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IEAA Events - Spring 2023

 

 

IEAA Events - Fall 2022

 

  • Seventeenth Annual William J. Murnane Memorial Lecture, Dr. Marc Gabolde - Thursday, December 15, 2022 at 6:00 p.m. CST (eEvent)
  • Special Tutankhamun Lecture, Dr. Peter J. Brand, "Tutankhamun’s Golden Journey to the Afterlife" - Friday, November 4, 2022
    Co-Sponsored by the Egyptology Graduate Student Assocation and the Tennessee Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt
    Click here for the link to the poster.
  • Sixth Annual IEAA Alumnae/Alumni Lecture, Dr. Mark Janzen - Thursday, October 27, 2022 at 7:00 PM
  • Special Lecture, Dr. Lorelei H. Corcoran, “Wonderful Things’: Decoding Tutankhamun’s Jewelry” - Thursday, October 20, 2022
    Co-Sponsored by the Egyptology Graduate Student Assocation and the Tennessee Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt
    Click here for the link to the poster.
  • IEAA Ancient Egypt Family Day on the Internet - Open through September 30, 2022 (this resource is no longer available)

 


Events for Spring 2023

Some of the events below will take place online. All programs are free, but online registration may be required.

Nineteenth Annual Legacy of Egypt Lecture (eEvent)

Credit: Laurie Thomas"Walking Among Pharaohs: George A. Reisner, Harvard's First Egyptologist."

A Public Lecture by Dr. Peter Der Manuelian

Date: Thursday, April 6, 2023
Time: 6:00 p.m. CDT
Location: Online - https://youtu.be/HWXtnDAy6CY
This lecture will remain on Youtube after its premiere.


Dr. Peter Der Manuelian is the Barbara Bell Professor of Egyptology in both the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and Anthropology at Harvard University and Director of the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. He is also the founding director of the Giza Archives Project, an indispensable research tool for the study of the Old Kingdom, which collects and presents online public access to all past and present records of archaeological activity at the Giza Pyramids plateau.

This lecture offers an introduction to Dr. Peter Der Manuelian's research and teaching interests that include a visualization and digital humanities approach to understanding the ancient world and to his most recent publication, Walking Among Pharaohs, George A. Reisner and the Dawn of Modern Egyptology (Oxford, 2022), a biography that draws upon the field notes, letters, maps and images of George Reisner, one of the giants in the early twentieth century archaeology of Egypt and Sudan. Reisner's finds while director of the Harvard University - Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expeditions made the Egyptian and Nubian collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, one of the most spectacular outside Egypt, although his personal views and published conclusions are a part of the colonialist past of the study of ancient Egypt that today faces increasing scrutiny. Please explore with us the past, present and future of the field of Egyptology and digital archaeology with this lecture by Dr. Peter Der Manuelian.

Click here for the link to the poster.

This online event is free and open to the public.

Special Food Lecture

Shahat"Social History of Food in Ancient Egypt Between Humanities and Life Sciences."

A Public Lecture by Dr. Amr Khalaf Shahat

Date: March 20, 2023
Time: 6:30 p.m. CST
Location: Mitchell Hall Auditorium (Room 200) and live on Zoom


Dr. Amr Khalaf Shahat is a postdoctoral researcher at Costen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on ancient Egyptian food remains that were placed as offerings in tombs and from settlements to understand cultural identities and cross-cultural interactions. He earned his doctorate at University of California Los Angeles and his Masters in the History Department at the University of Memphis.

The results of an interdisciplinary analysis using archaeobotany and isotopic methods on unpublished ancient Egyptian food remains from Nag ed Deir and Deir el Ballas will be presented. The food remains were excavated in the early 1900s by George Reisner and Albert Lythgoe. At Nag ed Deir, a beer mash was examined and Dr. Shahat was able to reconstruct the beer composition and recipe. He also employed a long isotope experiment to differentiate between local and imported plant food species which found the oldest known evidence for the use of pomogranate and domesticated watermelon in Egypt. The results of these two analyses allowed the social history of non-elite ancient Egyptian foodways to be reconstructed and the examination of cultural identities and cross-cultural interactions.

To join the Zoom Meeting, copy the link below at the time at the lecture:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83603140777?pwd=OFpvc2FpMXFTDF0VnBITWtUdGNXdz09

Click here for the link to the poster.

For those attending in-person, pay parking ($3.00 per hour) is available in the adjacent Zach Curlin garage.

 

Events for Fall 2022

 

Seventeenth Annual William J. Murnane Memorial Lecture

Gabolde"Ay's Temple for Tutankhamun at Thebes."

A Virtual Public Lecture by Dr. Marc Gabolde

Date: December 15, 2022
Time: 6:00 p.m. CST
Location: Online - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5QlY5SPbts 
This lecture will remain on YouTube after its premiere.


Dr. Marc Gabolde is Professor of Egyptology at Paul-Valéry University – Montpellier III, Montpellier, France. He is a member of the Nilotic and Mediterranean Egypt team in the Archeology of Mediterranean societies unit. He currently is working on completing a Study of the Temples of Karnak and publication of the Tutankhamun memorial built by Ay.

