The Annual Interdisciplinary School of Oriental Studies, Ancient Greek and Egyptology
Life and death in Antiquity
September 21st-24th 2020
ONLINE
Monday, September 21st
10:45–11:00 Opening Ceremony
Emeritus Professor Emil Constantinescu, President of the Scientific Council of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilization, President of Romania 1996-2000
Professor Renata Tatomir (“Hyperion” University of Bucharest)
Associate Professor Maria-Luiza Oancea (University of Bucharest)
Adjunct Professor Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures at the Polish Academy of Science)
11:00–12:00 Adjunct Professor Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures at the Polish Academy of Science), The Pyramid Texts – Secrets of a Language, Grammar, Formulas and Style (seminar)
12:00–13:00 Professor Renata Tatomir (“Hyperion” University of Bucharest), Egyptian Hieroglyphic Writing: a Writing System for the Living, the Dead and the Gods (course)
13:00–14:00 Adjunct Professor Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures at the Polish Academy of Science), The Pyramid Texts – Secrets of a Language, Grammar, Formulas and Style (course)
14:00–15:00 Professor Renata Tatomir (“Hyperion” University of Bucharest), Dedicational formulae to the dead and the gods; the formula for offerings; the shabti formula (seminar)
Tuesday, September 22nd
11:00–12:00 Dr Ake Engsheden (Stockholm University), Introduction to the Coptic Language (course)
12:00–14:00 Dr Andrea Ștefan (National Museum of History of Romania), Epictetus’ Diatribes, II and VI (course and seminar)
14:00–15:00 Dr Ake Engsheden (Stockholm University), Putting the Pieces Together: a Seminar on Coptic ostraca (seminar)
15:00–16:00 Professor Renata Tatomir (“Hyperion” University of Bucharest), The Evolution of Funereal Texts from the Old Kingdom to the Late Period (course)
16:00–17:00 Professor Renata Tatomir (“Hyperion” University of Bucharest), Ancient Egyptian Words You Didn’t Know You Knew (seminar)
Wednesday, September 23rd
11:00–13:00 Professor Mădălina Vârtejanu-Joubert (INALCO, Paris), A Presentation of Ancient Hebrew and of Ancient Hebrew Sources (course and seminar)
14:00–16:00 Dr Ana-Maria Răducan (IASLCC), St Symeon, the New Theologian – Hymns of Heavenly Love (course and seminar)
Thursday, September 24th
10:00–12:00 Associate Professor Maria Luiza Oancea (University of Bucharest), The Myth of Ages (Hesiod, Works and Days) (course and seminar)
12:00–14:00 Associate Professor Maria Luiza Oancea (University of Bucharest), Rhetoric in Thucydides (course and seminar)
15:00–17:00 Dr Cătălin-Ștefan Popa (IASLCC), Exegetic Examples from Syriac Literature (course and seminar)
The courses and seminars will be held in Romanian, with the exception of those held in English by Adjunct Professor Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures at the Polish Academy of Science) and by Dr Ake Engsheden (Stockholm University).
