Author Archives: frontierwanderings
Research Visit, Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Conservation Science Department, 9th-14th February 2020.
The Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship includes two research visits. My first research visit (12th-16th November 2018) was at the National Museum in Warsaw. The second research visit was at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (KHM). The Conservation Science Department of … Continue reading
Workshop “Frontier Wanderings. Relations across the First Cataract: movement of people, ideas, goods, skills and craftsmanship (6th – 15th century).” Warsaw, 18-20 December 2019.
After an intensive period of preparations, our workshop was on! Initially, we had planned to host two different events: a consultation, an expert meeting with specialists working on topics that have a direct connection to our project and (with external … Continue reading
Poster Presentation
The Institute of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw was founded in 1919. This centenary was celebrated with a conference, which took place from 9 to 13 December 2019. The programme of the conference can be found here. For this … Continue reading
Research Visit, Egypt 8th November – 1st December 2019.
Dobrochna and I travelled to Aswan to start our work at the Nubia Museum and plan our research visits to Dayr Anba Hadra, Philae, and the temples of Kalabsha and Wadi es-Sebua. After a long procedure, we had permission to … Continue reading
Ottawa (Ontario, Canada), University of Ottawa/Université d’Ottawa, Université Saint-Paul/Saint Paul University and Carleton University, Dix-neuvième journée d’études de l’Association francophone de coptologie / Douzième colloque annuel sur les études coptes de la Société canadienne pour les études coptes, 19-22 juin 2019.
The Association francophone de coptologie (AFC) was founded in 1982 as a membership organisation for French-speaking scholars working in all fields of Coptic Studies and those who have an interest in Christian Egypt. Every two years, the AFC organises a … Continue reading
Warsaw, University of Warsaw, Annual Poles on the Nile Archaeological Conference 2018-2019, 10th-12th June 2019.
As every year, members of Polish missions working in Egypt and Sudan report on their work during a three-day conference (see programme). In the framework of our project, we investigated the Christian phases of the Temple at Wadi es-Sebua (the … Continue reading
Sapienza Università di Roma, Conference “Coptic Literature in Context. The Contexts of Coptic Literature. Late Antique Egypt in a dialogue between literature, archaeology and digital humanities.”, 25th-27th February 2019.
At the end of February, Adam and I were in Rome for this international conference, the third conference organized in the framework of the ERC PAThs Project (“Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths. An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in Their … Continue reading
Public Lecture, 17th February 2019.
Public lecture on the Monastery of Anba Hadra for the “Stichting Vrienden van de Orthodoxe Kunst” (Friends of Orthodox Art) at Castle Hernen in the village of Hernen (near Nijmegen, the Netherlands).
Research Trip to Sudan.
We, Dobrochna and Gertrud were in Sudan from 3rd to 24th of January. Unfortunately, Adam could not join us. We worked for a week in the Sudan National Museum (SNM), studying and discussing the wall paintings in the gallery … Continue reading
Universität Basel, Departement Altertumswissenschaften, Workshop “ConText. Greek, Coptic, and Arabic Sources from Aswan, Elephantine, Dayr Anba Hadra and Qasr Ibrim”, 13th-15th December 2018.
The workshop was organized by Stefanie Schmidt. From their website: “For roughly a century, alternating teams have been devoted to the archaeological exploration of the Nile island Elephantine in the south of Egypt, the city of Aswan (Roman Syene) on … Continue reading