February 2023: From Stephen Emmel:
Opening for a one-year paid trainee program in the Digital Edition and Translation of the Coptic Old Testament at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Germany.
December 2022: From Stephen Emmel:
Online lecture by Ina Eichner, German Archaeological Institute Cairo,
13 December 2022, at 6 pm (Egypt time): Embedded in the Ruins of the
Pharaonic Past: The Monastery of St. Paulos (Deir el-Bakhit) in Western
Thebes. Insights into Everday Life
To join the hybrid event via zoom:
https://dainst-org.zoom.us/j/98748999717?pwd=ZFhybmphT2RwTTlucTZIaGxrOVBDUT09
October 2022: From Cäcilia Fluck:
"Textiles from the Nile Valley" conference, 18-19 November 2023: announcement and call for papers.
April 2022:
Online lecture by Sina Becker, DDGLC n. 47, April 21, 2022, at 6 pm CET: Power of Revelation - Revelation of Power: Shenoute's First Letter (A27) Explained
March 2022:
Online lecture by Nina Speransky, DDGLC n. 46, March 31, 2022, at 6 pm CET: A Loan Voice in the Wilderness: Voice Marking of Greek Loan Verbs in Sahidic Coptic
Announcement: IACS Awards for Academic Excellence 2022
February 2022:
From T. S. Richter:
Online conference DDGLC n. 45
March 1, 2022 6:00 pm CET on Kellis.
December 2021:
From Stephen Emmel:
Obituary: Peter Grossmann (1933-2021)
Online lecture by Sofía Torallas Tovar, December 16, 2021: A Papyrus Roll from the Montserrat Collection: The Earliest Witness to Athanasius' Letters
November 2021:
From Alin Suciu:
Our online lecture series "Material and Written Culture of
Christian Egypt" continues next Wednesday, November 10, at 4 p.m. CET.
Hugo Lundhaug (University of Oslo) will present a paper entitled
"A Thousand Years of Coptic Apocrypha."
From Stephen Emmel:
Prize competition for doctoral dissertations etc.:
Alexander-Böhlig-Preis 2023.
(see "download" at the bottom).
October 2021:
From Stephen Emmel:
Online lecture by Samuel Rubenson, October 27, 2021:
The Legacy of Origen in Early Egyptian Monasticism
July 2021:
From Hany Takla:
The St. Shenouda the Archimandrite Coptic Society has sponsored the development of
the first smart Phones and handheld devices for displaying the Coptic Bible in all
its surviving dialects. The first release was made in July 14, 2021. It included all
the available Bohairic texts for Old and New Testaments. It also include the Sahidic
New Testament based on the oldest complete texts available and several Old Testament
texts also. All the information is available on www.stshenouda.org/coptic-Bible-app.
The developer, Mr. Mina Makar of New Jersey USA, added an option to search the
availed texts by book or dialect, which is an indispensable tool for identifying
text of fragments. You can download his Unicode Coptic keyboard for the iOS
(iPhone/iPad) free of charge until July 28, 2021, it is less than one dollar to
obtain it afterwards. The search will exclude all diacritical signs or text editing
symbols! The App at this time is available for free to anyone until further notice.
You can change anything in the announcement above as you see fit. The Society has
been working on these text since its inception in 1979 and even earlier. We are
hoping in the future to add the functionality of adding variant readings by verse.
June 2021:
From Stephen Emmel:
Online lecture by Roberta Mazza, June 23, 2021:
Performing Papyrology:
Dismounting Cartonnage, Dismembering Codices and Other Tricks
From Stephen Emmel:
Online lecture by Adel Sidarus, Thursday June 17, 2021:
The Coptic Arabic Scalae: Multilingual Egypt and Coptic
Lexicography in the Middle Ages
May 2021:
From Stephen Emmel:
Online lecture by Jacques van der Vliet, May 26, 2021:
The Apocalypse of Paul (Visio Pauli) in
the Literary Landscape of Egypt
From Stephen Emmel:
Online lecture by Ágnes T. Mihálykó, May 27, 2021:
The Veneration of Saints in Hymns from Late Antique Egypt
April 2021:
From Stephen Emmel:
Online lecture by Jacques van der Vliet, April 29, 2021:
Coptic Magical Texts from the Monastery
of Naqlun.
From Stephen Emmel:
Online lecture by Louise Blanke,
April 21, 2021: "An Archaeology of Egyptian Monasticism: Settlement,
Economy and Daily Life at the White Monastery Federation".
From Stephen Emmel:
Coming soon, a new exhibition in Berlin (21 May - 12 September 2021):
Achmîm. Ägyptens vergessene Stadt.
