Conference: From Egypt to Manchester: Unravelling the John Rylands Papyrus Collection

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The John Rylands Research Institute

From Egypt to Manchester: Unravelling the John Rylands Papyrus Collection
Convenor: Dr Roberta Mazza, Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, John Rylands Research Institute Research Fellow

Christie Seminar Room, The John Rylands Library, Thursday, 4 – Saturday, 6 September 2014

1:45-2:00
Welcome and opening of the conference

2:00-2:30
Marco Perale (Oxford-Liverpool):
The Rylands Hexameter Adespota

2:30-3:00
Andrea Filoni (Milan):
P. Ryl. 24: an Exegetical Commentary on the Iliad?

3:00-3:30
Maria Chiara Scapaticcio (Naples-Paris):
Reading, Rereading and Annotating Cicero in the Eastern Roman Empire: towards a New Edition of P.Ryl. III 477

3:30 -4:00
Coffee Break

4:00-4:20
Roberta Mazza (Manchester):
Unravelling the Rylands Papyri: Results of the Pilot Project

4:20-4:40
Caroline Checkley-Scott, T. Higson (Manchester):
Yes We Care - but We Can Help You too! The Work of the Collection Care Team in Supporting Papyrus Research

4:40-5:00
Carol Burrows, Jamie Robinson, Gwen Riley Jones (Manchester):
Imaging the John Rylands Papyri

5:00-5:30
Discussion

5:30-6:30
Reception
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5 September, Friday morning
10:00-10:30am
David Ratzan (New York):
"Under Contract" in Roman Egypt: P.Ryl. II 128 in Context

10:30-11:00am
William Mundy (Manchester):
Whose Archive Is It, Anyway? The Rylands Petitions from Euhemeria and the Archephodos Archive

11:00-11:30
Coffee Break

11:30-12:00
Hannah Cotton (Jerusalem):
P.Ryl. 608 and 623: The Revolution in the Style of the Latin Letter of Recommendation

12:00-12:30
James Corke-Webster (Edinburgh):
From Paperwork to Persecution: the Rylands Decian Libelli in Context

12:30-1:00
Discussion

1:00-2:00
Lunch Break
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5 September, Friday afternoon (venue: Historic Reading Room)
2:00-2:30
AnneMarie Luijendijk (Princeton):
Unravelling the Oldest Septuagint Manuscript (P.Ryl. III 458)

2:30-3:00
Brent Nongbri (Sydney):
Palaeography, Precision, and Publicity: Some Further Thoughts on P52

3:00-3:30
Coffee Break

3:30-4:00
Thomas Kraus (Neumarkt):
Small in Size, but Fabulous Artefacts: P.Ryl. III 463, P.Ryl. I 28 and Late Antique Miniature Books

4:00-4:30
Todd Hickey (Berkeley):
Grenfell, Kelsey, and the Dealers

4:30-5:00
Elizabeth Gow (Manchester):
Enriqueta Rylands: Private Collector of a Public Library

5.00- 5.30
Discussion

5.30
Close
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6 September, Saturday morning
9:30-10:00
Joanne Marie Robinson (Manchester):
'I Have Made You My Wife': Family and Financial Implications of Demotic Marriage Settlements in the John Rylands Library

10:00-10:30
Luigi Prada (Oxford):
The Group of Early Demotic Servitude Contracts in the John Rylands Collection, or the Misfortunes of Peftuawykhons Son of Heribastet (P.Ryl.Dem. 3–7)

10:30-11:00
Coffee Break

11:00-11:30
Foy Scalf (Chicago):
Papyrus Rylands Hieratic 6: A Copy of the First and Second Books of Breathing

11:30-12:00
Campbell Price (Manchester):
Dedicating a Statue in Saite Egypt: Thoughts on P. Rylands IX 7, 17-19

12:00-12:30
Jeremy Pope (Williamsburg):
Historicity and Verisimilitude in Papyrus Rylands IX

12:30-1:00
Discussion

1:00 – 2:00
Lunch Break
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6 September, Saturday afternoon
2:00-2:30
Jenny Cromwell (Sydney-Manchester):
Fugitives, Taxes, and Women: The Rylands Contribution to the History of the Monastery of Apa Thomas

2:30-3:00
Mohamed Ahmed Abdellatif (Mansoura):
The Tax System in Egypt in the Early Islamic Period in the Light of some Arabic Papyri from the John Rylands Papyrus Collection and Other Collections

3:00-3:30
Nikolaos Gonis (London):
Documents of the Islamic Period at Manchester and Some Sister Pieces

3:30-4:00
Discussion and Closing over Coffee
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