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National Park Services – Hispanic Heritage Month

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Archaeology This Month: Hispanic Heritage

Archeology This Month celebrates the diverse heritage of the United States and its connections around the world. Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15-October 15. Join us in exploring the rich archeological heritage of peoples of Spanish, Hispanic, and Latino origin.

Archeological sites reveal chapters of this heritage, from early exploration and commerce on the high seas, to the building of mission churches and disruption of Native peoples, to everyday life in families and communities. Look below to find places to go, things to do, and suggestions on ways to expand your understanding.

Here are some ideas to get you started:

Read about the archeology of American Latinos across the US.

Follow the footsteps:

Explore online activities from home:

  • Educational activities and lesson plans in English and Spanish: Lesson plans and activities on many different topics having to do with archeology. Use them to practice your Spanish if you’re learning the language, or to explore archeology if Spanish is your language of choice.
  • Latino Archeology for Kids: See different ways that archeological thinking can explore Latino heritage at sites across the US.
  • Junior Archeologist: Complete this Spanish translation of the Junior Archeologist activities and mail or email the completed pages to receive a patch.

Dig deeper to learn about Hispanic and Latino heritage:

  • Do you know why people call themselves Hispanic, Latino or Latina or Latinx, Tejano or Tejana, or Cubano? Each describes an identity, history, and heritage that is important to the person using it.
  • Learn a few archeology words in Spanish: arqueología, arqueóloga or arqueólogo, artefacto.
  • Get involved and volunteer, intern, and more at national park and partner sites representative of Hispanic heritage.

Hispanic Heritage Month at the Institute | An Interview with Dr. Jordi Rivera Prince

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Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 – October 15) at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World: An Interview with Dr. Jordi Rivera Prince

Note from the author: We recognize that the identities that make up “Latinidad” are complex. For the purposes of this interview, individuals who may identify as Latino/Latine/Latinx are referred to as “Latino(s)” unless otherwise specified by themselves. For more information on the origin of terms such as “Latinidad” and “Latinx,” please see this source by the University of Missouri’s Cambio Center. 

For Hispanic Heritage Month the Joukowsky Institute had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Jordi Rivera Prince (she/her/ella), a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Anthropology and a Faculty Fellow at the Joukowsky Institute. Rivera Prince is a bioarchaeologist and mortuary archaeologist with a specialty in the coastal Andes. Her research specialties include fishing communities, social inequality, critical knowledge production, and equity in archaeological practice. However, she did not start out wanting to be a bioarchaeologist: when she started her first semester of undergrad at University of Pennsylvania, she immediately declared a degree in Biological Anthropology. 

“I grew up when [the tv show] Bones was really popular, and I wanted to be Temperance Brennan [a forensic anthropologist],” Rivera Prince said, and recounted that she nearly finished all but one of her required credits by sophomore year. “I very much went into it!” When she graduated from UPenn, she received an internship with the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History working in their Physical Anthropology Section. It was on one of her first days on the job that she discovered a love for bioarchaeology; when present for the opening of individuals in cast iron coffins from Congressional Cemetery with the permission of their families, one of the Institution’s specialists who had done genealogical work showed Rivera Prince a photograph of the individual whose remains they were studying. 

“That blew my mind,” Rivera Prince said, “[with bioarchaeology] I liked it because you are asking questions about people and exploring those questions through human remains,” the material remains of the people themselves. She pursued a Fulbright Open Research Fellowship after her year-long work at the Smithsonian, traveling to Perú to work with the Facultad de Arqueología de la Universidad Nacional de Trujillo. In 2020 she got her Masters in Anthropology from University of Florida, where she eventually got a PhD. Her dissertation was a bioarchaeological study of Salinar cemetery in Huanchaco, Moche Valley, Perú (ca. 400-200 BCE). She documents the life of Salinar fishing communities following the collapse of the Chavín sphere of influence, and the emergence of social inequality in Peru. 

When asked about what drew her to this research, she reflects on how her childhood and culture impacts her work. Growing up ten minutes from the coast of Lake Michigan in the small town of Holland, Michigan, Rivera Prince’s life “has always been oriented towards water.” Her grandfather was a fisherman and taught her how to fish, and her family in the port city Acapulco, Mexico had instilled in her an appreciation for “how intimate water is in shaping worldviews.” 

