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You will receive Zoom and calendar invite link upon registration. This lecture will begin at 5PM BST (London)/12PM EST (New York). Additional time zone conversions can be found below. The lecture will be via Zoom; as a reminder, it will not be recorded.
Joshua Aaron Roberson received his Ph.D. in Egyptology, specializing in Egyptian language, from the University of Pennsylvania in 2007. He serves currently as tenured Associate Professor of Art History and Egyptian Language at the University of Memphis and as Assistant Director of the Institute of Egyptian Art & Archaeology. He has worked extensively at sites throughout Egypt, including Saqqara and Abydos, with the University of Pennsylvania; Karnak temple, with the French Nation Center for Scientific Research; Elephantine island, with the German Archaeological Institute; as well as the Valley of the Kings and the private necropolis of El-Asasif, while on fellowship with the American Research Center in Egypt.
He has conducted museum research at the University of Pennsylvania, the Cairo Museum, and the British Museum. Dr. Roberson is an internationally recognized expert in multiple disciplines within Egyptology, with an extensive publication history on ancient Egyptian religion and cosmology, cryptography, language, and literature, including more than fifty scholarly articles and other short works, as well as six books, including the The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Earth (2012); The Awakening of Osiris and the Transit of the Solar Barques (2013); Ramesside Inscriptions: Historical and Biographical, vol. IX (2018); ALexicon of Ancient Egyptian Cryptography of the New Kingdom (2020); Ancient Egypt, New Technology, co-edited with Rita Lucarelli from UC Berkeley and Steve Vinson from Indiana University (2023); and most recently, a new Teaching Grammar of Middle Egyptian (2025).
Time zone conversion:
London - 5:00 pm BST
Rome - 6:00 pm CEST
New York - 12:00 noon EDT
Los Angeles - 9:00 am PDT
Melbourne - 2:00 am AEST