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Wednesday, May 17
Session 1
| 9:00-9:30 | Registration |
| 9:30-9:45 | Opening remarks Margaret Geoga, Judith Jurjens, and Aurore Motte |
| 9:45-10:30 | “Looking Beyond – Digital Practices for the Study of Handwriting” Ursula Verhoeven, Svenja A. Gülden, and Tobias Konrad |
| Coffee break |
Session 2
| 11:00-11:30 | “Testing the limits of the sign. Writing strategies for advanced scribes from the educational board BM EA 194” Amr El Hawary |
| 11:30-12:00 | “Oral tradition in Ancient Egyptian Mathematical texts” (online) Muhammad Nasra |
| 12:00-12:30 | “A Rare Coptic Legal Exercise: O.TT157 Inv.478/1” Rowida Abo Bakr |
| Lunch break |
Session 3 – Online
| 14:00-14:30 | “Middle Egyptian features in Middle Kingdom witnesses of the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts—A case of shift-induced interference” Roberto A. Díaz Hernández |
| 14:30-15:00 | “Leaving the Rush: The Effect of the Reed Pen on Demotic Paleography in an Archive from Tebtunis” Leah Packard-Grams |
| 15:00-15:30 | “The Permanence of Materiality: Stone as a Book Medium in Ancient Egypt” Chana Algarvio |
| Coffee break |
Keynote lecture
| 16:00-17:00 | “‘Is there a text in the room?’ A journey to the limits of text then a return to Egyptian scripturality” Chloé Ragazzoli |
| 18:00-22:00 | Dinner |
Thursday, May 18
Session 4
| 9:00-9:30 | “The Scribes and Life of a Late Period Medical Papyrus” Juliane Unger |
| 9:30-10:00 | “Who were the authors of the amuletic papyri? Texts between philology and materiality” Gabriele Conte |
| 10:00-10:30 | “A bookish burial? Sources and experiences of the Amduat catalogue” Jordan Miller |
| Coffee break |
Session 5
| 11:00-11:30 | “Compilation and Transmission of Hieratic Texts during the 21st and 22nd Dynasties” Giuseppina Lenzo |
| 11:30-12:00 | “Blank spaces as a structuring device in demotic literary texts” Sarah Braun |
| 12:00-12:30 | “Resemblance or Pretence: Comparative Approaches to Four Funerary Manuscripts” (online) Sandrine Vuilleumier |
| Lunch break |
Session 6
| 14:00-14:30 | |
| 14:30-15:00 | “Group of fragments of Papyri in five frames of Nb-m-t(w)rt” Mohsen Eltoukhy |
| 15:00-15:30 | “Rock Inscriptions and Writing Practices: New Perspectives” (online) Vincent Morel |
| Coffee break |
Keynote lecture
| 16:00-17:00 | “Some ‘famous’ papyri revised - a look on material features and scribal practice” Susanne Töpfer |
Friday, May 19
Session 7
| 9:00-9:30 | “Copying calendars of lucky and unlucky days in Ramesside Deir el-Medina” (online) Micòl Di Teodoro |
| 9:30-10:00 | “An early copy of the Teaching of a Man for his Son: Edfu’s scribal community during the late Second Intermediate Period” Kathryn Bandy |
| 10:00-10:30 | “The Textual History of the Demotic ‘Prebend of Amun’” Jackie Jay |
| Coffee break |
Session 8
| 11:00-11:30 | “Scribal practice in Heqanakht model-letters: Analyzing the epistolary formula beyond the script” Ahmed Osman |
| 11:30-12:00 | “Reading Unease: Scribal Practices in an Eighteenth Dynasty Letter (MMA 27.3.560)” Niv Allon |
| 12:00-12:30 | “Variability of scribal practices in the copy of retrograde texts during the 21st dynasty (1069-945 B.C.)” Emil Joubert |
| Lunch break |
Session 9
| 14:00-14:30 | “Tracing individual copyists: methodological considerations for the identification of scribal hands in New Kingdom burial chambers” Lucía Díaz-Iglesias |
| 14:30-15:00 | “Writing speed as a factor in handwriting style variability: a view through the painted hieroglyphs of Nebnefer (ix) in TT 359 at Deir el-Medina” Elizabeth Bettles |
| 15:00-15:30 | “Tracking the ‘scribe of the Legend of Anat’ in the Museo Egizio papyrus collection: a case study in Ramesside palaeography” Renaud Pietri |
| 15:30-16:00 | Concluding remarks Margaret Geoga, Judith Jurjens, and Aurore Motte |