implications/
LOCATION:ARCE-NC Lectures\, Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg.\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:In the Footsteps of Belzoni and Carter in the Valley of the Kings
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a Zoom lecture by Dr. Donald P. Ryan\, Pacific Lutheran University: \nIn the Footsteps of Belzoni and Carter in the Valley of the Kings \nSunday\, August 18\, 2024\, 3 PM PDT \nZoom Lecture. This meeting will not be recorded. A registration link has already been sent to ARCE-NC members. Non-members may request a registration link by sending email with your name and email address to arcencZoom@gmail.com. Non-members\, please send any registration requests no later than Friday\, August 16. Registrations are limited to 100\, so the sooner you register\, the better. \nAbout the Lecture: \nThe archaeological exploration of Egypt’s Valley of the Kings\, the royal New Kingdom cemetery\, offers a rich history of fascinating discoveries made by determined and often eccentric individuals.  The Italian carnival performer-turned-antiquarian\, Giovanni Belzoni\, was responsible for the finding of the tomb of Seti I\, among others\, in the early 19th century\, and Howard Carter was well involved in the Valley two decades before he encountered Tutankhamun.  \nIn this lecture\, Dr. Donald P. Ryan will describe some of his own work in the Valley of the Kings\, during which he literally followed in the footsteps of both explorers\, including the re-excavation of KV 21 (a Belzoni discovery) and three tombs discovered by Carter early in his career: KV 44\, KV 45 and KV 60.  The latter tomb is especially controversial with its occupant identified by some as the female ruler\, Hatshepsut\, after its rediscovery by Ryan. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Donald P. Ryan is an archaeologist affiliated with the College of Liberal Studies at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma\, Wash.\, a Fellow of both the Explorers Club and the Royal Geographical Society\, and a Research Associate of the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo\, Norway.  A veteran of many field expeditions\, Ryan is also the author of numerous scientific and popular articles and several books on archaeological subjects. Website: https://sites.google.com/plu.edu/donald-p-ryan/home \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings/\, https://khentiamentiu.org/\, and http://www.arce-nc.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/membership/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/in-the-footsteps-of-belzoni-and-carter-in-the-valley-of-the-kings/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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SUMMARY:2024 Virtual Annual Meeting - American Research Center in Egypt
DESCRIPTION:2024 ARCE Annual meeting\nVirtual Annual Meeting \nIf you couldn’t join us at the ARCE Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh\, we hope you will join us for the ARCE Virtual Annual Meeting. The virtual meeting will be held on May 17-19\, 2024\, via Zoom. You’ll have the opportunity to view live presentations from leading scholars on topics related to Egyptian history\, recent fieldwork\, technological advances\, and much more.\nRegister today for just $125: https://secure.everyaction.com/aWdvBVdR_E2GKc1ymV3TxA2 \nVirtual registrants will have access to our live virtual tour of Journey Through Time: Exploring the Coptic Museum’s Rich Legacy with Mary Missak on May 18th at 12 PM EST. \nView the *Virtual Schedule:\nhttps://click.everyaction.com/k/84125485/470542812/-93060125?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwMi8xLzYyNjQ1IiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogIjgxY2I1ZDdhLWUwMDctZWYxMS05NmYzLTdjMWU1MjFiMDdmOSIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAiZ2xlbm5ybWV5ZXJAZ21haWwuY29tIg0KfQ%3D%3D&hmac=_zIkYa9Eu79YnV8V6VyqqUvBy1U9CToZmvXLG24s_vY=&emci=6a563f29-6a02-ef11-96f3-7c1e521b07f9&emdi=81cb5d7a-e007-ef11-96f3-7c1e521b07f9&ceid=1666070\nMore information will be sent to speakers and registrants soon. \nFor assistance and inquiries\, please email AMHelp@arce.org. Fee waivers are available for student members and early career scholars in financial need. \n*Schedule Subject to change \nAmerican Research Center in Egypt\n909 N Washington Street\, Suite 320 | Alexandria\, VA 22314\nwww.arce.org
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/2024-virtual-annual-meeting-american-research-center-in-egypt/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:How Egyptologist George Reisner Went Walking Among Pharaohs
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Peter Der Manuelian\, Harvard: \nHow Egyptologist George Reisner Went Walking Among Pharaohs \nMay 5\, 2024 (2 pm Pacific Time\, live at the Legion of Honor\, San Francisco) \nCosponsored by the Ancient Art Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco \nLecture is free and open to the public. It is also a hybrid program. \nIN PERSON: Gunn Theater\, 100 – 34th Avenue\, Lincoln Park\, San Francisco\, CA 94121. Seating is limited and unassigned. Doors open at 1:30 pm. \nLIVE STREAM: Please register here to receive a webinar link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2WLpssqfRcGtmfdl02bLEQ \nAbout the Lecture: \nBased on his new biography of George Reisner (1867–1942)\, Walking Among Pharaohs\, the speaker’s lecture examines the life and work of America’s greatest Egyptian archaeologist\, and