Save the Date: A Treasured Evening of Tutankhamun Unveiled in DC

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

Position Title: Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence
Institution Name: Purdue University
Position Rank: Assistant Professor
Area of Specialty: Greek and Roman History
Application Deadline: 2024-11-17

N.B. Purdue University’s Classics Program, housed within the School of Languages and Cultures, is seeking candidates with specializations in Ancient Greek and Roman history and/or archaeology.

Req Id: 34159

Job Title: Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence

City: West Lafayette

Job Description:

Job Summary

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence

Departments of Anthropology, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology;

the School of Languages and Cultures; and the Brian Lamb School of Communication

Purdue University

Date Available: Fall 2025

Principal Duties: Departments of Anthropology, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology; the School of Languages and Cultures; and the Brian Lamb School of Communication at Purdue University invite applications for multiple positions of tenure-track assistant professorship in Artificial Intelligence (AI) with an appointment in one or more of these units. A Ph.D. in one of the fields represented by the above-named units is required. The successful candidate will develop and teach undergraduate and graduate courses in AI and contribute to the intellectual life of their units. Depending on their background and interest, the successful candidate may be appointed in one of the above-named units or may be jointly appointed.

Qualifications

The Candidate must have a Ph.D. in one of the fields represented by the above-named units with a focus on Artificial Intelligence (including machine learning and computational data science) by the start of appointment. The Candidate must have a record of publishing high-quality peer-reviewed research. Salary will be commensurate with training and experience.

The College and University: For the fourth consecutive year, the College of Liberal Arts at Purdue University is embarking on multiple hires with a focus on AI to begin in Fall 2025. Representing a variety of disciplines in the College, this cohort of scholars will expand our capacity to explore the implications of developing AI across our academic domains and advance and contribute to research and educational initiatives surrounding AI in new and important ways. These positions will also include in-person teaching in our innovative, nationally-recognized Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts Program that educates students across the university.

Application Procedure

Applications must include the following items uploaded at careers.purdue.edu in this order and as one PDF document: 1) cover letter of no more than three pages including a discussion of teaching philosophy and research agenda; 2) Curriculum vitae; and 3) the names and contact information of at least three references (no letters please). The search committee may contact references to request letters at a later stage. Questions about the position should be directed to the chair of the search committee: Christopher Yeomans at cyeomans@purdue.edu.

Review of the applications will begin on November 17, 2024, and will continue until the position is filled. A background check is required for employment in this position.

FLSA Status

Exempt

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Save the Date: A Treasured Evening of Tutankhamun Unveiled in DC

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Save the Date: A Treasured Evening of Tutankhamun Unveiled in DC

Join ARCE in Washington, D.C. for an exciting evening as Egyptologist Jacquelyn Williamson examines the life and times of King Tut at the Tutankhamun: His Tomb and Treasures Exhibition.

Explore King Tut’s Tomb and Treasures!

Discover the magic of Tutankhamun’s tomb, enjoy Egyptian-inspired cocktails (cash bar), take home a piece of history with a souvenir for VIP ticket holders, and listen to exclusive presentations on recent archaeological discoveries.

To celebrate Archaeology Day, use code ARCHEOLOGY24! to get 30% off tickets purchased between Oct 16-18 (and book for any future date)

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Study Art Conservation and Historic Preservation in Italy, summer 2025

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Amelia International Conservation Studies(AICS) is now accepting applications for our summer 2025 field school in Italy). The deadline for applications is March 1, 2025.

With over two decades of expertise and a global alumni network from over 190 colleges and universities, AICS is dedicated to the preservation of cultural heritage.

During this immersive program, students will have the unique opportunity to study and travel in Italy, gaining invaluable hands-on experience in restoration and conservation.

Courses are designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the science, ethics, and practical skills necessary for art conservation and historic preservation.

