SBA Writing Group Kick-Off Meeting

On April 23, 2025

SBA Writing Group Kick-Off Meeting

Hosted by Dr. Alicia Odewale, SBA President-Elect

APRIL 25, 2025 | 1:00 – 2:30 PM CST

Register for the Virtual Zoom Meeting

Find a region near you to connect, collaborate and write in community with other SBA members gathering around the world this summer from May 1- August 30th. Join in as the SBA collectively write and publish the next generation of African and African Diaspora Archaeology scholarship.

As they head into 2026 and celebrate the 15 year anniversary of the Society of Black Archaeologists, SBA will be sharing a new hashtag #WritingBlackArchaeology to invite everyone to join in this Black archaeology writing movement. SBA will be thinking about all that’s happened the last 15 years since their founding and charting the course for the next 15 years ahead.

Visualizing Egypt: A Virtual Book Talk

By gsychter

On April 23, 2025

In News and Events

Join AUC Press on April 29th at 12 pm EST for a virtual book talk about Visualizing Egypt: European Travel, Book Publishing, and the Commercialization of the Middle East in the Nineteenth Century with author Paulina Banas who explores how market forces shaped illustrated publications on Egypt at a time of peak European colonial interest. The book features over 70 stunning illustrations and reveals the complex interplay between art, commerce, and imperialism. The event includes a live Q&A.

There will be a Q&A session at the end of the discussion, you can send us your questions ahead of time via email: auc.press@aucegypt.edu.

Zoom Registration Link

Facebook Live-streaming Link

ARAM Conference on Orientalism and the Levant

By gsychter

On April 23, 2025

In News and Events

The ARAM Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies is organizing its Fifty-Eighth International Conference on the theme of “Orientalism and the Levant during the Second Half of the Second Millennium (1500-2000).” The conference will take place at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, the University of Oxford, from July 6th to July 8th, 2026.

The conference will begin on Monday, July 6th at 9:00 AM and will conclude on Wednesday, July 8th at 1:00 PM. Each speaker’s presentation is limited to 35 minutes, followed by an additional 10 minutes for discussion. All papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical, pending editorial review.

If you would like to participate in the conference, please contact ARAM at their Oxford address: ARAM Society, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Pusey Lane, Oxford OX1 2LE, England. You can reach ARAM by email at aram@ames.ox.ac.uk or by phone at 0044 (0) 1865-514041

Registration Form Orientalism & the Levant

Apply for ComSciCon25 — Science communication workshop

By gsychter

On April 8, 2025

In News and Events, Student News and Opportunities

ComSciCon provides graduate student attendees with a one-of-a-kind opportunity to meet early career leaders in science communication while also learning from, and interacting with, a remarkable group of invited scicomm experts. ComSciCon empowers future leaders in science communication to share their research and passions with broad and diverse audiences.

Graduate students: Applications for the annual ComSciCon25 Flagship Workshop, taking place from July 13-16 2025 in Boston, MA, are open! ComSciCon is scheduled to be held in person at Emerson College. Everyone studying in STEM fields is eligible to apply.

Applications will close on April 18th, 2025 @ 11:59 PM (ET).

Application link: https://forms.gle/6jbW3p4JhRQVjpor7

2025 event website: https://www.comscicon.org/comscicon-flagship-2025

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comscicon/

Email questions to: comscicon25@comscicon.org

ComSciCon encourages women, BIPOC, people with disabilities, members of the LGBTQIA+ communities, and all other people with any intersection of minoritized and/or marginalized identities to apply. ComSciCon is committed to diversity and equity, and encourages all people to apply to the conference!

Lodging and meals will be covered and partial travel support will be provided by ComSciCon.

Conference on the Aramaeans B.C.

By bbao6

On March 31, 2025

In News and Events

Aerial photo of buildings (Stanford University)

The Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian (Aram Society for Syro-Mesopotamian Studies) Studies is organizing its Fifty-Eighth International Conference on “The Aramaeans BC: History and Archaeology,” which will take place at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, from July 14 to 15, 2025.

The conference will begin on Monday, July 14, at 9 a.m. and conclude on Tuesday, July 15, at 6 p.m. Each speaker will have a maximum of 45 minutes for their paper, followed by an additional 15 minutes for discussion. All papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in a future edition of the ARAM Periodical.

