Lectures

Stephan M. Unter (13.09.2023), ‘What the Machine (Currently) Can Do: A Brief Overview of Machine Learning Approaches for Puzzling Fragmentary Papyri‘, at: Current Research in Egyptology 2023 (Basel)

Stephan M. Unter (10.08.2023), ‘Virtual Light Table: a Digital Tool for the Reconstruction of Fragmented Objects’, at: XIIIth International Congress of Egyptologists (Leiden)

Stephan M. Unter (08.08.2023), ‘Machine Learning and Ancient Egyptian Text Genres’, at: Workshop on AI, ChatGPT and LLMs in Egyptology, XIIIth International Congress of Egyptologists (Leiden)

Martina Landrino (07.08.2023), ‘This is Ramesses IX, Signing Off: Some Final Remarks on the So-called Archive of Ramesses IX at the Museo Egizio Turin’, at: XIIIth International Congress of Egyptologists (Leiden)

Elena L. Hertel (07.08.2023), ‘Emancipating Materiality: An Integrative Research Approach to Inscribed Objects on the Example of Papyri’, at: XIIIth International Congress of Egyptologists (Leiden)

Stéphane Polis (06.06.2023), ‘Entre reconstruction matérielle et contextualisation historique. ‘Nouveaux’ papyrus turinois concernant les grèves es ouvriers de la Tombe à la 20e dynastie.’, at: Conférence au Cercle Lyonnais d’Égyptologie Victor Loret (Lyon)

Elena L. Hertel (30.-31.05.2023), ‘Why reuse manuscripts in Late Bronze Age Egypt? An attempt to explain the coexistence of reused and non-reused papyri in Deir el-Medina’, at: On the trail of the neverending manuscript. Comparative perspectives on rewritable media (Naples)

Renaud Pietri (19.05.2023), ’Tracking the ’scribe of the Legend of Anat’ in the Museo Egizio papyrus collection: a case study in Ramesside paleography’, at: Looking Beyond the Text: Scribal Practices in Ancient Egypt (Mainz)

Elena L. Hertel (17.04.2023), ‘Reuse of Papyrus as Writing Material in the late New Kingdom’, at: Du rouleau au cartonnage. Les différentes vies du papyus en Égypte (Brussels)

Elena L. Hertel (27.01.2023), ‘PhD Project: Writing, Erasing, Rewriting – A Material Perspective on Manuscript Culture at the End of the Egyptian Bronze Age’, at: 5. Swiss Day for Papyrologists (Neuchâtel)

Stephan M. Unter (27.01.2023), ‘Virtual Light Table: Reconstruction and Analysis of Fragmentary Objects Development Update Report’, at: 5. Swiss Day for Papyrologists (Neuchâtel)

Renaud Pietri (26.11.2022), ‘De Champollion à ‘Crossing Boundaries’: quelques nouvelles des papyrus hiératiques de Deir El-Medina conservés au Museo Egizio de Turin’, at: Décodage Pharaonique (Paris)

Stéphane Polis (12.10.2022), ‘Enigmatic compositions: What do the ancient scribes have to tell us? An emic perspective on cryptographic practices during the New Kingdom’, at: Hieroglyphs in the XXIth Century. Les hiéroglyphes au XXIe siècle (Alexandria)

Renaud Pietri (10.11.2022), ‘Sic Parvis Magna: Reconstructing Papyri from Deir El-Medina kept in the Museo Egizio’, at: Museo Egizio Lectures 2022-2023 (Turin)

Elena L. Hertel and Martina Landrino (26.-30.09.2022), ‘Towards a holistic study of ancient Egyptian papyri – the turbulent life of Papyrus Turin Cat. 1881+’, at: Current Research in Egyptology 2022 (Montpellier)

Stephan M. Unter (27.05.2022), ‘Between Mummies and Machines: How We Use Artificial Intelligence to Reconstruct Ancient Egyptian Papyri’, at: FANTASY Basel

Renaud Pietri (19.05.2022), ‘Papyrus Anastylosis and paleography: Case studies from Deir el-Medina’, at: Online Lecture Series ‘Egypt: Land of Writing(s)’ (Liège)

Kathrin Gabler and Stephan M. Unter (12.05.2022), ‘Crossing Boundaries – Modern Approaches to an Ancient Egyptian Papyrus Puzzle’, at: diss:kurs 2022 (Basel)

Elena L. Hertel (12.03.2022), ‘Materiality of complex heterogenous manuscripts – The reuse pattern of pTurin Cat. 1881+2080+2092/229’, at: Materiality, Layout and Formulas: Detecting Patterns in Written Artifacts from Egypt (Heidelberg)

Stéphane Polis (11.12.2021), ‘Comment se passer de Lacau. L’affaire Chester Beatty entre 1928 et 1935’, at: Pierre Lacau. Un égyptologue à la tête des Antiquités égyptiennes (Paris)

