Aleksander the Great and Egypt: History, Art, Tradition
Friday,
November 18th
First Session: Instytut
Archeologii i Etnologii PAN,
ul. Więzienna 6
9.15 - 9.30 Opening of the conference
9.30 - 10.00 Dan-Tudor Ionescu (Bucuresti), "Nectanebus as father of Alexander the
Great"
10.00 - 10.30 Burkhard Meißner (Hamburg), "Egypt in Greek Strategies of the 4th Century BC"
10.30 - 11.00 Krzysztof Ulanowski (Gdańsk), "The Divine Intervention during Esarhaddon and Alexander's
Campaigns in Egypt"
11.00-11.15
Coffee break
11.15
- 11.45 Francisco Bosch-Puche (Barcelona), "Alexander
the Great as Pharaoh: his Royal titles"
11.45 - 12.15 Stefan
Pfeiffer (Chemnitz), „Pharaoh
Alexander - a scholarly myth revisited"
12.15 - 12.45 Donata Schäfer (Tübingen), „Alexander and the royal ka of Egypt"
12.45 -13.45 Lunch
13.45 - 14.45 Sightseeing: University of Wrocław
Second Session: Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN, ul. Więzienna 6
14.45 - 15.15 Agnieszka Wojciechowska (Wrocław), "Chronology of Alexander's stay in Egypt"
15.15 - 15.45 Ivan Ladynin (Moskva), "The
Argeadai Building Program in Egypt in the Framework of
Dynasties' XXVIII-XXX Temple Building"
15.45 - 16.15 Krzysztof Nawotka (Wrocław), "Alexander the Great kosmokrator"
16.15-16.30 Coffee break
16.30 - 17.00 Nicholas Sekunda (Gdańsk), "The divine revelation of Alexander the Great
in Egypt"
17.00 - 17.30 Philippe Matthey, (Geneva)
"Alexander and Nektanebo: propaganda and counter propaganda in Hellenistic Egypt"
17.30
- 18.00 Gościwit Malinowski, (Wrocław), „Alexander and the beginning of the Greek exploration
in Nilotic Africa"
Saturday,
November 19th
Third Session: Instytut
Archeologii i Etnologii PAN, ul. Więzienna 6
9.00 - 9.30 Jan Moje (Berlin), "Demotic private
sources in the 4th century BCE. Their development at the outset
of a new
era."
9.30 - 10.00 John Russell Holten (Edinburgh),
"Cultural conflation: depictions of the diadem under
Ptolemy I"
10.00 - 10.30 Gunnar R. Dumke (Berlin), "The dead
Alexander and the Egyptians Archaeology of a
void"
10.30 - 11.00 Heba Abd El Gawad (Durham),
"Recycling Alexander: Ptolemaic reuse of Alexander the Great's Presentations"
11.00-11.15
Coffee break
11.15 - 11.45 Artem Anokhin (Moscow), "Antiochus
IV of Syria and Ptolemaic symbolism: an example of anti-Ptolemaic
propaganda"
11.45
- 12.15 Volker Grieb (Hamburg), „Egyptian Tradition and Ptolemaic Rule: The Case of the
Alexander Mosaic"
12.15
- 12.45 Elisabeth Brophy (Oxford), "Placing Pharaohs and Kings: Where were royal statues located in Ptolemaic
Egypt?"
12.45 - 13.15 Agnieszka Fulińska (Kraków), "Of ram horns, feathers, and ivy wreaths: Egyptian
contexts of Alexander's Hellenistic
iconography"
13.15-14.15 Lunch
Fourth Session: Instytut Archeologii i Etnologii PAN, ul. Więzienna 6
14.15 - 14.45 Adam Łukaszewicz (Warsaw), „Alexander and Alexandria: a view from Kom el-Dikka"
14.45 - 15.15 Aleksandra Szale
(Wrocław), "Oriental
elements in the in the story of
Alexander's meeting with queen Candace of
Meroe in the Alexander Romance"
15.15
- 15.45 Micah Ross (Kyoto), „Alexander
in Astrological Sources"
15.45 - 16.15 Aleksandra Klęczar (Kraków), "Alexander and Egypt in Ancient and Medieval
Jewish Writings"
16.15 Closing of the conference