One Monday: March 10 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 pm. ET Online (Sign up at link below)
Price:
$50.00 Per Person (10% off for members)
Lecture and Discussion. This online class will be streamed live and recorded for later viewing.
“The history of Egyptology,” writes Kathleen Sheppard, “should be told as the exhilarating chronicle of fascinating, passionate women who built crucial relationships with Egyptians and then wove together global connective networks.” Guided by Sheppard’s new book, Women in the Valley of the Kings, we’ll meet the women who were drawn to Egypt in the early 20th century and discover how they contributed to our ongoing fascination with this ancient civilization. We will also talk about Egyptology today, both the role of women as well as the dilemma of how and where we should be able to see the results of all that digging. Kathleen Sheppard will join the conversation live, along with Betsy M. Bryan, the Alexander Badawy Emerita Professor of Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Johns Hopkins University.
One Monday: March 10 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 pm. ET Online
Required Reading:
Women in the Valley of the Kings: The Untold Story of Women Egyptologists in the Gilded Age by Kathleen Sheppard (9781250284358)
Recommended Reading:
Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction by Lynne Olson (9780525509486)
About the Instructor:
Karen Leggett Abouraya is a journalist and children’s author, winning the 2013 Arab American Book Award and other honors for Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt’s Treasured Books; her newest children’s picture book is Zamzam (2024), about a child with grandparents in Egypt and America. She is a dual citizen of the U.S. and Egypt. Karen and her Egyptian-born husband produce the podcast American Egyptian Women of Influence. Karen facilitated online conversations between Egyptian and American children and co-hosted a conference on informal education at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt in 2015. She earned her B.A. in international relations from Brown University.
REFUND POLICY: Please note that we can issue class refunds up until seven (7) days before the first class session.