BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Archaeological Institute of America - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.archaeological.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Archaeological Institute of America REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20220313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20221106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20240310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20241103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20250309T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20251102T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20240310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20241103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241215T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241215T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20241120T170128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241120T170128Z UID:10007414-1734274800-1734278400@www.archaeological.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Bahariya-Formation-ecosystem-w-abelisaurid-etc-Andrew-McAfee-Carnegie-MNH-1-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.8700546;-122.25799 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Social Sciences Building UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=UC Berkeley:geo:-122.25799,37.8700546 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241117T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241117T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20241016T152754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20241016T152754Z UID:10007339-1731855600-1731859200@www.archaeological.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Packard-GramsARCETalk.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241013T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241013T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20240920T170944Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240920T171156Z UID:10007222-1728831600-1728835200@www.archaeological.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Sheppard-Cover-Image-674x1024-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240915T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240915T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20240826T131333Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240904T030142Z UID:10007156-1726412400-1726416000@www.archaeological.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SmithSangster-Cover-Image-768x512-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.8718992;-122.2585399 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=ARCE-NC Lectures Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg. UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg.\, UC Berkeley:geo:-122.2585399,37.8718992 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240818T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240818T161500 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20240701T125901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240815T004949Z UID:10006653-1723993200-1723997700@www.archaeological.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Don-Ryan-in-the-Valley-of-the-Kings.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com LOCATION:https://www.archaeological.org/event/in-the-footsteps-of-belzoni-and-carter-in-the-valley-of-the-kings/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240517 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240520 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20240508T160543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240508T160543Z UID:10007104-1715904000-1716163199@www.archaeological.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/PNxG0CsO_400x400.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240505T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240505T153000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20240426T142408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240426T142408Z UID:10007099-1714917600-1714923000@www.archaeological.org 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 CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/George_Andrew_Reisner_a_gauche_et_Georg_Steindorff_a_droite_devant_les_pyramides_de_Kheops_et_de_Khephren_a_Gizeh_en_1935.png ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.7844779;-122.5008906 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=California Palace of the Legion of Honor Gunn Theater 100 - 34th Avenue Lincoln Park San Francisco CA 94121;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Gunn Theater\, 100 - 34th Avenue\, Lincoln Park:geo:-122.5008906,37.7844779 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240428T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240428T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20240408T123810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240412T015330Z UID:10006641-1714316400-1714320000@www.archaeological.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/735px-Rulers_of_Kush_Kerma_Museum.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.8718992;-122.2585399 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building University of California Berkeley CA 94720 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California:geo:-122.2585399,37.8718992 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240413T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240413T153000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20240408T123902Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240408T123902Z UID:10006643-1713016800-1713022200@www.archaeological.org 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/ CATEGORIES:Lecture ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240317T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20240219T142900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240219T142900Z UID:10007079-1710687600-1710691200@www.archaeological.org 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 CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/TrocheImhotepLayoutLG.