The Annual Interdisciplinary School of Ancient Greek, Egyptology and Oriental Languages
5th Edition (BERLIN-POTSDAM, ONLINE)
Truth and Lie in Antiquity
The Institute for Advanced Studies for Levantine Culture and Civilization, in partnership with the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy in Berlin and the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Bucharest, organizes the fifth edition of the Annual Interdisciplinary School of Ancient Greek, Egyptology and Oriental Languages from September 16-21, 2025.
The scientific director of the event is Associate Professor Dr. Maria Luiza Oancea (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest), and the coordinators are Dr. Cătălin-Ștefan Popa and Dr. Ana-Maria Răducan (ISACCL).
Among the specialists who will offer courses: Associate Professor Dr. Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier (INALCO, Paris), Mădălina Vârtejanu-Joubert (INALCO, Paris), Francesco Chiabotti (INALCO, Paris), Associate Professor Dr. Maria-Luiza Oancea (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest), Dr. So Miyagawa (University of Tsukuba, Japan), Dr. Andra Jugănaru (Faculty of History, University of Bucharest), Dr. Andreea Ștefan (National Museum of History of Romania), Dr. Ovidiu Achim (ISACCL), Elena Andra Midache Cicarma (Ovidius University of Constanța).
True to his vocation to transmit a global understanding of the historical processes, mentalities and power representations that underpinned these civilisations’ evolution over seven millenia of challenging dynamics – essential elements for the modern identification of solutions for peaceful coexistence, collaboration and development, ISACCL supports through this event the knowledge and the transmission of the source languages and of modern methodologies by which to approach them, and also the promotion of the Classical and Oriental languages in the Romanian academic milieu.
These are the previous editions of 2020-2023:
Cosmogony or the Myth about the Act of Making the World in Classical and Oriental Literatures
The Levant Institute invites to a foray into the representations of vices and virtues in Antiquity through the lens of ancient Greek thinkers, such as Plato, Marcus Gregory of Nyssa, Symeon the New Theologian, Nicholas Mavrocordatos; in Coptic, Byzantine, Syriac and Hebrew languages, and also in the Egyptian religious texts.
The School’s activities are free of charge and will be held via Zoom, in English and Romanian, and is addressed to the students, MA and PhD students, and also to other categories of interested persons. They will receive participation diplomas.
