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Conference

Curse & Counter-Curse: A Comparative Conference in Philology, Linguistics & Archaeology

Date
Monday 28 October 2024 - Tuesday 29 October 2024
Location
Academy Building
Rapenburg 73
2311 GJ Leiden
Room
Grachtkamer, Faculty Club

Program

You can download the program here.

Monday 28 October

10.00 -

10.30

Arrival of participants, coffee

10.30 -

11.30

Welcome and presentation by Carmen Spiers (Vedic Sanskrit manuscripts)

11.30 -

12.30

Roberta Zollo, University of Hamburg (Sumatra Batak manuscripts)

12.30 -

13.30

On-site lunch for participants

13.30 -

14.30

Gergely Hidas, Dharma Gate Buddhist College (Buddhist Sanskrit mss.)

14.30 -

15.30

Athanaric Huard, LMU München (Tocharian manuscripts)

15.30 -

16.00

Coffee break

16.00 -

17.00

Götz König, Freie Universität Berlin (Avestan manuscripts)

 

Tuesday 29 October

10.00 -

11.00

Elena Luise Hertel, University of Hamburg (Egyptian inscribed objects)

11.00 -

12.00

Ahmad Al-Jallad, Ohio State University (pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions)

12.00 -

13.00

On-site lunch for participants

13.00 -

14.00

Birgit Christiansen, LMU München (Hittite inscribed tablets)

14.00 -

15.00

Alexander Hollmann, University of Washington (Greek inscriptions on lead tablets)

15.00 -

15.30

Coffee break

15.30 -

16.30

Maarten Mous, Leiden University (Iraqw oral curses/curse-lifting)

16.30 -

17.30

Velizar Sadovski, Austrian Academy of Sciences (comparative perspectives)
18.30 Conference dinner for participants (Hotel Rumour, Burgsteeg 13, Leiden)

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact Carmen Spiers (c.s.spiers@hum.leidenuniv.nl)

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