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.8700546;-122.25799 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Room 140 Social Sciences Building UC Berkeley Social Sciences Building UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley:geo:-122.25799,37.8700546 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240211T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240211T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20240122T163402Z LAST-MODIFIED:20240122T163402Z UID:10006617-1707663600-1707667200@www.archaeological.org 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 CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/BodyOrnaments.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.8718992;-122.2585399 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building University of California Berkeley CA 94720 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California:geo:-122.2585399,37.8718992 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240121T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240121T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20231213T140221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231214T062324Z UID:10007058-1705849200-1705852800@www.archaeological.org 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/ CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Cover-Image_El-Behaedi.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231210T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231210T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20231107T143510Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231108T021924Z UID:10006597-1702220400-1702224000@www.archaeological.org 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 URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/contexts-and-circumstances-in-designing-the-divine-in-ancient-egypt/ LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building\, University of California\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Babcock-Cover-Image.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.8718992;-122.2585399 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building University of California Berkeley CA 94720 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California:geo:-122.2585399,37.8718992 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231105T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231105T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20231011T145502Z LAST-MODIFIED:20231011T145502Z UID:10007033-1699196400-1699200000@www.archaeological.org 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 CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/EG2022-3615.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.870151;-122.2594606 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230910T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230910T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20230814T141455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230814T141455Z UID:10006881-1694358000-1694361600@www.archaeological.org 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 CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Boston_21.326.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.8718992;-122.2585399 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building University of California Berkeley CA 94720 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California:geo:-122.2585399,37.8718992 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230813T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230813T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20230807T174900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230807T174900Z UID:10006872-1691938800-1691942400@www.archaeological.org 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 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/CarolRedmountCrop.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230507T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20230419T030813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230419T151234Z UID:10006253-1683471600-1683475200@www.archaeological.org 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 CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/GebelBarkal.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.8718992;-122.2585399 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building University of California Berkeley CA 94720 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California:geo:-122.2585399,37.8718992 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230416T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230416T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20230315T141141Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230315T141141Z UID:10006225-1681657200-1681660800@www.archaeological.org 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 CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Lepper-GYA1-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.8718992;-122.2585399 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building University of California Berkeley CA 94720 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California:geo:-122.2585399,37.8718992 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230312T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230312T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20230217T152620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230217T152620Z UID:10006808-1678633200-1678636800@www.archaeological.org SUMMARY:Roman Egyptian Mummy Portraits and the Artistic Circle of the St. Louis Painter 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. Branko van Oppen\, Tampa Museum of Art: \nRoman Egyptian Mummy Portraits and the Artistic Circle of the St. Louis Painter \nSunday\, March 12\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Daylight Time\nRoom 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nDaylight Savings Time Begins March 12. \nAbout the Lecture: \nIn his publications Mummy Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum (1982)\, David L. Thompson attributed three Roman Egyptian funerary portraits to the same artist\, whom he named the St. Louis Painter on the basis of a portrait of an elderly woman in the St. Louis Art Museum (SLAM inv. no. 128:1951; Thompson 1982\, pp. 20–22\, figs. 35–37). Without further information\, Thompson acknowledged that “a number of other portraits are related to those by the St. Louis Painter and some to each other by these differences\,” and dated the activity of the artist’s workshop to around 300 CE. Before and since\, several other scholars have recognized the stylistic similarities between about a dozen funerary portraits from ancient Philadelphia (confusingly still called “Rubayat”) with estimated dates ranging between 165-350 CE. \nThis paper will re-examine the attribution of the portrait panels to the St. Louis Painter (also known as the Würzburg Painter)\, and suggest that some two dozen examples can be assigned to this anonymous painter\, workshop or circle. Stylistic elements by which these paintings can be grouped together include a distinctively graphic hatching style. The portraits generally lack a sense of depth and perspective\, though some foreshortening is often indicated on the left side of the face. The basic outline is usually drawn with a broader brush\, while the individual details are applied with a thinner brush. The outline tends to follow basic physiognomic proportions that are not only common with other Roman Egyptian portraits\, but with Roman portraits from contexts such as the wall paintings of Pompeii and Herculaneum. