Event Category: Lecture

Two women peering at tableware in the Resetting The Table exhibit

Mavericks: Three Visionary Pharaohs of Egypt

Free Hybrid Lecture  Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Speaker: Lawrence M. Berman is John F. Cogan, Jr. and Mary L. Cornille Chair, Art of Ancient Egypt, Nubia, and the Near East, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Hatshepsut, Amenhotep III, and Akhenaten each ruled Egypt for long periods, leaving a lasting impact…

One Woman’s Fight to Protect Ancient Maya Legacy

Free Hybrid Lecture Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Speaker: Dr. Clemency Chase Coggins, Professor Emerita of Archaeology and Art History, Boston University; Research Associate, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Harvard University When the looting and illicit trade of cultural artifacts surged In the 1960s, one voice rose in defense of…

Death and Burial in Colonial Cambridge

Free Hybrid Lecture Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Speakers: Jason Ur, Stephen Phillips Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology, Department of Anthropology, Harvard University & Aja Lans, Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University Since the founding of Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the 1630s, the Old Burying Ground—located steps away…

Decoding the Pyramid Statues of King Menkaure

Free Hybrid Lecture Location: Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA Speaker: Florence Dunn Friedman, Visiting Scholar, Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, Brown University King Menkaure’s Fourth Dynasty pyramid temples at Giza were once filled with statues. The surviving statues represent some of the finest in ancient Egyptian sculpture. Crafted for eternity, these statues…