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