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INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COPTIC STUDIES NEWSLETTER BULLETIN D’INFORMATION No. 46, May 2004 Editor (IACS Secretary): Stephen Emmel Institut für Ägyptologie und Koptologie Schlaunstrasse 2 D - 48143 Münster, Germany Electronic mail: [email protected] Fax: +49 251 8329933 http://rmcisadu.let.uniroma1.it/~iacs ELECTRONIC EDITION ___________________________________________________________ CONTENTS: Eighth International Congress of Coptic Studies, Paris 2004: Third Announcement, p. 3 – Huitième Congrès International d’Études Coptes, Paris 2004 : troisième circulaire, p. 8 – Provisional Agenda for the Eighth Business Meeting of the IACS: Paris, 3 July 2004, p. 13 – Proposed Changes in the Statutes of the IACS, p. 13 – Notes from the IACS Sec- retariat, p. 13 – The Sarah J. Clackson Coptic Fund, p. 14 – Journal of Cop- tic Studies, p. 14 – Acts of the 7th International Congress of Coptic Studies, Leiden 2000, p. 15 – Eastern Christian Art: Call for Articles, p. 15 – IACS Members with New Postal and/or E-mail Addresses, p. 16 – Publications in Preparation, Forthcoming, or Recently Published, as Announced by IACS Members (and Others), p. 18 – Obituary Notices, p. 36 ___________________________________________________________ IACS Newsletter 46 (May 2004) 3 EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF COPTIC STUDIES, ORGANIZED BY THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR COPTIC STUDIES, PARIS, 28 JUNE – 3 JULY 2004: THIRD ANNOUNCEMENT (Une version française de ce communiqué fait suite.) 1. Provisional program • Sunday 27 June 16h–20h: arrival and registration of the participants meeting of the Board of the IACS • Monday 28 June 9h–10h30: official opening of the congress at the Institut d’Art 10h30–17h45: sessions of the congress 18h30: opening of the exhibit “Pages chrétiennes d’Égypte. Les manu- scrits des Coptes,” Bibliothèque nationale de France, Crypte, 29 June – 29 August 2004 • Tuesday 29 June 9h–17h15: sessions of the congress possibility of visiting, in two groups of 20 persons, the Coptic tex- tile collections of the musée de Cluny that are kept in storage; those interested are invited to inform Anne Boud’hors before 15 June 18h: visit to the exhibit “Égypte. La trame de l’histoire” (Institut du Monde Arabe) • Wednesday 30 June 9h–17h15: sessions of the congress 18h30: visit to the Coptic rooms of the Louvre or 18h45: lecture at the Centre Culturel d’Égypte, “Documentation des pein- tures murales coptes: historique et réalisations du projet de l’Insti- tut français d’archéologie orientale” (R. Boutros, IFAO). N.B. From 21 June to 9 July, the Centre will exhibit some twenty original paintings by Pierre Laferrière, artist at the IFAO, which he did as a part of this project about thirty years ago. Visit at your own convenience (the Centre is very close to the Institut d’Art). evening: reception at the Louvre • Thursday 1 July 9h–18h: sessions of the congress • Friday 2 July 9h : arrival at the Institut Catholique 9h30–17h30: sessions of the congress 19h: closing reception at the Sénat 4 IACS Newsletter 46 (May 2004) • Saturday 3 July 9h30–12h30: Business Meeting of the IACS 14h–17h: meeting of the Board of the IACS N.B. During these scheduled periods, of course short breaks are foreseen each day, as well as a break for lunch of about one and a half hours. 2. Organisation of the congress At present, the number of participants is about 250. The program includes 150 short papers, divided among three parallel sections, and 15 plenary reports. Present- ers who have not yet specified the title of their paper and/or sent an abstract are requested to do so immediately. In view of the large number of papers, the time for speaking will be limited to 20 minutes, and no papers will be read in absentia. A provisional list of the papers is available at the web site of the IRHT (http://www. irht.cnrs.fr/congres_copte2004.htm). The web site of the Association francophone de Coptologie is temporarily closed. 3. Modes of presentation - Paper hand-out: if possible, the original should be given to us on the day of regis- tration to be duplicated. - Over-head projection: bring transparencies as well as printouts on paper (in case it will be possible to use a suitable projector). - Slide projection: do not neglect to number your slides, in order to facilitate the task of the technicians who will assist you. - Video: there are two possibilities: a) bring your own portable computer; or b) bring a CD containing the files and the fonts to be used. If you use unusual fonts or fonts in non-Latin characters, send us their names and specifications in ad- vance. For the files, use any of the following formats: .rtf (Word); .ppt (Power- point); .mdb (Access); .pdf (Acrobat). We advise you, as a matter of prudence, to duplicate your video presentation in some other medium, in case there is some technical problem. In any case, bear in mind that the rooms are large, and take care that your presentation can be seen clear- ly even from a distance. 