Program Details:

Session One (June 9 – July 4, 2025)
Stone Conservation: Science and Ethics in Historic Preservation
– Restoration of Historic Monuments
– History, Theory, and Ethics of Restoration
(Program includes lectures and restoration field projects*)

Preserving our Past: Paper Conservation for Art and Archives
– Paper Media and Restoration Methods for Artworks
– Manuscripts and Printed Archival Materials Restoration Methods
(Program includes lectures and restoration workshop*)

Experiencing Traditional Painting Materials, Methods and Restoration Issues – in the workshop of a Maestro
– Traditional painting, techniques, materials and methods
– History, Theory, and Ethics of Restoration

(Program includes lectures and painting workshop)

Session Two (July 14 – August 8, 2025)
Analyzing, Documenting and Restoring Archaeological Ceramics
– Analyzing, Documenting Archaeological Ceramics
– Restoring Archaeological Ceramics
(Program includes lectures and restoration field projects*)

Unlocking the Secrets of Historical Bookbinding: Structures, Preservation and Book
Conservation
– History and the making of early bookbinding structures
– Conservation and preservation of books
(Program includes lectures and restoration field projects*)

Architectural Painted Surfaces: Conservation & Restoration of Fresco and Secco Wall Paintings
– Introduction to Fresco and Secco Wall Paintings
– Conservation and Restoration Techniques for Fresco and Secco Wall Paintings
(Program includes lectures and restoration field projects*)

*Field Projects:
· Historic Archives of the Municipality of Amelia: A unique opportunity for students to study and conserve archival documents, promoting an understanding of historical data preservation.
· Restoration and conservation of artifacts from the Archaeological Museum of Amelia.
· In the courtyard of Amelia’s Town Hall, there is a small open-air Lapidarium that houses a collection of significant architectural artifacts. These relics serve as a testament to the rich history of Roman Amerίa, as well as the medieval and Renaissance periods.
· Participants of the Painted Surfaces Program will have the opportunity to apply their knowledge and skills and to understand the unique opportunity to work on a historically significant site, at the 13th-century cloister of San Francisco church in Amelia. The cloister, built in 1287 A.D., provides an exceptional example of fresco and secco paintings from the medieval period.

AICS is a program of the Art Restoration and Conservation International Field School (ARCIFS), based in Amelia, Italy. We have established cooperation agreements with the Municipality of Amelia to study and conserve artworks and archaeological objects held in their museums, as well as a collaboration with the Historic Archives of the Comune di Amelia for AICS participants to study and conserve archival documents.

Since June 2024, we have also formed a significant cooperation with the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples, further expanding our reach and opportunities for art conservation and restoration.

Our program is not just for art historians or preservationists. We encourage students from architecture, archaeology, library science, chemistry, museum studies, classics, anthropology, and related fields to apply, emphasizing the interdisciplinary nature of art conservation and historic preservation.

Our courses are open to students from various disciplines, both undergraduate and graduate, to join us for this incredible learning experience. All lessons are taught in English.

If you know any students, scholars, or others interested in this type of study, please inform them about our program. We would appreciate it if you could list our program on your organization’s website as an available educational resource.

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For further information, including application deadlines and requirements, please visit our website at Art Restoration and Conservation International Field School.

Apply Now for an ARCE Fellowship

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ARCE is Now Accepting US Fellowship Applications For the 2025 Cycle!

Funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural affairs through a grant to the Council of American Overseas Research Center (CAORC), ARCE offers long-term 3 to 12 month fellowships.

These opportunities include but are not limited to:

ARCE-funded fellowships support intellectuals interested in conducting academic research in Egypt on various topics. We invite heritage enthusiats to carry out research in diverse fields such as anthropology, archaeology, architecture, fire art, art history, Coptic studies, economics, Egyptology, history, humanistic social sciences, Islamic studies, literature, political science, religious studies and even music. Our fellows have landed prestigious jobs such as directors and faculty of Middle Eastern studies and history departments at leading universities, in the United States and abroad, and curators of Egyptian and Near Eastern art major museums and research institutions.

Decades of close collaboration with the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities (MoTA) and Ministry of Higher Education (MoHE) enable ARCE to provide fellows with administrative support and advice that eases access to Egyptian museums, monuments, archaeological sites, research libraries, archives and Egyptian institutions of higher education.

