New positions

We are very pleased to announce the new positions of some of our collaborators.

In September 2018 Korshi Dosoo will take up a post-doctoral position at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, co-ordinating a 5-year project on Coptic magical texts. This project will involve the creation of a database of published and unpublished texts, the edition and re-edition of original manuscripts, and the production of research situating them within their historical, social and intellectual context. The project is currently recruiting two team members – a doctoral and post-doctoral researcher-; further details may be found here:

Myriam Blanco has been appointed Research Postdoctoral Fellow in the project  HORIZON 2020-ERC “AlchemEast –G.A./24914” Alchemy in the Making: From ancient Babylonia via Graeco-Roman Egypt into the Byzantine, Syriac and Arabic traditions (1500 BCE – 1000 AD), at Università di Bologna. She is working on P.Leiden X and P.Holm. and their relationship to the other books in the Theban Library.

Eleni Chronopoulou has also been appointed as ‘assegnista di ricerca’ (postdoctoral researcher) in the project Papiri magici greci: revisione ecdotica e analisi lessicale at the Università di Firenze.