Symposium December 2009: Qasr Ibrim

Qasr Ibrim, between Egypt and Africa: A case study of cultural exchange
11-12 December 2009

presentation Symposium "Qasr Ibrim, between Egypt and Africa" (pdf)

The symposium will take place on Friday 11 and Saturday 12 December 2009 on the premises of the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) in Leiden.
Both days will be devoted to lectures and discussion by the invited speakers and a limited number of other guests in one of the lecture halls of the Museum. On Friday evening a public lecture in the main hall, in the shade of the rescued Nubian temple of Taffeh, will be addressed to a broader audience.

The conference is organized by the Department of Egyptology of Leiden University and the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO), Leiden. It is supported by the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) and various other sponsors.

Responsible for the scientific part of the program are Joost Hagen (Leiden University) and Jacques van der Vliet (Leiden University/Radboud University Nijmegen), assisted by Carolien van Zoest (NINO).

The proceedings of the conference will appear in one of the monograph series of NINO.

program Symposium "Qasr Ibrim, between Egypt and Africa" (pdf)

abstracts Symposium "Qasr Ibrim, between Egypt and Africa" (pdf)

Speakers and their topics:

Prof. Dr. W.Y. Adams (Lexington, Kentucky):
Introductory lecture: “Qasr Ibrim: Connecting the dots"
Public lecture: “5000 years of cultural continuity and change in Nubia”

Dr. N.K. Adams (Lexington, Kentucky):
“Influences from abroad: The evidence of the textiles”

Dr. H. Barnard (Los Angeles):
"Contacts Between Qasr Ibrim and the Surrounding Deserts"

Dr. T. Derda (Warsaw):
"Roman occupation of Qasr Ibrim as reflected in Greek papyri from the site"

Prof. dr. J.H.F. Dijkstra (Ottawa):
"Qasr Ibrim and the Religious Transformation of Lower Nubia in Late Antiquity"

Prof. Dr. W. Godlewski (Warsaw):
"Nobadia’s role in the internal and external politics of the Kingdom of Makuria"

Drs. J.L. Hagen (Leiden):
"Small pieces of the puzzle: Coptic and Old Nubian MSS from Qasr Ibrim and the story of Christian Nubia"

Dr. J. Hallof (Würzburg):
“Meroitic ostraca from Qasr Ibrim”

Prof. Dr. G. Khan (Cambridge):
"Medieval Arabic Documents from Qasr Ibrim"

Dr. A. Łajtar (Warsaw):
"Graffiti on the rocks of Gebel Maktub: Preliminary presentation"

Dr. B.P. Muhs (Leiden):
"Demotic oracles and ostraca from Ptolemaic Qasr Ibrim"  

Dr. P.J. Rose (Cambridge):
"Forty years of excavations at Qasr Ibrim: an overview"

Dr. G. Ruffini (Fairfield University, Connecticut)
"Revisiting the Unpublished Old Nubian Archives from Qasr Ibrim"