ARCE-PA Celebrates 15 Years!
2005-2020
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2023 SPRING LECTURES
2023 Annual Korsyn Lecture
Saturday March 183:30 pm
Dr. Rune Nyord
Assistant Professor, Art History Department, Emory University
“No other satisfactory reason can be given”: The European discovery of the ancient Egyptian afterlife"
The modern understanding of the ancient Egyptians as bent on a quest for eternal life is the result of a long history of Western engagements with ancient Egypt. Associations like the preservation of bodies for eternity and initiation into religious mysteries interacted with textual sources of the Biblical and Classical traditions to shape images of the ancient culture that could be deployed in a variety of contexts for theological, philosophical, colonial, and other purposes. This lecture examines some key formative moments in this tradition, suggesting that many aspects of the modern understanding of Egyptian afterlife beliefs owe as much to the contemporary concerns of the milieus that helped shape them as to the ancient Egyptian sources that were only gradually becoming known as these ideas were crystalizing.
Free for ARCE-PA and ARCE members
General public: $10
LECTURES Spring 2023:
2023 Annual Korsyn Lecture
Saturday March 183:30 pm
Dr. Rune Nyord,
Assistant Professor, Art History Department, Emory University
“No other satisfactory reason can be given”: The European discovery of the ancient Egyptian afterlife"
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Saturday April 15Classroom L2
3:30 pm
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SUNDAY May 7, 2023
Classroom L2
In-Person Lecture
*Please note day change!*
Dr. Jessica Tomkins
Assistant Professor of History, Wofford College
“Rethinking Old Kingdom Kingship”
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June 10, 2023
ARCE-PA Symposium: Abydos
Dedicated to the memory of Dr. David O’Connor