Her upbringing affirmed her passion for “[making] sure what I do is legible to the communities I am researching.” As a part of this mission, she publishes work in both Spanish and English, and pursues community-based archaeological projects such as her work on the North Coast of Perú. Furthermore, knowledge sharing and visibility of archaeologists of color is an important tenet of her archaeological practice. Rivera Prince had “never met an archaeologist” until she was in college, and realized that the inequality of who gets to conduct archaeological research goes deeper than in the present. “You cannot understand inequality in the past without understanding how inequality in the present [impacts the discipline].” 

In the United States, approximately 5% of all doctorates awarded in archaeology go to individuals self-identified as Latino and US Citizens/residents, regardless of gender and race. (Rivera Prince 2024a; Rivera Prince 2024b) For Rivera Prince, a Mexican American woman of color, this lack of visibility in the discipline is something she is working to change. In her class ARCH 0500, Introduction to Anthropological Archaeology, she places an emphasis on teaching work by marginalized voices within the academic field. She exposes students new to the discipline to Indigenous Archaeologies, Black Feminist Archaeology, community archaeology, and much more. When asked why this is important to her, Rivera Prince replied: “I taught…all the things I wished I would have found sooner, I treated all of them as equal within the canon … if we want the discipline to grow and change for the better, this is something we can do within the classroom.” 

“I do really love teaching,” Rivera Prince said, stating one of the proudest moments of her career has been reading the reflections of students from her ARCH 0500 class. Many students expressed “they understood how archaeology could be used to help their communities, and [that] they see themselves in archaeology in a way they couldn’t beforehand.”  To her, that is a rewarding aspect of being an archaeologist. 

Currently, Dr. Rivera Prince is conducting a series of community based projects, such the North Burial Ground Documentation Project being co-run with the Director of North Burial Ground Annalisa Heppner. For more information on Dr. Jordi Rivera Prince’s current research, please visit her personal website. 

Written by Christina Miles (`25), Records and Collections Assistant at the JIAAW, and student of Anthropological Archaeology (A.B.) at Brown University. Christina studies mortuary landscapes and placemaking in Freedom Colonies of East Texas.

6th international Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium 2025

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The 6th Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium (MAGS) invites scholars of Maritime Archaeology and related sub-disciplines, whose studies focus on the eastern Mediterranean, to submit their abstract proposal. The symposium is organised by the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Ioannina and is sponsored by the Honor Frost Foundation (HFF) and the University of Ioannina. 

MAGS 2025 will take place over 4 days (2-5 April 2025) at he premises of the University of Ioannina and the amphitheatre “Dimitrios Glaros” of the International Centre of Hellenic Education “Stavros Niarchos”. In this MAGS, we welcome postgraduates and early career researchers to submit their papers focusing on the development, breakthroughs of research, and recent discoveries in Maritime Archaeology of the eastern Mediterranean region via interdisciplinary methods. For instance, the exploitation of tools offered by other sciences that can be applied in maritime contexts concerning the preservation and wider communication of the underwater and maritime cultural heritage, excavation and research of submerged sites, wrecks, reconstruction techniques, and so forth. 

Specifically, this symposium aims to explore and promote new methodological approaches and provide a safe, conducive environment for the discussion and research on this gradually developing field. Besides the main theme, the HHF remains a forum focused on progress and developments in Maritime Archaeology and will be open to the following themes:

  • Nautical and Harbour Archaeology
  • Maritime Networks and Social Interactions
  • Maritime Cultural Landscapes and Seafaring Communities
  • Geoarchaeology and Palaeoenvironments
  • Sustainability and Historic Ships
  • Ship Science and Engineering of Ancient Boats/Harbours
  • Maritime History, Ethnography and Art

We particularly encourage participation from postgraduate students and early scholars. By integrating diverse perspectives, methodologies, and experiences, MAGS 2025 seeks to create a unique space that goes beyond a conventional symposium, offering, participants a holistic and enriching experience in the realm of maritime archaeology. It is aimed to provide a collaborative and interdisciplinary environment, as well as a platform where emerging researchers can engage in meaningful discussions, share innovative ideas, and form lasting connections of mentors and peers, within the maritime archaeology community. 