March 2021:
From Stephen Emmel (for Cäcilia Fluck):
"Textiles from the Nile Valley"
conference, November 2021: announcement and call for papers.
From Stephen Emmel (for Tonio Sebastian Richter):
Online lecture by
Loreleï Vanderheyden, March 25, 2021: "The Sixth-Century
Turn in Coptic Letters: Materiality, Formulas, and Language".
February 2021:
From Steven Emmel (Eric Crégheur): Obituary: Wolf-Peter Funk (1943-2021)
December 2020:
From Steven Emmel (Alin Suciu): Online lecture by Paola Buzi, December 16, 2020: From This to Turin: The Eighth-Century Papyrus Codices Preserved in the Museo Egizio
November 2020:
From Steven Emmel (Sherin Sadek): Announcement of a new peer-reviewed journal of Coptological and Egyptological studies (international editorial board)
-- (Alin Suciu): Online lecture by Arietta Papaconstantinou, November 18, 2020: "Forms of Life-Writing in Coptic Literature"
October 2020:
From Steven Emmel (Helene Moussa):
Coptic Studies Symposium (online), Toronto, Canada, October 31, 2020
From Steven Emmel (Alin Suciui):
Online lecture by Alberto Camplani, October 21, 2020: The Patriarchal Institution in Egypt and Its Ideology
July 2020:
Our Member Adel Guindy announces the publication of his book: A Sword Over the Nile: A Brief History of the Copts Under Islamic Rule
May 2020:
From Steven Emmel:
3-year position as research assistant in Coptic papyrology
(click here)
at the University of Münster, Germany
From Paola Buzi (via Stephen Emmel):
New features added to the
Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature, the
main scientific outcome of the ERC-funded project "PAThs"
April 2020:
From David Brakke:
Call for submissions to a new Coptic studies monograph series:
Gorgias Coptic Studies
January 2020:
From Stephen Emmel:
Position (3 years) as Research Associate in a Cluster of Excellence project (Hamburg University) "Colonized Manuscripts: The Provenance of Hamburg's Papyrus Collection"
Post-doctoral position (3 years) in new project (ERC-funded) "Storyworlds in Transition: Coptic Apocrypha in Changing Contexts in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Periods"
December 2019:
From Stephen Emmel (Isabelle Marthot-Santaniello):
Conference program: "Neo-Palaeography:
Analysing Ancient Greek and Coptic Handwritings in the Digital Age,"
27-29 January 2020, Basel, Switzerland
November 2019:
From Stephen Emmel:
Call for Papers: conference "Neo-Palaeography:
Analysing Ancient Greek and Coptic Handwritings in the Digital Age,"
27-29 January 2020, Basel, Switzerland
October 2019:
From Stephen Emmel (Cäcilia Fluck):
Recent Research on Egyptian Textiles: Colloquium
in Washington DC, November 8-9, 2019
September 2019:
From Stephen Emmel (Auber de Lapierre):
Call for papers:
International colloquium "Wood Networks in Egypt from Antiquity
to Islamic Times," London, 18-19 June 2020.
February 2019:
From Paola Buzi and Stephen Emmel:
The third "PAThs" conference "Coptic
Literature in Context. The Contexts of Coptic Literature" will take
place in Rome from 25 to 27 February.
December 2018:
From Stephen Emmel:
Call for Papers: joint conference of the Canadian
Society for Coptic Studies and the Association Francophone de Coptologie,
Ottawa, June 2019.
November 2018:
From Prof. Cäcilia Fluck:
"Textiles from the Nile Valley"
conference, October 2019: announcement and call for papers
July 2018:
From Prof. Steven Emmel:
The University of Münster, Germany, is now accepting applications for the
position Professor of Coptology (Professor für Koptologie), to begin in
October 2019. The deadline for applications is August 15, 2018. For details,
click here
From Dr. Philip Michael Forness:
Leibniz-Projekt „Polyphonie des spätantiken Christentums“, Frankfurt
CALL FOR PAPERS: Workshop on
Modes of Knowing and the Ordering of Knowledge in Late Antiquity at
the Oxford Patristics Conference, 19-24 August 2019
April 2018:
From Martin Stadler (through Stephen Emmel):
Two five-year postitions (1 doctoral, 1 post-doc)
in the study of Coptic magic, Universität Würzburg (Ägyptologie)
March 2018:
From Stephen Emmel:
Post-doctoral position open in Berlin, Humboldt Universität (full time, 2
years):
"Sammlung von paganem antikem Wissen aus den in orientalischen
Sprachen [vorzugsweise Koptisch und/oder Syrisch] überlieferten antiken
christlichen Apokryphen"
From Paola Buzi: I am pleased to inform you that the announcement/call of the Summer School in "Coptic Literature and Manuscript Tradition" (17 - 21 September 2018) is now ready.
