NELC Workshop: Songs of Longing//Pleasant Entertainment: A workshop for translating Late Egyptian hieratic & ancient Egyptian love

Academic Year 2019-2020

This workshop provides an informal setting for the study of Late Egyptian hieratic and the representation of love in ancient Egyptian literature. Students will translate songs of love and longing and practice Late Egyptian from facsimiles of papyri and ostraca. Attendees who would like to discuss love poetry in ancient Egypt are welcome during the second hour. For translating Late Egyptian a minimum of one year in Middle Egyptian is encouraged.

Dates and location: Spring 2020 - Wednesdays in the Semitic Museum, Room 304, 6 Divinity Ave., unless otherwise specified (please see below).

4:30 - 5:30 - Hieratic translation & Late Egyptian grammar
5:30 - 6:30 - Discussion of primary texts & secondary literature

Fall 2019 meetings:
Oct 3
Oct 17
Nov 7
Nov 21

Spring 2020 meetings:
Jan 29
Feb 5  [*4:30-6:00 p.m.]
Feb 12
Feb 19  [*4:30-6:00 p.m.]
Feb 26
Mar 4  [*4:30-6:00 p.m.]
Mar 11
Mar 18
Mar 25
Apr 1

Please note that the Songs of Longing workshop has been paused until Fall 2020.
Apr 8
Apr 15
Apr 22  [*SM 202, 5:00-7:00 p.m.]
Apr 29


 

 

Contact Julia Viani Puglisi (jpuglisi@g.harvard.edu) for readings and further information.