Abstract submission: Abstracts should be kept in the range of 250 words and include the title, applicant’s details (name, country, email) and institutional affiliation. A limited number of poster proposals is also accepted. Please include four keywords. Please ensure that your abstract is carefully checked for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and clarity, as it will not undergo further editing. For consistency, please use British English throughout your abstract. For further details and guidance see: https://hff-mags.org/call-for-papers/. 

Submissions should be sent via the following link by November 1st, 2024: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeR9pyIOrJ938hehgUA9prD-3nXVLU6-GUaV-tRNRBpVETQMQ/viewform

Paper Presentation: Each presentation will be given a fifteen-minute time slot for oral delivery, followed by five minutes for questions and discussion. Attendance in person is mandatory.  Poster presentation will take place in a special session (attendance in person is also mandatory).

Publication: Following the quality assessment of the research papers presented at the Symposium, speakers will be strongly encouraged to submit their work to the online HFF Short Report Series. Moreover, MAGS 2025 aims to print and publish the proceedings via the series of University of Ioannina Press. More details to be announced in the due course.

Attendance registration link:
 
Abstract submission link:
 
Bursary link:
For more information, including the registration process, abstract submission and bursaries please visit our webpage at https://hff-mags.org.

 

Antiquities Endowment Fund (AEF) & Research Supporting Members (RSM) Grants

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Applications for ARCE’s 2025-2026 Antiquities Endowment Fund (AEF) & Research Supporting Members (RSM) Grants Are Live

Created with resources from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as allocated by the U.S. Congress, ARCE’s Antiquities Endowment Fund (AEF) sustains an ongoing grants program to support the conservation, preservation and documentation of Egypt’s cultural heritage and the dissemination of knowledge about that heritage.

ARCE is offering a short-term AEF grant (for up to one year) which is designed for highly focused professional projects who serve the cultural heritage needs of Egyptian antiquities that are more than 100 years old. Projects may include the actual preservation or protection of sites, buildings or objects; the participation of conservators or other suitable specialists in antiquities projects; the training of both conservators and students; or the production of publications and presentations that disseminate knowledge about Egypt’s cultural heritage.

ARCE is also accepting applications for The Archaeological Field Research Grant which is open only to current Research Supporting Members (RSM) of ARCE. The purpose of this program is to provide funding to conduct empirical, archaeological research in Egypt at sites that date from prehistory to 100 years old.

AEF and RSM grants only support direct project costs, indirect costs are not allowable. The budget allows for highly specific expenses to be included. Applications should be denominated in U.S. Dollars; ARCE is not responsible for currency fluctuations. Priority will be given to those publication projects that further the AEF mission of excavation, documentation, and conservation of Egypt’s cultural heritage.

The application process for the short-term grant AEF grant and the RSM grant takes place annually. All applications must be prepared and submitted in English. We encourage you to send a draft proposal via email to aef@arce.org before December 20, 2024, to which ARCE’s Program staff will respond with suggesstions and advice.

Application deadline is 12 midnight EST on February 15th, 2025.

Apply here

 

ARIT Events

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Dreams of Tsargrad

October 21-22, 2024, in person

A Symposium on Constantinople and the Black Sea in Imperial Russian Imagination at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul.

Cosponsored with the Swedish Institute and the Institut Français d’Études Anatoliennes.

More information

Online lecture: 

Before Midas: Revisiting the Bronze Age in Western Ankara

by Müge Durusu Tanrıöver, Temple University and Bilkent University

Thursday, October 24, 2024, 7:00 pm (Ankara), noon DST

Please register

PLAS team conducting intensive survey on the mound of Karapınar in Polatlı, Ankara

The competition for ARIT Research Fellowships is open!

Please see https://aritweb.org/fellowships/

Application deadline 11/1/2024

SCS Placement

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The following advertisement has been added or updated on classicalstudies.org:

Position Title: 1-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
Institution Name: Colby College
Position Rank: Visiting Assistant Professor
Area of Specialty: Classics
Application Deadline: 2025-01-15

1-year Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics

The Classics Department at Colby College has been authorized to offer a one-year position at the Visiting Assistant Professor level, beginning fall 2025. We invite applications from candidates capable of teaching with distinction courses in ancient Greek and/or Latin at all undergraduate levels, as well as courses on material culture: art, architecture, archaeology, etc. Research specialization is open. Interdisciplinary approaches that expand the traditional boundaries of Classics or explore contacts between Greece/Rome and other cultures of the ancient world are particularly welcome. The search committee is especially interested in candidates who, through their research, teaching, advising, and/or service, will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the campus community, and have a record of success mentoring individuals from groups under-represented in higher education.

