2021-02-18 Solange Ashby - Sacred Dancers: Nubian Women as Priestesses of Hathor

For more information about the Bade Museum collection and events please sign up for our mailing list by clicking here: https://www.psr.edu/centers/bade-museum/ or subscribe to our YouTube channel by clicking here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdKl.... To support our educational content and to help us research and exhibit objects from our Tell en-Nasbeh collection please click here: https://www.psr.edu/give/ Help the Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley get more educational content on the web! Support our work at http://arf.berkeley.edu/donate Want to know more about the ARF's programs? Join our weekly mailing list by clicking here: http://bit.ly/arf-events or sending an email request to: [email protected] Sacred Dancers: Nubian Women as Priestesses of Hathor: A lecture in the series "New Perspectives on Ancient Nubia" Speaker: Dr. Solange Ashby (Barnard College) This lecture is part of New Perspectives on Ancient Nubia, a new monthly lecture series hosted by the Badè Museum in partnership with the Archaeological Research Facility. The series brings together a diverse group of scholars whose research explores various aspects of the archaeology, art, and history of ancient Nubia, the region of modern-day southern Egypt to central Sudan. These lectures will take place monthly from October 2020 through June 2021, on Thursdays at 12:00 Pacific (unless otherwise indicated). See the list of lectures and dates below. Watch live or catch up on recorded lectures on the ARF YouTube channel here: http://bit.ly/arf-channel October 29, 2020 “The Ascendancy of the Kushite Kingdom of Kerma in the Post Middle Kingdom Era: Revisiting the Second Intermediate Period of Ancient Egypt” Dr. Salim Faraji | California State University, Dominguez Hills November 19, 2020 “A Game of Thrones: The Social Role of Board Games at Kerma” Dr. Carl Walsh | Barnes Foundation December 10, 2020 “More than Kush: Capturing the Complexity and Diversity of Ancient Nubia” Dr. Aaron de Souza | Austrian Academy of Sciences January 28, 2021 “Animals in the Kerma Afterlife: Animal Burials and Ritual at Abu Fatima Cemetery, Sudan” Dr. Shayla Monroe | UC Santa Barbara February 18, 2021 “Sacred Dancers: Nubian Women as Priestesses of Hathor” Dr. Solange Ashby | Barnard College April (Monday) 5, 2021 ""Like the Coming of the Winds": Kushite Pharaohs and their Armies in the Near East” Dr. Jeremy Pope | College of William and Mary April 29, 2021 “Decolonising New Kingdom Nubia through its Material Culture” Rennan Lemos | Cambridge University May 20, 2021 “Kushites in the Hebrew Bible” Dr. Kevin Burrell | Burman University June 3, 2021 Nile Valley Collective Round Table Dr. Sally-Ann Ashton | Edge Hill University Dr. Vanessa Davies | Bryn Mawr College Debora Heard | University of Chicago Dr. Elizabeth Minor | Wellesley College Dr. Kimani Nehusi | Temple University Dr. Stuart Tyson Smith | UC Santa Barbara