Reisner’s legacy of 43 years of successful excavations at 23 archaeological sites in Egypt and the Sudan (ancient Nubia). Leading the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition\, Reisner put American Egyptology on the world stage\, despite British control of Egyptian politics\, French control of Egyptian antiquities\, and an Egypt yearning for independence. The lecture considers Reisner’s life and impact within the context of Western colonialism\, racism\, and the soft power of early twentieth-century archaeology. It also explores new visualization technologies\, particularly at the Giza Pyramids\, that Reisner’s work makes possible today. \nAbout the Speaker: \nPeter Der Manuelian is the Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology and holds a joint appointment in the Anthropology Department and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard. He is also director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE). He came to Harvard in 2010\, after serving on the curatorial staff of the Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston (MFA)\, since 1987\, and teaching for a decade at Tufts University. At the MFA he was Giza Archives Project Director from 2000 to 2011\, and now directs the Giza Project at Harvard. In addition to Giza\, his Egyptian archaeological and epigraphic site work includes New Kingdom temples at Luxor (Epigraphic Survey\, University of Chicago)\, and the Predynastic site of Naqada. \nHis primary research interests include ancient Egyptian history and historiography\, archaeology\, epigraphy\, the development of mortuary architecture\, and the (icono)graphic nature of Egyptian language and culture. He has published on diverse topics and periods in Egyptian history\, but currently focuses on the third millennium BCE\, and specifically on the famous Giza Necropolis\, just west of modern Cairo. \nInterested in both ancient and modern graphic design—publishing in the broadest sense of the word—he believes in bringing new technologies into his research and into the classroom. Recent efforts have focused on photogrammetry\, AR and VR visualizations\, and other immersive technologies as an aid to archaeological research. He is directing the Arabic Diaries Project\, focusing on 73 Arabic Expedition diary books from the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition (1905–1947) that give voice to the historically voiceless Egyptians working on the dig. \n(Text from Harvard University website: https://anthropology.fas.harvard.edu/people/peter-der-manuelian) \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, http://www.arce-nc.org\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/how-egyptologist-george-reisner-went-walking-among-pharaohs/
LOCATION:California Palace of the Legion of Honor\, Gunn Theater\, 100 - 34th Avenue\, Lincoln Park\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94121
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SUMMARY:The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt\, a Lecture by Aidan Dodson
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Aidan Dodson\, University of Bristol: \n“The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt”\nSunday April 28\, 2024\, 3 PM Pacific Time\nRoom 20\, Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\nThis in-person lecture will be recorded for later publication on YouTube. \nAbout the Lecture: \nFor a few decades during the 8th to 7th centuries BC\, there was a remarkable reversal of the age-old imperial domination of Nubia by Egypt. In the wake of the fragmentation of the Egyptian state during the 8th century\, the Kushite state that had evolved in Nubia since Egyptian withdrawal at the beginning of the 11th century expanded northwards\, ultimately absorbing the south of Egypt\, including Thebes itself. Having established themselves as overlords of the various regional rulers in Egypt\, the Nubian pharaohs led a national revival in Egypt\, until an Assyrian onslaught drove them back into Nubia\, where their composite of Egyptian and Nubian culture would survive into the 4th century AD. \nAbout the Speaker: \nAidan Mark Dodson is an English Egyptologist and historian. He has been honorary professor of Egyptology at the University of Bristol since August 1\, 2018. Born in London on September 11\, 1962\, he studied at Langley Grammar School (1975–81)\, before moving to Collingwood College\, Durham (1981-2). He completed a BA at the University of Liverpool (1985)\, and an MPhil (1986\, museum practice and archaeology) and PhD (1995\, Egyptology) at Christ’s College\, Cambridge. He began teaching at the University of Bristol in October 1996\, also holding the post of Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo from January to July 2013. Dodson was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003. His primary research interests concern Ancient Egypt\, including dynastic history and chronology\, tomb architecture\, sarcophagus and coffin design\, canopic equipment\, and the history of Egyptology; he is also a historian of late 19th and early 20th century navies\, and has written on the royal tombs of Great Britain. He is the author of some 27 books and 400 articles and reviews. His latest book\, The Nubian Pharaohs of Egypt: Their Lives and Afterlives\, was published by the American University in Cairo Press at the end of 2023. \n—————- \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ . \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, http://www.arce-nc.org\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-nubian-pharaohs-of-egypt-a-lecture-by-aidan-dodson/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building\, University of California\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:San Francisco Lecture by Tom Hardwick: Uses\, Re-uses\, and Abuses of Egyptian Statues
