Voces Magicae and the Power of the Unintelligible: Session 3
Voces Magicae and the Power of the Unintelligible: Session 3
An international group of scholars will gather for the third conference on ancient magical handbooks.
This conference has been organized by Panagiota Sarischouli, Raquel Martín Hernández and Sofía Torallas Tovar, in collaboration with the Transmission of Magical Knowledge project at the Neubauer Collegium.
9:00 - 16:00
Introduction
EGYPTIAN TEXTS
9:15 - 16:15
“When I came into being, the existence came into being” / The χαβραχ-logos in Papyri Graecae Magicae and on magical gems
Anett Rózsa (Heidelberg)
9:45 - 16:45
Methodological Approaches to Classifying Voces Magicae
Markéta Preininger (Würzburg)
10:15 - 17:15
Voces Magicae in Coptic Magical Archives
Krisztina Hevesi (Berlin)
BREAK
GREEK TEXTS
11:00 - 18:00
“In Praise of Nonsense”: a Reconsideration
David Frankfurter (Boston)
11:30 - 18:30
Voces magicae in the medieval Greek texts
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Berlin)
ARABIC TEXTS
12:00 - 19:00
Voces magicae in Arabic texts
Ursula Hammed (Munich)
12:30 - 19:30
Conclusion