MULTIMA Cross-cultural Texts. Languages, objects, and the transmission of the rituals. An interdisciplinary and comparative analysis on some unsearched ritual practices in the Graeco-Egyptian papyri (PGM) International Conference - Venice, Aula Baratto – 8th April, 2014 Ancient traditions and the current approaches of the scholars: many languages of today, for many cultures of the past PROGRAMME 9.45-10.15 Introduction Paolo Eleuteri Director of the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici Sabina Crippa – Emanuele M. Ciampini Chairman Filippo M. Carinci 10.15-10.45 Madalina Vartejanu Joubert – Paris Des textes et des concepts : syncrétisme, acculturation, bricolage. 10.45-11.15 Yvan Koenig – Paris The use of Pharaonic Traditions in Greek Magical Texts 11.15-11.45 Break 11.45-12-15 Magali de Haro Sanchez – Liège Appréhender les influences multiculturelles sur les papyrus magiques grecs : résultats, limites et perspectives de l’étude des marqueurs d’identité culturelle 12.15-12.45 Alessandro Roccati – Torino La trasmissione transculturale di letteratura magico-religiosa nell’Egitto antico. 12.45-13.15 Discussion 13.15-15.00 Lunch Chairman Lucio Milano 15.00-15.30 Raquel Martín Hernández – Madrid Selecting spells for a magical handbook. On PGM VII and ‘stereotype appropriation’. 15.30-16.00 Rita Lucarelli – Bonn The donkey in the Graeco-Egyptian papyri 16.00-16.30 Chris Faraone – Chicago Protective Statues and Other Amulets: The Recipes in the Greek Magical Papyri 16.30-17.30 Discussion & round table on the Conference subjects 17.30 Leave-Taking