The Annual Interdisciplinary School of Ancient Greek, Egyptology and Oriental Studies
5th edition
TRUTH AND LIE IN ANTIQUITY
16-21 SEPTEMBER 2025,
Potsdam, Berlin and online
AGENDA
ICD Academy Campus – Potsdam / August-Bebel-Str. 68, D-14482 Potsdam
And online
https://zoom.us/j/3873806205?pwd=b3QrMVp2aGIybmt4VnF3Y2dDY1k0dz09
Meeting ID: 387 380 6205
Passcode: isaccl
16 September 2025
17.00-18.00 (CEST) / 18.00-19.00 (EEST, GMT+3) The Official Opening of the Annual Interdisciplinary School of Ancient Greek, Egyptology and Oriental Studies
Message from President Emil Constantinescu (recorded)
Message from Mark Donfried, general director of Institute for Cultural Diplomacy
Message from Cătălin-Ștefan Popa, general director of the Levant Institute
Message from assoc. professor Maria Luiza Oancea, representing the University of Bucharest
18.15-19.00 (CEST) / 19.15-20.00 (EEST, GMT+3)
Keynote lecture Assoc. Professor Maria Luiza Oancea (University of Bucharest) – Du logos aux fake news – un voyage à travers l’histoire de la vérité dans l’Occident européen / De la Logos la Fake News – o călătorie prin istoria adevărului în Occidentul european.
Presentation of the participants and of their research topics.
17 September 2025
9.00-9.50 (CEST) / 10.00-10.50 (EEST, GMT+3)
Professor Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier (Institut Catolique de Paris) – Des contes égyptiens aux récits bibliques: vérité historique ou poésie religieuse (lecture in French)
9.50-10.00 (CEST) / 10.50-11.00 (EEST, GMT+3)
Break
10.00-10.50 (CEST) / 11.00-11.50 (EEST, GMT+3)
Professor Francesco Chiabotti (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris) – Rêve, vérité et mensonge dans l'identité généalogique. L’auto-hagiographie de Qandūsī (m. 1861) (lecture in French)
10.50-11.00 (CEST) / 11.50-12.00 (EEST, GMT+3)
Break
11.00-11.30 (CEST) / 12.00-12.30 (EEST, GMT+3)
Dr. Cristian Crăciun (Alumnus Freie Universitat Berlin), A Catalogue of all the Egyptian and Egyptianizing Objects from the Museums of Romania (conferință în limba engleză)
11.30-11.40 (CEST) / 12.30-12.40 (EEST, GMT+3)
Break
11.40-12.50 (CEST) / 12.40-13.50 (EEST, GMT+3)
Assoc. Professor Maria Luiza Oancea (University of Bucharest) – Plato’s Gorgias 454 d-457c (seminar of Ancient Greek Reading and Romanian translation)
11.50-12.00 (CEST) / 12.50-13.00 (EEST, GMT+3)
Break
12.00-12.50 (CEST) / 13.00-14.50 (EEST, GMT+3)
Professor Maria Luiza Oancea (University of Bucharest) – Plato’s Gorgias 454 d-457 c (II) (seminar of Ancient Greek Reading and Romanian translation)
13.00-15.00 (CEST) / 14.00-16.00 (EEST, GMT+3)
Lunch break
15.00-16.50 (CEST) / 16.00-17.50 (EEST, GMT+3)
Dr. Andreea Ștefan (The National History Museum of Romania, University of Bucharest) –Nicholas Mavrocordatos On Duties (seminar of Ancient Greek Reading and Romanian translation)
18 September 2025
10.00-17.00 (CEST) / 11.00-18.00 (EEST, GMT+3)
Guided tour in Berlin Museum Island – Discovering the Ancient Treasures (Neues Museum, Altes Museum, Bode Museum, Alte Nationalgalerie)
19.00 (CEST) / 20.00 (EEST, GMT+3)
Briefing session
19 September 2025
9.00-10.50 (CEST) / 10.00-11.50 (EEST, GMT+3)
Assoc. Professor Maria Luiza Oancea (University of Bucharest) – Plato’s Gorgias 454 d-457 c (seminar of Ancient Greek Reading and Romanian translation) / Presentation of the students’ research topics.
10.50-11.00 (CEST) / 11.50-12.00 (EEST, GMT+3)
Break
11.00-12.50 (CEST) / 12.00-13.50 (EEST, GMT+3)
Dr. Ștefan Zară (University of Bucharest) – Traditio et innovatio: Classical Heritage in Biblical Epigrams (Palatine Anthology, Book 1) (seminar of Ancient Greek Reading and Romanian translation)
13.00-15.00 (CEST) / 14.00-16.00 (EEST, GMT+3)
Lunch break
15.00-15.50 (CEST) / 16.00-17.50 (EEST, GMT+3)
Professor Mădălina Vârtejanu-Joubert (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris) – Vérité et mensonge dans le judaïsme d'époque hellénistique : l'exemple de la Règle de la Communauté"/ "Truth and Lie in Judaism in the Hellenistic Period – the Community Statute Manuscript” (conférence bilingue français-roumain)
15.50-16.00 (CEST) / 16.50-17.00 (EEST, GMT+3)
Break
16.00-16.50 (CEST) / 17.00-17.50 (EEST, GMT+3)
Dr. habil. Cătălin-Ștefan Popa (Levant Institute), Introduction to Syriac Manuscripts – case studies (conference in English)
20 September 2025
9.00-10.50 (CEST) / 10.00-11.50 (EEST, GMT+3)
Lecturer Andra Jugănaru (University of Bucharest) – Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses (seminar of Ancient Greek Reading and Romanian translation)
10.50-11.00 (CEST) / 11.50-12.00 (EEST, GMT+3)
Break
11.00-11.50 (CEST) / 20.00-12.50 (EEST, GMT+3)
Andra Gh. Midache („Ovidius” University of Constanta), Ovid’s and Maat / Isfet, order and chaos (conference in English)
11.50-12.00 (CEST) / 12.50-13.00 (EEST, GMT+3)
Break
12.00-12.50 (CEST) / 13.00-13.50 (EEST, GMT+3)
Dr. Antonio Pio di Cosmo (University of Modena), Visualizar la estatización de las verdades: las sesiones conciliares y las implicaciones de sus representaciones en la cultura material
Dr. Ana-Maria Răducan (Levant Institute) –Photius Bibliotheke (seminar of Ancient Greek Reading and Romanian translation)
13.00-15.00 (CEST) / 14.00-16.00 (EEST, GMT+3)
Lunch break
15.00-15.50 (CEST) / 16.00-17.50 (EEST, GMT+3)
PhD. c. Ovidiu Achim (Levant Institute) – Demetrius Cantemir’s Sacrosanctae Scientiae Indepingibilis Imago – The Search for Truth (conference in English)
15.50-16.00 (CEST) / 16.50-17.00 (EEST, GMT+3)
Break
16.00-16.50 (CEST) / 17.00-17.50 (EEST, GMT+3)
Ass. Professor So Miyagawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan) & Lecturer Dr. Mona Sawy (Assiut University, Egypt), Truth and Lie in Coptic Oath (conference in English)
17.00-17.30 (CEST) / 18.00-18.30 (EEST, GMT+3)
Ass. Professor Maria Luiza Oancea (University of Bucharest) & Ana-Maria Răducan (Levant Institute). Closing ceremony. Announcement of the 2026 edition of the Annual Interdisciplinary School of Ancient Greek, Egyptology and Oriental Studies.
21 September 2025
10.00-12.00 (CEST) / 11.00-13.00 (EEST, GMT+3)
Follow up. Participants’departure.