February 2018:
Special presentation of the Sculpture Collection and Museum of
Byzantine Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin in cooperation with students from the
Institute of Egyptology at Freie Universität Berlin:
13.02.2018-31.01.2019: "Two camels and a saint. The late antique pilgrimage center Abu Mina in Egypt".
Announcement in Bode Museum page;
Announcement in Freie Universität Berlin page
October 2017:
Stellen-Ausschreibung
an der Universität München: Mitarbeit am Projekt
"Memoria Apostolorum. Apostolische Gestalten in der christlichen
Erinnerungskultur des 1.-3. Jahrhunderts"
September 2017:
Workshop and lecture in Göttingen, September 28, 2017
(Coptic textiles).
Prize competition for doctoral dissertations etc.:
Alexander-Böhlig-Preis 2019.
Tenth "Textiles from the Nile Valley" Conference, Antwerp, October 27-29, 2017:
information and program.
May 2017:
The Field Museum in Chicago has now put a large part of its collection
(visit: http://collections-anthropology.fieldmuseum.org/ -- for some
reason I cannot establish a link)
on line, including many textiles from late antique Egypt
(communicated by Cäcilia Fluck and Elizabeth Williams.)
February 2017:
- International Young Scholars'
Conference "Canonisation and Formation of
Identities in Times of Change during Antiquity"(26-27 May 2017): Call for
Papers
- Opportunity to work as a volunteer (unpaid)
in the British Museum, London (Coptic papyri and ostraca)
- Post-doctoral fellowship in Cairo, October 2017 through December 2018:
call for applications.
December 2016:
Tenth "Textiles from the Nile Valley" Conference, December 2017:
announcement and call for papers
New open access and peer-reviewed journal:
Coptica Alexandrina,
published by the Centre of Coptic Studies, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt).
November 2016:
Research position available in Gnostic studies at the
University of Münster: announcement in
English and
German.
New book series:
Edinburgh University Press Non-Muslim contributions to
Islamic civilisation
October 2016:
From Bishop Dr Suriel Chancellor and Dean St Athanasius College:
CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference Copts in Modernity: Church and
Community between the 18th and the 21st Cent.
September 2016:
1 position at Göttingen "Project Katalogisierung der Orientalischen
Handschriften in Deutschland/Cataloguing of Oriental Manuscripts in Germany"
(German and English).
August 2016:
3 PhD positions and 1 Postdoc at Leiden University --
Deadline 14 September
Two PhD positions on the ancient textile industry, Liverpool University and Bolton Museum, UK
July 2016:
International Conference on Nubian Art
in a Byzantine, Ethiopian and Coptic Context, Warsaw,
Poland, 25-26 November 2016
June 2016:
Job opening in Coptic Studies:
Professorship of Coptology at the American University
in Cairo.
April 2016:
Internship
at the Coptic Old Testamente Project in Göttingen.
DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT
(EGYPTOLOGY / COPTOLOGY)
September 2015:
From Dr. Grzegorz Ochala (University of Warsaw, Poland): There is an updated version
of the Database of Medieval Nubian Texts, which now
includes 2,942 records and thus covers the lion's share of Christian Nubian
epigraphic and papyrological material published to date.
Prize competition for doctoral dissertations etc.: Alexander-Böhlig-Preis 2017
Call for papers: Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics in Comparative Perspectives, Berlin, February 2016
August 2015:
9th Textiles from the Nile Valley Conference,
November 2015: preliminary programme
(registration is still possible until the middle of October)
Job opportunities in Berlin (Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic)
July 2015:
Announcement & call for papers:
9th Textiles from the Nile Valley Conference,
November 2015
Exhibition in Berlin: Ein Gott. Abrahams Erben am Nil, 2015
December 2014:
The new project "Digital Edition and Translation of the Coptic-Sahidic
Old Testament" at the Göttingen Academy of Sciences has two positions
available. Please find the advertisement (closing date: January 20,
2015) here:
(German)
(English)
November 2013: University of Toronto launches campaign to endow Coptic Studies
November 2013: Prize competition for doctoral dissertations and Habilitationsschriften: Alexander-Böhlig-Preis 2015
February 2013: Position at the German Archeological Institute in Kairo
December 2012: Announcement Textiles from the Nile Valley Conference October 2013
Fellowship in Eastern Christian Manuscript Studies
August 2012: Job opportunities in Leipzig (Database and Dictionary of Greek Loanwords in Coptic)
July 2012: Job opportunity in New Haven, Connecticut (USA) for papyrologists (mainly Greek, but also Coptic etc.) (Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
July 2012: Job opportunity in Berlin for post-docs (Humboldt University)
(January 2012) Summer School of Coptic Papyrology in Heidelberg.
