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Convegno: Ancient Egyptian demonology - A comparative perspective, Bonn, 28.02/01.03.2011

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From Rita Lucarelli
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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN Demonology
A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE

Bonn, 28.02 - 01.03 2011

Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
Institute for Art History and Archaeology
Regina-Pacis-Weg 7 - Exercise Room 4

PROGRAM

Monday, February 28 9:00
Prof. Dr. Ludwig Morenz


9:15 Welcome Dr. Rita Lucarelli (Bonn University)
Introducing The Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project: a categorization, typology, and classification of the demonic entities in ancient Egypt.

The sources and aim of this project will be further illustrated in the following lectures:

9:30 Prof. Dr. Ludwig Morenz (Bonn University)
classification problems of the religious world. What is a nTr?

10:00 Dr. Kasia Szpakowśka (Swansea University)
Practical Demon-Keeping: methods for dealing with hostile demonic entities in ancient Egypt

10.30 Coffee Pause

10.45 Dr. Rita Lucarelli (Bonn University)
Apotropaic gods, protective genii or malevolent creatures? Issues of classifications in the world of demons: the vignette of Spell 182 of the Book of the Dead

11.15 Dr. Panagiotis Kousoulis (University of the Aegean)
Apophis and his sister: the demonisation of venomous bites and agents in Egypt and abroad

11.45 Open discussion

12.15 Lunch

13.30 Prof. Dr. H-W. Fischer-Elfert (University of Leipzig)
Steckbrief eines nubischen(?) Dämonen - For tradition and nature of Sehaq (eq)

14:00 Judith Weingarten, MA (British School at Athens)
From Egyptian Taweret to 'Minoan genius': the development of a demon in Minoan Crete

14:30 Anne-Caroline Rendu Loisel ( Geneva University)
Exorcism and demons in Ancient Mesopotamia

15:00 Open discussion 15.30 Coffee break



15:45 Prof. Dr. Heinz-Josef Fabry (Bonn University)
demons believe in the Old Testament and the monotheism - a ratio determination

16:15 Philipp Kubisch, MA (Bonn University)
to ancient Indian demonology

16:45 Prof. Dr. Silvana Carotenuto (University of Naples - Orientale)
Isis, Kore, and Cleopatra: Three Sublime Feminine Demons

17.15 Open discussion

19.00 Evening Lecture at the Akademisches Kunstmuseum.
Prof. Dr. Klaus Schmidt (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Berlin)
The iconic world of Göbekli Tepe - Demons and Monsters of the Stone Age?

20.00 Guided visit of the Egyptian Collection of Bonn University and reception in the Egyptian Museum

Tuesday, March 1

9.00 Prof. Dr. Jacques van der Vliet (Leiden University/ Radboud University Nijmegen)
Engaging the demons in late-antique Egypt

9.30 Dr. Heinz Felber (Köln University)
Only "something acrid and extremely fowl"? Perceptions of good and evil spirits in the Coptic Life of Antony

10.00 Coffee Pause

10.15 Prof. Dr. Birgit Krawietz (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Surviving Monotheism. Jinn and the Arabic Islamic World

10.45 Christian Klinger, MA (Bonn University)
Shape-shifting and Transformation in Mesoamerica - The Wáay-beings in a diachronic perspective

11.15 Closing session - New Perspectives in Demonology

12.15 Lunch

13.30 Visit to the Mesoamerican Collection of Bonn University and to the Book of the Dead Project (Oxfordstrasse 15)

The conference is sponsored by the Book of the Dead Project - Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künste

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see on demonology in ancient Egypt, the organizer of the conference, following the recent encyclopedia entry (with ample bibliography):

Lucarelli, Rita (2010) Demons (benevolent and malevolent ) . In DIELEMAN, Jacco & Wendrich, Willeke (eds.). UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology , Los Angeles.

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