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Branko F. van Oppen de Ruiter is the Richard E. Perry Curator of Greek & Roman Art at the Tampa Museum of Art. He received his PhD in ancient history from The City University of New York (’07)\, where he specialized in queenship during the period from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. Before coming to Tampa\, van Oppen worked for five years at the Allard Pierson Museum\, Amsterdam. His academic interests further include clay seal impressions\, animals in ancient material culture\, Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits\, as well as ancient religion and art history in general. \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\, https://khentiamentiu.org\, or https://arce-nc.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/roman-egyptian-mummy-portraits-and-the-artistic-circle-of-the-st-louis-painter/ LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building\, University of California\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/SLAM20128-51_lr.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.8718992;-122.2585399 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building University of California Berkeley CA 94720 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California:geo:-122.2585399,37.8718992 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230212T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230212T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20230117T131702Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230117T131702Z UID:10006796-1676214000-1676217600@www.archaeological.org SUMMARY:Ramses II and the Hittite Empire: War & Peace in the Late Bronze Age 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. Peter Brand\, University of Memphis: \nRamses II and the Hittite Empire: War & Peace in the Late Bronze Age \nSunday\, February 12\, 2023\, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time\nRoom 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nNo Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture. \nAbout the Lecture: \nRamesses II was both a great warrior and visionary statesman. For two decades\, he fought the mighty Hittite Empire for control of Syria including the famous Battle of Kadesh. His military campaigns were the culmination of over six decades of hostilities between these ancient superpowers. Yet Ramesses had the vision to make a lasting peace with Egypt’s bitter rival\, when he concluded a treaty in his twenty-first regnal year with his Hittite counterpart Hattusili III. A remarkable cache of diplomatic letters\, second only to the famous Amarna Letters\, offers a fascinating glimpse of the pharaoh’s boisterous and often tense diplomatic exchanges with Hattusili III and his formidable consort\, the Hititte Queen Puduhepa. Fifteen years later\, Ramesses negotiated with Puduhepa to marry a Hittite princess. His lively debates with the Hittite king and queen reveal a very different Ramesses II than the god-king and warrior pharaoh we see on his monuments. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Peter Brand is a Canadian Egyptologist from Toronto and a naturalized American citizen. He is a Professor of Ancient History in the Department of History at the University of Memphis. Since 2001 Dr. Brand has served as the Director of the Karnak Great Hypostyle Hall Project sponsored by the University of Memphis\, which aims to record and publish all the monumental inscriptions and reliefs from this huge building. \nDr. Brand studied at the University of Texas at Arlington and the University of Memphis before completing his PhD in Ancient Egyptian Language and Literature at the University of Toronto in 1998. His dissertation\, The Monuments of Seti I: Epigraphic\, Historical and Art Historical Analysis\, was published by Brill in 2000. Dr. Brand’s area of focus in Egyptology is the history and culture of the New Kingdom\, particularly the late 18th Dynasty and the Ramesside Period. In his research and teaching he uses a multi-disciplinary approach that integrates history\, art history\, language and epigraphy.\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\, https://khentiamentiu.org\, or https://arce-nc.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/ramses-ii-and-the-hittite-empire-war-peace-in-the-late-bronze-age/ LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures\, Room 126 Social Sciences Building\, Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg.\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Prisse-dAvennes-Kadesh-chariot-auto-tone.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.8700546;-122.25799 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 126 Social Sciences Building Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg. UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg.\, UC Berkeley:geo:-122.25799,37.8700546 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230205T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230205T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20230118T174108Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230118T174108Z UID:10006799-1675605600-1675612800@www.archaeological.org SUMMARY:West Coast Tut Tour: An afternoon with Aidan Dodson in San Francisco\, Feb. 5\, de Young Museum DESCRIPTION:To anyone in the SF Bay Area interested in Ancient Egypt\, \nI wanted to let you know about an exciting event that ARCE Northern California is hosting with the American Research Center in Egypt and the Ancient Art Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. On February 5 at 2pm\, the Tut Chapter Tour is coming to the de Young Museum\, and features a lecture by Dr. Aidan Dodson. For more information\, please go to https://www.arce.org/west-coast-tut-tour. Be advised that although the event is free\, registration is required. To go straight to registration\, click on this link: https://secure.everyaction.com/imoaeYmGY0WyV2Q0J-9qpQ2 . \nHashtags: #TutChapterTour #ARCE #AidanDodson #deYoung \nThere will be a discount on ARCE membership for people who sign up at the lecture. Hope you can join us! \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE Northern California Publicity Director URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/west-coast-tut-tour-an-afternoon-with-aidan-dodson-in-san-francisco-feb-5-de-young-museum/ LOCATION:de Young Museum\, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/San-Francisco-Flyer.png ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.7714775;-122.4687303 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=de Young Museum 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive San Francisco CA 94118 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive:geo:-122.4687303,37.7714775 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221211T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221211T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20221111T172200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221111T172200Z UID:10006770-1670770800-1670774400@www.archaeological.org SUMMARY:A Gateway into the Desert: History\, Exploration\, and Cyclical Rediscovery of Wadi Tumilat 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. Aleksandra Ksiezak\, University of Toronto\, CSU San Bernardino: \n“A Gateway into the Desert: History\, Exploration\, and Cyclical Rediscovery of Wadi Tumilat” \nSunday\, December 11\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Standard Time\nRoom 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nNo Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture. \nAbout the Lecture: \nOnce a distributary of the Nile\, Wadi Tumilat is a dry river valley in the Eastern Nile Delta. In antiquity\, the wadi was a major communication artery for trade between Egypt and her neighbours to the east\, and its importance was recognized by many great strategic minds of their day. Across Wadi Tumilat are numerous archaeological sites\, dating from the 3rd millennium BCE to the Late Roman Period. Accompanying them was a navigable canal—an impressive waterway that not only provided the arid valley with water but allowed transportation of goods and people in and out of Egypt. While the ancient canal and its surrounding ruins were a source of fascination for ancient geographers\, and historians\, and were recorded in their writings\, it took centuries for these antiquities to re-emerge in the letters\, reports\, and memoirs of early European travellers to Egypt. \nThis lecture aims to summarize the history of the discovery of Wadi Tumilat and our understanding of its place in Egyptian archaeology. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Aleksandra Ksiezak is a field archaeologist\, Egyptologist\, and ceramicist specializing in macro-and microscopic analyses of Egyptian and Nubian pottery. She obtained her Ph.D. in Egyptology at the University of Toronto (Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations) where she focused on the analysis of the ceramic material from the Second Intermediate Period Hyksos settlement at Tell el-Maskhuta excavated by the Wadi Tumilat Project (WTP) during the late 1970s/early 80s. She is currently involved in research on the identification and study of the Middle Bronze Age trade routes involving Wadi Tumilat through the identification of imported objects and their local imitations identified at Tell el-Maskhuta and the neighbouring sites. Both her past and present research deal with the broader question of migration and mobility in Egypt\, the Sinai Peninsula\, and the Levant during the Bronze Age. She currently holds the position of W. Benson Harer Egyptology Scholar in Residence at California State University\, San Bernardino. \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://arce-nc.org/\, 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/a-gateway-into-the-desert-history-exploration-and-cyclical-rediscovery-of-wadi-tumilat/ LOCATION:ARCE-NC Lectures\, Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg.\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Dominique-Adolphe-Grenet-de-Joigny-Necho-2-Canal.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.8718992;-122.2585399 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=ARCE-NC Lectures Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg. UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Rm 126 Social Sciences Bldg.\, UC Berkeley:geo:-122.2585399,37.8718992 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221106T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221106T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20221013T165825Z LAST-MODIFIED:20221013T165825Z UID:10006753-1667746800-1667750400@www.archaeological.org SUMMARY:Iron in the Sky: Words and Conceptions of Iron and Meteorites in Ancient Egypt 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. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro\, Brown University: \n“Iron in the Sky: Words and Conceptions of Iron and Meteorites in Ancient Egypt” \nSunday\, November 6\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time\nRoom 126 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nPlease note that no Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture. \nAbout the Lecture: \nThis lecture explores the cultural implications of an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic sign\, known as N41\, used in an apparently random constellation of words related to women\, water\, and metals. Based on a re-examination of the sign’s contexts of appearance in The Pyramid Texts and other religious sources\, it is determined that an ancient Egyptian cosmovision contemplated the sky as an iron container of water\, pieces of which fell to the earth in the shape of meteors and were used to produce ritual objects. The fact that the N41 sign’s iconicity encapsulated such complex interconnectedness suggests that the relation between birth\, afterlife\, and iron existed even before the earliest religious texts in Egypt. The knowledge of the extraterrestrial provenance of iron was lost at some point in modern times when meteorites were classified along with fossils as “thunderstones” as late as the 18th century. However\, the Egyptian knowledge\, consistent with contemporary science\, was most likely shared with other ancient civilizations that also connected iron and sky in texts. We will examine some examples of non-Egyptian iron-sky cultural parallels\, particularly from the Ancient Near East\, which can be explained as common analysis of natural observations\, rather than knowledge transmission. