Conferences (2005–2011)

THE HERITAGE OF ANCIENT EGYPT IN THE CULTURE OF ISLAMIC AND MODERN EGYPT

Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
has the pleasure of inviting you to the workshop THE HERITAGE OF ANCIENT EGYPT IN THE CULTURE OF ISLAMIC AND MODERN EGYPT

Date of the workshop: June 7, 2011
Venue of the workshop: Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, Náměstí Jana Palacha 2, Praha 1, 2nd floor, room no. 201.

Programme of the workshop:
9:50 Opening of the workshop
10:00–10:30 Fayza Haikal (American University in Cairo)
“Tradition and religion: transmission of culture versus similarity of beliefs”
10:30–11:00 Hosna Abdel-Samie Mahmoud (Ain Shams University)
“The representations of fire: from icon to symbol”
11:00–11:30 Iman Abdulfatah (New York University) – Jiří Janák – Mohamed Megahed – Hana Vymazalová (Charles University in Prague)
“Healing water”

11:30–12:15 Break (coffee, tea and sandwiches)

12:15–12:45 Samah A. Mahmoud–Heba I. M. Mahran (Minia University)
“The iconography of caricature scenes in Egypt (from ancient Egypt to modern times)”
12.45–13:15 Hana Benešovská (Charles University in Prague)
“Batman and Anubis: pharaonic culture in the work of the Egyptian artist Khaled Hafez”
13:15–13:45 Ahmad Zakaria (Ain Shams University)
“The influence of the archaeological excavations on the national identity”

13:45–14:15 Break (coffee, tea and cookies)

14:15–14:45 Hana Navrátilová (Oxford) –František Ondráš (Charles University in Prague)
“An amateur orientalist?”
14:45–15:15 Martina Hainová (Charles University in Prague)
“The quest of the Egyptian national identity at the novel Abath al-Aqdar by N. Mahfouz”
15:15–15:45 Gabriela Šifaldová (Charles University in Prague)
“The ancient Egyptian idea of desert in the modern Arabic literature”
15:45–16:15 František Ondráš (Charles University in Prague)
“The contemporary literary (re)flection of the ancient Egypt”
16:15 End of the workshop

EGYPT AND THE NEAR EAST – THE CROSSROADS

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON THE RELATIONS BETWEEN EGYPT AND THE NEAR EAST IN THE BRONZE AGE

The symposium will take place from Wednesday September 1st until Friday September 3rd 2010, at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, at Náměstí Jana Palacha 2, 110 00 Prague 1 (room 104).

The main objective of the workshop is to enhance our understanding of the historical processes and the development of the abundant and complex relation of Egypt with the Near East during the period defined by the end of Chalcolithic and the dawn of Iron Age. In light of this special attention will be given to the region of Syria-Palestine. In order to obtain a well-balanced insight, we would like the subject to be discussed both from an archaeological and philological point of view. We believe that bringing together archaeologists, philologists as well as historians and other experts is not merely highly desirable, but a necessity for gaining a deeper insight into the particular historical, social, cultural and economic developments of this region at this particular moment in time. During the workshop a particular section will be devoted specifically to the subject of the Amarna letters. We hope that this discussion will not only provide a new view on and understanding of the corpus itself, but we also intend to focus on the character of the political and social organization of the region and the impact Egypt, Hatti and the other Great Powers had on its cultural development.

Abstracts and Contributions
* The workshop’s working language will be English.
* Should you be interested to present a paper at the workshop, we would like to ask you to fill in the registration form and send it together with the abstract before May 1st, 2010 (preferable a MS Word document, max. 500 words).
* Contributions should be approximately 20 minutes long with an additional 10 minutes for discussion.
* The proceedings of the workshop shall appear in 2011.

Practical information
* More detailed information on the workshop itself, but also practical information on lodging and transport in Prague, will be sent to you in subsequent circulars and will also be made available at the website of the Czech Institute of Egyptology.
* There will be no registration fee for speakers. The registration fee for other participants and visitors is 20 EUR (10 EUR for students). Participants are asked to arrange and fund their own transport and lodging.

