Studying Graeco-Roman Egypt: New Approaches in a New Generation IV
Friday, November 5, 2021
Basel, Switzerland
University of Basel, Kollegienhaus
Regenzzimmer 111
9:30 Welcome
10:00 Sabine Huebner (Basel) “Graeco-Roman Egypt in Basel: An Overview of Our Research Projects”
10:30 Spyridoula Bounta (Trier) “Edition of 20 Ptolemaic Documentary Papyri from the Collection of the University of Trier: A Summary”
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Audrey Eller (Geneva/Paris) “Lower Nubia under Egyptian Control: Untangling the Territorial Network in the Greco-Roman Period”
12:00 Marina Escolano-Poveda (Manchester) “Astrologica Atribitana: New Discoveries in Horoscopic Astrology from Athribis in Upper Egypt”
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Sophie Kovarik (Vienna) “From the Nile to the Caucasus. Grigol Zereteli and the Early Days of Papyrology”
14:30 Valérie Schram (Paris Nanterre) “Into The Woods: Reconstructing the Wooded Landscapes of Ancient Egypt through the Greek Papyri (3rd c. BC–8th c. AD)”
15:00 Coffee Break
15:30 François Gerardin (Basel) “Antinoopolis: A Greek City and its People in Roman and Byzantine Egypt”
16:00 Audric Wannaz (Basel) “Stylometry: An Archaeometry for the Text-Based Classics?”
16:30 Final Discussion
Everyone is welcome to attend. There is no conference fee. For registration and further information, please contact sabine.huebner@unibas.ch or françois.gerardin@unibas.ch
Studying Graeco-Roman Egypt: New Approaches in a New Generation III
Friday, September 27, 2019
Basel, Switzerland
University of Basel, Kollegienhaus
Fakultätenzimmer 112
9:00 Welcome
9:30 Clementina Caputo (Heidelberg) "An Introduction to the Praxeology of Writingon Ostraca"
10:00 Tea Ghigo (Hamburg/Rome) "Archaeometric Study of Inks from Coptic Manuscripts"
10:30 Hannah Ringheim (Edinburgh) "Trade Networks and Landscape: Qarah el- Hamra in the Fayum"
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Susan Fogarty (Geneva) "The Grammateus Project: Digitizing the Architecture of Greek Documentary Papyri"
12:30 Miriam Blanco (Bologna) "Rethinking Greco-Egyptian Alchemy"
13:00 Lunch
14:30 Anna Monte (Berlin) "'Seeing' in a Land of Sand and Sun: Eye Problems in Egypt Through the Lenses of Greek Papyri"
15:00 Frederic Kruger (Berlin) "The Lost Monasteries of Hermonthis: Rediscovered in Coptic Ostraca of the Byzantine Period"
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Stefania Alfarano (Salento) "Archaeology of the Convivium: Dining Rooms in Late Antique Egypt"
16:30 Jeremy Simmons (New York/Rome) "Bridging the Seas: The Egyptian Connection inAncient Indian Ocean Commerce"
17:00 Final Discussion
The showcase is without conference fee and open to all interested parties. For further information, please contact sabine.huebner@unibas.ch, irene.sotomarin@unibas.ch or matthias.stern@unibas.ch.
Studying Graeco-Roman Egypt: New Approaches in a New Generation II
September 28, 2018
Basel/ Switzerland
9:00 Welcome and Tour of the Department (Irene Soto and Matthias Stern, Basel)
9:30 Sabine Huebner (Basel) “Graeco-Roman Egypt in Basel: An Overview of Our Research Projects”
10:00 Francois Gerardin (Yale) “City and Empire in Egypt and Western Asia in the Second Century B.C.”
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Giuditta Mirizio (Bologna) “Administration and Communication in Ptolemaic Egypt. Archetypes and Antigrapha in the Papyrological Documentation”
11:30 Elizabeth Nabney (Ann Arbor) “The Impact of Labour and Mobility on Family Structures in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt”
12:00 Andrew Hogan (Yale) “Bidding and Buying in Greece and Egypt”
12:30 Lunch
14:30 Gabrielle Thiboutot (Stanford) “Reconsidering Roman Panel Paintings: What Can Material Sciences, the Ancient Economy, and Network Theory Tell Us about the ‘Fayum Portraits’?”
15:00 Alyssa Cady (Princeton) “Ornithomorphic Imagery and Rinceaux in P. Cotsen-Princeton I”
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Eugenio Garosi (Basel) “ ‘Striving for the Path’: Charting Lexical Borrowings to Contextualize Late Antique Heritage in Early Islamic Egypt”
16:30 Final Discussion
Everyone is welcome to attend. There is no conference fee. The event address is University of Basel, Kollegienhaus, Fakultätenzimmer 112. Petersplatz 1, CH–4051 Basel. For registration and further information, please contact either sabine.huebner@clutterunibas.ch, irene.soto.marin@cluttergmail.com, or matthias.stern@clutterunibas.ch.
Research Showcase: Studying Graeco-Roman Egypt. New Approaches in a New Generation
December 8, 2017
Department of Classical Civilizations, University of Basel
Rosshof, Room 306
Petersgraben 51
4051 Basel
Program
9:00 Welcome and Coffee
9:30-10:00 Andrew Hogan (Yale)
Pharaohs and Finance: Theoretical and Practical Considerations for the Ptolemaic Period
10:00-10:30 Casey L. Kirkpatrick (Western University)
Bioarchaeology at Fag El-Gamous Cemetery: A New Beginning
10:30-11:00 Nico Dogaer (KU Leuven)
“Oh, What a Tangled Web We Weave?" Potential and Pitfalls of Network Analytical Approaches to Graeco-Roman Egypt
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 Matthias Stern (Basel)
IEMP or What Else? On Local Power Relations in Late Antique Egypt
12:00-12:30 Fabian Wespi (Heidelberg)
Catching Demotic Sign Shapes: The Digital Study of Demotic Palaeography and Orthography
12:30 -14:30 Discussion and Lunch
14:30-15:00 Joseph Sanzo (LMU München)
Beyond Syncretism and Blurred Boundaries: Reimagining “Christian Amulets” from Late Antique Egypt
15:00-15:30 Serena Causo (Basel)
“Path Dependence" and Changes in Third Century Agrarian Economy of the Fayum: Preliminary Work
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:30 Emily Cole (ISAW, New York)
Between Lake and Desert: Recent Research into Settlements of the Graeco-Roman Northeast Fayum
16:30-17:00 Irene Soto (Basel)
Chasing Monies: Digital Tools and Mapping Strategies for Late Antique Egypt
17:00 Final Discussion