Segunda Palestra dos Seminários de Egiptologia (LAOP/UFMG) de 2025
Temática: "The Public Impact of Collaboration in Nile Valley Studies"
Conferencista: Vanessa Davies
📅 Quando: 2 de maio de 2025, às 14h (horário de Brasília)
📍 Onde: Plataforma Google Meet
📝 Inscrições: Até 1 de maio pelo link:
Formulário de Inscrição
A palestra será ministrada em inglês. Haverá emissão de certificado.
Resumo:
The field of Nile Valley studies enjoys wide popularity outside of academic contexts. People around the world engage and identify with the ancient cultures, and their imaginations are sparked by the histories and physical remains. This informal talk will discuss how the Nile Valley Collective brings information about those cultures to public audiences.
Sobre a palestrante:
Vanessa Davies is founding organizer of the Nile Valley Collective. She earned a Ph.D. in Egyptology from the University of Chicago. She has published on ancient Nile Valley art, archaeology, history, and culture. Her recent research focuses on the reception of the ancient Nile Valley in the writings of early 20th-century African descended scholars in the US.
Palestra realizada pelo LAOP-UFMG e o Núcleo de Egiptologia Brasileira.
Primeira Palestra dos Seminários de Egiptologia (LAOP/UFMG) de 2025
Temática: "Sympathy for the Devil: Magicians in Egyptian Christian Narratives"
Conferencista: Korshi Dosoo (Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg)
📅 Quando: 16 de abril de 2025, às 11h (horário de Brasília)
📍 Onde: Plataforma Google Meet
📝 Inscrições: Até 15 de abril pelo link:
Formulário de Inscrição
A palestra será ministrada em inglês. Haverá emissão de certificado para todos os participantes.
Resumo:
From the mysterious magi of the Gospel of Matthew to the devil-worshipping sorcerers of mediaeval lore, the magician is a recurrent figure in the Christian imagination, the object of simultaneous attraction and repulsion. In this talk I will focus on the representation of magicians in Christian literature produced in late Roman and early Islamic Egypt, exploring how they are used discursively to contrast with and glorify the figures of saints; narratively, to add drama and variety to stories; and paedagogically, to teach listeners about the boundaries of appropriate social and ritual behaviour. I will ask the extent to which these stories reflect or distort the realities of practicing 'magicians', and how they may have interacted with larger social ideas about magic.
Biografia:
Korshi Dosoo is co-PI of the Corpus of Coptic Magical Formularies project (CoMaF) at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (2024–2027). Formerly fellow of the DFG Centre for Advanced Studies MagEIA (2024) and junior team leader of the project "The Coptic Magical Papyri: Vernacular Religion in Late Roman and Early Islamic Egypt" (2018–2023), lecturer at the University of Strasbourg (2017–2018), and post-doctoral researcher on the Labex RESMED project "Les mots de la paix" (2015–2017). His PhD thesis, "Rituals of Apparition on the Theban Magical Library", was completed in 2015 at Macquarie University, Australia. His research focuses on the study of magic and lived religion in Egypt from the Roman to Fatimid periods through the lens of papyrology.
Palestra realizada pelo LAOP-UFMG e o Núcleo de Egiptologia Brasileira (NEB).
