2013

February 25th, 2013
Bridges between Life and Death
On funerary practice in Graeco-Roman Egypt

José Manuel Galán (CSIC)
"Re-use of tomb chapels in the Ptolemaic Period in Dra Abu el-Naga (Luxor)"
Raquel Martín Hernández (UCM)
"Material, text and context of mummy-labels"
Alba de Frutos García (CSIC)
"Organisation of necropoleis-workers in Ptolemaic Egypt"
Phil Venticinque (University of Chicago)
"Dying to belong: death, burial and Egyptian associations"
Irene Pajón Leyra (CSIC)
"Funerary practice of Barbarian Peoples in a Roman papyrus"
Sofía Torallas Tovar (CSIC)
"Funerary practice in transition: on embalming in Late Roman Egypt"

Sala Menéndez Pidal (0E18), Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales (CCHS-CSIC).
Instituto de Lenguas y Culturas del Mediterráneo y Oriente Próximo (ILC).
Centro de Estudios de Oriente Próximo (CEPO) 

November 16th, 2012
Bridges between Life and Death
On funerary practice in Graeco-Roman Egypt 

François Gaudard (University of Chicago)
"The Mummy Labels in the Oriental Institute Museum"
Phil Venticinque (University of Chicago)
"Dying to belong: death, burial, and Egyptian associations"
Sofía Torallas Tovar (CSIC)
"Burial practice in a period of transition: Early Christian funerary texts"
María Jesús Albarrán (CSIC)
"Memory of death: commemoratio inscriptions in Egyptian monasteries”

Breasted Auditorium, Oriental Institute.
Organized by The Center for the Study of Ancient Religions at the University of Chicago in collaboration with the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain)