SETH: ANCIENT EGYPT’S EVIL GOD OF POWER AND MIGHT    

 By Dr Eugene Cruz-Uribe, Professor of Global History, California State University – Monterey Bay (and soon at Indiana University – East at Richmond, Indiana)

We often see the ancient Egyptian god Seth as the god of evil in ancient Egyptian religion because he had killed his brother Osiris in order to claim the kingship of Egypt.  This lecture will try to rehabilitate Seth’s stature, taking into account numerous new studies on the many roles that Seth held throughout Egyptian history.  Oftentimes Seth held the position as king of the gods and the years of his reign as king were enumerated.  During the New Kingdom Period, he served in an honored position as the protector of the sun god Re at the prow of the solar bark, as a chief deity of the Nineteenth Dynasty kings, but he also had some negative aspects. The Late Period portrayal generated the tales of the “evil” god Seth and passed into Greek literature.

In a slide-illustrated lecture, Dr Cruz-Uribe will review some new and unpublished scenes of the god Seth from his own field work in Egypt.

Monday, May 13, 2013 at 7:30 pm

Room 238, Smith Memorial Student Union                 

Portland State University

Free admission and open to the public. 

Free parking in PSU parking structures after 7:00 p.m.  

Dr Eugene Cruz-Uribe is Professor of Global History and World Civilizations at California State University – Monterey Bay (next year Professor of History at Indiana University – East).  He is also currently the Editor of the Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, the principal research journal for Egyptology in the US. He is actively engaged in fieldwork and excavations, principally in the Western Desert and the Nile Valley. Previously, he has taught at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff and at Brown University. Several volumes on the Hibis Temple Project are among his extensively publications. He is an expert in Demotic, one of the last phases of the ancient Egyptian language, and was a coauthor on Demotic Graffiti from the Temple of Isis in Aswan and also on The Archive of Tikas—Demotic Papyri from Philadelphia in the Fayum. In 1978-79, he helped curate the Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibit for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and for the Seattle Art Museum. He received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D from the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago

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ARCE is a private, nonprofit organization that supports research on all aspects of Egyptian history and culture, fosters broader knowledge among the general public, and strengthens American-Egyptian cultural ties.

ARCE-OR – P.O. Box 15192 – Portland, OR 97214

Thursday, April 25, 2013 at 7:00 pm
Lincoln Hall, room 75, 1620 SW Park Avenue

Juan Cole is Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at the University of Michigan. For three decades, he has sought to put the relationship of the West and the Muslim world in historical context. His most recent book is Engaging the Muslim World (Palgrave Macmillan, March, 2009) and he also recently authored Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). As well as establishing a reputation as a highly influential scholar, Professor Cole has become an important public intellectual who reaches large audiences through his media work and his blog, Informed Comment. He has written widely about Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and South Asia. He has commented extensively on al-Qaeda and the Taliban, the Iraq War, the politics of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and Iranian domestic struggles and foreign affairs.For more information, please click here. 

This event is free & open to the public; however seating is limited and admission requires free tickets available through the Portland State Box Office

Presented as the Portland State University Middle East Studies Center’s Minorities of the Modern Middle East workshop keynote address. Co-sponsored with the Portland State University Department of History, Department of World Languages & Literatures, and Portland Center for Public Humanities. Presented with funding from the Portland State University Speakers Board and the Internationalization Minigrant Program.

Coming Up at the Middle East Studies Center

Women, War, and Human Rights: Lessons from Afghanistan, Iraq & Palestine

Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 12:00 pm
Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway, Room 294

In the War on Terrorism, women’s rights were initially invoked to justify military intervention, particularly in Afghanistan.  In the words of Laura Bush, “The fight against terrorism is also a fight for the rights and dignity of women.”  From “Shock and Awe” to drone strikes, Therese Saliba will look at the real effects on women’s lives from a decade of military interventions in the Middle East region, and the implications for women’s human rights.  For more information, please click here. 

Free & open to the public

Seth: Ancient Egypt’s Evil God of Power and Might

Monday, May 13, 2013 at 7:30 pm
Smith Memorial Student Union, 1825 SW Broadway, Room 238

We often see the ancient Egyptian god Seth as the god of evil in ancient Egyptian religion because he had killed his brother Osiris in order to claim the kingship of Egypt. This lecture will try to rehabilitate Seth’s stature taking into account numerous new studies on the many roles that Seth held throughout Egyptian history. In his slide-illustrated lecture, Eugene Cruz-Uribe will review some new and unpublished scenes of the god Seth from his own field work in Egypt. For more information, please click here.

Free & open to the public

Presented by the Oregon Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt

Student Legal Services presents: RACE: The Power of Illusion

A 3-part series:
Wednesday April 10, 17 and 24 from 12:00-2pm
SMSU 228 (MCC)

The division of the world’s peoples into distinct groups – “red,” “black,” “white” or “yellow” peoples – has became so deeply imbedded in our psyches, so widely accepted, many would promptly dismiss as crazy any suggestion of its falsity. Yet, that’s exactly what this provocative file questions, the very idea of race as biology, suggesting that a belief in race is no more sound that believing that the sun revolves around the earth.

More info: http://www.pdx.edu/sls/activities