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3:12 PM 02/08/2013

On Human Bondage in Ancient Egypt

A lecture by Ellen Morris ’91
Thursday, March 28, 2013
12 PM
BCRW, 101 Barnard Hall
gender
feminism
Africa
Middle East
history

Around 1500 BCE, the subjects of this lecture first appear in the tombs of Egyptian nobles. Just a half-century before, the Egyptian Delta had been dominated by rulers from the north, but the Egyptians had since conquered their conquerors and exerted sway as far as the Euphrates River. The sudden appearance, activities, and gradual disappearance of a specific subset of people—who Ellen Morris argues were prisoners-of-war captured from Egypt’s most exotic and formidable contemporary foe—reveal much about the effects of imperialism on Egypt’s economy and sense of self. Ellen Morris joins Barnard’s faculty this year as an assistant professor of classics, whose scholarship on ancient Egyptian social history focuses on issues of divine kingship, sexuality and performance, state formation, and human sacrifice, along with life during periods of societal disruption. She is currently finishing her second book, Ancient Egyptian Imperialism.

 

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