ARCE-NC Lecture 9/15: Ouch! Pain, Emotion and Foreigners In Ancient Egyptian Art

The American Research Center in Egypt, Northern California Chapter, and the Near Eastern Studies Department, University of California, Berkeley, invite you to attend a lecture by Tara Prakash, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Ouch! Pain, Emotion and Foreigners In Ancient Egyptian Art Sunday,  September 15, 3 pm Room 20 Barrows Hall UC Berkeley Campus (Near the intersection of Bancroft Way and Barrow Lane)   Pectoral of Amenemhat III, courtesy Wikimedia Commons About the Lecture: While pain may be something that all human beings encounter, the ways in which people react to and understand it are not universal. Indeed, culture strongly impacted the experience and significance that pain had in Egyptian society and culture. Pain was frequently depicted in Egyptian art, but artists employed iconographic and compositional cues to visualize it rather facial expressions. Moreover, the representation of pain was limited to certain contexts and individuals. This lecture will particularly focus on images of foreigners in pain, considering how and why the Egyptians depicted this and what other emotions were present in these images. Photo Courtesy of Tara Prakash About the Speaker: Dr. Tara Prakash received her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her dissertation was the first comprehensive study of the prisoner statues, a series of Old Kingdom statues of kneeling, bound foreigners, and she is preparing a book manuscript on this topic. She is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Egyptian Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Near Eastern Studies department at Johns Hopkins University, and has also taught courses at the City College of New York. Dr. Prakash has worked with archaeological projects at Saqqara and Abydos in Egypt and at Tel Kabri in Israel. Her personal research focuses on issues of ethnicity and identity, foreign interactions, artistic agency, and the visualization of pain and emotion in ancient Egypt. Parking is available in UC lots after 5 p.m. on weekdays and all day on weekends for a fee. Ticket dispensing machines accept either $5 bills or $1 bills, and debit or credit cards. The Underhill lot can be entered from Channing way off College Avenue. Parking is also available in lots along Bancroft, and on the circle drive in front of the Valley Life Sciences building. A map of the campus is available online at http://www.berkeley.edu/map/ For more information about Egyptology events, go to http://www.facebook.com/NorthernCaliforniaARCE or https://www.arce-nc.org.