Further Activities

22 November 2024

Beatrice Baragli: "Of Scapegoats, Birds, and the Rest: The King and All His Substitutes in the Mesopotamian Bīt rimki Ritual", ASOR Annual Meeting 2024, Boston, USA.

A programme of the meeting can be found here: https://www.asor.org/am/2024/schedules-2024

11 July 2024

Beatrice Baragli: "Narratology of the Bīt rimki ritual: The Story Told Beyond Ritual Tablets and Recitations", 69^th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Workshop: "Narrative and Storytelling as a Communication Strategy in Cuneiform Scholarship", Helsinki, Finnland.

A programme of the workshop can be found here: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/69th-rencontre-assyriologique-internationale/programme

25. June 2024

Daniel Schwemer und Helen Gries: "Magie von Zeit und Raum: Apotropäische Figuren im Vorderasiatischen Museum und ihre rituelle Verwendung nach mesopotamischen Keilschrifttexten des 1. Jt. v. Chr." Vortragsreihe "Hinter dem Bauzaun. Schätze des Vorderasiatischen Museums neu entdeckt", FU Berlin.

The lecture will be held at 6:15 pm; for access to registration and live stream, go to https://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/offenerhoersaal/vorderasien/.

5 June 2024

Daniel Schwemer: "'Living in a Precarious World. Magical rituals from ancient Mesopotamia." ISAC (University of Chicago) Members Lecture Series.

This lecture will stream live exclusively for ISAC members, but will be available on the ISAC YouTube channel later (see ISAC News & Notes 4/2024).

16 April 2024

Beatrice Baragli: "'Šamaš, take a sit on your throne!' Reconstructing ritual arrangements within the Bīt rimki ritual" talk at the workshop "DIGIR II: Divine, God-desses, Ideologies and Religion. Arts et artisanats associés aux pratiques cultuelles en Asie de l'Ouest ancienne" at Université de Lille, 14.05-14.40 CET.

The entire workshop will be filmed and broadcasted live here: https://webtv.univ-lille.fr/lives

4 April 2024

Daniel Schwemer: Daniel Schwemer presents the Centre MagEIA at the conference „Materialität: magisch wirksame Schriftträger“ at the University of Marburg. The workshop is organized by the DFG Netzwerk "Wort – Wirkung – Wunder: Sprache und Macht in der Vormoderne zwischen Religion, Magie und Medizin".
A programme of the workshop can be found here: Programme of the Workshop.

27 February 2024

Svenja Nagel: Online-Lecture on "Erotic Spells in the Demotic and Greek Magical Papyri: Ritual Techniques and Cultural Traditions", Graeco-Aegyptiaca lecture series, UCL Department of Greek and Latin in London/The Palladion, Budapest, 5.00-6.30 pm CET

https://www.palladion.hu/en/events/

Register here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/erotic-spells-in-the-demotic-and-greek-magical-papyri-tickets-824969916227

21 February 2024

Daniel Schwemer: Podcast-Interview on the MagEIA Project with The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast.

Available here: https://shwep.net/2024/02/21/daniel-schwemer-on-the-mageia-project-at-the-university-of-wurzburg/

21 February 2024

Svenja Nagel: Lecture on "Magie im alten Ägypten" for pupils, Kinderuni, Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg

17 January 2024

Daniel Kölligan: Paper on "Greek magical texts and their contribution to the lexicography of Atticism", 3rd Workshop on 'Αττικoí and Ἕλληνες: Atticism and koine between linguistic practice and grammatical theory, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice

https://www.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/fileadmin/04080400/2024/3rd_pura_workshop_17.01.2024_2_.pdf