THE ANNUAL INTERDISCIPLINARY SCHOOL OF ANCIENT GREEK, EGYPTOLOGY AND ORIENTAL STUDIES
Fourth edition
Vice and Virtue in Antiquity
September 4th-9th 2023
ONLINE
The Institute for Advanced Studies in Levant Culture and Civilizations (ISACCL), in partnership with the Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures at the Polish Academy of Science, and the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Civilizations at the University of Bucharest, organize on the 4th-9th of September 2023 the fourth edition of the Annual Interdisciplinary School of Ancient Greek, Egyptology and Oriental studies. The scientific director of this event is assoc. prof. dr. Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures at the Polish Academy of Science). The School’s coordinators are assoc. prof. dr. Maria-Luiza Oancea (University of Bucharest), dr. Cătălin-Ștefan Popa and dr. Ana-Maria Răducan (ISACCL).
The invited guests who will teach at this event are: assoc. prof. Joanna Popielska-Grzybowska (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures at the Polish Academy of Science), assoc. prof. Maria-Luiza Oancea (Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Bucharest), professor Anca Dan (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, Paris), dr. So Miyagawa (Kyoto University and Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), dr. Ștefan Zară (The Archdiocese of Bucharest), dr. Andra Jugănaru (Faculty of History, University of Bucharest), dr. Andreea Ștefan (The National History Museum of Romania). A special session will be dedicated to the alumni of the first editions: Cristian Șimon and Elena Andra Midache Cicarma.
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.
After the previous editions of 2020, titled „Life and Death in Antiquity”, of 2021, „Cosmogony or the Myth about the Act of Making the World in Classical and Oriental Literatures”, and of 2022, titled „Time and Space in Antiquity”, ISACCL invites to a foray into the representations of vices and virtues in Antiquity through the lens of ancient Greek thinkers, such as Homer, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, Gregory of Nyssa, John of Damascus, 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.
For registration and other details please write an email to office@institutlevant.ro and raducan_ana_maria@institutlevant.ro until the 3rd of September 2023.