(December 2011) Prize competition for doctoral dissertations and Habilitationsschriften: Alexander-Böhlig-Preis 2013
(October 2011)
From Stephen Emmel
There is a job in Coptic Studies at the American University
in Cairo. The details appear on:
this site.
(August 2011) Clothing and Identities: New Perspectives on Textiles in the Roman Empire, 6th General Meeting October 2011
Publication recente des ostraca coptes de la tombe 29 par Chantal Heurtel et Anne Boudh'ors
From Prof. Gawdat Gabra:
Fri, May 13, 2011. It gives me a great pleasure to inform
you that despite the financial crisis of the last few years, the
Claremont Graduate University School of Religion acquired the
right to develop an updated and continuously expanding and evolving
web-based version of the Coptic Encyclopedia. Staff and students
are currently digitizing the Coptic Encyclopedia and posting it
online: Almost the first three volumes are available at:
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/col/cce
It is indeed a laborious process since each article is uploaded
separately in order to facilitate the search for various “keywords.â€
For instance, this will allow the user to search for all relevant
Coptic Encyclopedia articles on Saint Antony and, if they wish,
to narrow the search to all mentions of Saint Antony in a monastic
context. Furthermore, all of these articles can be updated easily
in order to benefit from new research and discoveries. Each article
needs to be cross-referenced with the authoritative reference
from the U.S. Library of Congress and each possible search term
needs to be tagged in order to enable word searches. This methodology
will pay dividends when the entire Encyclopedia finally goes online
because interested researchers will be able to find information
quickly and easily. Furthermore, the articles are uploaded in
Adobe pdf format to enable the easy saving and printing of articles.
This ease of access is integral to the evolution of Coptic studies
for both current and future scholarship. In this way, the Coptic
Encyclopedia is catapulted into the 21st century with the flexibility
to accommodate new information and to become a dynamic and evolving
resource for all interested in Coptology and related disciplines.
(August 2011) (ex-February 2011)
Announcement Textiles from the Nile Valley Conference October 2011
(August 2010)
SMR-Datenbank koptischer neutestamentlicher Handschriften
(August 2010)
ABTEILUNG DER KOPTISCHEN MUSIK UND HYMNEN
INSTITUT FüR KOPTISCHE STUDIUM/KAIRO
Seit Mai 2010 gibt es eine neue Webseite im netz: die vom Pastor Markus Lesinski aus Hemmingen/Hannover fertig gemacht wurde. Auf ihr finden sich Infos zur koptisch orthodoxen Musik und Hymnen, zur Sammlung koptisch orthodoxer Musik und Hymnen im Patriarchat der koptisch orthodoxen Kirche in Kairo sowie zu einem Projekt, das im August/September 2009 diese Sammlung digitalisiert hat. Neuigkeiten, Tagungs- und Projekthinweise aus diesem bereich der Forschung und Kirche wird es zukünftig ebenfalls dort geben. Gerne darf auf diese Webseite hingewiesen und die Internetadresse weitergegeben werden. Über Kommentare und Verbesserungshinweise freuen wir uns. Für Rückfragen stehen wir gerne zur Verfügung.
(June 2010)
12th Annual St. Shenouda-UCLA Conference of Coptic Studies.
(May 2010)
Fri, May 14, 2010
The Institute of Coptic Studies, of the Patriarchate of the Copts
Orthodox, Cairo, will hold a conference on Coptic
studies.
Program.
(February 2010)
Society of Biblical Literature 2010 Annual Meeting
(January 2010)
International Symposium on "Life in Egypt in the Coptic Period," Alexandria, Egypt, 28-30 September 2010
Summer School of Coptic Papyrology
(December 2009)
Prize competition for doctoral dissertations and Habilitationsschriften: Alexander-Böhlig-Preis 2011
(November 2009)
Job opening in Coptic studies (professorship) at the American University in Cairo:
Askese und Mönchtum im Christlichen Orient (4. Tübinger Tagung zum Christlichen Orient)
(September 2009)
Conference: .Convivencia: Representations, Knowledge and Identities,
500 - 1600 a.d.. Madrid, 27 - 30 May 2009.
