Chapter Events

Chapter Events

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.

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