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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 18 Feb 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Jean-Luc Fournet A blind spot in documentation (1) Seminar 19 Feb 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (1) Not recorded Lecture 25 Feb 2026 11:00 to 12:00 Jean-Luc Fournet A blind spot in documentation (2) Seminar 26 Feb 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (2) Not recorded 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 2025 - 2026 2024 - 2025 2018 - 2019 2025 - 2026 Symposium 09:00 - 19:00 Not recorded The archives and collections of the École pratique des hautes études : glimpses into a scholarly memory Jean-Luc Fournet 19 Nov 2025 The archives and collections of the École pratique des hautes études : glimpses into a scholarly memory Institut des Civilisations - Salle Françoise Héritier 19 Nov 2025 09:00 - 19:00 Lecture The calamus and the cross: the Christianization of writing and the fate of classical culture in Late Antiquity (7). Schools (4): Vocational training in the written word Jean-Luc Fournet 18 Feb 2026 → 15 Apr 2026 18 Feb 2026 → 15 Apr 2026 Seminar Not recorded Unpublished papyri or papyrological novelties Jean-Luc Fournet 19 Feb 2026 → 16 Apr 2026 19 Feb 2026 → 16 Apr 2026 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 2018 - 2019 Symposium " My big church and my little chapel " Jean-Luc Fournet 06 Sep 2018 06 Sep 2018 Symposium Voluntary illegibility in paleography Jean-Luc Fournet 07 Dec 2018 07 Dec 2018 Lecture The calamus and the cross : the Christianization of the written word and the fate of classical culture in Late Antiquity (1) Jean-Luc Fournet 06 Feb 2019 → 17 Apr 2019 06 Feb 2019 → 17 Apr 2019 Seminar A new poetic papyrus by Dioscorus of Aphrodite Jean-Luc Fournet 07 Feb 2019 → 18 Apr 2019 07 Feb 2019 → 18 Apr 2019 Symposium 09:30 - 20:30 Not recorded Current Research on Greek Tablets in the British Library Jean-Luc Fournet 20 May 2019 Current Research on Greek Tablets in the British Library British Library, Londres 20 May 2019 09:30 - 20:30
Seminar 19 Feb 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (1) Not recorded
Seminar 26 Feb 2026 15:30 to 17:00 Jean-Luc Fournet, Korshi Dosoo & Valérie Schram Orpheus on the Nile: a new Orphic poem on papyrus (2) Not recorded
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 09:00 - 19:00 Not recorded The archives and collections of the École pratique des hautes études : glimpses into a scholarly memory Jean-Luc Fournet 19 Nov 2025 The archives and collections of the École pratique des hautes études : glimpses into a scholarly memory Institut des Civilisations - Salle Françoise Héritier 19 Nov 2025 09:00 - 19:00
Lecture The calamus and the cross: the Christianization of writing and the fate of classical culture in Late Antiquity (7). Schools (4): Vocational training in the written word Jean-Luc Fournet 18 Feb 2026 → 15 Apr 2026 18 Feb 2026 → 15 Apr 2026
Seminar Not recorded Unpublished papyri or papyrological novelties Jean-Luc Fournet 19 Feb 2026 → 16 Apr 2026 19 Feb 2026 → 16 Apr 2026
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
Lecture The calamus and the cross : the Christianization of the written word and the fate of classical culture in Late Antiquity (1) Jean-Luc Fournet 06 Feb 2019 → 17 Apr 2019 06 Feb 2019 → 17 Apr 2019
Seminar A new poetic papyrus by Dioscorus of Aphrodite Jean-Luc Fournet 07 Feb 2019 → 18 Apr 2019 07 Feb 2019 → 18 Apr 2019
Symposium 09:30 - 20:30 Not recorded Current Research on Greek Tablets in the British Library Jean-Luc Fournet 20 May 2019 Current Research on Greek Tablets in the British Library British Library, Londres 20 May 2019 09:30 - 20:30
