Call for papers | International conference "Romance on the Nile: The Ancient Novel in Egypt – Egypt in the Ancient Novel", 10-12 September 2025, Freie Universität Berlin — LIMITE : 30/11/2024

We are two postdocs who are currently researching novelistic literature in the Egyptian language, i.e., the Demotic novel(la) (Cross) and the underappreciated legacy of the ancient (Greek, Jewish, Egyptian) novel in Coptic literature (Krueger). To benefit both our own studies and the flourishing interdisciplinary spectrum of research on the ancient novel, the aim of our conference is to bring together scholars from different disciplines (e.g., Egyptology, Biblical studies, Classics) who, in ...