Other fellowship opportunities include:

The Theodore N. Romanoff Prize for doctoral candidates (ABD) and recent Ph.D. recipients (degree granted between 2018-2023) conducting research on the language or historical texts of ancient Egypt, including the Coptic language.
The William P. McHugh Memorial Fund grant for pre-doctoral students regardless of nationality to encourage the study of Egyptian geo-archaeology, paleo-archaeology, and prehistory.
Research associates who will receive the same administrative support in terms of clearances, permissions and mentoring as ARCE Fellows, but do not receive funding.

Make sure to submit your online application by January 5th, 2025 at 11:59 PM PST.

Apply Now

Recycling for Death: A Virtual Book Discussion

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Join us on Wednesday, October 30th for a virtual book talk on Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches, a meticulous study of the social, economic, and religious significance of coffin reuse and development during the Ramesside and early Third Intermediate periods, illustrated with over 900 images (AUC Press, 2024). AUC Press is delighted to host the author, Kara Cooney, a renowned Egyptologist, professor of Egyptology, and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA.

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Recycling for Death: Coffin Reuse in Ancient Egypt and the Theban Royal Caches

Funerary datasets are the chief source of social history in Egyptology, and the numerous tombs, coffins, Books of the Dead, and mummies of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Dynasties have not been fully utilized as social documents, mostly because the data of this time period is scattered and difficult to synthesize. This culmination of fifteen years of coffin study analyzes coffins and other funerary equipment of elites from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-second Dynasties to provide essential windows into social strategies and adaptations employed during the Bronze Age collapse and subsequent Iron Age reconsolidation.

Many Twentieth to Twenty-second Dynasty coffins show evidence of reuse from other, older coffins, as well as obvious marks where gilding or inlay have been removed. Innovative vignettes painted onto coffin surfaces reflect new religious strategies and coping mechanisms within this time of crisis, while advances in mummification techniques reveal an Egyptian anxiety about long-term burial without coffins as a new style of stuffed and painted mummy was developed for the wealthy. It was in the context of necropolis insecurity, economic crisis, and group burial in reused and unpainted chambers that a complex, polychrome coffin style emerged. . . . Read more

Praise for Recycling for Death

“Kara Cooney is the expert on coffin reuse, and in this book she brilliantly synthesizes fifteen years of research. After giving a detailed introduction into the social and religious reasons behind why coffins were reused, how they were acquired, and what was done to them, she focuses on the coffins used to house the New Kingdom royal mummies and the High Priests of Amun. Known since the last years of the nineteenth century, they have, until now, generally been ignored by modern scholars, quietly gathering dust, waiting for Kara, the one person who could do them justice. The result is a superb book, an absolute gem for specialists and students alike, abundantly illustrated in full color throughout, by an excellent scholar at the height of her powers.”—David Aston, The Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna

“Kara Cooney’s long-awaited book on coffins explains how and why these objects, crucial for the protection, rebirth, and resurrection of the deceased were used and then often recycled and reused for both kings and commoners. The detailed discussions, lavishly illustrated, make for fascinating reading, providing an insight into the economic, social, religious, and cultural life of the ancient Egyptians. A must-have for anyone interested in ancient Egypt.”—Salima Ikram, The American University in Cairo

About the Author:

Kara Cooney is a professor of Egyptology and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA. Specializing in social history, gender studies, and economies in the ancient world, she received her PhD in Egyptology from Johns Hopkins University. In 2005, she was co-curator of Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her popular books include The Woman Who Would Be King: Hatshepsut’s Rise to Power in Ancient Egypt, When Women Ruled the World: Six Queens of Egypt, and The Good Kings: Absolute Power in Ancient Egypt and the Modern World. Her latest academic book is Ancient Egyptian Society: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Approaches.

The Flowers of Hispanic Heritage Month

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To celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month, the Joukowsky Institute has created a poster featuring the national flowers of Hispanic countries. Learn more about some of the featured flowers below!

Mexico – the dahlia

The dahlia was named Mexico’s national flower in 1963 and has cultural significance dating back to the Aztecs. They used the tubers as a food source and for medicinal purposes, including treating epilepsy. The dahlia represents pride, beauty, elegance, inner strength, and creativity. The tuberous roots can be eaten and used to make honey, jam, flour, or cookies and can help regulate blood glucose levels and lower cholesterol and triglycerides.