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Victoria Almansa-Villatoro obtained her Ph.D. in Egyptology at Brown University in 2022. She is a Junior Research Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2022-2025) and specializes in the use of language and hieroglyphs’ iconicity to understand oral knowledge and ideology in Old Kingdom Egypt. Since 2019 she is a member of the AERA archaeological project in Giza\, and assistant director to the Royal Necropolis and Pyramids of Nuri Expedition since 2021. \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/About \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://arce-nc.org/\, 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/iron-in-the-sky-words-and-conceptions-of-iron-and-meteorites-in-ancient-egypt/ LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures\, Room 126 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/image001.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.870085;-122.258177 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 126 Social Sciences Building UC Berkeley Berkeley CA 94720 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Room 126 Social Sciences Building\, UC Berkeley:geo:-122.258177,37.870085 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220911T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220911T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20220829T133519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220829T133519Z UID:10006032-1662908400-1662912000@www.archaeological.org SUMMARY:Funerary Papyri as Social Reflections of the Living and the Dead 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. Marissa A. Stevens\, UCLA: \nFunerary Papyri as Social Reflections of the Living and the Dead \nSunday\, September 11\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time\nRoom 20 Social Sciences Building (formerly Barrows Hall)\nUC Berkeley \nPlease note that no Zoom meeting is scheduled for this lecture. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC Publicity Director \nAbout the Lecture: \nTwenty-first Dynasty funerary papyri – consisting of texts and images from the Book of the Dead\, the many Underworld Books\, and other cosmographic scenes – have always fascinated Egyptologists for what they reveal about Egyptian afterlife beliefs and their understanding and conceptualization of the underworld. But these documents are also social objects. The creation\, ownership\, and use of these papyri can shed much light about the deceased who reap the religious benefit of the texts and on the family of the deceased\, who also benefit from these objects in social and ideological ways. Studying these papyri as objects of social life\, we can learn about temple life\, titles and rank\, family structure\, inheritance\, and social status of the deceased and the families they left behind. Funerary papyri were therefore used as a form of social competition\, and reveal much about the mindset of the elite priests of 21st Dynasty Thebes. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Marissa Stevens is the Assistant Director of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World. Trained as an Egyptologist who studies the materiality\, social history\, and texts of the Third Intermediate Period and Late Period\, she completed her Ph.D. at the University of California\, Los Angeles\, in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. Combining art historical and linguistic approaches\, her research interests focus on how objects can solidify\, maintain\, and perpetuate social identity\, especially in times of crisis when more traditional means of self-identification are absent. \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://arce-nc.org/\, 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. \nParking for the event 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/ URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/funerary-papyri-as-social-reflections-of-the-living-and-the-dead/ LOCATION:ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building\, University of California\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94720\, United States CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/2019-11-0915.17.18.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com GEO:37.8718992;-122.2585399 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=ARCE Egyptology Lectures Room 20 Social Sciences Building University of California Berkeley CA 94720 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=University of California:geo:-122.2585399,37.8718992 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220828T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220828T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20220718T140432Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220718T140432Z UID:10005970-1661698800-1661702400@www.archaeological.org SUMMARY:Consumed in Raging Fire: Cremation Burial in Ptolemaic Alexandria 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 virtual lecture by Dr. Thomas Landvatter\, University of Michigan: \nConsumed in Raging Fire: Cremation Burial in Ptolemaic Alexandria \nSunday\, August 28\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time \nZoom Lecture. 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\, August 26. The number of registrations is limited\, so the sooner you register\, the better. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity \nAbout the Lecture: \nMummification is\, of course\, the burial practice most associated with ancient Egypt. It may come as a surprise\, then\, that for a period of time cremation – the very antithesis of mummification – is attested in Egypt. During the Ptolemaic period (305-30 BCE)\, when Egypt was ruled by a dynasty of Graeco-Maedonian origin\, it is clear that mummification remained the burial treatment of choice for many elite classes across Egypt. However\, a significant minority of burials in the capital of Alexandria and elsewhere were in fact cremations. In this talk\, I explore the cremation burials of Ptolemaic Alexandria\, who used cremation and why\, and what cremation reveals about the cultural and social environment of that city. I argue that these cremation burials and their meaning can only be understood in relation to Egyptian mummification and other cultural practices\, as well as the unique social and cultural environment of early Alexandria. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Tom Landvatter (PhD\, Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology\, University of Michigan)\, is Associate Professor of Greek\, Latin\, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities at Reed College in Portland\, Oregon. His teaching and research interests center on the history and archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic period (323-30 BCE)\, in particular Cyprus and Ptolemaic Egypt. He has excavated in Egypt at both Mendes and\, especially\, Abydos\, which has been an ongoing focus of his research and publications. Currently he co-directs an excavation at the Hellenistic fortification of Vigla\, near Larnaca\, Cyprus. \nAbout ARCE-NC: \nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://arce-nc.org/\, 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/consumed-in-raging-fire-cremation-burial-in-ptolemaic-alexandria/ CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Cremation-Urn-Alexandria.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220501T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220501T150000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20220429T123413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220429T123413Z UID:10006371-1651413600-1651417200@www.archaeological.org SUMMARY:ARCE-NC Lecture May 1 by Aidan Dodson: The Resurrection of the First Pharaohs 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 virtual lecture by Dr. Aidan Dodson\, University of Bristol: \nThe Resurrection of the First Pharaohs \nSunday\, May 1\, 2022\, 2 PM Pacific Time (note the earlier time) \nZoom Lecture. 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\, April 29. The number of registrations is limited\, so the sooner you register\, the better. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity \nAbout the Lecture:\nEgypt was unified around 3000 BC\, beginning the history of pharaonic Egypt and setting the ground-rules for the nature and constitution of the state and kingship that would endure for three millennia. This afternoon we will explore the way in which the memories of the first pharaohs were maintained and used by their successors down to Roman times\, and how\, after millennia of oblivion\, they were rediscovered by modern scholarship. \nAbout the Speaker: \nProfessor Aidan Dodson\nhas taught at the University of Bristol since 1996\, where he has been honorary Professor of Egyptology since 2018. A graduate of Liverpool and Cambridge Universities\, he was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2003\, and was Simpson Professor of Egyptology at the American University in Cairo for spring 2013. He is the author of some 400 articles and reviews\, and 25 books; his latest is The First Pharaohs: Their Lives and Afterlives\, which was published by the American University in Cairo Press in October 2021. URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/arce-nc-lecture-may-1-by-aidan-dodson-the-resurrection-of-the-first-pharaohs/ CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Ceremonial_mace-head_of_King_Scorpion.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220410T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220410T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20220316T132826Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220316T132826Z UID:10006347-1649602800-1649606400@www.archaeological.org SUMMARY:Making Millions of Pots: How the Cult in Ancient Egypt Met Its Demand for Pottery 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 virtual lecture by Dr. Meredith Brand\, California State University\, San Bernardino:\n“Making Millions of Pots: How the Cult in Ancient Egypt Met Its Demand for Pottery”\nSunday\, April 10\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time\nZoom Lecture. 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\, April 8. The number of registrations is limited\, so the sooner you register\, the better.\nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity\nAbout the Lecture:\nRitual in ancient Egypt required vast amounts of goods. For instance\, Ramesses III’s Great Harris Papyrus lists donations of millions of material items\, food\, drink\, and even flowers to Egypt’s temples. At Medinet Habu temple alone Ramesses III offered more than 80\,000 beer jars per year to the cult. Indeed the abundant material culture excavated at temple sites supports the idea that ancient Egyptian ritual needed lots of things. This is particularly clear at Abydos\, the main cult site of the god of the underworld Osiris\, where the landscape is covered with pottery and other goods related to temple and cultic ritual. The number of artifacts can be quite staggering – the French archaeologist Amélineau estimated over 20 million pots were deposited at Umm el-Qa’ab\, the focal point of an annual festival for Osiris. More recently\, University of Toronto’s North Abydos Votive Zone project excavated over 100\,000 pieces of pottery from a few squares near the Osiris Temple Enclosure.\nThe sheer quantities of material culture used for private and temple ritual at Abydos raises many questions about who produced these goods\, how they organized such a scale of production\, and the relationships between craft workers and state institutions. It is important to examine such questions as they provide insight into an often ignored aspect of ritual – the potters\, brewers\, bakers\, weavers\, florists\, etc. whose work was vital for ritual practices in ancient Egypt. This talk examines the social and economic context of craft production for ritual with a case study on the production of pottery at Abydos for cultic use in the popular festival of Osiris at Umm el-Qa’ab and a chapel of Thutmose III in the North Abydos Votive Zone. The conclusions of this talk suggest how craft workers made their living and provide insight into both how temples functioned economically and how people got the material goods they needed for private cult.