On October 8, 2021, Dr. Kara Cooney presented a virtual lecture for the Portland Art Museum audience titled When Women Ruled the World. We anticipated that Dr. Cooney’s lecture and the exhibition Queen Nefertari’s Egypt would raise a lot of difficult questions. On this episode, Jeannie Kenmotsu is joined by Sara Krajewski and Stephanie Parrish to ask Dr. Cooney some of these questions that come from the Portland Art Museum staff, as well as our audience using an online form. Topics discussed include lived experience in ancient Egypt, race and patriarchy, grave goods, museums, the academy, and power.
Featured in this episode
Kara Cooney – Professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture, Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Jeannie Kenmotsu – The Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Curator of Asian Art
Sara Krajewski – Robert and Mercedes Eichholz Curator Of Modern and Contemporary Art
Stephanie Parrish – Director of Learning and Community Partnerships
Contributed to this episode
Kathleen Ash-Milby – Curator of Native American Art
Mentioned in this episode
- Queen Nefertari’s Egypt
- Museum Egizio – Turin
- Kimbell Art Museum
- Nelson Atkins
- New Orleans Museum of Art
- Splendors of Ancient Egypt
- The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt
- Nefertari
- Nefertiti
- Hatshepsut
- Temple of Millions of Years
- Nubians
- Kushites
- Bronze Age
- Sea Peoples
- City of Notocris
- NAGPRA
- Valley of the Kings
- Hidden room behind wall in King Tut’s tomb
- Egyptian Museum Mummy Parade
- National Museum of Egyptian Civilization
- President Sisi
- Salima Ikram
- American University in Cairo
- Herbert Winlock
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- William Flinders Petrie
- Abydos
- Dr. Roselyn Campbell
- V&A London
- Getty purchases Young Man at His Window for $53M
- Andrea Fraser
- Kara Cooney’s YouTube channel
- Is Egyptology Racist? Short answer: Yes
- National Gallery of Art
- Kress Fellowships
- Mary Lefkowitz
- Black Athena
- LACMA
- Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs
- King Tut is Black and he’s Still Black
- Howard University
- Chadwick Boseman
- Zahi Hawass
- The Good Kings
- Laws of Hammurabi
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Putin on horseback
- Thutmose III
- AFTERLIVES with Kara Cooney
