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UPCOMING LECTURES & SEMINARS

7th Annual Wepwaut in Westwood
Ancient Egypt at UCLA
"Visual Archaeology: From Bar Graph to Virtual Reality"

Saturday April 12th, 2008 1:00-5:00 pm
Lenart Auditorium at the Fowler Museum on UCLA

Information Flyer (.pdf)

 

NEWS

The library received a large donation of valuable Egyptologymaterials fr om Mrs. Margaret Hanley of Novato, CA, the widow of the Egyptologist Dieter Mueller. The collection consists of over 1000 volumes of archaeological and philological books and journals in the field of Egyptology. This wealth of materials will be a great addition to theUCLA collections and a valuable resource for faculty and graduate students in UCLA's burgeoning Egyptology program.

The library and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures are extremely grateful to Mrs. Hanley for choosing UCLA as the repository for this important collection.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Mohsen Kamel
UCLA graduate student Mohsen Kamel has been appointed director of the Field School for Inspectors of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, organized by the Giza Plateau Mapping Project from January 20 - March 20, 2005.

Amber Myers
UCLA graduate student Amber Myers is currently working as an administrative and research assistant for LACMA, specifically assisting with the exhibition Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs as well as with the museum's permanent Egyptian collections. Among other tasks, this includes press relations, docent training and assisting with the installation of the artifacts for the Tutankhamun exhibition.

 

PAST LECTURES & SEMINARS

Dr. Willeke Wendrich
Associate Professor, Egyptian Archaeology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Editor-in-Chief UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE)
and students present:

The Karnak Temple Complex

Saturday, January 26, 2008
1:30 pm, FREE
Bowers Museum - Norma Kershaw Auditorium
2002 N. Main Street
Santa Ana, CA 92706

Additional Lectures on ancient Egypt at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana: http://www.bowers.org/mummies/events.html

ARCE Lectures sponsored by The Orange County Public Library presents
Elizabeth A. Waraksa, Ph.D.
speaking on
Female Figurines as Ritual Objects:
"New finds from the Mut Precinct, Karnak"
Sunday, September 16, 2007
The Heritage Park Regional Library
14361 Yale Avenue
Irvine, CA 92604
Near the corner of Walnut and Yale, close to the I-5 Freeway between Culver and Jeffrey.
Telephone (949) 936-4040

UCLA Egyptology hosts for the ninth time
The Saint Shenouda Conference of Coptic
Studies
Friday - Saturday 13-14 July, 2007
Royce Hall, Room 314 at UCLA

For full program and directions, see
http://www.stshenouda.com

You may register at
http://www.stshenouda.com
Walk-ins are most welcome.

6th Annual Wepwaut in Westwood
Ancient Egypt at UCLA
Saturday May 19th, 2007 1:00-5:00 pm
Lenart Auditorium at the Fowler Museum on UCLA
Learn more about the Temple of Amun and see the newest 3-D model of Karnak
Information Flyer (.pdf)
Program (.doc)

The fifth edition of
Wepwaut in Westwood

April 15, 2006
11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Lenart Auditorium
(below the Fowler Museum)

Ancient Egyptian Technology

This will be another fascinating afternoon. UCLA students will present their projects, consisting of an experiment related to an aspect of ancient technology, and the questions raised during their investigations.

Subjects include Armor, Jewelry, Make-up, Metal, Mummification, Perfume, Pigments and Throwing sticks.

Now is your chance to see, hear, smell and feel a little bit of Ancient Egypt…

Entrance free. Parking $ 8
(Parking lot 4, off Sunset Blvd., crossing with Westwood)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Ancient Egypt:

The UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology

On March 25, 2006 from 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm five eminent Egyptologists will showcase the breadth and depth of Egyptology. John Baines (Oxford University, UK), Joris F. Borghouts (Leiden University, The Netherlands), Fayza Haikal (American University Cairo, Egypt), Janet H. Johnson (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago) and Alain Zivie (CNRS, Paris) are visiting UCLA. This public lecture program marks the official start of the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology.

Place: Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Building
Free entrance, parking in Sunset parking (structure 4) for $7.00

 Program:
1:00 – 1:30    Willeke Wendrich
                        Introduction: the UCLA Encyclopedia of
                           Egyptology
1:30 – 2:00    Alain Zivie
                        The rediscovery of the New Kingdom "Nobles                            Tombs" in the Saqqara Necropolis
2:00 – 2:30    John Baines
                        How did different social groups communicate                            with one another in ancient Egypt?
2:30 - 3:00     Joris F. Borghouts
                        The evil character of Apopis: magic, ritual, and                             Book of the Dead
3:30 – 4:00    Janet Johnson
                        Philae, Nubia and Isis; Rome, Meroe and                            Christianity
4:00 – 4:30    Fayza Haikal
                        Ethno-Egyptology and Cultural Continuity in
                           Egypt
4:30 – 5:00    Brief notes by Jacco Dieleman, Willem                            Hovestreydt, Noel Schweitzer

5:00 Reception offered by the Egypt Exploration Organization Southern California and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

 

TREASURES FROM A VILLAGE IN ROMAN EGYPT

March 30, 2006 from 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
NELC Library - 3201 Hershey Hall

The small Egyptian town of Soknopaiou Nesos at the northern shore of the Fayum lake has yielded a large number of papyri from the Ptolemaic and, in particular, the Roman period. The Greek texts from this site are well published, but Egyptologists have only recently begun to turn their attention to the many texts in Demotic left unpublished. This is an exciting new trend, which promises to fill wide gaps in our understanding of life in Roman Egypt. Even though it will take several years before the material will be available to scholars, important discoveries with respect to native priestly life in Roman Egypt have already been made.

