The American Research Center in Eygpt
Chapter Events

Chapter Events

January 2009

LECTURE: The Transformation of the Cult of the Dead of the 22nd Dynasty in Thebes
Wednesday, January 21, 6:30 p.m.

Dr. Lisa Swart
Chapter: Pennsylvania

LECTURE: Ancient Wonder - The Fayum
Friday, January 23, 7:00 p.m.

Dr. Willeke Wendrich, UCLA
Chapter: North Texas

LECTURE: The Girga Road - Abu Ziyâr, Tundaba, and the Integration of the Southern Oases into the Pharaonic State
Friday, January 23, 6:30 p.m.

John Coleman Darnell, Yale University
Chapter: Washington, D.C.

LECTURE: Hatshepsut and Her Female Ancestors
Sunday, January 25, 2:00 p.m.

Dr. Catharine H. Roehrig, Curator, Deptartment of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chapter: New York

LECTURE: Sex, Lies, and Ostraca - A New Look at the Foreman Paneb
Sunday, January 25, 2:30 p.m.

Al Berens, Independent Scholar
Chapter: Northern California

POSTPONED - CHAPTER EVENT: Arizona Chapter Book Club
POSTPONED

Arizona Chapter members only
Chapter: Arizona

February 2009

LECTURE: Hathor - Egypt's Golden Goddess
Thursday, February 12, 6:00 p.m.

Dr. Suzanne Onstine, University of Memphis
Chapter: Arizona

LECTURE: Glassmaking in Ancient Egypt
Friday, February 20, 6:30 p.m.

Susan Auth, The Newark Museum
Chapter: Washington, D.C.

PUBLIC SYMPOSIUM: A Mummy Comes to Life - Science and Art Resurrect an Ancient Egyptian Priestess
Saturday, February 21, 9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Various speakers
Co-sponsored by the Chicago Chapter of ARCE and the Oriental Institute

LECTURE: The Unification of Egypt - A View From a Backwater Town
Sunday, February 22, 2:30 p.m.

Dr. Pat Podzorski, University of Memphis
Chapter: Northern California

LECTURE: Earliest Ancient Egypt, A Field Report from the Fayum
Saturday, February 28, 1:30 p.m.

Dr. Willeke Wendrich, UCLA
Chapter: Orange County, California

March 2009

LECTURE: Restoration of Islamic Cairo
Wednesday, March 4, 7:30 p.m.
Caroline Williams, College of William and Mary
Chapter: Oregon
LECTURE: Battle of Kadesh, Directional Theory re. Battle Reliefs
Tuesday , March 10, 5:30 p.m.

Dr. Gonzalo Sanchez, Chapter President ARCE-AZ
Chapter: Arizona

LECTURE: "Living Forever in Ancient Egypt," Annual Korsyn Fund Lecture
Wednesday, March 11, 6:30 p.m.

Dr. Edward Bleiberg, Brooklyn Museum
Chapter: Pennsylvania

LECTURE: From Beit el-Wali to Abu Simbel - Reshaping the Ritual Landscape of Lower Nubia During the Reign of Ramesses II
Friday, March 20, 6:30 p.m.

Martina Ullman, Yale University
Chapter: Washington, D.C.

LECTURE: Sexism in the Temple? Woman and the Religious Hierarchy of Ancient Egypt
Saturday, March 21, 1:30 p.m.

Dr. Suzanne Onstine, University of Memphis, TN
Chapter: Orange County, California

SEMINAR: Mysterious Abydos - Eternal City
Saturday, March 21, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Dr. Jennifer Wegner and Dr. Josef Wegner
Chapter: North Texas

LECTURE: Theban Tomb 16, The Tomb of Two Ramesside Chanters
Sunday, March 22, 2:30 p.m.

Dr. Suzanne Onstine, University of Memphis, TN
Chapter: Northern California

LECTURE: Discoveries in TT 16 - The Tomb of Panehsy, Overseer of Chanters
Tuesday, March 24, 7:30 p.m.
Suzanne Onstine, University of Memphis, TN
Chapter: Oregon

April 2009

LECTURE: Creation Myths in Ancient Egypt
Thursday, April 16, 6:30 p.m.

Dr. Regine Schulz, Walters Art Museum
Chapter: Pennsylvania

LECTURE: Beyond the Pyramids - the later years of the Memphite Necropolis
Friday, April 17, 6:30 p.m.

Aidan Dodson, University of Bristol, UK
Chapter: Washington, D.C.

LECTURE: Hidden Thebes
Saturday, April 18, 11:00 a.m.

Dr. Edwin "Ted" Brock
Chapter: Orange County, California

LECTURE: Sunset - The End of the Amarna Period
Sunday, April 19, 2:30 p.m.

