Calendar of Events, 2001-2002

Exhibitions

• The Fabric of Everyday Life: Historic Textiles from Karanis, Egypt
  Friday, September 28 - Sunday, December 23
• Cavafy’s World
  • “Antique Passions” at the Kelsey Museum
  • “Hidden Things” at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA)
  • “The Poet in the Library” at the Hatcher Graduate Library
    Thursday, February 21 - Sunday, May 5
• Kelsey-Sponsored Fieldwork 1924 - 2002
  Opens Friday, June 21

Events Related to Cavafy’s World

• Cavafy’s World: Opening Celebration
  Bilingual reading of Cavafy’s poems
  by John Chioles, New York University
  Thursday, February 21, 6:00 p.m., Pendleton Room, Michigan Union
  Reception following at Kelsey and UMMA
• Lecture on Cavafy’s poetry
  by Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University
  Friday, March 8, 4:00 p.m., place and title TBA
• Greek at a Slight Angle: Cavafy and Classical Poetry
  Conference organized by the Department of Classsical Studies
  Friday and Saturday, March 15­16
  Michigan Union, time TBA

Lectures

• North Atlantic Crossroads: Shipwrecks and Archaeology in Portugal’s Azores Islands
  by Kevin Crisman, Texas A & M University
  Tuesday, October 2, 5:30 p.m., 2175 Angell
  Reception following
  Cosponsored with the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)
• The Tale of Sinuhe: The Search for an Ancient Egyptian Voice
  by Richard Parkinson, British Museum
  Monday, October 15, 4:00 p.m., 3050 Frieze
  Reception following
  Near Eastern Studies Department Colloquium
• The Fabric of Everyday Life: Historic Textiles from Karanis, Egypt
  by Thelma Thomas, University of Michigan
  Friday, October 19, 5:30 p.m., 180 Tappan
  Reception following at the Kelsey
• Deciphering the Dead: Individual, Text, and Context in Ancient Egpyt
  by Janet Richards, University of Michigan
  Tuesday, November 6, noon
  Vandenberg Room, Michigan League
  Sponsored by the Institute for the Humanities
• Seven Seasons of Excavation at Akhmim, Southern Egypt
  by Yahia el-Misri, Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt
  Thursday, November 15, 5:30 p.m., 2175 Angell
  Cosponsored with AIA, Rackham Graduate School, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Near Eastern Studies
  Reception following at the Kelsey
• Archaeology in Sri Lanka: A Challenge for the New Millennium
  by Nancy C. Wilkie, Carleton College
  Tuesday, March 19, 5:30 p.m., 2175 Angell
  Reception following
  Cosponsored with AIA
• From Mystery to History: The Garamantes of the Libyan Sahara
  by David J. Mattingly, University of Leicester
  Friday, April 5, time and place TBA
  Sponsored by Side by Side Survey Workshop

Family Days

• The Fabric of Everyday Life Family Day
  Saturday, November 3, 10:00 a.m. - noon
• Egyptian Family Days
  April 20 and June 8, 10:00 a.m. - noon

Other Events

• Halloween Party with Kelsey mummy station
  Saturday, October 27, 3:00 - 5:00 & 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
  Exhibit Museum of Natural History
• Associates Holiday Party
  Thursday, December 6, time and place TBA