Dr. Gabolde will present a chronological survey of the study of the decorated blocks recovered mainly from the Second Pylon at Karnak Temple in Luxor that formed the basis of his decades-long study and propose his reconstruction of a temple (funerary or memorial?) at Thebes (East or West?) built by King Ay to honor his predecessor, Tutankhamun.

Professor Gabolde, a renowned expert on the Amarna period, is a former scientific member of the French Archaeological Institute in Cairo, a former member and director of the excavations of the Royal Valley at the site of Amarna. He has conducted missions at Karnak, the Valley of the Queens, Tell el-Amarna, Balat and Tebtunis. His current research focus is on the late 18th dynasty and is the author of over one hundred contributions to the study of Egyptology, both in English and French.

This online event is free and open to the public.

Special Tutankhamun Lecture

Brand

"Tutankhamun’s Golden Journey to the Afterlife"


A Public Lecture by Dr. Peter J. Brand

Date: Friday, November 4, 2022
Lecture: 7:00 PM CST
Public Reception: 6:30 PM CST
Location: Fountain View Suite (University Center Room 350) and live on Zoom

On the centenary of the discovery of his tomb on November 4th, 1922, we will explore Tutankhamun’s journey into the afterlife through his spectacular burial treasures: golden coffins, gold death mask, jewelry, and other sacred objects placed on and around his mummy to ensure his body’s preservation and his spirit’s rebirth in the Egyptian Underworld. This golden horde of priceless artifacts represent the summit of Egyptian artistry and offer unique insight into how this ancient civilization prepared their kings for the journey to the beyond.

Peter J. Brand (Ph.D., University of Toronto) is an Egyptologist specializing in history, art, language, and epigraphy. His research examines the history and culture of New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1550-1100 BCE), especially the Ramesside Period. He has authored four books and dozens of articles on Egyptian kingship, monumental construction, popular religion, warfare, and diplomacy. Professor Brand teaches in the History Department at The University of Memphis (TN) and is the Director of the Karnak Great Hypostyle Hall Project, a joint endeavor of The University of Memphis and the Université de Québec à Montréal. The Project is recording, conserving, and interpreting hundreds of scenes and hieroglyphic texts carved on the Hall’s walls and its forest of 134 giant columns. Professor Brand often appears in documentaries for the History Channel, Discovery, and National Geographic. His forthcoming book Ramesses II: Egypt’s Ultimate Pharaoh, is a new biography of this celebrated pharaoh.

To join the Zoom Meeting, copy the link below at the time at the lecture:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83049421063?pwd=YXl2WXc2NkhmSVN2NVFCN1ZFdGh5QT09

Meeting ID: 830 4942 1063
Passcode: 341311

Click here for the link to the poster.

For more information, contact Daniel Warne (dmwarne@memphis.edu).

For those attending in-person, pay parking ($3.00 per hour) is available in the adjacent Zach Curlin garage.

Sixth Annual IEAA Alumnae/Alumni Lecture

Mark Janzen

"Merenptah or Ramesses II: Who Commissioned the Battle Reliefs at Karnak Temple?"


A Public Lecture by Dr. Mark Janzen

Date: Thursday, October 27, 2022
Lecture: 7:00 PM CST
Reception: 6:15 PM CST
Location: Fountain View Suite (University Center Room 350)  

Mark Janzen, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Archaeology and Ancient History at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN. He will present the results of his team’s recent fieldwork at Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt. Dr. Janzen earned his doctorate in the Department of History at the University of Memphis in 2013. 

Following Ramesses II’s sixty-seven-year rule, his son, Merenptah, succeeded Ramesses to the throne. Ramesses had already decorated most of the walls of the great temple of Amun at Karnak leaving only a few potential locations for his son to embellish. On a corner wall, next to where the first peace treaty in history is carved, celebrating the self-claimed victory of Ramesses II over the Hittites at the Battle of Qadesh, is a series of scenes of battles at fortified towns.  During four seasons of epigraphic fieldwork, conducted under the auspices of the Great Hypostyle Hall Project of the University of Memphis and under the supervision of Dr. Janzen, scientific examination and reproduction of these scenes has revealed that although the name of Ramesses II survives in a text at the top of the wall, Merenptah was responsible for these battle reliefs. This lecture will expand on the project’s research since 2016 and discuss its future goals.

Dr. Janzen received his PhD in History, with a concentration in Ancient History (Egyptology), at the University of Memphis in 2013. His dissertation focused on the depiction and treatment of foreign captives as represented in the New Kingdom.  Dr. Janzen has lectured and published on his work using photogrammetry and sociospatial analyses to interpret Egyptian history.

For more information, contact Dr. Lorelei H. Corcoran (lcorcorn@memphis.edu) or call the IEAA at 901.678.2555.

Pay parking ($3.00 per hour) is available in the adjacent Zach Curlin garage.

Ancient Egypt Family Day on the Internet

AnubisComing to a computer near you! 


Join us for a fun and FREE online public event with lots of fun and interesting activities for all!

Content will be available from April 18 through September 30, 2022. (This resource is no longer available.)

This year we also have links to resources for educators and parents.