Dancing for Hathor: Nubian Women in Egyptian Cultic Life by Dr. Solange Ashby

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Monday, Mar 25, 2019  7 p.m.

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In Observance of Women's History Month 2019, the Auburn Avenue Research Library in collaboration with American Research Center In Egypt (ARCE) GA. will host Dr. Solange Ashby who will present Sacred Dancers: Nubian women as Priestesses of Hathor. This public lecture will examine the role of Nubian women in important rites of passage and worship Egyptian cultic life particularly as Priestesses of the Beautiful One, the Gold, the Lady of Dance, the goddess Hathor. Dr. Ashby will also discuss long-standing academic racism of White Egyptologists whose research disparaged and minimized the significance of Nubian women contribution to Egyptian cultic traditions. Dr. Solange Ashby received her Ph.D. in Egyptology, with a specialization in ancient Egyptian language and Nubian religion, from the University of Chicago. She has conducted fieldwork in Egypt, participated in an excavation in El-Kurru, Sudan (royal Kushite cemetery), and holds fellowships at Catholic University’s Institute of Christian Oriental Research and the American Research Center in Egypt. Dr. Ashby teaches Religion at American University in Washington, DC. Her first book, Calling Out to Isis: the Enduring Nubian Presence at Philae, will be released shortly by Gorgias Press. This event is free and open to the public at 101 Auburn Avenue NE, Atlanta, GA 30303.