NT-ARCE 2026 Lecture Series

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
February 7th

NT-ARCE 2025 Lecture Series

Dr. Jennifer Babcock (Pratt Institute, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY)
The Swift Ones: Hares in Ancient Egyptian Visual Culture
November 8th

Dr. Okasha El Daly (University College London)
Were Egyptians Interested in Egyptology? The Reception of Egypt in Medieval Arabic Sources
October 18th

Dr. Joseph Morgan (Associate Professor of Classics and Letters, University of Oklahoma)
Architects of Empire: The So-Called Eponymous Commanders of Early Ptolemaic Egypt
September 13th

Dr. Kathleen Sheppard (Professor, Missouri University of Science and Technology)
The Golden Age of Traveling in Egypt
August 2nd

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
June 21st

Dr. Luigi Prada, Associate Professor of Egyptology at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Honorary Research Associate of the Griffith Institute, University of Oxford
Foretelling the Future along the Nile: Soothsayers and Dream Interpreters in Ancient Egypt
May 3rd

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 29th

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
April 5th

Dr. Kea Johnston (Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures / Field Museum Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago)
The SMU Coffin: From Akhim to Texas
March 1st

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)
January 25th

NT-ARCE 2024 Lecture Series

Dr. Shelby Justl
From Amarna's Maru-Aten to Dallas, TX: Tracing the Travels of a Cartouche Fragment in Bridwell Library Special Collections, SMU
November 9th

Terry Nichols
Using Modern Technology to Solve Ancient Riddles
October 19th

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 12th

Colleen Manassa (Yale)
Literature in Ancient Egypt (Friday lecture and Saturday seminar)
October 11th

Dr. Vicky Jensen, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
Deir el-Ballas: The Royal Palace that Defeated the Hyksos
August 9th

Erika R. Brown, Lanier Center of Archeology at Lipscomb University
The Erotic Curse of the Third Intermediate Period
June 22nd

Dr. Traci Andrews (Texas A&M University, Nautical Archaeology Program)
Ships and Glyphs: How Nautical Developments Appear in Hieroglyphs
April 13th

Steve Harvey
The Stela of Queen Tetisheri Revisited
March 23rd

Gayle Gibson, Emerita, Royal Ontario Museum
Letters from the Fifth Dynasty: the Uses of Literacy
February 23rd

Julia Troche, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of History, Missouri State University; Visiting Scholar of Egyptian History, Brown University)
Becoming God in the Pyramid Age
January 13th

NT-ARCE 2023 Lecture Series

Jennifer T. Roberts, City University of New York (Nov 9); Dr. Richard Parkinson, University of Oxford (Nov 18)
Ancient Lessons for Modern Democracy: The Model of Classic Athens (Nov 9); A Chronicle No Longer Gold: Re-presenting the Oxford Archive in 2022 (Nov 18)
November 18th

Dr. Sinclair Bell
Race, Racism, and Representation in Ancient Italy: Aethiopians in the Visual Arts of the Roman Empire
October 28th

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
September 23rd

Dr. Gene Kritsky (Professor and Dean of the School of Behavioral and Natural Sciences, Mount St. Joseph University, Cincinnati, OH; Adjunct Curator of Entomology, Cincinnati Museum Center)
The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt
June 10th

Dr. Melissa Barden-Dowling (Southern Methodist University)
Isis Outside of Egypt
April 15th

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
February 25th

Dr. Emily Teeter, Associate, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
It's All Old Kingdom to Me: Three Millennia of Continuity of Egyptian Art
January 14th

NT-ARCE 2022 Lecture Series

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
December 3rd

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
November 12th

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
October 3rd

Dr. Nicholas Warner and Tom Hardwick (webinar); Dr. Peter Brand (August lecture)
Carter House 1910-2022: Restoration and Adaptive Reuse (webinar); Ramesses II's Royal Women (August lecture)
August 6th

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
(topic not specified; related to Southern Levant and intersections with Egypt in the Late New Kingdom)
May 28th

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
April 4th

NT-ARCE 2021 Lecture Series

Mark Janzen
Imagery on the western wall of the Great Hypostyle Hall
July 7th

NT-ARCE 2020 Lecture Series

Jose M. Galan (Member Only lecture); Betsy Bryan (Public Access lecture)
(1) A Middle Kingdom funerary garden in Thebes; (2) The Altered State of Religion: Sekhmet & Ritual Revelries in the Reign of Amenhotep III
September 20th

Gayle Gibson
Tanis (topic described as talking about Tanis)
September 17th

Betsy Bryan
Betsy Bryan talk (topic not specified; ARCE national event shared by NT-ARCE)
September 4th

