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The chair Biography and publications Public lectures Guest lecturers Annual summaries Team and contact Audios and videos News Upcoming Previous Lecture 4 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Jean-Luc Fournet Numbers...: stewards Seminar 5 Mar 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (3) Not recorded Lecture 11 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Jean-Luc Fournet ... and letters: scribes and copyists (1) Seminar 12 Mar 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Naïm Vanthieghem The Fayoum merchant archives: testimony to the culture of merchant circles in Tulunid Egypt… Not recorded Lecture 18 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Jean-Luc Fournet ... and letters: scribes and copyists (2) Seminar 19 Mar 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Csaba A. La'da New Texts from Old Codices: Some Recent Classical Discoveries from the Bibliothèque nationale … Not recorded Lecture 25 Mar 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Jean-Luc Fournet ... and letters: scribes and copyists (3) Seminar 26 Mar 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (4) Not recorded Lecture 1 Apr 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Jean-Luc Fournet Languages...: serving a multilingual state Seminar 2 Apr 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (5) Not recorded Lecture 8 Apr 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Jean-Luc Fournet ... and formulas: notaries Seminar 9 Apr 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Chiara Meccariello & Leia Jiménez Torres Education in Late Antique Egypt: New Perspectives Not recorded Lecture 15 Apr 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Jean-Luc Fournet School and professional training Seminar 16 Apr 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Filippo Ronconi Being a copyist in the Middle Ages: between passion, profession and devotion Not recorded Guest lecturer 2 Jun 2026 15:00 to 16:00 Petra Sijpesteijn From petitions to letters: an integrated appeal system Guest lecturer 10 Jun 2026 15:00 to 16:00 Petra Sijpesteijn Getting your message across: practical aspects of letter writing Guest lecturer 16 Jun 2026 15:00 to 16:00 Petra Sijpesteijn Shared values Guest lecturer 23 Jun 2026 15:00 to 16:00 Petra Sijpesteijn Expectations and deviations; rules and variations Next 11 series Filters Event type Event type Lecture (3) Seminar (3) Symposium (5) Academic year Academic year 2025 - 2026 (3) (-) 2024 - 2025 (3) 2023 - 2024 (4) 2022 - 2023 (5) 2021 - 2022 (2) 2020 - 2021 (2) (-) 2019 - 2020 (3) 2018 - 2019 (5) 2017 - 2018 (4) (-) 2016 - 2017 (5) 2015 - 2016 (4) Active filters 2024 - 2025 2019 - 2020 2016 - 2017 2024 - 2025 Symposium One hand, many scripts: aspects of polygraphism Jean-Luc Fournet 05 Dec 2024 The Groupe de recherches transversales en paléographie (GRTP) held a day of study and discussion on the voluntary and involuntary variations that affect the handwriting of the same individual. 05 Dec 2024 Lecture The calamus and the cross : the Christianization of writing and the fate of classical culture in Late Antiquity (6). Schools (3) Jean-Luc Fournet 12 Feb 2025 → 09 Apr 2025 12 Feb 2025 → 09 Apr 2025 Seminar Not recorded New school papyri (or other) (3) Jean-Luc Fournet 13 Feb 2025 → 10 Apr 2025 13 Feb 2025 → 10 Apr 2025 2019 - 2020 Symposium Understanding the written culture of the Ancients : the categories " documentaire " and " littéraire " in papyrology and their limits Jean-Luc Fournet 05 Dec 2019 → 06 Dec 2019 05 Dec 2019 → 06 Dec 2019 Seminar Study of Byzantine papyri in relation to the lecture topic Jean-Luc Fournet 30 Jan 2020 → 12 Mar 2020 30 Jan 2020 → 12 Mar 2020 Lecture The calamus and the cross : the Christianization of writing and the fate of classical culture in Late Antiquity (2). Libraries (1) Jean-Luc Fournet 05 Feb 2020 → 11 Mar 2020 05 Feb 2020 → 11 Mar 2020 2016 - 2017 Symposium Civilizations in transition (III) : multi-faith societies through the history of the Near East Jean-Luc Fournet 07 Sep 2016 → 09 Sep 2016 07 Sep 2016 → 09 Sep 2016 Symposium Furniture from Egypt. Archaeology and texts from the Hellenistic to the Mamluk periods Jean-Luc Fournet 30 Oct 2016 → 31 Oct 2016 30 Oct 2016 → 31 Oct 2016 Symposium Type, style, hand - Collective standards, individual variations and the evolution of handwriting Jean-Luc Fournet 07 Dec 2016 07 Dec 2016 Lecture Babel on the Nile : multilingualism and multiculturalism in Late Antique Egypt (2) Jean-Luc Fournet 20 Apr 2017 → 22 Jun 2017 20 Apr 2017 → 22 Jun 2017 Seminar Study of Byzantine papyri relating to multilingualism Jean-Luc Fournet 20 Apr 2017 → 22 Jun 2017 20 Apr 2017 → 22 Jun 2017
Seminar 5 Mar 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (3) Not recorded
Seminar 12 Mar 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Naïm Vanthieghem The Fayoum merchant archives: testimony to the culture of merchant circles in Tulunid Egypt… Not recorded
Seminar 19 Mar 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Csaba A. La'da New Texts from Old Codices: Some Recent Classical Discoveries from the Bibliothèque nationale … Not recorded
Seminar 26 Mar 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (4) Not recorded
Seminar 2 Apr 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (5) Not recorded
Seminar 9 Apr 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Chiara Meccariello & Leia Jiménez Torres Education in Late Antique Egypt: New Perspectives Not recorded
Seminar 16 Apr 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Filippo Ronconi Being a copyist in the Middle Ages: between passion, profession and devotion Not recorded
Guest lecturer 2 Jun 2026 15:00 to 16:00 Petra Sijpesteijn From petitions to letters: an integrated appeal system
Guest lecturer 10 Jun 2026 15:00 to 16:00 Petra Sijpesteijn Getting your message across: practical aspects of letter writing
Guest lecturer 23 Jun 2026 15:00 to 16:00 Petra Sijpesteijn Expectations and deviations; rules and variations
Symposium One hand, many scripts: aspects of polygraphism Jean-Luc Fournet 05 Dec 2024 The Groupe de recherches transversales en paléographie (GRTP) held a day of study and discussion on the voluntary and involuntary variations that affect the handwriting of the same individual. 05 Dec 2024
Lecture The calamus and the cross : the Christianization of writing and the fate of classical culture in Late Antiquity (6). Schools (3) Jean-Luc Fournet 12 Feb 2025 → 09 Apr 2025 12 Feb 2025 → 09 Apr 2025
Seminar Not recorded New school papyri (or other) (3) Jean-Luc Fournet 13 Feb 2025 → 10 Apr 2025 13 Feb 2025 → 10 Apr 2025
Symposium Understanding the written culture of the Ancients : the categories " documentaire " and " littéraire " in papyrology and their limits Jean-Luc Fournet 05 Dec 2019 → 06 Dec 2019 05 Dec 2019 → 06 Dec 2019
Seminar Study of Byzantine papyri in relation to the lecture topic Jean-Luc Fournet 30 Jan 2020 → 12 Mar 2020 30 Jan 2020 → 12 Mar 2020
Lecture The calamus and the cross : the Christianization of writing and the fate of classical culture in Late Antiquity (2). Libraries (1) Jean-Luc Fournet 05 Feb 2020 → 11 Mar 2020 05 Feb 2020 → 11 Mar 2020
Symposium Civilizations in transition (III) : multi-faith societies through the history of the Near East Jean-Luc Fournet 07 Sep 2016 → 09 Sep 2016 07 Sep 2016 → 09 Sep 2016
Symposium Furniture from Egypt. Archaeology and texts from the Hellenistic to the Mamluk periods Jean-Luc Fournet 30 Oct 2016 → 31 Oct 2016 30 Oct 2016 → 31 Oct 2016
Symposium Type, style, hand - Collective standards, individual variations and the evolution of handwriting Jean-Luc Fournet 07 Dec 2016 07 Dec 2016
Lecture Babel on the Nile : multilingualism and multiculturalism in Late Antique Egypt (2) Jean-Luc Fournet 20 Apr 2017 → 22 Jun 2017 20 Apr 2017 → 22 Jun 2017
Seminar Study of Byzantine papyri relating to multilingualism Jean-Luc Fournet 20 Apr 2017 → 22 Jun 2017 20 Apr 2017 → 22 Jun 2017