DESCRIPTION:April 13\, 2024 at 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM \nUses\, Re-uses\, and Abuses of Egyptian Statues\nGunn Theater | Legion of Honor + Live Stream\nPresented by Tom Hardwick Consulting Curator of Egyptology\, Houston Museum of Natural Science \nAdmission:\nLecture is free and open to the public. It is also a hybrid program. \nIN PERSON: Gunn Theater\, 100 – 34th Avenue\, Lincoln Park\, San Francisco\, CA 94121. Seating is limited and unassigned. Doors open at 1:30 pm.\nLIVE STREAM: Please register here to receive a webinar link: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lJ1-plmLQVi5pqRy16oceA . \nEgyptian statues epitomize solidity and permanence for the modern viewers who admire them securely guarded in museums or tourist sites. To their pharaonic makers and owners\, however\, they were functional objects with specific duties to fulfil. Rather than being blindly revered as artworks\, they were often re-used for new purposes when their old functions lapsed. These re-uses could include physical transformation. This lecture covers over three thousand years to show how subsequent generations have used and abused Egyptian artworks. \nCosponsored by the Ancient Art Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco\nand the American Research Center in Egypt-Northern California.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/san-francisco-lecture-by-tom-hardwick-uses-re-uses-and-abuses-of-egyptian-statues/
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SUMMARY:Imhotep: The Man\, the Myth\, the Monster
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Julia Troche\, Missouri State University\, Springfield: \n“Imhotep: The Man\, the Myth\, the Monster” \nSunday March 17\, 2024\, 3 PM Pacific Time\nRoom 140\, Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\nThis in-person lecture will be recorded for later publication on YouTube. \nAbout the Lecture: \n“It comes to life!” is the tagline for the 1932 Universal film The Mummy wherein a reanimated Imhotep\, as the mummy horror icon\, brings terror and violence to all who encounter him. Imhotep\, in fact\, was a historical ancient Egyptian who is credited with engineering Egypt’s first pyramid\, the stepped pyramid at Saqqara for King Djoser (c. 2650 BCE). In antiquity he was venerated as a folk hero and eventually worshiped as a god. How and why did Imhotep become a horror icon? The answer is what we refer to as “Egyptomania\,” that is\, our obsession with and consumption of ancient Egypt throughout history. This talk invites audiences to follow Imhotep and his many legacies throughout history as a way to explore Egyptomania. But it is not all fun and amusement park rides\, as we consider some of the benefits and problems of Egyptomania in our everyday lives. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Julia Troche is an Egyptologist\, historian\, and award-winning educator. She holds a Ph.D. in Egyptology from Brown University and a B.A. in History from UCLA. Dr. Troche is currently Associate Professor at Missouri State University in Springfield\, MO\, and Visiting Scholar of Egyptology at Brown for her sabbatical (2023-24). She serves as a Governor for the Board of the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE)\, is President and co-founder of ARCE-Missouri\, and for the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)\, she is co-chair of the diversity\, equity\, and inclusion committee and co-chair of the Archaeology of Egypt sessions for the annual meeting. Her first book\, Death\, Power\, and Apotheosis in Ancient Egypt: The Old and Middle Kingdoms was published in 2021 with Cornell University Press. She is currently working on a book about the god Ptah for Bloomsbury\, a textbook (with B. Brinkman) for Routledge\, and a series of articles on Egyptomania and Imhotep that she hopes to turn into a public-facing book. \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, http://www.arce-nc.org\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/imhotep-the-man-the-myth-the-monster/
LOCATION:Room 140 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\, Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Body Ornaments and Communities of Practice in the Egyptian Predynastic
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a lecture by Maryan Ragheb\, UCLA: \nBody Ornaments and Communities of Practice in the Egyptian Predynastic\nSunday\, February 11\, 2024\, 3 PM Pacific Time\nRoom 20\, Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\nThis lecture will not be recorded. \nAbout the Lecture: \nOur bodies and body images are manufactured through one’s treatment of their body surface: Through clothing\, jewelry\, hairstyles\, makeup\, or tattooing\, we create and recreate certain images that can be readable to others. These body accessories and modifications are not only to reflect identities\, but also to be utilized as tools by the wearers to enact their social roles\, which are prescribed and promoted by society. Body ornamentation is thus important for affirming social cohesion and shared ideologies of identities both in life and death. In Predynastic Egypt\, body