An International Summer School in Coptic Papyrology, the seventh after Vienna 2006, Leipzig 2008, Strasbourg 2010, Heidelberg 2012, Barcelona 2014, and Paris 2018, will be held at the Museo Egizio in Turin from 4 to 9 September 2023. It will be organized by the Museo Egizio in collaboration with the Freie Universität Berlin, the Università di Torino, and the Fondazione per le scienze religiose di Bologna.
An International Summer School in Coptic Papyrology, the seventh after Vienna 2006, Leipzig 2008, Strasbourg 2010, Heidelberg 2012, Barcelona 2014, and Paris 2018, will be held at the Museo Egizio in Turin from 4 to 9 September 2023. It will be organized by the Museo Egizio in collaboration with the Freie Universität Berlin, the Università di Torino, and the Fondazione per le scienze religiose di Bologna. - Not a public event
The aim of the summer school is to offer a balanced combination of taught classes and practical exercise, to teach students how to extract and evaluate historical information from different kinds of Coptic documents, and to familiarize them with practical skills and the protocol of papyrological editorial practice.
Main instructors and invited speakers will be lecturing on the history and composition of the papyrus collection of the Museo Egizio, on the paleography and decipherment of Coptic documentary hands, on linguistic, textual, and material aspects of Coptic documentary papyri, and on historical contexts of Coptic documentary writing in administration, legal practices, economy, and daily life in Late Antique and early Islamic Egypt.
Supervised by the main instructors, each student will be working on an unpublished papyrus form the Turin collection, elaborating a description, edition, and interpretation of the document, and presenting the results in a final workshop.
Classes will be taught in English.
Please note: Registration will take place on Sunday, 3 September from 05.00-06.00 p.m. at the Museo Egizio (after the main entrance).
Main Instructors:
Dr Lajos Berkes (Berlin), Prof. Anne Boud’hors (Paris), Dr Esther Garel (Strasbourg), Dr Frederic Krueger (Berlin), Prof. Tonio Sebastian Richter (Berlin), Prof. Gesa Schenke (Münster)
Speakers:
Dr Costanza Bianchi (Bologna), Prof. Paola Buzi (Rome), Dr Nathan Carlig (Liège), Dr Tea Ghigo (Oxford), Prof. Nikolaos Gonis (London), Dr Susanne Töpfer (Turin), Dr Loreleï Vanderheyden (Heidelberg); Prof. Christian Vassallo (Turin)
Public Evening Lecture (Saturday, September 9, 5.00 p.m. – 6.00 p.m.):
Prof. Alain Delattre (Bruxelles): Papyrologists at Work: Coptic Papyri and the History of Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt
Organizers:
Dr Susanne Töpfer (Museo Egizio, Turin), Prof. Dr Tonio Sebastian Richter (Freie Universität, Berlin), Dr Costanza Bianchi (FSCIRE, Bologna)
Secretary:
Elisabeth Kanarachou (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Supported by:
Ashmolean Museum - University of Oxford; Fondazione per le scienze religiose “Giovanni XXIII”, Bologna; Freie Universität Berlin; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Museo Egizio Torino; Università di Torino; Université de Strasbourg
Special acknowledgements:
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Abstract: Coptic papyrology was born almost 150 years ago, and since then the study of papyri and ostraca written in Coptic has yielded a wealth of information about Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt. The lecture will look at some of the milestones in the history of the discipline and detail the prospects and challenges facing papyrologists.
The lecture will be streamed on Facebook and will be available afterwards on the Museo Egizio YouTube channel.
You have two transportation options to get to the city centre. You can take a taxi or the bus. Taking a Taxi is always the most convenient way to get to the city. They are reliable and provide 24/7 door-to-door transportation, getting you to the city centre in 25 minutes for around €38.
For a more cost-savvy alternative, you can take the local bus, which takes 40 minutes to Turin city centre. The ticket cost is about €7 (to pay by card in the bus). The final stop would be the train station Porta Nuova.
Turin has two train stations, Porta Nuova and Porta Susa, both located already in the city centre. Porta Nuova is close to the centre, 5 minutes walking. Porta Susa is about 10-15 minutes walking distance to the city centre. The accommodations can be reached on foot or by bus (use GoogleMaps or the GTT website) from both train stations.
Bus and Tram tickets cannot be purchased on the bus/tram, but must be bought at Tabaccherie. The price for one ride is €1,70.
1. Collegio Universitario di Torino Renato Einaudi
Sezione Mole Antonelliana: Via delle Rosine 3
2. Residenza Universitaria EDISU Giulia di Barolo
Via Verdi 15
Check-in has to be Sunday, 3 September before 06.00 p.m.
Museo Egizio (Turin)
Via Accademia delle Scienze 6
Sala Conferenza
Participants, Instructors and Speakers will have free entrance to the museum by presenting the name badge.
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