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May 2012

CAIRO LECTURE: Imperial Justice in Cairo: Court-Patron Relations and the Founding of the Ottoman Courts of Egypt 1517-1550

Wednesday, May 30, 2012 6:00p.m.

Speaker: Shauna Huffaker, ARCE Fellow, University of Windsor, Canada

June 2012

LECTURE: Real or Fake? An Unpublished Automaton in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Saturday, June 2, 2012, 5:00 p.m.

Nicholas Reeves, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chapter: Illinois

LECTURE: The Art of Interior Design for the Afterlife: The Private Tomb of Menna on the West Bank of Luxor

Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 7:00 p.m.

Melinda Hartwig

Chapter: ARCE Northwest (Seattle)

LECTURE: Amenesmesse and the KV 63 and KV10 Project

Friday, June 15, 2012, 6:30 p.m.

Dr. Otto Schaden, University of Mississippi

Chapter: Washington DC

FIELD TRIP: Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum, San Bernardino: "Treasures from Ancient Egypt: Selections from the Permanent Collection"

Saturday, June 23, 2012, 1:30 p.m.- 3:30p.m.

Led by Egyptologists Elizabeth Waraksa and Jacco Dieleman

Chapter: Orange County California

August 2012

LECTURE: Death Along the Nile: Uncovering the Secrets of Egypt's Lost Tombs

Saturday, August 04, 2012, 1:30 p.m.

Dr. Suzanne Onstine, University of Memphis

Chapter: Orange County California

LECTURE: New Observations on Funerary Customs in the Old Kingdom

Saturday, August 4 , 2012, 5:00 p.m.

Dr. Teodozja Rzeuska, Institute for Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures; Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

Chapter: Illinois

September 2012

LECTURE: Mystery Tombs, the Mayor's House and the Pyramid of King Senwoseret III at South Abydos

Saturday, September 15, 2012, 1:30 p.m.

Dr. Joe Wegner, University of Pennsylvania

Chapter: Orange County California, sponsored by Clinton and Carol Owen

October 2012

LECTURE: Edward William Lane and Ancient Egypt

Saturday, October 6 , 2012, 5:00 p.m.

Jason Thompson, Bates College

Chapter: Illinois

LECTURE: Update on the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III Project at the Colossi of Memnon in Luxor

Saturday, October 13, 2012, 1:30 p.m.

Dr. Hourig Sourouzian; Director, Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III Project

Chapter: Orange County California

November 2012

LECTURE: Bird Mummies from Ancient Egypt

Saturday, November 3 , 2012, 5:00 p.m.

Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer, The University of Chicago

Chapter: Illinois

December 2012

LECTURE: Religious Cults, Rituals and Beliefs in the Lives of Everyday Ancient Egyptians

Saturday, December 01, 2012, 1:30 p.m.

Dr. Emily Teeter, Egyptologist and Assistant Curator of the Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago

Chapter: Orange County California

EVENT: Holiday Party and Chapter Fundraiser Auction

Saturday, December 8 , 2012

Holiday Party and Chapter Fundraiser Auction

Chapter: Illinois

January 2013

CAIRO LECTURE: Beneath The Cosmopolitan Air: Towards A New Urban Social History of Tunis Under The Protectorate

1/18/2013

Beneath The Cosmopolitan Air: Towards A New Urban Social History of Tunis Under The Protectorate

Kyle Liston, Research Fellow, American Institute of Maghreb Studies

The American Research Center in Eygpt