Job Opportunities
(September 2009)
Coptic position at Macquarie
Scholarships for International students to study Coptic at Macquarie University, Sydney. For further information click here
(September 2009)
"Qasr Ibrim, between Egypt and Africa: a case study of cultural exchange"
(January 2009)
Fifth Islamic Manuscript Conference
Circular letter concerning the next meeting of the study group "Textiles from the Nile Valley."
And the reminder dated 7 August 2009
(Fri, 03 Jul 2009)
Dear friends and colleagues, please find attached the announcement of the exhibition "Childhood on the banks of the Nile", July 9th, 2009 in the Bode-Museum, Berlin. The exhibition is open from July, 10th 2009 to May 2010 in the rooms of the Museum for Byzantine Art (Bode-Museum). Kind regards, Cäcilia Fluck
(April 2009) Les 14e journées d'étude organisées par l'Association francophone de Coptologie auront lieu à Rome, Université La Sapienza, du 11 au 14 juin 2009.
(January 2009) Invitation to submit additional entries for an on-line supplement to the Coptic Encyclopedia published in 1991
Last call for papers: International conference "Ermitages d'Égypte au premier millénaire., IFAO, Cairo, 24-26 January 2009
Seventh International Conference of Manichaean Studies: First Announcement
(December 2008)
New Coptic art exhibit opens in Berlin.
Click here for more information
(April 2008)
Ragheb Moftah Collection of Coptic
Orthodox Liturgical Chants and Hymns in the Library of Congress
(Washington, DC, U.S.A.), Music Division.
Invitation to attend a symposium in Munich, 28-29 March 2008: "Judasevangelium und Codex Tchacos: Studien zur religionsgeschichtlichen Verortung einer gnostischen Schriftensammlung"
Call for papers: Language Typology and Egyptian-Coptic Linguistics (international conference in Leipzig, 2-5 October 2008)
Prize competition for doctoral dissertations and Habilitationsschriften: Gertrud-and-Alexander-Böhlig-Preis 2009
Second International Summer School in Coptic Papyrology, Leipzig 27 July - 3 August 2008
Geniza Conference 2007, Cambridge
Monasticism Symposium, 29-30 Sept. 2007, Melbourne
Preliminary sample of a new Coptic font (Unicode-based) called "Keft" and commissioned by the IACS (cf. Newsletter 47, p. 6, point 7).
Coptic studies in Toronto. A new course.
Symposium: Interactions. Artistic Interchange between the Eastern and Western Worlds in the Medieval period.
Friday April 8th & Saturday april 9th 2005
Princeton University, NJ
Details on http://ica.princeton.edu/conferences.html
(From Mat Immerzeel)
Conference celebrating the centenary of the birth of Hans Jacob Polotsky (Sept. 13, 2005)
Conference in memory of Sarah Clackson
Obituary of Michael G. Browne (dead 30 August 2004)
Master of Arts in Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
The site has been updated with the information for the
academic year 2004-2005
SBL Congresses:
[Annual Meetings] :
Christian Late Antiquity and its Reception at 2004 SBL Annual Meeting
Nag Hammadi and Gnosticism at 2004 SBL Annual Meeting
Religion in Roman Egypt at 2004 SBL Annual Meeting
Manichaean Studies at 2004 SBL Annual Meeting
Papyrology and Early Christian Backgrounds
at 2003 SBL Annual Meeting
Communication from Stephen Emmel about Unicode
The Aziz S. and Lola Atiya Fund's 2005 Awards
New Journal: Early Christian Art (Sophia Shaten)
Obituary of Sarah Clackson (Dorothy J. Thompson)
New publication: Tonio S. Richter, Rechtssemantik und forensische Rhetorik
New publication: Études Coptes VIII
Symposium on St. Cyril of Alexandria
Date: 5 and 6 July, 2003
Place: St. Athanasius Coptic Orthodox Theological College,
Melbourne, Australia
Please contact Fr. Macarius Wahba (Registrar) for further information.
Email: sacotc@MelbCopts.org.au
OBITUARY OF C.D.G. MÜLLER † 24 Jan. 2003 (by P. Nagel)
Cf. also Verena Böll in
Tabor Society, Heidelberg, Mitteilungsblatt 56
XLIe SESSION DES JOURNÉES DES ORIENTALISTES BELGES (C. Cannuyer)
Obituary of Prof. Robert Haardt (by Helmut Satzinger)
Textiles from the Nile Valley + Workshop and Exhibition
Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC): Programme in Archaeology/Egyptology
