The DCC Greek List is now available in Arabic

The Dickinson College Commentaries (DCC)

According to Wikipedia, the DCC is  a digital project of Dickinson College, which is located in Carlisle, near Harrisburg, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The project assembles digital commentaries on texts in Latin and ancient Greek and publishes core vocabularies of the most common words in those languages. It is hosted by the department of Classical Studies, see also here for the entry in the Digital Classics Wiki.

The DCC  Greek vocabualry list of this porject is now available in Arabic translation where one can both search and browse it, see it here: http://dcc.dickinson.edu/ar/greek-core-list-arabic. According to the project director, Christopher Francese , "This list contains about 500 of the most common words in ancient Greek. These are the lemmas or dictionary headwords that generate approximately 65% of the word forms in a typical Greek text." To know more details about this valuable learning resource see the project's website here:http://dcc.dickinson.edu/. They have also a Facebook page and a Twitter account.

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) (ISSN 2161-0002)

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP)

[Retrieved from the website of IEP on 2018, January 1]

The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) (ISSN 2161-0002) was founded in 1995 to provide open access to detailed, scholarly information on key topics and philosophers in all areas of philosophy. The Encyclopedia receives no funding, and operates through the volunteer work of the editors, authors, volunteers, and technical advisers. At present, the IEP has over a million visitors per month, and about 20 million page views per year. The Encyclopedia is free of charge and available to all users of the Internet world-wide. The staff of 30 editors and approximately 300 authors hold doctorate degrees and are professors at universities around the world, most notably from English-speaking countries.

Dr. Noha A. Salem; the new director of Ain Shams Center of Papyrological Studies

A New Director of Ain Shams Centre of Papyrological Studies

It is my pleasure to announce that my colleague in the department of Ancient European Civilisation Assistant Prof. Dr. Noha A. Salem has been appointed (effective from 1.1.2018) as the new director of Ain Shams University's Centre of Papyrological Studies. The centre, as you all know, publishes annually since 1985 the only Egyptian periodical specialised in papyrology i.e. BullCPS = Bulletin of the Centre of Papyrological Studies. The Bulletin has now a new editor-in-chief.

As I am looking forward to seeing the BullCPS in its new shape under the new direction, I would like to congratulate Prof. Noha Salem for this appointment and wish her all the success in her endeavours to promote the centre, the bulletin and the whole field of papyrology in Egypt. In this regard, I am also quite sure that Prof. Noha Salem will continue her cooperation with me, the department, Ain Shams institute for papyrology, all the papyrologists worldwide and all the papyrological institutions around the globe.

To know more about "us", visit our blog here:https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/about/.

If you do not know what "the 28th ICP" is, please, go here: http://papyrologia.upf.edu/

DAAD Virtual Information Session: Monday, 8th January 2018, 10:00 am – 11:30 am.

DAAD Virtual Information Session

Join us for the Online Information Session about the GERLS Programme.

The webinar is organized by the DAAD Office in Cairo on Monday, 8th January 2018, 10:00 am – 11:30 am.

Target group of this information session are PhD candidates.

Should you be interested to participate in this session, please follow this link on the above-mentioned date and time.

https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/r437jxxg5yd9/

The access will be limited to 40 participants online.

Please note the following technical requirements needed to participate in the webinar:
· 1.4GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 or faster processor (or equivalent) for Microsoft® Windows® XP, Windows 7 or Windows 8; 2GHz Pentium 4 or faster processor (or equivalent) for Windows Vista®
· Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8
· 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended) for Windows XP, Windows 7 or Windows 8; 1GB of RAM (2GB recommended) for Windows Vista
· Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, 8, 9, 10; Mozilla Firefox; Google Chrome
· Adobe® Flash® Player 10

Programme:

10:00 am – 10:45 am
Presentation on GERLS Programme
10:45 am – 11:30 am
Questions & Answers



Presenter of the Virtual Information Session for that Day is:
Mrs. Heba Ahmed
Programme Coordinator
DAAD Cairo Office

SUMMER COURSE IN PAPYROLOGY

SUMMER COURSE IN PAPYROLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF OSLO, 18-22 JUNE 2018

The Dept. of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo and the Papyrus Collection of the University of Oslo Library invite applications for participation in the summer course in Papyrology to take place in Oslo 18-22 June 2018. The course gives 5 ECTS credit points. Coursework includes lectures, supervised work with papyri from the collection, and a written assignment (see details below). The focus will be on Greek and Coptic papyrology in keeping with the holdings of the Oslo collection.

The course is designed for advanced bachelor, master, and early PhD students of Classics, Ancient History, Egyptology and related subjects. Participants will hear lectures on the contents and classification of papyri, editorial method, and the socio-historical and linguistic context of papyri from Egypt from Hellenistic times to late Antiquity. They will also work with an unpublished papyrus (Greek or Coptic depending on their linguistic competence), the edition of which constitutes the written assignment (work with the edition will begin in Oslo under supervision and will be continued after the course; if the academic quality of the submitted work is satisfactory, a revised version of the edition may be included in forthcoming volumes of Oslo papyri). A session will be dedicated to the basics of papyrus conservation and will be followed by practical exercises in papyrus conservation.

Lecturers:

Anastasia Maravela (University of Oslo)
Joanne Vera Stolk (University of Oslo/Ghent University)
Ágnes Tothné Mihálykó (University of Oslo)
Jens Mangerud (University of Oslo)
Jörg Graf (Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig)
Jenny Cromwell (University of Copenhagen)



Formal requirements: a minimum of 30 ECTS credits in ancient Greek or an introductory course in the Coptic language. Full participation in the lectures and the supervised work is required to be eligible to submit the written assignment and receive the creditation.


Please submit your application by March 1st, 2018 to anastasia.maravela@ifikk.uio.no

The application should include:

- A letter of motivation (including the preference for working with a Greek or a Coptic papyrus)
- CV including relevant exam results
- A letter of recommendation by an academic teacher/tutor, which describes the candidate's academic record, knowledge of the relevant language (Greek and/or Coptic) and previous acquaintance with papyrology.

Expenses

- There is no course fee.
- Course materials will be sent to successful applicants in electronic form.
- Accommodation in Oslo will be covered for successful applicants.
- Participants must pay their travel expenses.

The organisers
Anastasia Maravela Joanne Stolk Ágnes T. Mihálykó

Professor of Ancient Greek/ Co-editor of Symbolae Osloenses
Dept. of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas
University of Oslo
Pb. 1020 Blindern
0315 Oslo

Website: http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/people/aca/classics/tenured/anastasm/