ornamentation of the deceased was practiced to varying degrees. This talk discusses the shared community practices in the making and use of Predynastic body ornaments to adorn the deceased’s body. Through a microscopic study of beaded ornaments\, their manufacturing processes\, and wear marks\, I can reconstruct the technical and social processes that were invested in their making\, and by extension\, the making of the deceased’s image at the time of the funeral. \nAbout the Speaker: \nMaryan Ragheb is a PhD candidate in Archaeology at UCLA\, with a special focus on ancient Egyptian archaeology. Her dissertation research is concerned with identity expression pre and post state formation in ancient Egypt\, through the study of body ornamentation. Her research interests include identity expressions of different minority groups and the cultural entanglement between different ethnicities within Egypt. In addition to archaeological work in Egypt and Ethiopia\, she is interested in community outreach and preservation of cultural heritage initiatives. As such\, she is currently involved in the Waystation initiative and the voluntary return of cultural objects to China\, while building a skillset in cultural heritage laws in the USA\, and in provenance research. \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, http://www.arce-nc.org\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/body-ornaments-and-communities-of-practice-in-the-egyptian-predynastic/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building\, University of California\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Recent Work at Memphis and the Fayum: An Overview of Methodologies and Results
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California chapter\, and the UC Berkeley Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures invite you to attend a Zoom lecture by Raghda (Didi) El-Behaedi\, University of Chicago: \n“Recent Work at Memphis and the Fayum: An Overview of Methodologies and Results” \nSunday\, January 21\, 2024\, 3 PM Pacific Time \nZoom Lecture. This meeting will not be recorded. A registration link will be automatically sent to ARCE-NC members. Non-members may request a registration link by sending email with your name and email address to arcencZoom@gmail.com. Non-members\, please send any registration requests no later than Friday\, January 19. Registrations are limited to 100\, so the sooner you register\, the better. \nAbout the Lecture: \nThis lecture will present an overview of two cases studies\, Memphis and the Fayum\, to illustrate different methodologies of site exploration in Egypt. Memphis\, the first capital of unified Egypt and one of the ancient world’s most recognizable cities\, continues to be an enigma in the present day. Located at the confluence of Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt\, Memphis’ strategic placement evoked the symbolic and geographic union of a once fragmented country. Despite its profound historical significance over more than 3\,000 years\, very little is known about the city itself. This is especially true for the area of Kom el-Fakhry\, which houses the oldest in-situ remains found at Memphis so far. A preview of the results from the 2023 excavation season conducted at Kom el-Fakhry will be presented. \nThe Fayum\, a natural depression located 100 km southwest of Cairo\, is bounded by the Sahara Desert except for in the east\, where a branch of the Nile River once fed its massive freshwater lake\, Lake Moeris. For thousands of years\, anthropic activity in the form of settlements\, religious centers\, harbors\, and quarry sites continued in the Fayum\, along the very shores of Lake Moeris. However\, starting in the Holocene epoch\, changing environmental and climatic conditions caused fluctuations of floodwaters from the Nile\, which in turn caused drastic instabilities in the lake’s water level. The present work attempts to understand how the ancient Egyptians adapted to the shrinking lake from the Neolithic to Ptolemaic period\, using cutting-edge satellite remote sensing\, GIS\, and geophysical techniques. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDidi El-Behaedi is an Egyptian Archaeology PhD candidate at the University of Chicago and a National Geographic Explorer. Her research interests include understanding ancient Egyptian settlement patterns and ancient landscapes through the lens of remote sensing\, GIS\, and 3D modeling. Didi is the co-director of the Memphis-Kom el-Fakhry Archaeological Project (MKAP) and has conducted archaeological fieldwork at several other sites in Egypt\, including Tell Edfu\, Deir el-Bahri\, Asasif\, and Hermopolis. She has also previously served as a research consultant at NASA Langley Research Center and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, http://www.arce-nc.org\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, and https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/recent-work-at-memphis-and-the-fayum-an-overview-of-methodologies-and-results/
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SUMMARY:Contexts and Circumstances in Designing the Divine in Ancient Egypt
