Lecture Series

NT-ARCE 2026 Lecture Series

  • February 7th — Rolland Long (PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania), "Reconstructing Presently Submerged Landscapes of Lower Nubia: CORONA-derived Topography and Spatial Analyses of Middle Kingdom Fort Environments"
  • April — No Dallas event. ARCE National Conference in Denver.
  • June — Jonathan Winnerman (University of California at Los Angeles), Subject TBD

NT-ARCE 2025 Lecture Series

  • November 8th — Dr. Jennifer Babcock (Pratt Institute, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY), "The Swift Ones: Hares in Ancient Egyptian Visual Culture"
  • October 18th — Dr. Okasha El Daly (University College London), "Were Egyptians Interested in Egyptology? The Reception of Egypt in Medieval Arabic Sources"
  • September 13th — Dr. Joseph Morgan (Associate Professor of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma), "Architects of Empire: The So-Called Eponymous Commanders of Early Ptolemaic Egypt"
  • August 2nd — Dr. Kathleen Sheppard (Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology), "The Golden Age of Traveling in Egypt"
  • June 21st — Panel: Anna McKay (Owner, Your Journey Travel), Dee Dee Assad (Owner, Little Egypt in Garland, Texas), Susan Patterson (Frequent traveler to Egypt), "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Traveling in Egypt - Panel Discussion and Q&A"
  • May 3rd — Dr. Luigi Prada (Associate Professor of Egyptology at Uppsala University, Sweden; Honorary Research Associate of the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford), "Foretelling the Future along the Nile: Soothsayers and Dream Interpreters in Ancient Egypt"
  • April 29th — Mutsumi Okabe (Visiting Student, Southern Methodist University), "Cultural Hybridity in the Greco-Roman Egypt: A Study of Terracotta Figurines of Deities from the Catacomb at North Saqqara"
  • April 5th — Dr. Emily Teeter (Associate of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures at University of Chicago; Editor, Journal of the American Research in Egypt), "Chicago on the Nile: A Century of Work by the Epigraphic Survey of the University of Chicago"
  • March 1st — Dr. Kea Johnston (Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures / Field Museum Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago), "The SMU Coffin: From Akhim to Texas"
  • January 25th — Dr. Michelle Marlar (Houston Museum of Natural Science), "North Texas Holiday Party (December) and The Memphis Hathor Temple: Recent Work and New Discoveries (January lecture)"

NT-ARCE 2024 Lecture Series

  • November 9th — Dr. Shelby Justl, "From Amarna's Maru-Aten to Dallas, TX: Tracing the Travels of a Cartouche Fragment in Bridwell Library Special Collections, SMU"
  • October 19th — Terry Nichols, "Using Modern Technology to Solve Ancient Riddles"
  • October 12th — Dr. Nicholas Brown (Yale University, Near Eastern Language and Civilizations), "Rediscovering Pharaoh's Crew: Recent Archaeological Survey and Documentation Within the Tomb of Thutmose IV (KV43)"
  • October 11th — Colleen Manassa (Yale), "Literature in Ancient Egypt (Friday lecture and Saturday seminar)"
  • August 9th — Dr. Vicky Jensen (University of California, Berkeley, Center for Middle Eastern Studies), "Deir el-Ballas: The Royal Palace that Defeated the Hyksos"
  • June 22nd — Erika R. Brown (Lanier Center of Archeology at Lipscomb University), "The Erotic Curse of the Third Intermediate Period"
  • April 13th — Dr. Traci Andrews (Texas A&M University, Nautical Archaeology Program), "Ships and Glyphs: How Nautical Developments Appear in Hieroglyphs"
  • March 23rd — Steve Harvey, "The Stela of Queen Tetisheri Revisited"
  • February 23rd — Gayle Gibson (Emerita, Royal Ontario Museum), "Letters from the Fifth Dynasty: the Uses of Literacy"
  • January 13th — Julia Troche, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of History, Missouri State University; Visiting Scholar of Egyptian History, Brown University), "Becoming God in the Pyramid Age"

