Thursday, March 30th, 9: 30 a.m. – 18: 00 p.m.

8: 30 – 9: 30 Registration
9: 30 – 10: 00 Introduction: L. Mascia, K. Harter-Uibopuu, Hamburg

10: 00 – 10: 45 Monika Zöller-Engelhardt (Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz)
“Ancient Egyptian Inscribed Funerary Spaces in Middle Egypt – Affordances and Care Practices in Rock-Cut Tombs Around 2000 BCE”

10: 45 – 11: 15 Coffee Break

11: 15 – 12: 15 Katja Lembke (Landesmuseum Hannover) and Stefan Pfeiffer (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg).
“Anonymous Burials? Tombs and Texts in Roman Egypt”
12: 15 – 13: 00 Leah Mascia (Universität Hamburg)
“How to Equip the Deceased for the Long Journey to the Underworld in the Transitional Phase: Inscribing Burial Spaces in Roman and Late Antique Egypt”

13: 00 – 14: 30 Lunch Break

14: 30– 15: 15 Tonio Sebastian Richter (Freie Universität Berlin)
“Inscribing Funerary Space in a Monastic Landscape: The Case of the Epigraphic Corpus of the Monastery of Apa Hatre (Deir Anba Hadra) Near Aswan (Southern Egypt)”
15: 15 – 16: 00 Stefan Heidemann (Universität Hamburg)
“Serial Memory: Early Islamic Tombstones”

16: 00 – 16: 30 Coffee Break

16: 30 – 17: 15 Jochen Sokoly (Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, Qatar)
“Burial Fabrics of Fatimid Egypt: Funerary Contexts of Early Islamic Tiraz Textiles”

17: 15– 18: 00 Martina Massullo (BULAC, Bibliothèque universitaire des langues et civilisations, Paris)
“Inscribed, Employed, Re-Employed: Written Marble Artefacts from Funerary Spaces in Medie-val Afghanistan”

Friday, March 31st, 09: 00 a.m. – 17: 30 p.m.

09: 00 – 09: 45 Martin Seyer (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien)
“Tomb and Epitaph: Archaeological-Linguistic Research on Sepulchral Life in Lycia”
09: 45 – 10: 30 John Bodel (Brown University, Providence, RI)
“Dialogues with the Dead: Reader Response in the Roman Graveyard”

10: 30 – 11: 00 Coffee Break

11: 00 – 11: 45 Rubina Raja (Aarhus University)
“Inscribed Funerary Spaces in Roman Palmyra”
11: 45 – 12: 30 Rachel Nabulsi (Point University)
“The Significance of Funerary Inscriptions from Iron Age Judah and its Neighbors”

12: 30 – 14: 00 Lunch Break

14: 00 – 14: 45 Joseph Lee Rife (Vanderbilt University)
“The Written Cemetery: Text and Context at Roman to Early Byzantine Kenchreai, Greece”
14: 45 – 15: 30 Adrián Maldonado (National Museums Scotland)
“Materializing the Ancestors: Inscribed Funerary Space in Late Iron Age to Early Medieval
Scotland”

15: 30 – 16: 00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 16: 45 Andreas Zajic (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien)
“Talking Tombstone – Funerary Monuments and What They are Called in the Inscriptions They Bear. Observations on Examples from Pre-Modern Central Europe”
16: 45 – 17: 30 Christine Magin (Universität Greifswald)
“Old Wine in New Bottles? Post-Reformation Inscriptions on Funerary Monuments from
Germany”

Saturday, April 1st, 9: 00 a.m. – 13: 15 p.m.

9: 00 – 10: 00 Peera Panarut, Volker Grabowsky (Universität Hamburg)
“Christian Funerary Inscriptions in Bangkok: A Comparative Case Study on Protestant and Catholic Cemeteries”
10: 00 – 10: 45 Max Moerman (Barnard College, Columbia University)
“Inscription and Mortality in Medieval Japanese Sutra Burials”

10: 45 – 11: 15 Coffee Break

11: 15 – 12: 00 Javier Urcid (Brandeis University)
“Inscribing Funerary Spaces in Ancient Oaxaca (350-750 ACE)”

12: 00 – 12: 45 Adriana Corral Bustos (Colegio de San Luis)
“Transformation of Attitudes Towards Death in Latin America: The case of Mexico, XIX to XXI Centuries”

12: 45 – 13: 15 Closing Remarks