Arabic-L:LING:CFP Writing Semitic: Scripts, Documents and Languages

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1) Subject: CFP Writing Semitic: Scripts, Documents and Languages

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Date: 21 Oct 2013
From: Namya.HS at vollbio.de
Subject: CFP Writing Semitic: Scripts, Documents and Languages

Call for Papers:

"Writing Semitic: Scripts, Documents, Languages in Historical Context: The
Sixth International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) Conference"
(Munich, October 7th-10th, 2014)

During the last years, Arabic papyrology has started to contribute
significantly to Arabic and Islamic studies: we now dispose of a number
high standard editions of documents; scholars working on the Islamic World
up to the 16th century counterbalance literary tradition with documentary
evidence; and cooperation with Demotic, Greek, and Coptic papyrology has
steadily improved.

The thematic framework of the "Sixth International Society for Arabic
Papyrology (ISAP) Conference" in 2014 will be somewhat wider. We intend to
bring together scholars using documentary evidence for the history of the
Early Islamic world (including Arabic, Coptic, and Greek papyri,
inscriptions and coins) with scholars working on Semitic languages and
writing systems in general. About one third of the contributions will be
devoted to this wider perspective.

The Sixth ISAP Conference will be hosted by the Bavarian Academy of
Sciences and Humanities (www.badw.de) and be organized by the Academy's
Committee of Semitic Philology, ISAP, and the Munich Institute of Near and
Middle Eastern Studies. The conference will start on the morning of
Tuesday, October 7, 2014, and continue through the afternoon of Friday,
October 10, 2014. The programme will include 20-minute lectures, evening
lectures, and a poster exhibition of current PhD projects, as well as a
visit of the Bavarian State Library with its holdings in Oriental
manuscripts (and Sabaic wood sticks). Optional visits will include the
newly reopened Egyptian Museum and the State Museum for Ethnology.
Conference languages will be English, German, French and Arabic. However,
all lectures will be given in English.

Giving a lecture and/or presenting a poster

Please send a 400-word abstract to Dr. Kathrin Mueller (pap at semphil.badw.de)
no later then end of December, 2013. Notification regarding the acceptance
of proposals will be made by end of March, 2014.

Participation with no lecture

Please send a notice of intent to participate to Dr. Kathrin Müller (
pap at semphil.badw.de) no later then end of August, 2014. There will be no
conference fee charged. Yet, participants will be asked, on spot, to be or
become members of ISAP. Information on membership can be found on the ISAP
website (www.ori.uzh.ch/isap).

Travel Subsidies

It is hoped that the Conference will be able to offer a few awards for
scholars not able to get institutional subventions for travel to Munich.
Please let us know as soon as possible whether you will be in need for such
sponsoring.

Conference Organizers

If you have any further questions about the Conference, please contact Dr.
Kathrin Müller (pap at semphil.badw.de), Professor Andreas Kaplony (
andreas.kaplony at lmu.de) or Dr. Daniel Potthast (daniel.potthast at lmu.de).

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