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Kathlyn Cooney looking at a mummy case — Kathlyn M. Cooney. Photo by Marissa Stevens

Brooklyn Talks: Gender Transformation in Ancient Egypt

Sunday, March 26, 2017

2 pm

Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Forum, 4th Floor

Learn how the ancient Egyptians viewed the afterlife and about the impact feminism has had on describing the biology of reproduction and gender transformation in ancient Egypt. With Kathlyn M. Cooney, Associate Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology and Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at UCLA, and Ed Bleiberg, Senior Curator of Egyptian Art at the Brooklyn Museum.

Free with Museum admission. Includes a tour of A Woman’s Afterlife: Gender Transformation in Ancient Egypt with Kathlyn M. Cooney and Ed Bleiberg.

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