Sally Katary Memorial Lecture 2022
2022's Sally Katary Memorial Lecture will take place on Saturday 28th May 2021 at 1:00pm EST as a virtual event held online.
The presenter is Dr. Jean Li, (Toronto Metropolitan University - formerly called Ryerson University). Her presentation will be entitled:
“Women’s Work: Public and Private Power in Ancient Egypt”.
It is a well-known and often repeated characterization that Ancient Egyptian women were “better off” than their counterparts in other ancient civilizations: women had legal standing, and could acquire and dispose of their own property. Despite these rights, women appeared to have limited visibility in the public governmental spheres. Prof. Li will discuss the activities in which women engaged to consider the ways women exercised public and private power in society. Some comparative discussions of the roles of women in the Ancient Near East may be included.
About the Speaker:
Jean Li is Associate Professor of History at Toronto Metropolitan University (Ryerson University). Her research focuses on archaeology and gender in the Third Intermediate Period (ca. 1069-664 BCE) in Egypt. Currently, she is Associate Director of the el-Hibeh, Egypt project. She is the author of Women, Gender, and Identity in Third Intermediate Period Egypt: The Theban Case Study (2017), and co-editor of His Good Name: Essays on Identity and Self-Presentation in Ancient Egypt in Honor of Ronald J. Leprohon (2021). Her chapters on the social history of the Third Intermediate Period will appear in the forthcoming volumes of The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (3rd edition) and The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East Volume 4:The Age of Assyria.
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