Kathlyn (Kara) Cooney, UCLA associate professor of Egyptian art and architecture, will share her explorations of Egyptian funerary practices on Monday, May 12 with UCLA staff members. Her talk, which takes place from 3:30-5:30 pm in the California Room of the Faculty Center, is the latest in the Emerging Research Speaker Series co-hosted by UCLA Staff Assembly, the Academic Senate and Campus Human Resources.
Cooney's research looks at the reuse of Egyptian coffins during economic crisis and considers the people who reused the coffins, the moral implications of their actions and the way this practice changed the nature of Egyptian funerary materiality forever. Cooney detailed her work in her 2007 book, "The Cost of Death: The Social and Economic Value of Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Ramesside Period." She is currently completing a biography of Hatshepsut, the 18th-dynasty Egyptian female king, to be published by Random House in the fall of 2014. Cooney has also produced a comparative archaeology series, "Out of Egypt," with her husband, Neil Crawford. The series aired in 2009 on the Discovery Channel and can still be found on Discovery affiliates and streaming on Netflix.
Cooney's talk is free, but seating is limited, so an online RSVP is required by Friday, May 2. For more information, go to Staff Assembly.