Colombia – the cattleya orchid

Spain – the carnation

The carnation is a symbol of Spanish folklore and has been associated with the country for centuries. It’s a common sight at Spanish celebrations, including weddings, births, and funerals, and is also part of bullfights, flamenco dancing, and parades. A rich red carnation symbolizes deep love and affection, while a pale red carnation represents admiration. Carnations were traditionally used as a herb to treat pain, anxiety, and infection.

Argentina – erythrina crista-galli

The erythrina crista-galli, also known as ceibo or cockspur coral tree, was declared Argentina’s national flower in 1942. Legend has it that the ceibo originated when Anahí, a young Native American girl, was sentenced to die at the stake by invaders. As the fire grew, she transformed into a majestic tree covered with fiery red flowers. The ceibo is a symbol of bravery in Argentina and is celebrated in poetry, songs, and folklore. Additionally, the tree’s wood is used to craft the body of Argentina’s traditional drums, known as bombo leguero.

Peru – the cantutas

The cantutas, also known as Cantua buxifolia, is the sacred flower of the Incas and is also referred to as the Peruvian magic tree. In ancient Peru, the petals were used to decorate the roads that the Incas would pass through. In Peru, the. flower is threaded on strings to welcome people’s incorporated into hat designs. It is consecrated to the sun god, featured in traditional Andean festivities and funerals, and used in religious decorations.

The remaining countries and their respective flowers shown in the graphic are: Venezuela, Chile, Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Honduras, Paraguay, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama, Uruguay, Puerto Rico, and Equatorial Guinea.

Association of Latina/o and Latinx Anthropologists(ALLA)

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The Association of Latina/o & Latinx Anthropologists is a section of the American Anthropological Association, founded in 1990.

ALLA’s mission is:

To support student and early career scholars working toward excellence in anthropological research and practice by, with, and about Latinx peoples in the U.S., however they are identified;
To highlight scholarship and practice that is ideologically, epistemologically, and methodologically substantive and diverse;
To enable a sustained diverse analysis of contemporary issues facing Latinx communities in the U.S. and those with whom they share common experiences, histories, or languages.

Read the Bylaws

Meet the Board

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Mentorship Program

ALLA’s Mentoring Program aims to foster a more supportive community among faculty and students from different academic institutions. Faculty and junior scholars are paired based on research interests, geographical region, and subfield. Faculty mentors and mentees will meet each other via Zoom in September to set the basis for continued communication between mentors and their students.

How to Apply

ALLA is currently accepting applications for our Mentoring Program. As part of the program, fellows are paired with a faculty mentor based on subfield, research interests, and/or geographical expertise starting Sept 2024-Aug 2025. Graduate students and upper-division undergraduates interested in grad school are welcome to apply.

Applications are currently being accepted Until: July 15, 2024

To apply complete the following form: https://bit.ly/ALLA24

For further questions contact: Nicole Hernandez (nherna51@asu.edu )

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:

During a rest stop at El Morro National Monument, Spaniards carved graffiti into the rock. These inscriptions include names and Catholic iconography.
Hernando De Soto looked for riches in the New World. He found shell objects, mica, and copper (now found archeologically); ravaged Native peoples’ communities; then died of fever.
Wagon ruts from the Santa Fe Trail, a 19th-century trade route that spread cultural change in addition to commerce, are still visible at Fort Larned.
Spanish missionaries established missions to Christianize Native American communities and make them Spanish citizens. The story is told at Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, Tumacácori National Historical Park, and San Antonio Missions National Historical Park.
Sunken Spanish ships remain in the waters at Dry Tortugas National Park, Point Reyes National Seashore, and throughout Florida. The visitor center at Assateague Island National Seashore displays artifacts from Spanish Royal Naval ships that wrecked off the coast.
For more ideas of places to visit and things to do, check out Visit Latino Archeology (Visitar Arqueología Latina) and search the National Register or National Historic Landmarks database for historic properties.
See Telling All Americans’ Stories: American Latino Heritage to learn about more people and places of Hispanic and Latino heritage.

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