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Jennifer Miyuki Babcock\, Pratt Institute: \n“Contexts and Circumstances in Designing the Divine in Ancient Egypt” \nSunday\, December 10\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time\nRoom 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\, UC Berkeley \nThis lecture will be recorded. \nAbout the Lecture: \nHow do we decide what a god looks like? Some ancient Egyptian texts describe the gods generally\, and others are more precise. Yet a divinity’s true\, underlying form is unknown. Nonetheless\, depictions of deities on monumental and small-scale artworks are seen throughout ancient Egyptian history. \nIn this talk\, we will look at some basic\, common forms that ancient Egyptian gods adopt\, and uncover the reasons behind these design choices. We will not only consider how the images illustrate a god’s specific divine power\, but also how their representation may be determined by the context and placement of the god’s image. \nAbout the Lecturer: \nDr. Jennifer Miyuki Babcock is Assistant Professor and Coordinator for the History of Art and Design at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture\, Education\, and Human Development\, and at the Fashion Institute of Technology\, SUNY. Before teaching\, Dr. Babcock was a Postdoctoral Curatorial Associate at The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU\, and has held research and fellowship positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston\, and the Brooklyn Museum. She earned her Ph.D. at the Institute of Fine Arts\, NYU. \nAmong Dr. Babock’s extensive list of publications is the book Animal Fables in Ancient Egypt: Tree Climbing Hippos and Ennobled Mice (Brill 2022)\, which examines how drawings of anthropomorphized animals are linked to oral folklore and the religious environment of New Kingdom Thebes.  Her interests include the cross-cultural and temporal transmission of artistic iconography in the ancient world\, and studying cultural parallels between ancient and modern and contemporary lives. \n————— \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://arce-nc.org\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or http://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up. See less
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LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building\, University of California\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Qeheq Papyrus: A Bridge Between Egyptology and Berberology
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Jason Silvestri\, UC Berkeley: \n“The Qeheq Papyrus: A Bridge Between Egyptology and Berberology” \nSunday\, November 5\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time\nNote: Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 AM\nRoom 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nAbout the Lecture: \nAmong the ancient documents in the collection of the Museo Egizio in Turin\, there is a papyrus\, thought to be from Deir el-Medina\, which records a set of magical spells for the protection against snakes written in an Egyptian script but in the hitherto unidentified language of the Qeheq people. The Qeheq are an infrequently attested North African ethnic group of the late 2nd millennium BCE\, often associated with other\, more well-known ancient “Libyan” groups like the Libu and the Meshwesh. The language recorded on the papyrus exhibits strong similarities to proto-Berber as reconstructed by linguists using data from the modern Amazigh (or Berber) languages\, indigenous to North Africa and still spoken today by an estimated 30-to-40 million people from the Atlantic in the west to the Siwa Oasis in Egypt in the east\, from the Mediterranean in the north to the Niger River in the south. As the papyrus records what is likely to be the earliest textually-attested Amazigh language\, and does so using the Egyptian hieratic script\, it stands as a unique document\, serving as a bridge between two related but often separated academic fields–Egyptology and Berberology/Amazigh Studies. When held in light of other Egyptian textual and onomastic material attesting so-called “Libyan” groups from the 1st millennium BCE\, the language of the Qeheq can contribute toward a clearer understanding of the geographic and temporal extent of ancient Amazigh languages and their speakers’ interactions with neighboring cultural groups\, like the Egyptians. \nAbout the Lecturer: \nJason Silvestri is a PhD candidate in the field of Egyptian Archaeology in the department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at UC Berkeley. His dissertation research focuses on the social and administrative history of the Libyan Period in Egypt (Dynasties 21 through 24) and examines numerous social phenomena that are particularly emblematic of that period\, such as the formation and use of diaspora identities and ethnic code-switching\, political identity formation\, factional conflict\, regional identity politicization\, personal piety\, and archaism. Through his interest in Ancient Libyan cultural and linguistic identities\, Jason began studying the modern Amazigh (or Berber) languages\, the indigenous languages of North Africa\, west of the Nile. He founded and coordinated an online language education program through the Center for Language and Culture in Marrakesh\, Morocco\, which operated for several semesters from 2020 through 2022 dedicated to the teaching of Tashelhiyt\, an Amazigh language spoken in Southern Morocco. In addition to his philological work on Egyptian and Amazigh material\, Jason also is a trained archaeologist and has worked on several projects across the Mediterranean\, including in Egypt\, Greece\, and Italy; he is currently starting a project that aims to address a large and mostly unpublished corpus of Third Intermediate Period and Saite Period Egyptian objects excavated from Iron Age indigenous contexts in Southern Italy. \n————————— \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/@NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://arce-nc.org\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or http://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://arce.org/join-arce/ and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-qeheq-papyrus-a-bridge-between-egyptology-and-berberology/
