The relationships between matter, society and texts are highly complex. And to a certain extent, they are one of the main characteristics of a culture. This is the approach of SHAPED, an international conference on the relationships between the material, the written and the social in ancient cultures with figurative scripts in search of common points and differences to better understand the relationship between these three elements by bringing together different approaches such as history of ideas, archaeology, material and digital philology, linguistics and anthropology.
The primary interest of SHAPED lies in echoing those approaches that highlight both the material dimension of the manifestations of a culture and its ideological aspects to go beyond the hylomorphism that has sustained (and sustains) the distinction between matter and form (or archaeology and philology mutatis mutandis), and which, furthermore, has left out of the equation the capacity for action of individuals as creators and consumers of such manifestations (agency).
SHAPED international conference is organised by G. Eschenbrenner Diemer, director of the Medjehu Project, and C. Gracia Zamacona, director of the MORTEXVAR Project.
On the occasion of the conference, the exhibition “Beyond the Tree. A Journey into the Traditions of Egyptian Woodcraft” will be inaugurated.
Download the programme HERE!
The conference will be held at the University of Alcalá, Sala María Isidra de Guzmán – Edificio del Rectorado, Plaza de San Diego, s/n 28801 – Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) – Spain.
You can attend the conference in person but the places are limited, please contact Carlos Gracia Zamacona (carlos.gracia@uah.es).
If you want to participate remotely, you can find the ZOOM links here:
Tuesday 10 December, 9:30 to 13:30 h.
URL: https://uah-es.zoom.us/j/92308058027?pwd=wPzaaalWF9IriysNJqSeENkO8bVA4E.1
Code: 868290
Tuesday 10 December, 15:00 to 17:45 h.
URL: https://uah-es.zoom.us/j/91698610110?pwd=F4ePU6P28MkWIqjgEYlpiiwfAgtj94.1
Code: 084794
Wednesday 11 December, 9:30 to 13:30 h.
URL: https://uah-es.zoom.us/j/95163183002?pwd=DfI9wibgXkgS4Fcaqo6Dqvv1qbxqWe.1
Code: 389240
Wednesday 11 December, 15:00 to 20:15 h.
URL: https://uah-es.zoom.us/j/93666941859?pwd=UpAOwRP9abir3faQwuOZOEasZK3fCV.1
Code: 527502