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
January 25th

NT-ARCE 2019 Lecture Series

Kelly Diamond (Tulane University)
Hatshepsut: Transforming Gender
September 14th

Gayle Gibson (Royal Ontario Museum)
Ramses the Great ... Or Merely Grandiose?
September 2nd

Mamdouh Mohammed el-Damati (Former Minister of Antiquities and Ain Shams Professor of Egyptology)
Egyptian Queens
May 11th

Kasia Szpakowska, Swansea University, Wales
Demon Things: The Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project
April 20th

Dr. Colleen Darnell
Cleopatra Had a Jazz Band: 20th Century Egyptomania (Boshell Family Lecture Series)
March 8th

Emily Cole (University of California, Berkeley)
Living on the Lakes Edge: Recent Excavations in the Fayoum
March 5th

Karl Petrusco, University of Texas Arlington
Egyptian Trade
January 26th

NT-ARCE 2018 Lecture Series

Betsy Bryan (Johns Hopkins University) and Jane Zimmerman (ARCE Executive Director)
Filling Mut's Temple with Statues / ARCE Update
November 3rd

Suzanne Onstein (University of Memphis)
1,000 Years of Egyptian Lives: Theban Tomb 16
October 20th

Dr. Eric Poehler (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
The via Pumpaiana: a Biography (Richard H. Howland Lecture, Archaeological Institute of America)
September 27th

Dr. Eve Papdini (University of Massachusetts/Ithaca)
The via Pampalona: a Biography
September 27th

Emily Teeter (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
Craftsmen and Consumerism in Predynastic Egypt
September 22nd

Melinda Hartwig (Emory University, University of Chicago)
Every Tomb Tells a Story
August 18th

Mark Janzen (Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary)
The Wars of Merneptah: Preliminary Epigraphic Results on the Western Wall of the Cour de la Cachette
July 21st

Dr. Elizabeth Hart (University of Virginia)
The Forgotten Quarries of Wadi el-Sheikh
June 16th

Peter Van Minnen, University of Cincinnati
The View From Cleopatra's Palace: Alexandria In The Age Of Augustus
May 12th

Dr. Nicholas Picardo
(topic not specified in email; co-sponsored online lecture)
May 9th

Dimitri Laboury (University of Liege, Belgium)
Painters and Painters' Practices in the Theban Necropolis
April 28th

Dr. Nadine Moeller (University of Chicago)
A Town Inside a Pile of Mud? — Spring Seminar on Tell Edfu
April 6th

Toni Findlayson
Bound Within a Box: An Examination of Execution Figures from the Cairo Museum
March 24th

Dr. Shelby Justl, University of Pennsylvania
Buzzworthy: Ancient Egyptian Beekeeping & the Administration of the Honey Industry
February 24th

NT-ARCE 2017 Lecture Series

Kate Liszka (Cal State U, San Bernadino)
The Ancient Egyptian Amethyst Mines at Wadi el-Hudi
November 4th

Dr. Melissa Barden Dowling (SMU)
Egyptian Emeralds in Graeco-Roman Culture
October 21st

Kathryn Hansen, Northern California ARCE
Friday: Ancient Egyptian Chariots & Harness: Two Recent Projects; Saturday: A Behind the Scenes Look at the NOVA Special: Building Pharaoh's Chariot
September 22nd

Mark Jansen
Ma'at in the Amarna Period: Truth, Justice and the Egyptian Way
August 19th

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
July 22nd

Clair Ossian
Tutankhamen: the Story Behind the Story / Howard Carter's Alternative Facts
June 10th

Kathryn Hansen (North California ARCE)
Building Pharaoh's Chariot
June 10th

Drs. Melissa and Michael Dowling
Ancient Egyptian Medicine (replacement lecture due to Dr. Redford's medical emergency)
April 7th

Don Redford (Penn State University)
Complex Society and the Origin of the Egyptian State
April 7th

Dr. Donald Bruce Redford (Pennsylvania State University)
Friday: The Advent of Complex Society and Egyptian State Formation; Saturday morning: The Loss and Recovery of the Script; Saturday afternoon: The Origins of the Script
April 7th

Dr. Peter Brand
Are You Ready for Seti? (lecture about Seti I)
February 25th

Dr. Clair Ossian, Professor Emeritus, Tarrant County College
Bustles, Blisters and Baksheesh... Hard-core Tourism in Victorian Egypt... 1839-1870
January 21st

NT-ARCE 2016 Lecture Series

Susan Patterson (presiding); Clair Ossian, et al (Champs)
Stump the Champs
November 26th

Colleen Manassa Darnell
Annual Meeting of Members & Lecture: Warping the Time-Space Continuum: An Exploration of the Egyptian Netherworld Books (Friday lecture); Fall Seminar (Saturday): 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)
October 21st

Dr. Kasia Szpakowska (Swansea University)
Armed and Dangerous: An Iconography of Protective Middle and New Kingdom Demons
September 24th