The teaching load is 5 courses per year. Ph.D. by date of appointment is strongly preferred.

View the entire advertisement on the SCS website at https://classicalstudies.org/placement-service/2024-2025/38501/1-year-v…

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Call For Papers: Context & Meaning 2025

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We are pleased to announce the twenty-fourth annual Context and Meaning Graduate Student Conference, hosted by the Queen’s University Department of Art History and Art Conservation in Kingston, Ontario. This two-day conference will be in-person on Friday, February 28th and Saturday, March 1st, 2025.

Beginnings are messy. How do we start to tell the history of an artwork, a field, an object, or a phenomenon? Tracing the beginning of histories can reveal inconsistencies in the constructions of canons and problematize issues in the field. Studying the beginnings of fields or the early collecting practices of museums illustrates the complexities of trying to establish something new. Terms such as pioneering, discovery, or origins denote beginnings and are freighted with layers of meaning. Many such terms, like trailblazing and spearheading, imply the extractive processes inherent to narrating history and its foundations. But beginning can alternatively be more positive: creating, growing, caring, and building something anew.

By choosing the theme “Beginnings” for the twenty-fourth annual Context and Meaning conference, the Graduate Visual Culture Association at Queen’s University aims to stimulate discussions about how institutions, fields, and styles are formed, how artists visualize rites of passage in their work, and how beginnings can involve processes of both care and harm.

Some potential topics that we hope to explore include, but are by no means limited to:
– Historiography— the establishment or codification of a “new” academic field (ex: African Art, Craft, Photography, Visual Culture Studies, Design History, Contemporary Art)
– Motherhood, adulthood, growing pains, birth and other rites of passage in art and material culture.
– Migration, exile, and beginning anew due to political, social, or economic circumstances in art and material culture.
– The beginnings of an artwork or object (materials and making, technical art history, the conservation of cultural materials)
– Foundations of artistic movements and figures who are left out of the canon
– The early collecting practices of a museum or cultural institution

Context and Meaning XXIV intends to provide an inclusive forum for multi-disciplinary academic discussion on visual and material culture. We encourage submissions from graduate students and scholars with a broad range of backgrounds and approaches whose research employs visual and material culture in ruminating on the themes of beginning. Submissions are welcome from current graduate students, as well as from those who have completed their graduate studies within the last two years. We seek to assemble a diverse group of scholars to foster interdisciplinary discussions.

If you are interested in participating in Context and Meaning XXIV, please visit www.gvca.ca/context-and-meaning to submit an abstract of no more than 300 words with the title of your paper and a 150-word bio. Each presenter will be asked to deliver a 15-minute presentation that will be followed by a panel discussion period. The deadline to submit an abstract is Friday, November 15th, 2024. Thank you to all who apply!

Daria Murphy & Alana Batten
Conference Co-Chairs
Context & Meaning XXIV
contextandmeaning@queensu.ca

Graduate Visual Culture Association
Department of Art History and Art Conservation
Ontario Hall, Queen’s University
Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6, Canada

 

Asia: Seven Libraries and One Photo Archive

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We are pleased to offer for sale the libraries of these distinguished scholars: Daniel T. Potts, Phyllis Granoff and Koichi Shinohara, K.C. Chang, Robert E. Murowchick, and a private collector of Chinese art. Catalogues of the libraries in pdf format are to be found on our Collections page on the Ars Libri website. Each library is offered complete.

