Summer Institute in Papyrology 2024
The first of the Society’s summer institutes to be hosted outside of the United States took place from 1‒26 July 2024 at the Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli” in Florence. The organizers and principal instructors were Francesca Maltomini (Università degli Studi di Firenze and director of the Istituto) and Todd Hickey (University of California, Berkeley). Lectures and seminars were contributed by Giuseppina Azzarello (Università degli Studi di Udine), Bianca Borrelli (Università degli Studi di Firenze), Lucio Del Corso (Università degli Studi di Salerno), Jean-Luc Fournet (Collège de France), Marco Fressura (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Nikolaos Gonis (University College London), Raffaele Luiselli (Sapienza Università di Roma), Roberto Mascellari (Università degli Studi di Messina), Fabian Reiter (Alma Mater Studiorum ‒ Università di Bologna), Cornelia Römer (Ain Shams University), and Marco Stroppa (Università degli Studi di Firenze). Additionally, Sandra Lippert (Centre national de la recherche scientifique, UMR8546 “Archéologie et philologie d’Orient et d’Occident,” CNRS ‒ Paris Sciences Lettres) offered an intensive two-week introduction to Demotic studies for Greek papyrologists, while James Cowey (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg) directed a three-day training workshop covering the Leiden+ mark-up syntax and use of papyri.info’s Papyrological Editor.
The early-career scholars who participated in the institute were: Riccardo Altieri (now at Harvard University), Lida Bournou Stavroulopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Olivier Calligaro (Université de Strasbourg), Mauro Castiello (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Marina Cavichiolo Grochocki (now an assistant professor at Arizona State University), Michael Freeman (now an assistant professor at Texas Tech University), Giulia Grossi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Francesca Iacono (Universität Hamburg), Maxwell Shiller (University of Southern California), Endrit Smaili (now at Sorbonne Université), Mareike-Beatrice Stanke (Universität Zürich), and Kacper Żochowski (Uniwersytet Warszawski). Their principal assignment was to edit documentary papyri, mostly dating to the Roman period, that had been selected from the Istituto’s collection. Completed editions will appear in the Istituto’s open-access series Papiri della Società Italiana. Digital images of Greek ostraka from the Victoriamuseum för egyptiska fornsaker at Uppsala universitet furnished an additional editorial opportunity.
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