Saturday, February 21, 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

This Public Symposium is co-sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of ARCE and the Oriental Institute.

The day of talks illuminates the life and death of Meresamun, a Singer in the Interior of the Temple of Amun at Karnak in about 800 BC, who is the focus of an exhibit at the Oriental Institute Museum from February 10 through December 6, 2009. Lecture topics include the historical and cultural setting of Meresamun's Egypt, her duties in the temple, women's occupations and their legal/social rights, and information about the mummy obtained with the newest CT technology.

Speakers include exhibit curator Emily Teeter; Janet H. Johnson, co-editor of the exhibit catalogue and the Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor of Egyptology at the Oriental Institute; Hratch Papazian, Lecturer in Egyptology at the Oriental Institute; and Dr. Michael Vannier, Professor of Radiology at the University of Chicago Medical Center and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Computer Aided Radiology and Surgery.

Cost is $47 for ARCE and Oriental Institute members, $57 for non-members. For further information on the schedule call 773 702 9507, or on the web, (eteeter@uchicago.edu) or 773 702 1062.