FRIENDS OF ASOR WEBINARS
Uncovering What is Nubian Beneath the Veneer of Egyptianness: Excavating the Archives
Friends of ASOR present the next webinar in our monthly series on March 20, 2022, at 7:30 pm EST, featuring Debora Heard. During the Egyptian New Kingdom colonization of Nubia, Egyptian pharaohs built temples to their gods in the heartland of the Kingdom of Kush. Turning the tables in the 25th Dynasty reign of Egypt, the Kushite kings restored and expanded several of the Egyptian temples in Nubia while building more of their very own. While these temples used Egyptian religious ideology and exhibited Egyptian imagery, a closer examination of the texts and iconography reveals cultural differences that are hidden when viewed with an Egyptian lens. Through an examination of temple architecture, iconography, and inscriptions, this lecture will present a preliminary examination of three Upper Nubian temples – two dedicated to the Egyptian god Amun and one dedicated to the Nubian god Apedemak – in an effort to “uncover what is Nubian beneath the veneer of Egyptianness.”
In the course of this lecture, Debora will share with us her process of excavating the archive of archaeological excavation and inscriptional material for her dissertation as well as provide an intimate look at some of the challenges that minority, first-generation, and working-class students face in pursuing archaeology as a career. Debora will conclude her webinar with a live Q&A session.
Debora Heard is a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology specializing in the archaeology and history of ancient Nubia at the University of Chicago where she has also studied the history and language of ancient Kemet. She situates her research at the intersection of anthropology, archaeology, Egyptology, Nubian Studies, African Studies, and Africana Studies. Her dissertation research engages in a regional and temporal analysis of the inscriptions and iconography of the Upper Nubian Kushite temples dedicated to the gods Amun and Apedemak.
For more than fifteen years, she has given public lectures, taught courses, and participated in special programming dedicated to ancient Nubia and Egypt at the Oriental Institute, the Kemetic Institute, Chicago State University, and the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Debora has served as an intern in the Department of Egyptian and Nubian Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and as a curatorial assistant in the installation of the Picken Family Nubian Gallery of the Oriental Institute Museum in Chicago. She has also excavated at sites in the Nile 4th Cataract region in Sudan. She serves as the organizer and founding member of the William Leo Hansberry Society, which is committed to providing African-descended people with access, opportunity, and training in the fields of ancient Nile Valley and Northeast African Studies.
This webinar will be recorded and all paid registrants will be sent a link to view the recording.
ASOR Sustaining Members: $0 | ASOR Members: $6 | Public: $12
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You will be e-mailed the Zoom Webinar link in the week prior to the lecture on February 20, 2022. If you do not receive the link by the close of business on the Thursday before the webinar, please e-mail membership@asor.org immediately. This webinar will be recorded and all paid registrants will be sent a link to view the recording.
All proceeds from this lecture are used to fund scholarships for members impacted by COVID-19 as well as increasing ASOR’s online resources, which are free to the public.
