Thursday, May 18
| 14:00 | Sabine R. Huebner (Basel) |
| Welcome address |
Panel I: Servants To The Rulers, Masters Of The Land: Governors, Provincial Authorities, And Great Landowners
Chair: Matthias Stern
| 14:30 | James Keenan (Loyola, Chicago) |
| “The Will of Flavius Phoibammon and the Late Antique Mentalité.” |
| 15:00 | Roberta Mazza (Manchester) |
| “Portrait of a Landlord: Flavius Strategius II and the Justinian Turning Point.” |
| 15:30 | Anne Boud’hors (Paris) |
| “Completing the Figure of Papas, Pagarch of Edfou at the End of the 7th Century: the Contribution of the Coptic Documents.” |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
Chair: Isabelle Marthot
| 16:30 | Andreas Kaplony (Munich) |
| “Kitābī hāḏā ‘This my writ’: the Official Speaking as an Individual in Arabic Documents up to 800 and Beyond.” |
| 17:00 | Alon Dar (Ben Gurion, Beer-Sheva) |
| “The Eye of the Viceroy: Change and Continuity in the Conquest of Egypt from the Perspective of ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ.” |
| 17:30 | General discussion |
| 18:00 | Apéro (Rosshof, Petersgraben 51) |
Friday, May 19
Panel II: Village Authorities And Leading Families: Hinges At The Meeting Point Of State And Society
Chair: W. Graham Claytor
| 9:30 | Lajos Berkes (Heidelberg) |
| “The Notary Paulos and the Last Greek Legal Documents from Islamic Egypt.” |
| 10:00 | Lucian Reinfandt (Vienna) |
| “Petosiris the Scribe.” |
| 10:30 | Coffee break |
Chair: Matthias Müller
| 11:00 | Loreleï Vanderheyden (Paris) |
| “The Figure of Apollos, Father of Dioscorus, in the light of Coptic letters from Aphrodito (6th c. CE).” |
| 11:30 | Jennifer Cromwell (Copenhagen) |
| “A Village Scribe on the Eve of Change.” |
| 12:00 | General discussion |
| 12:30 | Lunch (Zazaa, Petersgraben 15) |
Panel III: Patterns Of Daily Life In A Time Of Change
Chair: Sabine Huebner
| 14:30 | Nicoletta de Troia (Rome) |
| “Living on the Edge of the Empire at the End of the Late-Roman Period. The Kharga Oasis sites as a case study.” |
| 15:00 | Roger Bagnall (New York University) |
| “Family Histories in Pre-Transition Egypt.” |
| 15:30 | Judith Evans Grubbs (Emory, Atlanta) |
| “Slave and Free in Egypt at the End of Antiquity.” |
| 16:00 | Coffee break |
Chair: Eugenio Garosi
| 16:30 | Arietta Papaconstantinou (Reading) |
| “Women of Substance: Case Studies from Different Walks of Life.” |
| 17:00 | David Powers (Cornell, Ithaca) |
| “The Abolition of Adoption in Islam.” |
| 17:30 | General discussion |
| 20:00 | Dinner (Zum Isaak, Münsterplatz 16) |
Saturday, May 20
Panel IV: Serving God: Bishops, Clergy, Monks, And Nuns
Chair: Stefanie Schmidt
| 10:00 | Alain Delattre & Naïm Vanthieghem (Paris/Bruxelles) |
| “Monks and Monasteries in the Early Islamic Period: Insights from Documentary Sources.” |
| 10:30 | Luise M. Frenkel (São Paulo) |
| “Egyptian Female Coenobitic Monasticism during the Early Arab Conquest: Maximus the Confessor on Alexandrian Nuns in Exile.” |
| 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:30 | Maya Müller (Basel) |
| “A Coptic Citizen Orders a Joseph Tunic in Early Islamic Egypt (Cuff trimming Museum der Kulturen Basel III 17088).” |
| 12:00 | Final discussion |
| 12:30 | Lunch (Zazaa, Petersgraben 15) |
| 14:00 | City Tour (Start at Rosshof, Petersgraben 51) |
| 15:30 | Conference Conclusion |