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.
MUSEUM TOUR: Join Dr. Kara Cooney For an Interpreted Tour of "Excavating Egypt - Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Archaeology, London"
Saturday, January 24, 10:30 a.m.
Dr. Kara Cooney
Chapter: Orange County, California
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: Tutankhamun and The Sunshade of Princess Meretaten
Friday, March 20, 7:00 p.m.
Dr. Jennifer Wegner and Dr. Josef Wegner, University of Pennsylvania
Chapter: North Texas
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: Why Was the First Director of the Louvre Removed from Office at the Point of a Bayonet? (And, Why Does it Have Anything to Do with Ancient Egypt?)
Thursday, November 12, 5:30 p.m.
Donald Kunz
Chapter: Arizona
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
