Upcoming events.
Online Class: Women Breathing the Air of the Pharaohs
Lecture and Discussion with Politics and Prose bookshop in Washington DC. This online class will be streamed live and recorded for later viewing.
Women in the Valley of the Kings: A Talk with the Author
Women’s History Month event
The talk and reception with food and drinks are free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing from our partners at Rainy Day Books. Register at the link below!
For the Love of Sekhmet: Maggie Benson and Nettie Gourlay in the Temple of Mut
This talk will detail the original work done by Margaret Benson and Janet Gourlay on the site of the Temple of Mut, as well as their personal relationship, demonstrating that they were a genuine scientific partnership.
Were there really women working in the Valley of the Kings?
In this brief presentation to the Kelsey Museum on Zoom, I will talk about the exciting and sometimes dangerous work women were doing on excavation in the early days of Egyptology.
Women's Work in Abydos: Margaret Murray, Amice Calverley and Myrtle Broome
Presented with the American Society for Overseas Research (ASOR), this talk will detail the ways in which the work women did on site at Abydos in the early 20th century impacted our understanding and reception of one of the most important sites in all of ancient Egypt. Registration link forthcoming!
The Stolen Queen, in Conversation with Fiona Davis
Join a conversation with NYT Best-selling author Fiona Davis about her new book, The Stolen Queen.
In Conversation with Dr. Julia Troche
Kathleen Sheppard will be in conversation this evening with Dr. Julia Troche, an Egyptologist and Associate Professor of History at Missouri State University.
The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. During the so-called Golden Age of Exploration, there were women working and exploring before Howard Carter discovered the tomb of King Tut. Before men even conceived of claiming the story for themselves, women were working in Egypt to lay the groundwork for all future exploration. In Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age, Kathleen Sheppard brings the untold stories of these women back into this narrative.
Women’s Work in Abydos: Margaret Murray, Amice Calverley and Myrtle Broome
This talk will detail the ways in which the work women did on site at Abydos in the early 20th century impacted our understanding and reception of one of the most important sites in all of ancient Egypt.
How Winning a Woman of Study Can Be in Early American Egyptology
This talk will demonstrate the impact of women’s work in American Egyptology
Nile travel and professionalizing Egyptology in America, 1870-1930
This presentation will discuss the work of two main American Egyptologists, Charles Wilbour (1833-1896) and James Breasted (1865-1935), their travel on the Nile, and their subsequent impact on the discipline in the US.
A Field of Their Own: Putting the Women of Egyptology in Their Place
This talk will demonstrate the impact of women’s work in American Egyptology
A Field of Their Own: Putting the Women of Egyptology in Their Place
(Re)Introduction to some of the women in Egyptology.
Women's Work in the History of Egyptology--EES Course
An online course, through zoom, hosted by the Egypt Exploration Society. Every Thursday in October at 6pm-7:30pm GMT.
A Thousand Miles up the Hudson
The 1889-90 United States Lecture Tour of Amelia Edwards and Kate Bradbury
Egyptology, Travel, and Colonialism, with Dr. Campbell Price
Combining archaeological tourism with the history of Egyptology, and drawing on a vast array of archival materials, Tea on the terrace takes the reader behind the scenes of familiar stories, showing Egyptologists' activities in a whole new light.
Join Campbell Price and Kathleen Sheppard as they talk about how Tea on the Terrace reveals behind the scenes of the work of legendary Egyptologists.
Taunton Literary Festival
Special lecture with the Egyptian Society, Taunton, about Women in the Valley of the Kings.
For enquiries or to book your tickets for this lecture, please contact: egyptiansoctaunton@gmail.com
Victorian Society of New York
This talk will take attendees on a tour of New York between 1889 and 1916, shedding light on some of the city’s oldest Egyptological sights.
Egypt Society of Bristol
This talk will detail Benson’s three years of excavation and staying at the Luxor Hotel, culminating in the first major publication of the site, The Temple of Mut in Asher (1899) with her partner Janet Gourlay
Westfall Series: Women in the Valley of the Kings
In Conversation with Dr. Anne Austin, Egyptologist and Assistant Professor of History - University of Missouri St. Louis
The history of Egyptology is often told as yet one more grand narrative of powerful men striving to seize the day and the precious artifacts for their competing homelands. But that is only half of the story. In “Women in the Valley of the Kings,” historian Kathleen Sheppard shares the stories of some of the earliest European women who ventured to Egypt as travelers. Their travelogues, diaries and maps chronicled a new world for the curious. “Women in the Valley of the Kings” upends the grand male narrative of Egyptian exploration and shows how a group of courageous women charted unknown territory and changed the field of Egyptology forever.
Book signing after.
Doors open at 6:00 p.m. Books available from Left Bank Books