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Shadia Taha

Shadia Taha is a heritage specialist from Sudan concerned with what heritage means to people, their experiences, and their values. Her field of work included living with a community she studied, using a range of anthropological techniques. She studied and currently resides at Cambridge.

“Ancient Nubia Heritage: Perspectives by a native specialist in heritage and archaeology, challenging previous views and interpretations”

7 p.m., Tuesday, March 19

Rose Hills Theatre, Smith Campus Center

Stuart T. Smith

Stuart T. Smith’s research centers on the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia. He has published on the dynamics of Egyptian imperialism and royal ideology, as well as the ethnic, social, and economic dynamics of interaction between ancient Egypt and Nubia.

“Black Pharaohs? “Egyptological Bias, Racism, and Egypt and Nubia as African Civilizations”

7 p.m., Thursday, March 21

Rose Hills Theatre, Smith Campus Center

About the Lectureship

Endowed in 1980 through the generosity of Ena H. Thompson, these annual lectures encourage a broader understanding and appreciation of history. Generally held in the spring semester, the lectureship brings a distinguished historian to the ɫ��ɫ campus for a week of intensive interaction with students, faculty, and alumni. The visiting lecturers are elected both on the basis of their past contributions to the discipline and of the importance of their current research in advancing the field. Typically, they offer two public lectures on campus during the week of their residency and another lecture for alumni at a dinner event in the greater Los Angeles area.