Please keep in mind that - if not noted otherwise in individual cases - papers should be no longer than 25-30 minutes to secure enough time for an appropriate discussion.
All talks and discussions will take place in "Vortragsraum Paulinerkirche, Historisches Gebäude der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen" (see map).
| Wednesday | |
| 09:00-15:45 | Registration: Seminar für Ägyptologie und Koptologie, Weender Landstraße 2 |
| 10:10 | Guided Tour (Meeting place: Seminar für Ägyptologie und Koptologie, Weender Landstraße 2) |
| 16:00 | Welcome (Udo Friedrich/Heike Behlmer) |
| 16:30 | Dating Egyptian Literary Texts (Gerald Moers/Antonio Loprieno) |
| 17:30 | Irrungen, Wirrungen? Forscherische Ansätze zur Datierung der älteren ägyptischen Literatur (Joachim F. Quack) |
| 19:00 | Reception: Seminar für Ägyptologie und Koptologie, Weender Landstraße 2 |
| Thursday | |
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Session I 09:00 |
(Chair: Jean Winand) Introduction |
| 09:15 | Literary Texts in a Tomb at Asyut (Ursula Verhoeven) |
| 10:00 | Archaeology and Text. The Significance of Literary Texts During the Middle Kingdom Based on the Archaeological Context (Andreas Dorn) |
| 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 | The Propaganda Model and Its Aftermath: On Some Consequences of the Use of Literary Texts as Historical Sources (Antonia Giewekemeyer) |
| 12:00 | Discussion of papers |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
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Session II |
(Chair: Heike Behlmer) |
| 14:00 | Dating Egyptian Literary Texts – The Case of the Hymn to the Inundation (Dirk van der Plas) |
| 14:45 | Merikare: The Difficulty of Dating Concepts (Susanne Bickel) |
| 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:00 | Dating the Admonitions of Ipuwer and Biblical Narrative Texts: A Comparative Study (John Van Seters) |
| 16:45 | Discussion of papers |
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Session III 17:15 |
(Chair: John Van Seters) Texts but no Contexts: The Constraints on Dating Biblical Texts |
| 18:30 | Transfer to Plesse Castle (meeting place to be announced) |
| Friday | |
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Session IV 09:00 |
(Chair: Gerald Moers) Introduction |
| 09:15 | Middle Kingdom Manuscripts and the Middle Egyptian Literary Corpus (Rirchard B. Parkinson) |
| 10:00 | Professions and Their Images: The Teaching of Khety in Context (Kai Widmaier) |
| 10:45 | Coffee break |
| 11:15 | Early 12th Dynasty Historical Texts and Literature (Andrea Gnirs) |
| 12:00 | Discussion of papers |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
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Session V |
(Chair: Pascal Vernus) |
| 14:00 | Dating Egyptian Texts: Lexical Approaches (Simon Schweitzer) |
| 14:45 | Coffee break |
| 15:15 | Why Should We Date Texts by Historic Linguistic Dating? (Alexandra von Lieven) |
| 16:00 | Linguistic Criteria as Soft Data: Methodological Issues in Dating Middle Egyptian Literary Texts (Andréas Stauder) |
| 16:45 | Discussion of papers |
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Session VI 17:15 |
(Chair: Antonio Loprieno) Early Versions in Medieval Textual Traditions – Wolfram’s Parzival as a Test Case |
| 18:15 | Individual Dinner |
| 19:45 | Concert Göttinger Symphonieorchester (Stadthalle Göttingen) |
| Saturday | |
| 09:00 | General discussion (Ludwig D. Morenz/Friedrich Junge) |
| 11:45 | Farewell |