Dr. Aidan Dodson, Bristol University
Chapter: Northern California

LECTURE: Hidden Thebes - New Discoveries from Pharaonic, Roman, and Medieval Luxor
Tuesday, April 21, 7:30 p.m.
Edwin “Ted” Brock, American University of Cairo
Chapter: Oregon

May 2009

LECTURE: Roman Paintings in the Luxor Temple
Thursday, May 14, 6:30 p.m.

Dr. Susan Auth, Newark Museum
Chapter: Pennsylvania

WORKSHOP: The Language and Culture of Hieroglyphs
Saturday, May 16, 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Dr. Elizabeth Waraksa
Chapter: Orange County, California

June 2009

LECTURE: When History Collides with Hollywood - Anecdotes from the Egyptologist to the Hollywood Studios
Saturday, June 13, 1:30 p.m.

Dr. Stuart Smith, UCSB, Anthropology Department
Chapter: Orange County, California

LECTURE: NYU Excavations at Amheida in Egypt
Wednesday, June 17, 6:00 p.m.

Dr. Roger S. Bagnall, Director, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
Chapter: New York

LECTURE: The Tomb of Menna Project
Saturday, June 20, 7:00 p.m.

Dr. Melinda Hartwig, Georgia State University
Chapter: North Texas

MOVIE AND LECTURE: The Egyptian
Saturday, June 20, 4:00 p.m.

Melinda Nelson-Hurst, University of Pennsylvania
Chapter: Pennsylvania

July 2009

LECTURE: George Andrew Reisner and American Archeology in Egypt
Saturday, July 11, 5:00 p.m.

Peter Lacovara, Curator of Ancient Art, the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta
Chapter: Illinois

LECTURE: Archaeological Techniques at the Lost Cities of the Pyramid Workers
Saturday, July 18, 1:00 p.m.

Mohsen Kamel, Joint Field Director, Ancient Egypt Research Associates, Giza, Egypt, PhD Candidate, UCLA
Chapter: Orange County, California

LECTURE: How to CT Scan a Mummy
Saturday, July 18, 7:00 p.m.

Dr. Sandra Oldham, University of Texas Medical Center - Houston
Chapter: North Texas

August 2009

LECTURE: August Lecture
Saturday, August 1

To be announced
Chapter: Illinois

LECTURE: Geology of Egypt - Temples, Vessels and Jewelry
Saturday, August 15, 7:00 p.m.

Dr. Clair Ossian, Tarrant County College and President North Texas Chapter of ARCE
Chapter: North Texas

LECTURE: A Visit to Malqata, the Palace of Pharaoh Amenhotep III, West Bank, Thebes
Saturday, August 22, 1:30 p.m.

Dr. Diana Craig Patch, Assistant Curator of Egyptian Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chapter: Orange County, California

September 2009

LECTURE: Preliminary Report on the ARCE/Epigraphic Survey, Oriental Institute Reused Block Epigraphic Project at Khonsu Temple in Karnak, 2008-09
Saturday, September 12, 5:00 p.m.

J. Brett McClain, Senior Epigrapher, The Epigraphic Survey of the Oriental Institute
Chapter: Illinois

LECTURE: Creation and Cosmology in Ancient Egypt
Friday, September 18, 6:30 p.m.

Dr. Regine Schulz, The Walters Art Museum
Chapter: Washington, D.C.

RADIO: An interview with Penny Clifford Mazer about ARCE
Friday, September 18, 8:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m.; Saturday, September 19, 7:00 p.m.

Penny Clifford Mazer, Egyptologist
Chapter: Arizona

LECTURE: Excavations in the Sinai
Saturday, September 19, 7:00 p.m.

Dr. James Hoffmeier, Trinity International University
Chapter: North Texas

SYMPOSIUM: Ancient Abydos - From Egypts First Pharaohs to its Last Pyramid
Saturday, September 19, 9:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Speakers include Dr. David O'Connor, Dr. Matthew Adams, Dr. Janet Richards, Dr. Josef Wegner, and Dr. Stephen Harvey
Chapter: Pennsylvania

LECTURE: South Asasif Tombs Project
Tuesday, September 22, 5:30 p.m.

Dr. Elena Pischikova, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chapter: Arizona

LECTURE: The Mystery of Tutankhamen's Death
Tuesday, September 22nd, 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Benson Harer, M.D.
Chapter: Oregon
LECTURE: How Napoleon Invented Egyptology with the Mother of All Coffee Table Books
Saturday, September 26, 1:30 p.m.

Dr. Ben Harer
Chapter: Orange County, California

October 2009

LECTURE: War and Peace in the Bronze Age: Ramesses II and the Hittite Empire
Saturday, October 3, 4:30 p.m.

Peter J. Brand, University of Memphis
Chapter: Pennsylvania

WORKSHOP: The Language & Culture of Hieroglyphs
Saturday, October 3, Noon - 4:00 p.m.

