Region of Nag Hammadi

Chairperson Bishop Martyrus

2-3:00             Stephen Emmel *The Gnostic Library of Nag Hammadi and the Faw Qibli Excavations*

3-3:30             James Goehring *Abraham of Farshout*

3:30-4:00            Fr. Wadi‘Abullif *The Arabic Life of St. Pachomius*

4-4:30:00            Discussion

Varia

Chairperson Stephen Emmel

5-5:30             Caecilia Fluck *The Portrait of Apa Abraham of Hiermonthis*

5:30-6:00       Gisela Helmecke * Some remarks about the textile workshops of Upper Egypt (8th to 11thcentury)*.

 6-6:30            Howard Middleton-Jones *The Project Coptic Monasteries Multi-Media Database*

6:30-7:00             Fr. Bigoul Al Souryani *The Arabic version of the life of St. Mekrofius*

Friday, 8 February, 2008

Naqqada, Dendera, Qus, Coptos, and Berenike

Chairperson James Goehring

8:30-9:00            Adel Fakhry *The Monasteries of the Region of Naqqada*:

9-9:30             Samuel Moawad *Christianity at Dendara and Medamoud*

9:30-10:00     Marianne Eaton-Krauss *Some Coptic Reliefs purportedly from Coptos.*

10-10:30            Youhanna Nessim Youssef *Athanasius of Qus*

10:30-11:00            Gawdat Gabra * Once More: Nabis, Bishop of ‘Aidhab/Berenike*

(by Gertrude van Loon)

Texts

Chairperson Heike Behlmer

11:30-12:30            Jacques van der Vliet *The Epigraphic Sources*

12:30-1:00            Sebastian Richter *Legal Texts from the Region*         

2:30-4:30             Visit to Naqqada Monasteries

4:30-5:00            Coffee break

Texts

Chairperson Youhanna Nessim Youssef

5-5:30             Fr. Angelos El Naqloony*Indexing the Manuscript of the Churches of Naqqada and Qus*

5:30-6:00       Renate Dekker *The Encomion on St Pesunthios of Coptos with Special Reference to the Recently Discovered Sahidic Version in Sheikh Abd al-Qurna*

6:30-7:00            Discussion

7:00                Dinner

Saturday, 9 February, 2008

Western Thebes

Chairperson Jacques van der Vliet

8:30-9:30             Elizabeth O'Connell * Excavating Christian Western Thebes*

9:30-10:00     Heike Behlmer * Coptic textual finds from Macquarie University's excavation in Dra Abu el-Naga (TT 233)*

Esna
Marianne Eaton-Krauss

11-11:30             H. G. Bishop Martyros *The Martyrs of Esna*

11:30-12:00             Gertrude van Loon *The monasteries of al-Shuhada and al-Fakhouri*

12-12:30        Ashraf Nageh * How to Save the Wall Paintings of the Monasteries of al-Shuhada and al-Fakhouri?