Hans U. Schmid, Peter Dils and Hans-W. Fischer-Elfert (Strukturen und Transformation) and Amber Jacob and Sofie Schiødt (SciPap) – Introduction and Welcome
09:45-10:45
Keynote: Marco Frenschkowski – Categories of reality in ancient lexical lists and in late antiquelexicography
10:45-11:00
Coffe Break
Section I: The fuzzy boundaries between medical and magical practise
11:00-11:30
Amber Jacob – Magical instances in Demotic medical texts
11:30-12:00
Anne Grons – Healing across phraseological (?!) borders: How to differentiatebetween “medical” and “magical” healing approaches in Coptic medical recipes?
12:00-12:30
Tonio Sebastian Richter – Al-Rāzī in the Egyptian countryside: A 9th-/10th-century Coptic archive of medical and alchemical manuscripts and its intellectual background
12:30-14:00
Lunch
Section II: Medical texts in context
14:00-14:30
Tanja Pommerening – Medical reenactments: Emic and etic perspectives (in-person only)
14:30-15:00
Sofie Schiødt – Understanding myths in medicine: A discussion of themythological narratives in an herbal treatise
15:00-15:30
Lingxin Zhang – Concerns for women‘s health in Graeco-Roman Tebtunis (online)
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
Section III: Layout of medical and magical texts
16:00-16:30
Christopher Waß – Of signs, words, and phrases: Some remarks on the use of Egyptian writing systems in the so-called Papyri Demoticae Magicae
16:30-17:15
Sylvie Donnat –The text-image relationship in amuletic papyri: The case of thedescription of the hierocephalic crocodile in P. Louvre 32311
17:15-19:00
Lutz Popko – Publishing a masterpiece, from Stone Age to Digital Age, and back to the analog world: The Papyrus Ebers replica (in-person only)
19:00
Conference Dinner
6th October
Introduction
09:30-10:30
Keynote: Alexander Brawanski – The ancient Egyptian drug inventory for the treatment of eyediseases: Searching for patterns
10:30-11:00
Coffe Break
Section IV: Technical language in medical and magical texts
11:00- 11:30
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson – Metaphors in Ancient Egyptian healing texts: Building blocks ofscientific language (online)
11:30- 12:00
Hans-W. Fischer-Elfert – Eye-paint, orpiment, and jaundice: Demystifying a hitherto unknownhieratic sign in a Berlin treatise on ophthalmology
12:00- 12:30
Anke Blöbaum – The conception of the body and its parts in the Oracular AmuleticDecrees and beyond
12:30- 14:00
Lunch
Section V: Magical texts in context
14:00-14:30
Ivan Guermeur – The hand of Atum and the fight against incubi: An unpublished passage from Brooklyn papyrus 47.218.2
14:30-15:00
Svenja Nagel – Between sexual enhancement and control: Aphrodisiac recipesand their adaptations in the Demotic and Greek Magical Papyri
15:00-15:30
Korshi Dosoo – Divination in Coptic magical texts
15:30-16:00
Lunch
Section VI: Looking into the future: Astronomy and astrology
16:00-16:40
Marina Escolano-Poveda & Kim Ryholt – Demotic handbooks on decanal astrology (in-person only)
16:40-17:10
Ida Adsbøl Christensen – Theoretical information on astrological houses in P. Carlsberg 71 (in-person only)