LOCATION:ARCE-NC Lectures\, Rm 20\, Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720
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SUMMARY:Preparing for Eternity: Funerary Models & Wall Scenes from the Old and Middle Kingdoms
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Georgia Barker\, Macquarie University/CSU San Bernardino: \nPreparing for Eternity: Funerary Models & Wall Scenes from the Old and Middle Kingdoms \nSunday\, September 10\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time\nRoom 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nAbout the Lecture: \nDuring the late Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom\, there were two principal types of artistic representation in the ancient Egyptian elite tomb: funerary models and wall scenes. The two media exhibit several similarities in design\, with both depicting people and animals engaged in activities of everyday life. This has caused scholars to regularly label funerary models duplicates or substitutes of wall scenes\, implying that they served the same purpose in the tomb. However\, there are several notable differences yet to be acknowledged. This lecture presents the results of a detailed comparative analysis of the two artistic media\, focusing on representations from the sites of Meir\, Deir el-Bersha and Beni Hassan in Middle Egypt. It will highlight the distinguishing characteristics of each medium and propose that funerary models should be understood as a distinct type of representation that was specifically conceived to provision the deceased for eternity. \nAbout the Lecturer: \nDr. Georgia Barker is the W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence at California State University\, San Bernardino\, for Fall 2023. Before joining CSUSB\, she completed a Doctor of Philosophy and a postdoctoral research fellowship at Macquarie University in Sydney\, Australia. Her research investigates the purpose and historical significance of funerary art from the Old and Middle Kingdom periods. She has worked extensively with museum collections\, including the Macquarie University History Museum and Sydney Living Museums in Australia as well as being a member of the British Museum’s Circulating Artefacts Project and an intern at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is also a member of the Australian Centre for Egyptology’s expeditions at Meir and Beni Hassan. \n————– \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://arce-nc.org/\, https://www.youtube.com/channel/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/preparing-for-eternity-funerary-models-wall-scenes-from-the-old-and-middle-kingdoms/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building\, University of California\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ancient Egypt Pottery Practicum
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a workshop presented by Dr. Carol Redmount\, UC Berkeley: \nAncient Egypt Pottery Practicum\nSunday\, August 13\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time\nBaer-Keller Library\, Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nLimited attendance (20); send registration requests ONLY to arcencZoom@gmail.com. This is an in-person event; it will neither be Zoomed nor recorded. \nAbout the Practicum:\nEver wonder why and how an archaeologist deals with ancient pottery? In this hands-on practicum we will look at these questions and review some of the issues relating to the basic study of ancient Egyptian pottery. \nAbout the Archaeologist:\nDr. Carol Redmount is a field archaeologist who teaches Egyptian archaeology at UC Berkeley. She has been excavating in Egypt for many years and also has archaeological experience in Tunisia\, Cyprus\, Jordan\, Israel\, and the U.S. \n—————–\nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC:\nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/ancient-egypt-pottery-practicum/
LOCATION:Baer-Keller Library\, Social Sciences Bldg. UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:New Perspectives on the African Empire of Kush: Excavation at Jebel Barkal
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Dr. Geoff Emberling\, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology\, Univ. of Michigan: \n“New Perspectives on the African Empire of Kush: Excavation at Jebel Barkal” \nSunday\, May 7\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time\nRoom 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nAbout the Lecture: \nKush was the dominant political power in the Middle Nile region of northern Sudan for over 2000 years (ca. 2000 BCE – 300 CE). Our understanding of this extensive ancient empire has long been constrained by the long legacy of focus on monumental remains (palaces\, temples\, pyramids) at the expense of investigation of settlements that would broaden our understanding of Kushite economy and social identities. \nA joint project of the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums of Sudan and the University