3 - 4 pm (CET)

Venue:

Einstein Center Chronoi

Otto-von-Simson-Straße 7, 14195 Berlin

Dr. Lajos Berkes

During “long” late antiquity, the period roughly 300–900 AD, Egypt was a multicultural environment in which Egyptian, Greek, Latin, and later Arabic languages and cultures, as well as polytheistic religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and later Islam, coexisted. This presentation will provide a chronological overview of the annual dating systems attested in Greek, Coptic, and Arabic documentary papyri from Egypt. It will focus on major changes and innovations and analyze them in their historical context: What do they mean for understanding local perceptions of time? Special emphasis will be placed on the multilingual context by analyzing which dating systems were used in which language(s) and how they were synchronized.

Participants can join the online Chronoi Talk by clicking on the following link:

https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin/j.php?MTID=m6c0d70d86dd0b66c70206c8296877426

The conference room can be accessed using the following methods:

• Joining directly in your browser; simply click the link above, and look for a button with this option near the bottom of the webpage.

• Downloading the program to your computer (instructions can be found by following the meeting link)

• Using the smartphone app called "Cisco Webex Meetings."

You are welcome to enter the online conference room up to 15 minutes in advance of the start time.