Singing to the Gods: Ancient Egyptian Funerary Rituals Through the Lens of the Chantresses of Amun
November 5, 2024 | 10 am | $10
Reichert Planetarium
The Museum’s Curator of Ancient Art will give a lecture on funerary art from a female perspective. She will discuss artifacts such as coffins, statuary, and musical instruments.
Roberta Casagrande-Kim is an archaeologist and curator of ancient art exhibits. She holds a B.A. in Christian Archaeology from the Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy) and an MA and PhD in Roman Art and Archaeology from Columbia University. She is curator at Columbia’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World of Mapping and Measuring Space: Geographic Knowledge in Greco-Roman Antiquity, When the Greeks Ruled Egypt: From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra, and Romance and Reason: Islamic Transformations of the Classical Past. Casagrande-Kim is a specialist in Roman funerary practices and beliefs in the Afterlife, Late Antique urbanism, and Greco-Roman mapping.
She has worked extensively in archaeological excavations in Italy, Israel, and Turkey, and has served as the Assistant Field Director at the Amheida excavations (Egypt) since 2010.