NT-ARCE 2023 Lecture Series

  • November 18th — Jennifer T. Roberts (City University of New York) and Dr. Richard Parkinson (University of Oxford), "Ancient Lessons for Modern Democracy: The Model of Classic Athens" / "A Chronicle No Longer Gold: Re-presenting the Oxford Archive in 2022"
  • October 28th — Dr. Sinclair Bell, "Race, Racism, and Representation in Ancient Italy: Aethiopians in the Visual Arts of the Roman Empire"
  • September 23rd — Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer (Lecturer at SUNY Brockport and University of Rochester; Curator of the Morgan-Manning House), "Home is Where the Animals Are: An Investigation of the Place of Animals within the Ancient Egyptian House"
  • June 10th — Dr. Gene Kritsky (Professor and Dean of the School of Behavioral and Natural Sciences, Mount St. Joseph University; Adjunct Curator of Entomology, Cincinnati Museum Center), "The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt"
  • April 15th — Dr. Melissa Barden-Dowling (Southern Methodist University), "Isis Outside of Egypt"
  • February 25th — Dr. Elizabeth Hart (Lithic Analyst Institute, University of Vienna; Middle Egypt Project: Kom el-Hisn Provincialism Project), "Dressing for Death: How to Make and Wear Ancient Egyptian Flint Bangles"
  • January 14th — Dr. Emily Teeter (Associate, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago), "It's All Old Kingdom to Me: Three Millennia of Continuity of Egyptian Art"

NT-ARCE 2022 Lecture Series

  • December 3rd — Ines Torres, Guilherme Borges Pires, Luiza Osorio G. Silva, Rennan Lemos (presented by ARCE-MO), "On the Outskirts?: The Past(s) and Future(s) of Brazilian and Portuguese Egyptology"
  • November 12th — Dr. Alexandra Morris (presenting from the United Kingdom via cyber-presentation), "And the Children Shall Lead: Harpocrates and Other Possible Representations of Cerebral Palsy from Ancient Egypt"
  • October 3rd — Dr. Betsy Bryan (Alexander Badawy Professor Emerita of Egyptian Art and Archaeology, Johns Hopkins University), "Thebes From Amenhotep III to Tutankhamen: Altered, Abandoned, Mutilated and Rejuvenated"
  • August 6th — Dr. Nicholas Warner and Tom Hardwick (webinar); Dr. Peter Brand (August lecture), "Carter House 1910-2022: Restoration and Adaptive Reuse" / "Ramesses II's Royal Women"
  • May 28th — Dr. Peter Brand (Professor of Egyptology & Ancient History, Director, Karnak Hypostyle Hall Project), "Ramesses II's Royal Women"
  • May 28th — Terrence J. Nichols (Lipscomb University), Southern Levant and intersections with Egypt in the Late New Kingdom
  • April 4th — Greger Larson, Ph.D. (Professor of Evolutionary Genomics, School of Archaeology, Oxford University), "Power, Prestige, and a Zoo at the Edge of the Roman Empire"

NT-ARCE 2021 Lecture Series

  • July 7th — Mark Janzen, "Imagery on the western wall of the Great Hypostyle Hall"

NT-ARCE 2020 Lecture Series

  • September 20th — Jose M. Galan (Member Only lecture); Betsy Bryan (Public Access lecture), "A Middle Kingdom funerary garden in Thebes" / "The Altered State of Religion: Sekhmet & Ritual Revelries in the Reign of Amenhotep III"
  • September 17th — Gayle Gibson, "Tanis"
  • September 4th — Betsy Bryan, ARCE national event shared by NT-ARCE
  • January 25th — Kerry Muhlenstein (Brigham Young University), "Puzzles and Innovations at the Dawn of the Pyramid Age: what excavations at Snefru's pyramid at Seila can tell us about the Egyptian conception of pyramid"

NT-ARCE 2019 Lecture Series

  • September 14th — Kelly Diamond (Tulane University), "Hatshepsut: Transforming Gender"
  • September 2nd — Gayle Gibson (Royal Ontario Museum), "Ramses the Great ... Or Merely Grandiose?"
  • May 11th — Mamdouh Mohammed el-Damati (Former Minister of Antiquities and Ain Shams Professor of Egyptology), "Egyptian Queens"
  • April 20th — Kasia Szpakowska (Swansea University, Wales), "Demon Things: The Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project"
  • March 8th — Dr. Colleen Darnell, "Cleopatra Had a Jazz Band: 20th Century Egyptomania (Boshell Family Lecture Series)"
  • March 5th — Emily Cole (University of California, Berkeley), "Living on the Lakes Edge: Recent Excavations in the Fayoum"
  • January 26th — Karl Petrusco (University of Texas Arlington), "Egyptian Trade"

