The Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies will take place in Rome from Monday 17 to Saturday 22 September 2012. The Congress will be hosted at first in the Sapienza University of Rome (Monday, opening session), and then, from Tuesday to Friday, in the Institutum Patristicum Augustinianum and in the Vatican Library, near Saint Peter's Basilica.
The program will be arranged as follows:
- 1. Plenary sessions, during which invited specialists will give reports on recent developments in the major domains of Coptic studies, according to the following (alphabetical) list:
- Alessandro Bausi, Ethiopic literary production related to the Egyptian culture
- Heike Behlmer, Coptic Literature (2008-2012)
- Heinzgerd Brakmann, Coptic Liturgy (2004-2012)
- Andrew Crislip, Shenoutean studies
- Alain Delattre, Documentary papyrology (2008-2012)
- James E. Goehring, Egyptian Monasticism (2008-2012)
- Johannes den Heijer, Copto-Arabic Studies (2008-2012)
- Karel C. Innemée, Coptic Archaeology (2008-2012)
- Gertrud J.M. van Loon, Coptic Art (2008-2012)
- Tonio Sebastian Richter, Coptic Linguistics (2008-2012)
- Sofía Torallas Tovar, Coptic Codicology and Paleography (2004-2012)
- Gregor Wurst, Gnosticism and Manichaeism (2008-2012)
- 2. Short papers by IACS members and other scholars, which should not exceed 20 minutes in length; these papers, which will be accepted if an abstract is provided in advance (new deadline: June 15, 2012), will be presented in two or three parallel sessions, grouped according to the main fields of Coptic studies, or "thematic sections" (see below). All those who want to present a paper must specify it in the registration.
- 3. Workshops or panels devoted to special themes which have been prepared in advance by a group of scholars. All those who are interested in organizing a workshop or a panel should contact three or more scholars so as to form a panel and then inform the Congress Secretary as soon as possible.
The provisional arrangement of thematic sections in which the papers will be distributed is as follows:
- Archaeology
- Art
- Bible
- Codicology and Paleography
- Coptic Literature
- Copto-Arabic Studies
- Documentary papyrology
- Ethiopic literary production related to the Egyptian culture
- Gnosticism and Manichaeism
- History
- Linguistics
- Liturgy
- Monasticism
- Shenoutean studies
The congress will be closed by the business meeting of the IACS, on Saturday, 22 September, in the morning.
REGISTRATION AND UPDATING
To register your participation, please click here
http://www.copticcongress2012.uniroma1.it/form.php.
To update your information about your paper (title, abstract, thematic
section), please click
here.
If you have forgot the number of your
registration, please send a message to CopticCongress2012@uniroma1.it
For information about accommodation of the participants and location of the sites see
here.
NEW: TRAVEL GRANTS
A few travel grants of Euro 500,00 each will be attributed by "COMSt - Comparative Oriental Manuscript Studies" networking project to young scholars who will attend the
Tenth International Congress of Coptic Studies presenting a paper on one of the following subjects: manuscript studies, codicology, philology. For details about how to apply (during the month of May, 2012), please visit COMSt web site:
http://www1.uni-hamburg.de/COMST/bandi.html.
Organizing structure
Organizing Committee: Paola Buzi, Alberto Camplani, Tito Orlandi.
Organizing Staff: Paola Buzi, Alberto Camplani, Federico Contardi, Alessandro Conti
Congress Secretary: Alberto Camplani
Email of the Congress: CopticCongress2012@uniroma1.it
