ARCE-PA Celebrates 15 Years! 

2005-2020

Welcome to the American Research Center in Egypt, Pennsylvania Chapter website. Here you can find information about the organization, learn about our membership options, find out about upcoming Egypt-themed events and more! To visit the American Research Center in Egypt National website please click here.

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2023 SPRING LECTURES

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2023 Annual Korsyn Lecture   

Saturday March 18
Classroom L2
3:30 pm 
 In-Person Lecture

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"

 
Abstract:
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.
 
Biography: 
Rune Nyord is Assistant Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art at Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (2022/23) in Washington, D.C. His research focuses on conceptions and experiences of representation, ontology, and personhood in ancient Egypt, especially as evidenced in ancient Egyptian funerary culture, as well as the history of Western engagements with ancient Egypt. He is the author of Breathing Flesh: Conceptions of the Body in the Ancient Egyptian Coffin Texts (Museum Tusculanum Press 2009) and Seeing perfection: Ancient Egyptian images beyond representation (Cambridge University Press 2020), and has edited and co-edited of several volumes, the most recent being Concepts in Middle Kingdom Funerary Culture (Brill 2019).


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In Person Lecture Information:
 
Registration is the day of the lecture only, at the entrance to the lecture room. Unless stated, we do not pre-register for in-person lectures.

Free for ARCE-PA and ARCE members
 
For all others pricing is as follows:
 General public: $10
 Penn Museum members and UPenn Staff & Faculty: $7
Students with ID (unless otherwise stated): $5


LECTURES Spring 2023: 

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2023 Annual Korsyn Lecture   

Saturday March 18
Classroom L2
3:30 pm 
 In-Person Lecture

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 15
Classroom L2
3:30 pm
TBA

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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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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