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Friday, September 24, 2010

CONFERENCE: Teaching Papyrology: The Legacy of Traianos Gagos

Preliminary program

Friday, October 29

4 pm: Keynote address (Library Gallery, Hatcher Graduate Library)

Roger Bagnall (New York University)
Director, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World,
President, Association Internationale de Papyrologues
"Teaching Graeco-Roman Egypt to a Broader Audience: The Legacy of Traianos Gagos"

5.30 pm: Reception (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology)

Saturday, October 30

10 am-12: Teaching Papyrology (Forum Hall, Palmer Commons)

Todd Hickey (University of California, Berkeley)
Cisca Hoogendijk (Leiden University)
William Johnson (Duke University)
-Moderator:  Dorothy Thompson (Girton College, Cambridge University)

12-1.30 pm: Lunch on your own

1.30-3 pm: Training different papyrologists? (Forum Hall, Palmer
Commons)

Roundtable discussion:
What sort of training does the next generation of papyrologists need?
-Moderator: Roger Bagnall (New York University)

3-4 pm: Break

4-5.30 pm: Traianos the Teacher (Keene Theatre, UM Residential
College)

-Moderators:
James G. Keenan (Loyola University of Chicago)
Andrew Wilburn (Oberlin College)