IEAA NEWS and INFORMATION

The Institute of Egyptian Art and Archaeology is a Tennessee Center of Excellence.  It is a component of the Department of Art at The University of Memphis, in Memphis, Tennessee (USA). The IEAA is dedicated to the study of the art, history and culture of ancient Egypt through teaching, research, exhibition, and community education.

Upcoming Events and Programs about Ancient Egypt for Spring 2010

Ancient Egypt is a always a popular topic in this city on the bluff overlooking the "American Nile" and Spring 2010 is no exception. 

For more information on these programs, visit the IEAA Events page, or select highlighted text in one of the events below.

Ancient Egypt Family Day with the Egyptian Institute at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis.

What do you get when you combine new experiences, engaging activities, and real objects from ancient Egypt?  A day of fun that just might also broaden your mind while your hands color, shape, and create projects inspired by the culture of ancient Egypt.

Coming February 20, 2010.

For more information about Ancient Egypt Family Day, click here.

Dr. Robert Ritner, Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago (Illinois), will speak at the University of Memphis in April 2010.

Dr. Ritner specializes in Roman, Hellenistic, Late and Third Intermediate Period (Libyan and Nubian) Egypt and is the author of The Libyan Anarchy. Inscriptions from Egypt's Third Intermediate Period (2009).  He has authored over 100 other publications on Egyptian religion, magic, medicine, language and literature, as well as social and political history.

The Egyptology Graduate Student Association of the University of Memphis will present its third annual Graduate Student Egyptology Conference this April.  The public is encouraged to attend this one-day event and experience some of the most current research in Egyptology.

The symposium is scheduled for Saturday, April 10, 2010.

Graduate students studying ancient Egypt at any institution are invited to submit an abstract for consideration for inclusion in this one-day symposium. Deadline for submission of abstracts is March 1, 2010.

Attendance at the colloquium is FREE and open to the PUBLIC.