Dr. Elizabeth Waraksa, UCLA
Chapter: Orange County, California

WORKSHOP: Ancient Egyptian Pyramids 101
Saturday, October 10, 1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Leslie Anne Warden, University of Pennsylvania PhD Candidate
Chapter: Pennsylvania

LECTURE: King Tut's Medicine Cabinet
Saturday, October 17, 1:30 p.m.

Dr. Lise Manniche, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Chapter: Orange County, California

EXHIBIT: The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC
Sunday, October 18 - May 16, 2009

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Chapter: Illinois

LECTURE: King Tut Medicine Cabinet
Sunday, October 18, 2009, 2:30 p.m.

Dr. Lisa Manniche, University of Copenhagen
Chapter: Northern California

DOCUMENTARY: When the Egyptians Sailed on the Red Sea
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Boston University, College of Arts and Sciences, Room 224, 705 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
Chapter: Illinois

LECTURE: King Tutankhamun's Medicine Cabinet
Wednesday, October 21, 7:30 p.m.
Dr. Lise Maniche, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Chapter: Oregon
LECTURE: Solving the Mystery of King Tut's Death
Friday, October 23, 6:30 p.m.

Ben Harer, Physician and Independent Scholar
Chapter: Washington, D.C.

November 2009

LECTURE: Notes on a Scattered Cemetery: The Three Metropolitan Museum Mastaba Chapels in Context
Saturday, November 7, Chapter Meeting 4:30 p.m., Program 5:00 p.m.

Ann Macy Roth, Clinical Associate Professor in the Departments of Art History and Hebrew & Judaic Studies at New York University
Chapter: Illinois

TOUR: The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC
Saturday, November 7, Starts at 3:00 p.m.

Dr. Lawrence Berman, Norma Jean Calderwood Senior Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Easter Art
Chapter: Pennsylvania

LECTURE: Greco-Egyptian Magic. The Dark Side of Egyptian Magical Ritual
Saturday, November 14, 1:30 p.m.

Dr. Jacco Dieleman, UCLA
Chapter: Orange County, California

LECTURE: Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt's Nobel Laureate in Literature: A Retrospect
Saturday, November 14, 3:30 p.m.

Dr. Roger Allen, University of Pennsylvania
Chapter: Pennsylvania

LECTURE: A Landscape of People and Politics: The Abydos Middle Cemetery Project
Sunday, November 15 2009, 2:30 p.m.

Dr. Janet Richards, University of Michigan
Chapter: Northern California

EXHIBITION: Mersa/Wadi Gawasis: A Pharaonic Harbor on the Red Sea
November 19 - December 31, 2009; ARCE Chapter Tour, November 7, 3:00 p.m.

Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt

LECTURE: From the Benben stone to Cleopatra's Needle
Friday, November 20, 6:30 p.m.

Matthias Seidel, The Walters Art Museum and Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Chapter: Washington, D.C.

December 2009

LECTURE: Landscapes of Memory - Pharaonic Egypt in the Coptic Imagination
Friday, December 4, 6:30 p.m.

Jennifer Westerfeld, University of Chicago
Chapter: Washington, D.C.

CANCELLED Seminar: Interpreting Amarna, the Reign of the Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten
Saturday, December 5, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Drs. Donald and Susan Redford, Pennsylvania State University
Chapter: Orange County, California

LECTURE: Symbols of Sexual Rebirth: Aspects of Mondey Vessels
Saturday, December 5, 5:00 p.m. Followed by Potluck Holiday Party

Courtney Kleinschmidt-Jacobson, University of Chicago
Chapter: Illinois

LECTURES: The Tale of Two Tombs - Fieldwork in the Theban Necropolis/New Discoveries in the Nile Delta - The Site of Mendes
Sunday, December 6 2009, 1:30 p.m. NOTE SPECIAL TIME

Susan Redford and Dr. Donald Redford from Pennsylvania State University
Chapter: Northern California

LECTURE: A Word to the Wise: Onchsheshonqy meets Poor Richard
Saturday, December 12, 2009, 2pm

Dr. Jennifer Houser Wegner, University of Pennsylvania
Chapter: Pennsylvania

LECTURE: Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets
Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 6:00 p.m.

Dr. Yekaterina Barbash, Assistant Curator of Egyptian Art at the Brooklyn Museum
Chapter: New York

US Office: 8700 Crownhill Blvd. Suite 507 San Antonio, Texas 78209-1130 p: 210.821.7000 e:info@arce.org
ARCE Cairo Center: 2 Midan Simón Bolívar Garden City Cairo 11461 Egypt p: 20 2 2794 8239 e:cairo@arce.org

ARCE is a 501(c)(3) organization
 
United States Agency for International Development   National Endowment for the Humanities   Council of American Overseas Research Centers   Network for Good   GuideStar"
Copyright 2012 ARCE