4. Registration Registration for congress participants will take place on Sunday, 27 June, from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Institut d’Art, 3 rue Michelet, Paris, 6th arrondissement. (Late arrivals may register on 28 June starting at 8:00 am.) The Institut d’Art is a large, red-brick building near the Luxembourg Gardens that can be easily reached via the Port-Royal metro station (RER [see below], ligne B). The building is about 5 minutes by foot from the metro stop (see the enclosed map). Registration fees: IACS and AFC members: € 60.00 Students and retired, unemployed, or accompanying persons: € 30.00 Others: € 90.00 IACS Newsletter 46 (May 2004) 5 In order to ease the registration procedure on Sunday, 27 June, you may pay your fee now, before the congress, up until 15 June 2004 - either by check (drawn only on a French bank) paid to the order of the “Associa- tion francophone de Coptologie” - or by direct transfer (making sure that any bank charges are applied to your ac- count and not to ours) to the following account (please be sure to indicate your name and “frais d’inscription congrès”) : Association francophone de Coptologie IBAN: FR 77 20041 01015 0339942M036 05 BIC : PSSTFRPPSTR French participants are encouraged to pay their registration fee before the congress. Others may do so at registration. 5. Transportation and travel There are several possibilities for getting from the airports and train stations to the hotels and congress sites. The most expensive means are taxis and private shuttle bus services. The least expensive is via the trains of the RER (“Réseau Express Régional”; the different lines have letters) and the Paris metro (“métro” is shortened from “métropolitain”; the different lines have numbers). Although taxis and shuttle buses have the advantage that they will deliver you right to your destination, the RER is generally faster and both less expensive and quite easy to use. When using the RER, you will want to head either for the Port-Royal station on line B (a little south of the Luxembourg Gardens; see map), or for the Denfert-Rochereau station, the next stop south on the same line (at place Denfert-Rochereau). Port-Royal is closest to the first congress site (just a 5-minute walk to the Institut d’Art), while Denfert-Rochereau is closer to the Ibis and Kyriad hotels (see below for further directions to the hotels). If you are traveling to the Cité Universitaire (19 boulevard Jourdan in the 14th arrondissement), you want the next stop south on the same line after Denfert-Rochereau. Arrival at Charles de Gaulle airport Follow the RER signs and take either the shuttle (red) or the bus (green) for a short ride from the airport terminal to the railway station. Take the RER line B (€ 7.75) to the Port-Royal station (for the congress site), or to Denfert-Rochereau (for the hotels), or to the Cité Universitaire. Approximate travel time is 30 minutes. Trains depart every 10 minutes between 5:00 am and midnight. A taxi from the air- port will cost between € 35.00 and € 50.00 and will take 45–60 minutes. Arrival at Orly airport There are two possibilities. (1) Take the “Orlyval” (€ 8.80) in the direction of “Antony” to the RER station and change there to the RER line B (described above, but noting that Orly is south of Paris, whereas Charles de Gaulle is north). Approxi- mate travel time is 15 minutes, with departures every 5–10 minutes between 6:00 am and 10:30 pm. (2) There is also the “Orlybus” (€ 5.70), which will take you from the 6 IACS Newsletter 46 (May 2004) airport directly to Denfert-Rochereau. At the airport, follow signs for the “Orlybus shuttle.” Travel time is approximately 30 minutes, with departures every 12 minutes or so between 6:00 am and 11:00 pm. A taxi from Orly airport will cost between € 20.00 and € 30.00 and is a good alternative for 2 or 3 people traveling together. Arrival at a main train station (SNCF = Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français) At the train station, change to the RER or to the metro so as to make your way to Port-Royal or Denfert-Rochereau or Cité Universitaire. If you want to take a taxi from the train station, follow the signs to the taxi queue (taxis no longer pick up pas- sengers at random). Arrival by car Get onto the “boulevard périphérique” and take the “porte d’Orléans” exit, then follow signs to Denfert-Rochereau (see map; the périphérique cuts across the lower left-hand corner, just above boulevard Romain Rolland, and the porte d’Orléans exit leads to place du 25 Août 1944).