NT-ARCE 2018 Lecture Series

  • November 3rd — Betsy Bryan (Johns Hopkins University) and Jane Zimmerman (ARCE Executive Director), "Filling Mut's Temple with Statues" / "ARCE Update"
  • October 20th — Suzanne Onstein (University of Memphis), "1,000 Years of Egyptian Lives: Theban Tomb 16"
  • September 27th — Dr. Eric Poehler (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), "The via Pumpaiana: a Biography (Richard H. Howland Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America)"
  • September 22nd — Emily Teeter (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago), "Craftsmen and Consumerism in Predynastic Egypt"
  • August 18th — Melinda Hartwig (Emory University, University of Chicago), "Every Tomb Tells a Story"
  • July 21st — Mark Janzen (Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary), "The Wars of Merneptah: Preliminary Epigraphic Results on the Western Wall of the Cour de la Cachette"
  • June 16th — Dr. Elizabeth Hart (University of Virginia), "The Forgotten Quarries of Wadi el-Sheikh"
  • May 12th — Peter Van Minnen (University of Cincinnati), "The View From Cleopatra's Palace: Alexandria In The Age Of Augustus"
  • May 9th — Dr. Nicholas Picardo, co-sponsored online lecture
  • April 28th — Dimitri Laboury (University of Liege, Belgium), "Painters and Painters' Practices in the Theban Necropolis"
  • April 6th — Dr. Nadine Moeller (University of Chicago), "A Town Inside a Pile of Mud? — Spring Seminar on Tell Edfu"
  • March 24th — Toni Findlayson, "Bound Within a Box: An Examination of Execution Figures from the Cairo Museum"
  • February 24th — Dr. Shelby Justl (University of Pennsylvania), "Buzzworthy: Ancient Egyptian Beekeeping & the Administration of the Honey Industry"

NT-ARCE 2017 Lecture Series

  • November 4th — Kate Liszka (Cal State U, San Bernadino), "The Ancient Egyptian Amethyst Mines at Wadi el-Hudi"
  • October 21st — Dr. Melissa Barden Dowling (SMU), "Egyptian Emeralds in Graeco-Roman Culture"
  • September 22nd — Kathryn Hansen (Northern California ARCE), "Ancient Egyptian Chariots & Harness: Two Recent Projects" / "A Behind the Scenes Look at the NOVA Special: Building Pharaoh's Chariot"
  • August 19th — Mark Jansen, "Ma'at in the Amarna Period: Truth, Justice and the Egyptian Way"
  • July 22nd — Gayle Gibson (Royal Ontario Museum), "The Wild, Wild South - Life on Ancient Egypt's Aswan Frontier (2400 BCE): Cattle Raid, Murder, Revenge and Fancy Ladies"
  • June 10th — Clair Ossian, "Tutankhamen: the Story Behind the Story / Howard Carter's Alternative Facts"
  • June 10th — Kathryn Hansen (North California ARCE), "Building Pharaoh's Chariot"
  • April 7th — Drs. Melissa and Michael Dowling, "Ancient Egyptian Medicine (replacement lecture due to Dr. Redford's medical emergency)"
  • April 7th — Dr. Donald Bruce Redford (Pennsylvania State University), "The Advent of Complex Society and Egyptian State Formation" / "The Loss and Recovery of the Script" / "The Origins of the Script"
  • February 25th — Dr. Peter Brand, "Are You Ready for Seti? (lecture about Seti I)"
  • January 21st — Dr. Clair Ossian (Professor Emeritus, Tarrant County College), "Bustles, Blisters and Baksheesh... Hard-core Tourism in Victorian Egypt... 1839-1870"

NT-ARCE 2016 Lecture Series

  • November 26th — Susan Patterson (presiding); Clair Ossian, et al (Champs), "Stump the Champs"
  • October 21st — Colleen Manassa Darnell, "Warping the Time-Space Continuum: An Exploration of the Egyptian Netherworld Books" / "Giraffes, Donkeys and Boats: the Origins of Religion in the Predynastic Period" / "From the Pyramid Texts to the Books of Breathing" / "Alchemy and Hermeticism: An Egyptian Perspective"
  • October 21st — Gayle Gibson (Royal Ontario Museum), "Egyptian Heroes: Imhotep and Amenhotep (a Hapu)"
  • September 24th — Dr. Kasia Szpakowska (Swansea University), "Armed and Dangerous: An Iconography of Protective Middle and New Kingdom Demons"
  • August 20th — Molly Morse Limmer, "Going, going, gone: Bidding on Egyptian Art at Auction, and other tales from the market"
  • June 18th — Dr. Nadine Moeller (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago), "Living in Old Kingdom Egypt: A new perspective on settlements and house layouts"
  • May 21st — Dr. Clair Ossian (Navarro College, Corsicana Community College), "The Egyptian Court of the Crystal Palace in London"
  • April 14th — Karl Petruso (UTA), "Libyans and Egyptians: A Northwest Passage to Alexandria"
  • March 12th — Kathryn Bard (BU - Boston University), "The Archaeology of Contact and Cultural Diversity: Egypt, Nubia and Punt ca. 3500-1470 BCE"
  • February 13th — John Adams (Orange County Chapter-ARCE), "The Millionaire and the Mummies: Theodore Davis and the Transformation of Egyptian Archaeology"
  • January 23rd — Marsha McCoy (SMU), "Reunification, Revival, Reimagining: The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt"