ABUSIR ANS SAQQARA IN THE YEAR 2010

Since 2001, every five years the Czech Institute of Egyptology organises symposium Abusir and Saqqara in order to discuss the latest research results connected to the history, archaeology, art, environment, excavation techniques and languages relating to the areas of Abusir, Saqqara and Dahshur. The contributions cover all periods, from the Prehistory until the Coptic era. We are therefore pleased announce the third meeting in a row, Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2010 organized by the Czech Institute of Egyptology

The symposium will take place from Monday May 31st until Friday June 4st 2010 at the Charles University, Prague – for the venue of the conference, see practical information file.

There will be no registration fee for participants to the symposium, but participants are asked to arrange and fund their own transport and lodging.

 

SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS DEVELOPMENT OF EGYPT IN THE FIRST MILLENNIUM BCE

International workshop
1–4 September 2009

The Czech Institute of Egyptology hosted the International Workshop “Social and Religious Development of Egypt in the First Millennium BCE”, which took part on the premises of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague, on 1–4 September 2009.

The proceedings of the workshop shall be published in 2010.

BAHARIYA WORKSHOP

9–10 December 2008
Prague, Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague

The Czech Institute of Egyptology, the Institute of Archaeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, and the Geoinformatics Laboratory of the J. E. Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem organized the Bahariya Workshop, which took place in the premises of the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague on 9–10 December 2008.

The workshop marked the close of the second phase of the research project pursued by the Czech team in the El Hayez Oasis in Egypt (“Exploration of the Western Desert of Egypt”, research project No. GAČR 404/06/0513).

The members of the Czech research team, presented the results of their research and were joined by their foreign colleagues engaged in the exploration of the Bahariya Oasis and the adjacent areas of the Western Desert of Egypt.

The proceedings of the workshop shall be published in the year 2010.

Miroslav Bárta, Lenka Suková, Marek Dospěl
Contact: bahariya.workshop@gmail.com

Czech Research Project in the Western Desert of Egypt: http://westerndesert.geolab.cz/

WORKSHOP EGYPT AND AUSTRIA IV

Brno, 25th – 27th September 2007

The project was aimed at an academic interdisciplinary meeting of the scholars from Ljubljana, Prague, Brno and Vienna. The aims of the meeting were to present state of research and to discuss plans for further cooperation, which should be achieved under Culture 2007 or other EC-funded initiative (7th Framework programme).

CHRONOLOGY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF EGYPT

The late Fourth and the Third millennium BC[b]

The workshop was be held from [b]June 11 to June 14, 2007, at the main building of the Czech Academy of Sciences on Národní Třída 3 and organised by the Czech Institute of Egyptology, Charles University in Prague, Celetná 20, Prague 1.

The workshop addressed specific issues associated with the chronology and archaeology of Egypt during the late Fourth and the Third millennium BC. The meeting brought together experts from different fields of Egyptology and related disciplines who shared and discussed their experience and ideas about the subject.

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP THE DANUBE MONARCHY AND THE ORIENT

September 11 –14, 2006, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Národní třída 3

The Czech Institute of Egyptology in cooperation with the Czech Orientalist Society and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and the Institute of Egyptology of the University of Vienna organized an international workshop.
The Workshop was organized as an opportunity for meeting of specialists in various disciplines, historians, art historians, historians of science, Egyptologists, Arabists, specialists of Far Eastern Studies and other Orientalists.

In the presence of specialists – Dr. Johanna Holaubek (University of Vienna), Prof. Fayza Haikal (The American University in Cairo), Dr. Jean-Marcel Humbert (Sorbonne, Paris) and Dr. Antonia Lant (New York University).

EGYPT AND AUSTRIA II

October 5 – 7, 2005; Österreichisches Kulturforum

AKTION project 42p3, 2005

The symposium “Egypt and Austria II” was oriented at the modern history (i.e. 1526–1918) of relations between the Austrian Hapsburg monarchy and Egypt, and its contextual background. These were portrayed in a broader perspective of the Austrian Eastern policy, and in context of the developing Austrian Orientalism, with a special focus on the so-called “Egyptomania” and related phenomena of cultural history. The symposium, with its planned proceedings, was a further step in the long-term study and popularisation of these phenomena, and followed the symposium “Egypt and Austria I”, whose proceedings were published under auspices of the Czech Institute of Egyptology. In addition, as the call for papers for the planned symposium was issued, participants added valuable continuations of their previous research projects developed at the symposium in 2004.

Proceedings of the workshop were published in 2006, see the publications section of this website

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