Programm
| Wednesday 2 December | ||
| 16:00–19:00 Session 1 | ||
| 16:00 | Welcome address | |
| 16:15 | Gideon Bohak | Are You Talkin’ to Me? Addressing Different Supernatural Entities in Ancient Jewish Amulets |
| 16:55 | Neda Darabian | Between Amulets and Medical Handbooks: Healing Formulae in Judeo-Persian Manuscripts |
| 17:35 | Yuval Harari | BṬD ZHG W’Ḥ: Formations and Uses of Hebrew Divine Names |
| 19:00 Reception in Martin von Wagner Museum + Guided Tour of MagEIA exhibition | ||
| Thursday 3 December | ||
| 9:00-10:20 Session 2 | ||
| 9:00 | Bill Rebiger | When Words Are Withheld: Whisper, Silence, and Secrecy in Jewish Ritual Magic |
| 9:40 | Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin | The Vocabulary of Healing: Greek and Arabic Loanwords in Coptic Medical-Magical Texts |
| 10:20–10:50 Coffee break | ||
| 10:50–12:10 Session 3 | ||
| 10:50 | Korshi Dosoo | Invoking, Adjuring, Appealing: Request-type Illocutionary Speech Acts in the Demotic, Greek, and Coptic Magical Papyri and their Social Context |
| 11:30 | Jan Dietrich | The Oath in Legal and Magical Texts: Aspects of Deep Entanglements |
| 12:10–14:00 Lunch break | ||
| 14:00–15:20 Session 4 | ||
| 14:00 | Nicholas Gill | Deciphering Demons in Early Mesopotamia |
| 14:40 | Ulrike Steinert | Emotion Metaphors in Ancient Mesopotamian Incantations |
| 15:20–15:50 Coffee break | ||
| 15:50–17:10 Session 5 | ||
| 15:50 | Marwa Badreldin | Persuasion, Destruction, and Magical Language: Middle Kingdom Execration Figurines from Saqqara in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo Collection |
| 16:30 | Diana Míčková | “I know him, but I will not reveal it”: Sacred ‘Encyclopaedias’ and Magical Knowledge in the Tomb of Iufaa |
| 19:00 Conference dinner | ||
| Friday 4 December | |||
| 9:00-10:20 Session 6 | |||
| 9:00 | Sara Chiarini | Speaking Power into Being: The Activating Force of Ritual Utterances in the so-called Graeco-Egyptian Magical Papyri | |
| 9:40 | José Marcos Macedo | Verbs and Invocation in the Greek Magical Papyri | |
| 10:20 | Panagiota Sarischouli | Encoding Efficacy: Voces Magicae and the Pragmatics of Ritual Language in Graeco-Egyptian Magic | |
| 11:00-11:30 Coffee break | |||
| 11:30-12:50 Session 7 | |||
| 11:30 | Niels Schoubben | Gāndhārī Elements in a Bactrian Protective Amulet: A Contact Linguistic Analysis | |
| 12:10 | Paola Dardano | The Interaction between Dromena and Legomena in Hittite Magical Practice: Some Aspects of Lexicon and Phraseology | |
| 12:50–14:30 Lunch break | |||
| 14:30-15:50 Session 8 | |||
| 14:30 | Theresa Roth | How to do Magical Things with Words: Directive Speech Acts in Ancient Indo-European Curses and Magical Formulae | |
| 15:10 | Esme Winter-Froemel | A special kind of magic: Metaphorical and Metonymical Framing in (Anti-)Environmental Discourse in French, Italian and Spanish | |
| 15:50–16:20 Coffee break | |||
| 16:20–17:40Session 9 | |||
| 16:20 | Christopher Faraone | The Evolution of Speech-Acts in Ancient Greek Magical Texts: Incantation, Prayer and Adjuration | |
| 17:00 | Sofía Torallas Tovar | Voces magicae: Instructions on Utterance and Inscription | |
| 17:40-18:00 Conclusions | |||