of Michigan has begun work on a newly discovered area of settlement at Jebel Barkal (ancient Napata)\, one of the major cities of Kush (and a UNESCO World Heritage site). This talk will present the results of our first seasons of work on Meroitic levels of settlement at the site\, contemporary with the Roman occupation of Egypt (1st century BCE – 1st century CE). \nAbout the Lecturer: \nDr. Geoff Emberling is an archaeologist and museum curator who has worked extensively on ancient cultures of North Africa and the Middle East. His research has focused on identities\, urbanism and empires in Mesopotamia and in Nubia. He has directed projects in northern Sudan over the past 15 years and his team is just beginning its work at Jebel Barkal\, the “pure mountain” of the ancient Egyptians and capital city of ancient Kush. \nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://www.youtube.com/channel/NorthernCaliforniaARCE\, https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/new-perspectives-on-the-african-empire-of-kush-excavation-at-jebel-barkal/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building\, University of California\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Hidden Treasures of Elephantine Island
DESCRIPTION:The American Research Center in Egypt\, Northern California Chapter\, and the Near Eastern Studies Department\, University of California\, Berkeley\, invite you to attend a lecture by Prof. Dr. Verena Lepper\, National Museums\, Berlin: \n“The Hidden Treasures of Elephantine Island” \nSunday\, April 16\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time \nRoom 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nAbout the Lecture: \nElephantine was a militarily and strategically very important island on the river Nile at the southern border of Egypt. No other settlement in Egypt is so well attested through texts over such a long period of time\, 4000 years. Its inhabitants form a multi-ethnic\, multicultural and multi-religious community that left us vast amounts of written sources detailing their everyday lives from the Old Kingdom to beyond the Arab Conquest. Today\, several thousand papyri and other manuscripts from Elephantine are scattered in more than 60 institutions in 24 different countries across Europe and beyond. Their texts are written in ten different languages and scripts\, including Hieroglyphs\, Hieratic\, Demotic\, Aramaic\, Greek\, Coptic and Arabic. 80% of these manuscripts were unpublished or unstudied before. \nThus\, access was gained to these texts\, making them publicly available in an open access online research database. Links could be identified between papyrus fragments from different collections\, and an international ‘papyrus puzzle’ undertaken\, incorporating cutting-edge methods from digital humanities\, physics and mathematics (e.g. for the virtual unfolding of papyri). For the first time in the history of papyrology\, papyrus packages can now be read virtually\, without physically opening them. Using this database with medical\, religious\, legal\, administrative\, even literary texts\, the everyday life of the local and global (i.e. ‘glocal’) community of Elephantine can be studied. Elephantine can thus be used as a case study and a model for the past\, present and future. \nAbout the Lecturer: \nProf. Dr. Verena Lepper is the Curator of the Egyptian and Oriental Papyrus Collection of the Egyptian Museum\, National Museums Berlin (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) and Honorary Professor at the Humboldt University Berlin. She is in charge of a collection with around 30\,000 objects in ten different languages and scripts and has managed several exhibition and research projects in Germany and abroad (Abu Dhabi\, Berlin\, Bonn\, Doha\, Harvard) with a team of employees.\nShe conducts research on topics such as Egyptian and Oriental papyri\, literary and cultural history\, and the history of science and art. To this end\, she has published numerous books and exhibition catalogues with international publishers.\nDr. Lepper studied Egyptology\, Semitic Philology\, Christian Orient Studies and Hebrew Bible at Bonn\, Cologne\, Tuebingen\, Oxford and Harvard University. She has received several awards for her scientific and curatorial work\, including the highly renowned ERC-Grant from the European Research Council for the project: “Elephantine”.\nTo promote Arab-German academic exchange\, she founded the Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) in 2013. She is involved in numerous committees in the field of scientific and cultural policy and diplomacy. Visiting professorships and fellowships have also taken her to Harvard and Princeton University.\n——-\nParking is available in UC lots all day on weekends\, for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept debit or credit cards. Parking is available in lots around the Social Sciences Building\, and in lots along Bancroft. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://twitter.com/ARCENCPostings\, or https://khentiamentiu.org. To join the chapter or renew your membership\, please go to https://www.arce.org/general-membership and select “Berkeley\, CA” as your chapter when you sign up.
URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-hidden-treasures-of-elephantine-island/
LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building\, University of California\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States
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