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UPCOMING GUEST
LECTURES
Unless otherwise indicated, all lectures will be held in
the Benjamin
T. Rome Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International
Studies, 1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC (Dupont
Circle
Metro stop).
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Winter - Spring 2008 Lecture Schedule (A
few
weeks
before
each lecture,
more information will be posted on the speaker and lecture
subject)
Friday, May
2,
2008, 6:30 P.M.
Salima Ikram
Professor of
Egyptology
American University in Cairo
Location:
Benjamin T. Rome Auditorium of the Johns Hopkins
School
of Advanced International Studies, 1619 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC
"Ancient
Egyptian Food and Drink"
Food can be
said to be a driving force in forming a culture and identifying a
people. This
lecture deals with the raw materials available to the ancient Egyptians
that
could have been used as food, and focuses on what the Egyptians ate at
every
level of society.
Suggested
Bibliography: Ikram, S. ‘Food for
Eternity’ two parts, KMT: A
Modern
Journal of Egyptology
5.1 (24-33)
and 5.2 (53-60; 75-77), 1994. Wilson, H. Ancient Egyptian Food.
Dr.
Salima Ikram
is Professor of Egyptology at the American
University in Cairo,
and has worked in Egypt
since 1986. She has lived in Pakistan, the US, UK
and Egypt. After obtaining her AB (History; Classical
and Near Eastern Archaeology) at Bryn Mawr College (USA), she got her
M. Phil.
(in Museology and Egyptian Archaeology) and Ph.D. (in Egyptian
archaeology)
from Cambridge
University.
She has directed the Animal
Mummy Project, co-directed the Predynastic Gallery project, and is
Co-director
of the North Kharga Oasis Survey. Dr.
Ikram has worked on several excavations in Egypt
as well as in the Sudan,
Greece, and Turkey. Her primary interests are death, daily life,
archaeozoology, ethnoarchaeology, experimental archaeology, and the
preservation and presentation of cultural heritage. She
has lectured on these and other subjects
all over the world.
Dr. Ikram has
written several books (for adults and children) and articles, with
subject
matters ranging from mummification to the eating habits of the ancient
Egyptians. She has also appeared on numerous television programs on
Ancient
Egypt.
Annual
ARCE-DC Workshop
Saturday,
May 3, 2008, 9:30 AM-3:30 PM
Salima Ikram
Professor of Egyptology
American University in Cairo
Location: Walters Art Museum, 5
West Mt. Vernon Place, Baltimore, MD
“Beauty
in Ancient Egypt”
(Ideals
of Beauty in Life and Death in Ancient Egypt, with some
Experimentation)
Check
our “What’s New?”
webpage for details and directions.
All lectures are free and open to the
public. Please come and bring guests.
This page was last updated on March 28, 2008.
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