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Conference

Voces Magicae and the Power of the Unintelligible: Session 3

06.02.2023 08:00 AM – 06.02.2023 12:00 PM

Event Summary

This virtual meeting was 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
Introduction


EGYPTIAN TEXTS

9:15
“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
Methodological Approaches to Classifying Voces Magicae
Markéta Preininger (Würzburg)


10:15
Voces Magicae in Coptic Magical Archives
Krisztina Hevesi (Berlin)


BREAK

GREEK TEXTS

11:00
“In Praise of Nonsense”: a Reconsideration
David Frankfurter (Boston)

11:30
Voces magicae in the medieval Greek texts
Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Berlin)


ARABIC TEXTS

12:00
Voces magicae in Arabic texts
Ursula Hammed (Munich)


12:30
Conclusion