\nAbout the Speaker:\nDr. Meredith Brand obtained her PhD from the Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Department at the University of Toronto with her dissertation The Socio-Economic Organization of Votive Pottery Production at Abydos\, Egypt in the New Kingdom: A Metric Analysis Study. She is currently the W. Benson Harrer Egyptology Scholar and Residence at California State University San Bernardino and an instructor in the Rhetoric and Composition Department at the American University in Cairo. Dr. Brand’s research focuses on pottery analysis\, material culture\, archaeological science\, and the social history and economy of ancient Egypt. She is a co-Director and the ceramicist of the Wadi el-Hudi Expedition that surveys and excavates mines and mining settlements in the Eastern Desert. She has been the ceramicist at University of Toronto’s North Abydos Votive Zone Project and the assistant ceramicist at other sites in Egypt\, and has conducted mineralogical analysis of pottery from sites in Egypt and Sudan.\nAbout ARCE-NC:\nFor more information\, please visit https://facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE/\, https://arce-nc.org/\, 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/making-millions-of-pots-how-the-cult-in-ancient-egypt-met-its-demand-for-pottery/ CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/M.Brand_ImageforLectureHR.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220313T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220313T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20220207T190117Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220207T190117Z UID:10006292-1647183600-1647187200@www.archaeological.org SUMMARY:Visions of Ancient Egypt in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae 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 virtual lecture by Dr. Carly Maris\, University of San Diego:\n“Visions of Ancient Egypt in Athenaeus’ Deipnosophistae” \nSunday\, March 13\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time \nZoom Lecture. 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\, March 11. Registrations are cut off at our attendance limit\, so the sooner you register\, the better. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity \nAbout the Lecture:\nThe Deipnosophistae is a late second- to early third-century CE dialogue written by grammarian Athenaeus of Naucratis. The text follows the style and themes of Plato’s Symposium\, presenting an imaginary conversation between philosophers that takes place during a Roman banquet. Scholars have found value in the Deipnosophistae for its inclusion of lengthy quotations from earlier Greek texts that have otherwise been lost. It provides key insight as to the historical resources and documents available to the educated classes during the height of the Roman Empire. Included in the Deipnosophistae are multiple historical accounts of Egypt–including descriptions of its geography and climate\, the history of Egyptian wine\, and stories about various rulers (including a description of a massive parade during the reign of Ptolemy Philadelphus). My talk will focus on how Athenaeus viewed the ancient Egyptian past\, and will place this in context with broader visions of Ancient Egypt during the Roman Empire. \nAbout the Speaker:\nDr. Carly Maris is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of San Diego. Her research looks broadly at Western perceptions of the East\, and explores how Near Eastern culture influenced the Roman empire. She is currently working on a book titled Parades of Antiquity\, in which she explores the history of imperial parades in the Near East\, and how they impacted the spectacle of Roman triumphal parades up through the early Byzantine period. URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/visions-of-ancient-egypt-in-athenaeus-deipnosophistae/ CATEGORIES:Lecture ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220206T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220206T160000 DTSTAMP:20260417T002315 CREATED:20220124T145853Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220124T145853Z UID:10006266-1644159600-1644163200@www.archaeological.org SUMMARY:The Human Remains from the First Dynasty Subsidiary Burials at Abydos 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 virtual lecture by Dr. Roselyn A. Campbell\, Getty Research Institute: \nThe Human Remains from the First Dynasty Subsidiary Burials at Abydos \nWhen: Sunday\, February 6\, 2022\, 3 PM Pacific Time \nZoom Lecture. 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. Attendance is limited\, so non-members\, please send any registration requests no later than Friday\, February 4. \nGlenn Meyer\nARCE-NC ePublicity \nAbout the Lecture: \nThe subsidiary burials surrounding the royal funerary complexes of the First Dynasty rulers at Abydos have piqued scholarly and public interest for well over a century. These subsidiary burials\, sometimes numbering in the hundreds\, contained the remains of men and women who seem to have been associated with the royal court. The quality of the grave goods within some of these graves\, as well as statements by early excavators that most of the individuals interred were relatively young and seemed healthy\, have sparked debate among scholars. Were the individuals in these subsidiary graves killed in a sacrificial ritual to accompany their deceased ruler into the afterlife\, or were they simply interred around the royal burial as they died naturally over time? This talk will explore new data gathered from a study of the human remains that have been preserved from some of these subsidiary burials\, shedding new light on the lives and deaths of these individuals at the birth of the Egyptian state. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Roselyn A. Campbell is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles\, California. She is a bioarchaeologist and Egyptologist\, and has worked at archaeological sites throughout Egypt as well as in Peru\, Ethiopia\, Spain\, and the western United States. Her research focuses on evidence for violence and trauma in the past\, as well as the history of cancer in antiquity\, and how these topics are relevant to the modern world. URL:https://www.archaeological.org/event/the-human-remains-from-the-first-dynasty-subsidiary-burials-at-abydos/ CATEGORIES:Lecture ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.archaeological.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/640px-Umm_el-Qaab.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Glenn Meyer":MAILTO:arcencZoom@gmail.com END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR