The Northern California Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt;
the Department of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley; and the Center for
Middle Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley, are sponsoring the following lecture:
Afterglow
of Empire: The Third Intermediate Period
By Dr.
Aidan Dodson, University of Bristol
April
19th, 2015 2:30 PM
Room
254 Barrows Hall
About
the Lecture:
During the half-millennium from the eleventh through the sixth
centuries BC, the power and the glory of the imperial pharaohs of the
New Kingdom crumbled in the face of internal crises and external
pressures. Dr
Aidan Dodson will this afternoon give an overview of what is known
and not known about the period and its monuments, highlighting some
of the most interesting (and problematic!) issues of the time.
About
the Lecturer:
(From the University of Bristol website) Dr Aidan Dodson was born in
London in 1962, and educated at Langley
Grammar School,
Berkshire (1975-81), Collingwood
College,
University
of Durham,
(1981-82), the University
of Liverpool
(1982-85) and Christ's
College,
University
of Cambridge
(1985-6). Holder of the Royal Institution Scholarship at Liverpool
from 1983-5, he was awarded a BA (Hons) in Archaeology of the Eastern
Mediterranean in 1985, an MPhil in Museum Practice and Archaeology in
1986 and a PhD in Egyptology in 1995. He was appointed to a Visiting
Fellowship in the Department of Archaeology at Bristol in 1996, and
became a Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and
Anthropology in 2005, teaching extramural courses during 1996-1999,
and undergraduate and postgraduate units from 1997 onwards as Unit
Tutor for Egyptology.
He became a Senior Research Fellow in 2009. For the Spring semester
of 2013 he was William K. and Marilyn M. Simpson Professor of
Egyptology at the
American University in Cairo.
Elected a Fellow of the Society
of Antiquaries of London
in September 2003, in December 2011 he was elected Chairman of the
Trustees of the Egypt
Exploration Society,
and is a Contributing Editor of the Kmt:
a Modern Journal of Egyptology,
as well as Chairman of the Egypt
Society of Bristol,
and is the author of twelve
books and over two hundred papers, articles and reviews.
For more information go to http://home.comcast.net/~hebsed/lectures.htm.
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Glenn Meyer
Publicity Director, Northern California Chapter
American Research Center in Egypt
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