If you wish to attend the conference, please complete the Registration Form Aramaeans and return it to ARAM by the end of March 2025.

Thank you!

ARCE 2025 Annual Meeting

By bbao6

On March 31, 2025

In News and Events

This year’s ARCE (American Research Center in Egypt) In-Person Annual Meeting Session Schedule and Meeting Schedule are now live.

We are looking forward to a rich schedule of sessions across interests and disciplines. The meeting will feature over 100 presentations under various themes such as archaeological sciences, Greco-Roman Egypt, art history, Nubia, philology, religion, and more!

Additionally, this year’s special events include the Teaching Workshop: Translating the Book of the Dead in the 21st Century, led by Rita Lucarelli, and the Dessert Reception at the Legion of Honor Museum (Ticketed Offsite Event).

Visit www.arce.org/annual-meeting to register and learn more.

6th Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium

By bbao6

On March 31, 2025

In News and Events

We are pleased to invite you to the 6th Maritime Archaeology Graduate Symposium, that will take place at the University of Ioannina (Greece), between April 2-5, 2025.

For more information, including the programme, activities, and the zoom link please visit our webpage at https://hff-mags.org.

Register your interest here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHsaT56tcdwwn5vTuegbPLMW46qmYazknh21NyR9qAl6eIHQ/viewform

Thank you!

Parker Lecture in Egyptology

By bbao6

On March 31, 2025

In News and Events, Uncategorized

We hope to see you this Tuesday, April 1, at 5:30 p.m. in Rhode Island Hall 108!

The Department of Egyptology and Assyriology is pleased to present the 2024-2025 Parker Lecture in Egyptology.

Richard Bussmann, Professor of Egyptology at the Institute of African Studies and Egyptology, University of Cologne, will give the 2024-2025 Parker Lecture lecture “Subaltern bodies in early Egypt” on Tuesday, April 1, at 5:30 p.m. in RI Hall 108.

About Richard Bussmann

Prof. Richard Bussmann studies ancient Egypt in its wider regional context from a combined archaeological, philological, and anthropological perspective. He is interested in comparative perspectives on ancient Egypt and in cross-disciplinary approaches to the study of the past and its heritage. In his book The archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt: society and culture, 2700-1700 BC (Cambridge University Press, 2023) he develops key themes in World Archaeology with evidence from ancient Egypt, including urbanism, interregional exchange in Northeast Africa and the Mediterranean, funerary culture, the archaeology of ritual, sacred kingship, archaic states, and realities beyond elites. He also conducts research on early writing and material practices of administration. Richard Bussmann directs the fieldwork project “Zawyet Sultan: Archaeology and heritage in Middle Egypt”. He is the president of the Verband der Ägyptologie and Secretary General of the International Association of Egyptologists.

About “Subaltern bodies in early Egypt” (Abstract)

“The rise of the ancient Egyptian state was a catalyst for increasing social inequality on a previously unknown scale. Egyptology has made great advances in studying administration, royal ideology, and social structure from the predynastic period to the Old Kingdom (ca. 3,500 to 2,500 BC), but it is still difficult to understand how these phenomena were anchored in the daily lives of the wider population. This gap in research is partially due to a scarcity of preserved and recorded material, and it also raises questions on the level of theory and social modelling. My presentation explores to what extent subalternity can help with developing fresh interpretation. Subalternity means, briefly, studying the agency of marginalized groups. It has been much debated in history and post-colonial studies, but hardly in Egyptology. The focus of my presentation will be on the human body, a medium of communication that all human beings have, yet at different degrees of autonomy. The body has been a major object of study across the social and cultural sciences from the 1970s onwards, and since the 1990s also in archaeology and Egyptology. I argue that there is scope in Egyptology for reconciling written and visual data for the body with archaeology and physical anthropology. I will present fresh results from my current excavation in Zawyet Sultan (Middle Egypt) which have inspired my research.”

Please join us!

NYU Center for Ancient Studies Conference

By bbao6

On March 3, 2025

In News and Events

The NYU Center for Ancient Studies is organizing an upcoming conference on March 20-21, 2025, entitled “People of the Sand, People of the Tent: Archaeological Perspectives on Mobility and Fluidity in Arid Regions.” This conference will take place in person on the NYU campus. The conference is also listed here on the Center’s website.

People of the Sand, People of the Tent poster