Prof. Daniel T. Potts

Archaeology of the Arabian Peninsula, Central & Western Asia & The Indus Valley: The Library of Professor Daniel T. Potts. Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University; Freie Universität Berlin (1981-86); University of Copenhagen (1980-81, 1986-1991); Edwin Cuthbert Hall Chair of Middle Eastern Archaeology, University of Sydney (1991-2012); Founding editor of the journal Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy

2,611 titles in over 3,165 volumes  

Link to the catalogue

Prof. Phyllis Granoff & Prof. Koichi Shinohara

The Libraries of Professor Phyllis Granoff and Professor Koichi Shinohara, Scholars of Asian Religions. Professor Granoff, Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies, Yale University, Professor Shinohara, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies, Yale University

9,068 titles in over 11,725 volumes

Link to the catalogue

Prof. K.C. Chang

Chinese Archaeology. The Library of Kwang-Chih
Chang, Ph.D. Harvard University, 1960; Professor, and later Chair of Anthropology Department at Yale University (1961-1976); Chair of Department of Anthropology, Harvard University (1977-1983); John E. Hudson Professor of Archaeology at Harvard University (1984-2001); United States National Academy of Sciences Member (1979); Vice-President Academia Sinica, Taipei (1994-1996)

Circa 8,000-9,000 volumes

Link to the catalogue

Dr. Robert E. Murowchick

Japanese Archaeology: Site Reports. The Library of Dr. Robert E. Murowchick. Lecturer of Archaeology, Director of Archaeology Undergraduate Studies, Director of AsianArc: Asian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Research Initiative, Boston University

1,494 titles in 1,591 volumes

Link to the catalogue

Dr. Robert E. Murowchick

The Korean Archaeology, Art History & Cultural Heritage Library of Dr. Robert E. Murowchick. Lecturer of Archaeology, Director of Archaeology Undergraduate Studies, Director of AsianArc: Asian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Research Initiative, Boston University

circa 2,379 volumes

 Link to the catalogue

Dr. Robert E. Murowchick

Chinese and Asian Art Auction Catalogues: Sales from the 1960’s to the 2010’s. From the Library of Dr. Robert E. Murowchick. Lecturer of Archaeology, Director of Archaeology Undergraduate Studies, Director of AsianArc: Asian Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Research Initiative, Boston University

circa 2,200 volumes                   

Link to the catalogue

A Collector’s Reference Library

Chinese Art & Archaeology. The Library of a Private Collector of Chinese art

874 titles in circa 1,125 volumes

Link to the catalogue

P.I.X Archive

P.I.X. Photo Agency, New York. Archive of Press Photographs of China, Mongolia and Hong Kong from the1930s Through the 1960s

1,099 vintage gelatin sliver prints

Description and list available upon request
email us at jrutter@arslibri.com

Please email us at orders@arslibri.com for inquiries and further details

SCS Placement

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The following advertisement has been added or updated on classicalstudies.org:

Position Title: Postdoctoral Associate
Institution Name: Yale University
Position Rank: Other
Area of Specialty: Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Application Deadline: 2024-12-01

Yale University seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral Associate for a one-year position, renewable for a second year, beginning in the academic year 2025-2026 within Archaia: the Yale Program for the Study of Global Antiquity. Archaia is a collaborative forum that brings together scholars and graduate students working on early and pre-modern cultures and civilizations at Yale in the Humanities and Social Sciences in addition to the Divinity and Law Schools and various University collections and libraries, including the Yale University Art Gallery, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage. Participating departments and disciplines include Classics, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, History, Religious Studies, Archaeology and Anthropology, History of Art, and the Divinity School. In addition to hosting conferences and colloquia, the year-long Ancient Societies Workshop (ASW), and study tours, Archaia offers a graduate qualification for students interested in research beyond departmental lines. For additional information, see https://archaia.yale.edu/certification. Information about past post-doctoral fellows can be found here.

Past Archaia seminars and ASW topics have included ancient music, comparative linguistics in pre-modern languages, ancient comparative law, ancient ritual, antiquity through the digital humanities, and the archaeology of Dura Europos. Anticipated upcoming topics include environmental determinism, constructions of the human body and race and how these ideas travel cross culturally, and the archaeology of Gerasa; we are also open to other innovative and cross-disciplinary proposals for future workshops and core seminars. We especially welcome applicants working in areas beyond the ancient Mediterranean world.

The postdoctoral associate is expected to take an active role in Archaia programming while pursuing research in their own area of expertise. Additionally, the associate’s duties include: (1) participating in the Archaia Steering Committee, coordinating the graduate certification program, and participating in the graduate forum as a mentor; (2) offering, in the first year, a graduate seminar and/or a study tour (the seminar may be connected with the tour); (3) in the second year of the appointment, co-teaching the Archaia core seminar with a Yale faculty member and/or co-organizing the Archaia Study Tour. The postdoctoral associate will receive guidance from and report to the Archaia co-chairs and will also be provided with at least one mentor from a field/department close to their area of training and expertise.

