Seminar organized by Professor Michel Tardieu in partnership with ANR, CNRS and EPHE
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Collège de France
amphithéâtre Budé,
11, place Marcelin-Berthelot
75005 Paris
9:00 am Welcome
9h15 Introduction: Michel TARDIEU, Research into the forms and contexts of the magical practice of barbarian names
Moderator: Jean-Daniel Dubois, EPHE
9:30 Lucia SAUDELLI, Collège de France, Heraclitus on the name of Zeus
10:00 Jean YOYOTTE, Collège de France, Amon and Mut, and Nubian words
10:30 Gregor WURST, University of Augsburg, Un magicien copte. Religious syncretism in Christian Egypt
11:00 a.m. Break
11:15 Gérard ROQUET, EPHE, The incantatory function of language. Image, letter, sound, meaning: cryptological manipulations
11h45 Yvan KOENIG, CNRS, From Ramesside "pantheistic trigrams" to imperial magic gems: the case of Abrasax
12h15 Amina KROPP, University of Heidelberg, Le rôle des noms barbares dans le déroulement d'une defixio d'après le corpus électronique des defixiones latines
12h45-13h00 General discussion
Moderator: Philippe Hoffmann, EPHE
2:30 Silvia PIERI, University of Pisa, Numero e filosofia. Alcune note sul cosiddetto Ottavo libro di Mosè (PGM XIII)
15h00 Michel TARDIEU, La diversification de Kalyptos et son modèle logique. Reconstructing Zostrien (NHC VIII 112-113)
15h30 Paolo SCARPI, University of Padua, The empty discourse of barbarian names
4:00 pm Break
16:15 Arnaud SÉRANDOUR, EPHE, The barbaric names of the Sefer ha-Razin
16h40 Claude GILLIOT, Université de Provence, The mysterious letters of the Koran
17:05 Manfred KROPP, University of Mainz, Magical names from Ethiopia
17h30 General discussion: Philippe HOFFMANN, Jean-Daniel DUBOIS
17h45-18h15 Concluding remarks: Claudine BESSET-LAMOINE, Émilie CLAUDE, Emiliano FIORI, Flavia RUANI, Anna VAN DEN KERCHOVE, Noms barbares en rituels gnostiques. Essai d'interprétation scénique
