2021-12-02 The Career of Labib Sorial (1917–35): “A rather unusual Egyptian” (Jeffrey R. Zorn)
Channel: Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
Date: 2021-12-10

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The Career of Labib Sorial (1917–35): “A rather unusual Egyptian”: A lecture in the series "Unsilencing the Archives"
Speaker: Jeffrey R. Zorn, Cornell University
Sponsors: Archaeological Research Facility, Badè Museum, Pacific School of Religion, Palestine Exploration Fund
About: This program of public lectures in 2021-2022 draws on themes of the Badè Museum’s new virtual exhibition, Unsilencing the Archives: Laborers at the Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations (1926-1935). These lectures will take place monthly from November 2021 through June 2022, on Thursdays at 9:00 AM Pacific. Visit the exhibit here: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/collections/dc601d4d131145f88f828196860b8a44

Here is the full list of lectures in this series: 

November 4, 2021
Guarding Archaeology: Everyday Labour in the British Mandate Department of Antiquities
Sarah Irving | Staffordshire University

December 2, 2021
The Career of Labib Sorial (1917–35): “A rather unusual Egyptian”
Jeffrey R. Zorn | Cornell University

January 20, 2022
Colonial Archaeology in the Mandatory Period in Palestine
Hamdan Taha | Independent Researcher, Former Deputy Minister for Heritage and Director of the Palestinian Department of Antiquities

February 24, 2022
Palestinian Archaeologists and Heritage Professionals during the British Mandate in Palestine
Mahmoud Hawari | Part-time lecturer at Bethlehem University, Palestine, Former Director-General of the Palestinian Museum, Birzeit

March 24, 2022
Archaeology, Community, and Public Health in Palestine: Insights from the Olga Tufnell Archive, 1927 – 1938
Jack Green | Miami University Art Museum

April 14, 2022
The Problem with Archives: They Don’t Always Do as they are Told
Doug Bailey | San Francisco State University

April 28, 2022
Local Knowledge Networks and the Development of Archaeological Communities of Practice on British Excavations in Mandate Palestine
Rachael Sparks | UCL Institute of Archaeology

May 12, 2022
Global, Colonial, Local: Deconstructing Perspectives of Persepolis in the Oriental Institute Museum Archives
Kiersten Neumann | Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

May 19, 2022
"My trunk was bulging with antiques that I hadn't been able to get permits for...": Reexamining
Archaeological "Souvenirs" from 1920s Excavations at Carthage
Helen Dixon | East Carolina University

June 2, 2022
Decolonizing Museum Archives: Reinterpreting the Reisner Excavations in Sudan
Elizabeth Minor | Wellesley College