Summer Seminar in Papyrology at Berkeley’s Center for the Tebtunis Papyri

14 June - 24 July 2004

In 2004, the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri at the University of California, Berkeley, will sponsor a summer seminar in papyrology for advanced graduate students and junior faculty in ancient studies (classics, history, Egyptology, religious studies, archaeology, and related disciplines).  The seminar, which will run from 14 June through 24 July, will focus on Greek and demotic Egyptian papyri from the Ptolemaic period, with special emphasis on the third and second century BCE mummy cartonnage from the Tebtunis necropolis (cf. A.S. Hunt, J.G. Smyly, et al., The Tebtunis Papyri 3, London 1933-38).  The principal objective of the seminar is to provide participants with sufficient instruction and practical experience to enable them to make productive use of texts on papyrus in their research and to become active scholars in the field of papyrology.  Hands-on experience with original materials will be combined with lectures and assignments addressing historical, bibliographical, and methodological questions. The papyrological seminar at Berkeley is the second in a series of summer institutes taking place under the aegis of the American Society of Papyrologists; the third institute, in the summer of 2005, will be at the University of Cincinnati.

Admission to the seminar is by application.  Enrollment is limited to ten participants.  Applications are welcome from qualified individuals without regard to institutional affiliation.  No prior experience of papyrology is expected, but a high degree of competence in ancient Greek and/or demotic Egyptian is essential.

A full-time commitment to the activities of the seminar is required of the participants, who are expected to be in residence in Berkeley for its duration.  The practica and lectures will take place in The Bancroft Library.  Instruction will be five days a week.  The principal instructors will be Prof. Dr. Karl-Theodor Zauzich (Universität Würzburg) and Prof. Arthur Verhoogt (University of Michigan); additional lecturers will include Prof. J.G. Manning (Stanford University) and Dr. T.M. Hickey (Berkeley).

Participation in the seminar is free of charge and not for credit.  Participants will neither be graded nor issued a transcript.  The American Society of Papyrologists will provide a certificate of participation to those completing the seminar.  On-campus housing will be available to the participants for a fee.  Applicants are expected to seek financial support from their home institution to facilitate their participation, but some funding will be available for those who do not have other means of support.

Applications, which consist of a completed application form, a current curriculum vitae, and two letters of recommendation, must be postmarked by 6 February 2004.  Notification of the decisions of the Center’s Advisory Board will be made by 15 March.  For further information, please contact Todd Hickey (510-642-4556; thickey AT library DOT berkeley DOT edu).