Art in Motion, a Social Tool of Power and Resistance

Podcast: Afterlives of Ancient Egypt with Kara Cooney · Kara Cooney

Opublikowano: 2026-09-05

Kara and Amber host a special episode with Art historian and Egyptologist Alisée Devillers to spotlight their MDPI Arts special issue “Art in Motion,” which treats Egyptian art as a verb—something commissioned, negotiated, and used to make identity, signal status, and manufacture (or resist) power across makers, patrons, and audiences. This is a long one, but it’s totally worth it. Stick around for the ‘tea’ on the realities of working in modern academic publishing. And hear all about the volume’s 24 (yes!) papers (now with 115,000 views) spanning coffins, tombs, textiles, Nubia, Persia, the Renaissance afterlife of hi...