NT-ARCE 2015 Lecture Series

  • November 14th — Susan Houck Allen (Brown University), "All's Fair in War (also the Members' Annual Meeting)"
  • October 23rd — Gayle Gibson (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto), "Egyptian Heroes: Imhotep and Amenhotep sa Hapu" / "Introduction to the Mysteries of Egyptian Hieroglyphics (Saturday all-day seminar)"
  • October 3rd — Lorelei Corcoran (University of Memphis), "Why Gild the Lily? Color in Ancient Egypt"
  • July 25th — Joshua Roberson, Ph.D. (University of Memphis), "Let us descend into the sightless depths: The Cosmology of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Earth"
  • May 2nd — Dr. Paul Nicholson (University of Cardiff), "Brilliant Things For Akhenaten: Glass and Faience at Tell el-Amarna"
  • April 3rd — Dr. Nadine Moeller (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago), "Recent Discoveries at Tell Edfu (Spring Seminar)"
  • March 21st — Jerry Rose (University of Arkansas), "Ancient Amarna: Report from the Archaeological Trenches"
  • February 28th — Clair Ossian (NT-ARCE), "Limestone Jewel in the Desert: The Cenotaph Tomb of Ramesses II at Abydos"
  • January 3rd — Gerry Scott (ARCE), "Update on ARCE Activities in Egypt"

NT-ARCE 2014 Lecture Series

  • October 24th — Suzanne Onstine (Memphis), "Theban Tombs and their Stories"
  • September 27th — Marsha McCoy (SMU), "Walk Like an Egyptian: Alexander the Great in Egypt"
  • August 30th — Emily Russo (Brown), "Decorated Burial Chambers in 18th Dynasty Egypt: The Tombs of Amenemhet and Sobekmose"
  • July 26th — Clair Ossian (NT-ARCE), "Karnak Temple Before The French Excavators Arrived: A Photographic And Literary Record"
  • June 14th — Ann Macy Roth (NYU), "Foreigners in Ancient Egypt: Patterns in their Representation?"
  • May 10th — Allison Hedges (UPenn), "The Egyptian Dionysus: Osiris and the Development of Theater in Ancient Egypt"
  • April 11th — Aidan Dodson (Bristol), "The Land of Kush (Member Meeting + Spring Seminar + Crook and Flail Party)"
  • April 4th — Dr. Nadine Moeller, "Recent Discoveries at Tell Edfu"
  • March 22nd — Melissa Dowling (SMU), "How to Worship a Goddess: The Experience of Initiation into the Cult of Isis"
  • February 27th — Dr. Jodi Magness, "The Ancient Synagogue and Village at Huqoq, Israel"
  • January 11th — Gerry Scott (ARCE Director), "Update on ARCE Egypt"

NT-ARCE 2013 Lecture Series

  • November 9th — Nigel Strudwick (Memphis), "Annual Meeting, Election of Officers and Lecture: Robbery in Theban Tombs"
  • August 31st — Dr. Geoffrey Martin, "Re-excavating the Royal Tomb of Horemheb (KV57) in the Valley of the Kings"
  • August 3rd — Heather Lee McCarthy (NYU), "Rameses II's Royal Women: Mortuary Evidence of a Queenly Hierarchy"
  • July 13th — Gayle Gibson (Royal Ontario Museum), "Little Girl Lost and Found: The Mummy and Coffin of An Egyptian Girl"
  • June 22nd — Jane Hill (University of Pennsylvania Museum), "Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Forensic Anthropology of One of Penn Museum's Oldest Mummies"
  • May 25th — Dr. James Hoffmeier, "The Design and Origin of the New Kingdom East Frontier Defense System"
  • April 5th — Dr. Emily Teeter (University of Chicago), "Thebes, City of Amun and the Mansions of Millions of Years" / "How Did They Build That? (Saturday seminar)"
  • March 23rd — Dr. Steve Harvey, "The Stela of Queen Tetisheri Revisited"

Earlier NT-ARCE Lectures

The North Texas chapter of ARCE has been holding regular lectures since our founding in the 1990s. Alas, this list doesn't go back that far.