Salary is commensurate with education and experience along with Yale’s benefits package that includes health insurance.

View the entire advertisement on the SCS website at https://classicalstudies.org/placement-service/2024-2025/38495/postdoct…

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October Updates from ARCE

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Implementing a Unified Museum Database System across Cairo-based Museums: CIPAIG Grant Project Launch

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities’ (MoTA) Central Information System: Data Rescue, Training and Needs Assessment Project launch and reception was held on 17 September at the Coptic Museum. Opening remarks were given by U.S. Ambassador Herro Mustafa Garg joined Deputy Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Yomna El-Bahar, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs Rafik Mansour, and ARCE Executive Director Dr. Louise Bertini to commemorate this project’s historic launch.

The grant will help Egyptian museum staff become more proficient in information technology, documentation, and collections management. Additionally, it will set the stage for a centralised system of documentation and collections management that will ensure accurate monitoring and documenting of artefacts by bringing pieces from various MoTA museums together through a single search interface.

The project will be implemented at various historical museums across Greater Cairo: the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (EMC), the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM), the Coptic Museum, the Museum of Islamic Art, and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (NMEC).

Read about it here

An Ancient Egyptian UNESCO? Special Briefing by Professor Khaled El Enany, nominee for UNESCO’s Director-General Post

In September, ARCE also held a joint event with the American Chamber of Commerce (AMCHAM): a special breakfast briefing in honor of former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Professor Khaled El Enany’s candidacy for the role of United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)’s Director-General post.

Opening remarks by AMCHAM CEO Sylvia Menassa, president Tarek Tawfik, and ARCE Executive Director Dr. Louise Bertini highlighted the vital role tourism and heritage play in the country’s developmental framework, and ARCE’s contributions to cultural heritage preservation.

Inspired by UNESCO’s main values, Professor El Enany delivered a captivating lecture on how life in ancient Egypt tackled the same ethos as the organization’s, interweaving past and present as he explored science, education, ethics, social inclusion and other relevant themes.

Funding for this activity is provided by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State through a grant from the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. 

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Support ARCE in preserving Egyptian cultural heritage and history for the future through donations that fund efforts in cultural heritage protection and restoration, as well as education, research, and training. Your contribution is not just a donation; it’s your way to make an impact, your way to join us in protecting and saving Egyptian cultural history and being part of the legacy of preserving our most important history.

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Annual Meeting Opportunity for Egyptology Scholars

Are you an Egyptology early-career student hoping to join ARCE’s 2025 in-person Annual Meeting but feeling a little financial pitch? We’re here to help with our Student Access Grant (SAG)!

This year, and ever year, we are offering a maximum of five (5) grants for whom attendance would not be possible without financial support.

Priority will go to first time attendees and presenters at the Annual Meeting.

Apply Today

Present at our Annual Meeting in San Francisco!

ARCE is pleased to announce that the Call for Papers is now open for our 2025 in person Annual Meeting. ARCE’s Annual Meeting brings together hundreds of scholars who present on Egyptian history and heritage, recent fieldwork, technological advances, and much more.

The 2025 In-person Annual Meeting will take place at the Westin St. Francis, San Francisco from April 25-27, 2025, from approximately 08:30 AM US ET to 5:00 PM US ET Friday and Saturday, and 08:30 AM US ET to 3:00pm US ET on Sunday.

All submitters must be members of ARCE in good standing.

Abstract application deadline is 13/12/2024.

N.B. The ARCE Virtual Annual Meeting will NOT take place this year.

Apply here

October Chapter Events 

With more than a dozen individual chapters across the United States and Canada, ARCE’s mission of fostering a broader knowledge and appreciation of Egypt’s cultural heritage among the general public is constantly advanced by active local communities.

Collectively, ARCE Chapters host over 100 lectures per year by experts in topics spanning the full timeline of Egyptian history. These lectures, as well as affiliation with a chapter, are complimentary to all ARCE members. Here are some of their upcoming lectures:

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