Molly Morse Limmer
Going, going, gone: Bidding on Egyptian Art at Auction, and other tales from the market
August 20th

Nadine Moeller
Living in Old Kingdom Egypt: A new perspective on settlements and house layouts
June 18th

Dr. Nadine Moeller (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
Living in Old Kingdom Egypt: A new perspective on settlements and house layouts
June 18th

Dr. Clair Ossian (Navarro College, Corsicana Community College)
The Egyptian Court of the Crystal Palace in London
May 21st

Karl Petruso (UTA)
Libyans and Egyptians: A Northwest Passage to Alexandria
April 14th

Kathryn Bard (BU - Boston University)
The Archaeology of Contact and Cultural Diversity: Egypt, Nubia and Punt ca. 3500-1470 BCE
March 12th

John Adams (Orange County Chapter-ARCE)
The Millionaire and the Mummies: Theodore Davis and the Transformation of Egyptian Archaeology
February 13th

Marsha McCoy (SMU)
Reunification, Revival, Reimagining: The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt
January 23rd

NT-ARCE 2015 Lecture Series

Susan Houck Allen, Brown University
All's Fair in War (also the Members' Annual Meeting)
November 14th

Gayle Gibson (Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto)
Egyptian Heroes: Imhotep and Amenhotep sa Hapu (Friday lecture); Introduction to the Mysteries of Egyptian Hieroglyphics (Saturday all-day seminar)
October 23rd

Lorelei Corcoran (University of Memphis)
Why Gild the Lily? Color in Ancient Egypt
October 3rd

Joshua Roberson, Ph.D. (University of Memphis)
Let us descend into the sightless depths: The Cosmology of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Earth
July 25th

Dr. Paul Nicholson, University of Cardiff
Brilliant Things For Akhenaten: Glass and Faience at Tell el-Amarna
May 2nd

Dr. Nadine Moeller (Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
Recent Discoveries at Tell Edfu (Spring Seminar)
April 3rd

Jerry Rose (University of Arkansas)
Ancient Amarna: Report from the Archaeological Trenches
March 21st

Clair Ossian (NT-ARCE)
Limestone Jewel in the Desert: The Cenotaph Tomb of Ramesses II at Abydos
February 28th

Gerry Scott (ARCE)
Update on ARCE Activities in Egypt
January 3rd

NT-ARCE 2014 Lecture Series

Suzanne Onstine (Memphis)
Theban Tombs and their Stories
October 24th

Marsha McCoy (SMU)
Walk Like an Egyptian: Alexander the Great in Egypt
September 27th

Emily Russo (Brown)
Decorated Burial Chambers in 18th Dynasty Egypt: The Tombs of Amenemhet and Sobekmose
August 30th

Clair Ossian (NT-ARCE)
Karnak Temple Before The French Excavators Arrived: A Photographic And Literary Record
July 26th

Ann Macy Roth (NYU)
Foreigners in Ancient Egypt: Patterns in their Representation?
June 14th

Allison Hedges (UPenn)
The Egyptian Dionysus: Osiris and the Development of Theater in Ancient Egypt
May 10th

Aidan Dodson (Bristol)
The Land of Kush (Member Meeting + Spring Seminar + Crook and Flail Party)
April 11th

Dr. Nadine Moeller
Recent Discoveries at Tell Edfu
April 4th

Melissa Dowling (SMU)
How to Worship a Goddess: The Experience of Initiation into the Cult of Isis
March 22nd

Dr. Jodi Magness
The Ancient Synagogue and Village at Huqoq, Israel
February 27th

Gerry Scott (ARCE Director)
Update on ARCE Egypt
January 11th

NT-ARCE 2013 Lecture Series

Nigel Strudwick (Memphis)
Annual Meeting, Election of Officers and Lecture: Robbery in Theban Tombs
November 9th

Dr. Geoffrey Martin
Re-excavating the Royal Tomb of Horemheb (KV57) in the Valley of the Kings
August 31st

Heather Lee McCarthy (NYU)
Rameses II's Royal Women: Mortuary Evidence of a Queenly Hierarchy
August 3rd

Gayle Gibson (Royal Ontario Museum)
Little Girl Lost and Found: The Mummy and Coffin of An Egyptian Girl
July 13th

Jane Hill, University of Pennsylvania Museum
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Forensic Anthropology of One of Penn Museum's Oldest Mummies
June 22nd

Dr. James Hoffmeier
The Design and Origin of the New Kingdom East Frontier Defense System
May 25th

Dr. Emily Teeter, University of Chicago
Thebes, City of Amun and the Mansions of Millions of Years (Friday lecture); How Did They Build That? (Saturday seminar)
April 5th

Dr. Steve Harvey
The Stela of Queen Tetisheri Revisited
March 23rd

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.