Activities

From April 11–13, 2024, the Mainz Academy Project on Ancient Egyptian Cursive Scripts (AKU) organized the international conference Ägyptologische „Binsen“-Weisheiten V at the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. The conference, themed "Characteristics, Developments, and Interdependencies in the Hieroglyphic-Hieratic Writing System", gathered 50 colleagues on-site, with additional participants joining digitally. In total, attendees came from 17 different countries.

Weiterlesen "Conference report: Ägyptologische „Binsen“-Weisheiten V"

The Book of Abstracts, which also contains the complete conference program, can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10847960.

We cordially invite you to participate in the conference Ägyptologische „Binsen“-Weisheiten V. The registration deadline is March 1, 2024. Registrations can be completed at https://binsen5.uni-mainz.de.

In the run-up to the conference Ägyptologische „Binsen“-Weisheiten V, an interdisciplinary and international workshop organized by the aKU prject took place from April 9–10, 2024. In a stimulating atmosphere, we were able to exchange ideas on the topic „Unveiling Egyptian Handwriting: Digital Approaches to Paleographic Analysis“.

A report on the workshop will soon appear on the project blog Hieratisch AKUell.

The AKU team invites papers for the next conference in the series Ägyptologische ,Binsen‘-Weisheiten IV, this time with the theme “Agents, Forms, and Functions of Hieratic writing in the New Kingdom”. The conference will take place in Mainz on December 9-11, 2019.

Interdisciplinary workshop by project member Svenja A. Gülden with Hubert Mara and Christian Prager: "HAASDZ18: Herausforderungen bei der Analyse von Alten Schriften im Digitalen Zeitalter" in the Mathematikon, Heidelberg.