Renaud Pietri (04.12.2021), ‘Les parallèles turinois aux textes magiques du papyrus Chester Beatty IX, vs., B1-B18 : nouveaux raccords et nouvelles questions‘, at: Journée du groupe de contact FNRS Égyptologie (Bruxelles)

Elena L. Hertel (29.-30.11.2021), ‘Let’s talk terminology – (how) do concepts of “reuse” apply to ancient Egyptian papyri?’, at: ‘Aus alt mach neu’: Wiederverwertung, Weiterverarbeitung und Recycling in der antiken Welt. Internationale Graduiertentagung im Rahmen des Doktoratsprogramms der Basler Altertumswissenschaften (Basel)

Renaud Pietri (18.-19.11.2021), ‘Du recueil à l’amulette : modalités et conséquences de l’adaptation d’un même texte magique d’un papyrus à l’autre (avec une étude de cas portant sur différentes versions de P. Chester Beatty IX, v°, B1-B18 conservées à Turin)‘, at: Le texte égyptien: d’un espace d’écriture à l’autre (Paris)

Stéphane Polis and Philipp Seyr (19.11.2021), ‘Encoding the Sacred: New Lights on Ramesside Enigmatic Writing’, at: Rethinking the visual aesthetics of ancient Egyptian writing (Berkeley)

Kathrin Gabler and Stephan M. Unter (19.11.2021), ‘Progress Report Crossing Boundaries Project with a Focus on the Digital Methods and Tools’, at: 4. Swiss Day for Papyrologists (Neuchâtel)

Stéphane Polis (09.11.2021), ‘De la matérialité à l’œuvre. La philologie digitale en égyptologie au XXIe siècle’, at: De la tablette à l’écran. Avancées technologiques dans les Sciences de l’Antiquité (Séminaire doctoral Synoikismos) (Liège)

Stephan M. Unter (02.-04.11.2021), ‘The Virtual Light Table: A Research Tool for Papyrus Reconstruction in Development’, at: ‘Treasures from the Jar: Reconstructing the early stages of Islamic rule in Egypt thanks to the papyrus archive of Papas (Edfu)’ (Basel)

Stéphane Polis (19.10.2021), ‘Sur les traces d’un peintre, scribe et auteur de la XIXe dynastie : le dessinateur Pay de Deir el-Médineh’, at: Conférences de la Société Française d’Égyptologie (Paris)

Stéphane Polis and Renaud Pietri (12.05.–14.05.2021), ‘Altering writing. Neutralizing and re-activating the agency of animate signs in less or non-figurative graphic registers’, at: Altering images. Iconoclasm in Egypt (Liège)

Kathrin Gabler (02.10.2020), ‘Progress Report Crossing Boundaries’, at: 3. Swiss Day for Papyrologists (Neuchâtel)

Antonio Loprieno, Kathrin Gabler, Stephan M. Unter, Elena L. Hertel (10.09.–11.09.2020), ‘Crossing Boundaries between Humanities and Informatics – Egyptian Papyri as a Case Study – based on the Ramesside Hieratic Papyri from the Museo Egizio, at: Virtual Research Environments and Ancient Manuscripts (Lausanne)

Kathrin Gabler, Stéphane Polis, Susanne Töpfer, Stephan M. Unter (09.–11.12.2019), ‘Crossing Boundaries. Understanding Complex Scribal Practices Based on the Ramesside Hieratic Papyri from the Museo Egizio’, at: Binsenweisheiten IV. Hieratisch des Neuen Reiches: Akteure, Formen und Funktionen (Mainz)

Stéphane Polis (09.–11.12.2019), ‘The Messy Scribe from Deir el-Medina. A Paleographical Journey through the Texts of a Draughtsman and Scribe from the 19th Dynasty: Pay (i), at: Binsenweisheiten IV. Hieratisch des Neuen Reiches: Akteure, Formen und Funktionen (Mainz)

Stephan M. Unter (29.11–01.12.2019), ‘Transforming Fragments Into Documents: Was können Maschinen aus und mit hieratischen Papyri lernen?’, at: 10. Basler & Berliner Arbeitskreis Junge Ägyptologie (Basel)

Kathrin Gabler (15.11.2019), ‘Crossing Boundaries: Understanding Complex Scribal Practices in Ancient Egypt’, at: 2. Swiss Day of Papyrology (Zurich)

Stéphane Polis (11.10.2019), ‘News from an Old Collection. Divinations in the Unpublished Fragments of the Museo Egizio (Turin)’, at: Ancient Egyptian Written Culture in Perspective (Budapest)

Stéphane Polis (06.–07.09.2019), ‘Registres graphiques et genres littéraires. Mythes et réalités d’une corrélation entre forme et contenu en hiératique ramesside’, at: Registres graphiques. Questions sur la scripturalité égyptienne (Paris)

Stephan M. Unter (27.06.2019), ‘Usage of Machine Learning on Ramesside Papyri at the Museo Egizio, Turin’, at: Computerizing Handwritings: Current Approaches on Historical Documents (Basel)