The presentation will discuss new insights into the daily dealings and concerns of village communities in Roman Egypt gained by the German research project “Documentary Texts from Soknopaiou Nesos”. We will also present an overview of the still largely unpublished literary and religious texts in Demotic and include a presentation of the prosopographical and topographical database currently under construction. The talk intends to demonstrate that Soknopaiou Nesos will provide the scholarly community with new and exciting material for many years to come.

Sandra Lippert is currently the curator of the Demotic papyri at the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, The Bancroft Library, of the University of California, Berkeley. In 2002 she completed her dissertation on a legal manual in Demotic at Würzburg University, Germany, which was published in 2004 under the title Ein demotisches juristisches Lehrbuch : Untersuchungen zu Papyrus Berlin P 23757 rto.

Maren Schentuleit teaches Egyptology at the University of Göttingen since 2004. In that same year she finished her dissertation on an account book of the famous Horus temple in Edfu (Würzburg University). Her edition of this lengthy and important document is hot off the press: Aus der Buchhaltung des Weinmagazins im Edfu-Tempel. Kommentierte Textedition des demotischen P.Carlsberg 409.(2006).

From 2000 to 2004 they collaborated in the DFG project “Documentary Texts from Soknopaiou Nesos” under the directorship of Kart-Th. Zauzich, Würzburg University, Germany. The results of this project are under way of publication.

The UCLA Department of Classics presents
Egyptians and Amazons: or the Production of Demotic and Graeco-Egyptian Literature in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
A Lecture by Jacco Dieleman, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, and Ian Moyer, Department of Classics

Thursday, March 9, 2006
5:00 pm
275 Dodd Hall
UCLA

The Coptic Studies Lecture Series @ UCLA presents
Christian Life in the Pharaonic City of the Dead: Western Thebes in the 6th-8th Centuries
A Lecture by Dr. Heike Behlmer
of Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

Monday, December 5, 2005
4:00-6:00pm
306 Royce Hall

This paper will discuss the reuse of the famous pharaonic cemeteries of ancient Thebes in the early Christian period. The what extent was the landscape reshaped under influence of Christian beliefs and what role did the pharaonic temples and tombs play in the minds of the early ascetics? The pharaonic city of the dead challenges us to rethink issues of contested space in Late Antiquity.

Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:30-3:00pm
Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana
Willeke Wendrich on "Flowing Robes and Skimpy Dresses in Ancient Egypt"

Sunday, June 26, 11:00am-3:30pm
Perloff Hall 1102, UCLA
The 4th Annual Wep Waut in Westwood, Ancient Egypt at UCLA
The Archaeology of Ritual: Ancient Egyptian Sun Cults
Open to the Public
For details see the Program

Saturday, May 21, 2005 1:30-3:00pm
Bowers Museum of Cultural Art in Santa Ana
Jacco Dieleman on "Ancient Egyptian Funerary Compostitions: Life through Text and Image"

Monday, March 21, 2005 10:00am
NELC library (3201 Hershey Hall)
The Department of NELC is pleased to present:
Janet H. Johnson
Morton D. Hull Distinguished Service Professor at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago with a seminar entitled
'Gender in ancient Egypt - The Cases of Wakh and Naunakhte'
for the graduate students of Egyptology.
Professor Johnson teaches Egyptology and is Director of the Demotic Dictionary Project at the Oriental Institute. She has published on a wide range of subjects, but her main interests are Egypt in the first millennium BCE and the position of women in ancient Egyptian society. Her work on gender issues in ancient Egypt is beyond doubt the most sophisticated work done so far in this area of research.

Sunday, April 17, 2005 9:00am
Lenart Auditiorium, Fowler Building
Willeke Wendrich on the 2004 Excavation season in the Fayum
at the UCLA Friends of Archaeology 18th Annual Symposium

Sunday May 23, 2004 12:00 - 5:00 pm
Lenart Auditorium, Fowler Building
A seminar organized by the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA
and the Egypt Exploration Organization SC
Sex and the City in Ancient Egypt:
Sexual relations, sensual signs and social significance.
Speakers are Lisa Manniche, Jacco Dieleman and Willeke Wendrich.
For details see the Program

 

SEMINAR UPDATE 

Saturday May 8, 10:00am-4:30pm
The Third Annual Wep Waut in Westwood, Ancient Egypt at UCLA
From Alexander to Cleopatra: the Archaeology of Ptolemaic Egypt
For details see the Program

 

Wep-waut in Westwood 2003, Ancient Egypt at UCLA
Amarna: City of Akhnaton and Tut-ankh-amun

Those of you that missed the program are invited to see the program.

Wep-waut in Westwood 2002, Ancient Egypt at UCLA
Ancient Egyptian Architecture and Use of Space

Our First Annual Wep-waut in Westwood Seminar was a overwhelming success. Many members of the Los Angeles community turned out for an enlightening public study day. The audience members were treated to an afternoon of lectures that highlighted different aspects of Ancient Egyptian architecture and use of space by a number of UCLA graduate students and guest speakers.