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"Revenge of the Kushites!
Egyptianization, Cultural Entanglements, and the Emergence of the Nubian Pharaohs."
 Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will present a free public lecture on the evening of Friday, November 13, 2009.
Building on discoveries from his own fieldwork and earlier research, Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith will discuss how archaeological evidence from New Kingdom (c. 1550 - 1070 B.C.) Egyptian colonial sites and native Sudanese sites document the growth of a complex cultural and political dynamic between these two groups. Archaeological and textual materials produced both during and after the Egyptian occupation of ancient Nubia (modern southern Egypt and Sudan) will be reveal this dynamic and its profound impact on the rise and success of the Kushite Dynasty in the first millennium B.C.
Lecture: 7:00 p.m. 
Reception: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Manning Hall Auditorium, room 201
The University of Memphis Campus
The lecture and reception are
FREE and Open to the Public
Pay parking is available in the Zach Curlin Garage (PG-2 #3 on the parking map) or the Fogelman Garage (PG-1 #40).
Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith is professor of Anthropology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia provide the focus of his research. He is particularly interested in the dynamics of Egyptian imperialism and royal ideology, and the ethnic, social and economic dynamics of interaction between ancient Egypt and Nubia. He is also an active field archaeologist in both Egypt and Sudanese Nubia. He directs excavations at Third Cataract of the Nile in the cemetery of Tombos, discovering pyramids of the New Kingdom Egyptian and Nubian 25th Dynasty elites, and has just finished work at the Fourth Cataract, where he contributed to the Merowe Dam Salvage Project.
Dr. Smith received his Doctorate in Egyptology from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published three books and over three dozen popular and scholarly articles and reviews. In 1993, he took a break from the academic world and became the Egyptological Consultant on the MGM movie "Stargate," giving advice on the script, sets and costumes, and recreating spoken ancient Egyptian for about half the movie's dialog. He renewed his Hollywood connection in 1998 by consulting on the Universal remake of "The Mummy," and in 2000 for "The Mummy Returns."
For more information about Dr. Smith and his work, visit his web site at: http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/stsmith/
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The University of Memphis
Memphis, TN 38152-3380
Phone: (901) 678-2555
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