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The latest issue of the Cluster’s newsletter “Neotopia” has been published and is now available for download
Zukunftsportal: ANTIKE | The Congress
Students discover ancient cultures. A project and conference about a journey back in time – here in Berlin.
Conference Review: CAST IN SPACE
Twenty scientists, two catchwords: space & image. Looking into the past opens new vistas regarding conceptualizations of space – helping us to understand modern and contemporary visual phenomena.
Calendar
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Ceremony:
Opening Ceremony of "Berlin Graduate School o
Wed, May 23, 18:00
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Colloquium:
Colloquium on Cultural Theory 2
Fri, May 25, 11:00
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Exhibition:
Exhibition Opening: Auf den Kopf gestellt! We
Fri, June 01, 17:00
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Reading Group:
Reader's Circle: Raumwissen und Wissensräume I
Tue, June 05, 16:15
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Lecture:
Susan Pollock on: CSG V - Forum, Lecture: Archäologie, Identität und Vergangenheit am Beispiel Turkmenistan
Tue, June 05, 19:15
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Ceremony:
Opening Ceremony of "Berlin Graduate School o
Dr. Camilla Di Biase-Dyson
As a TOPOI Junior Research Fellow from 2009-2010, Camilla Di Biase-Dyson undertook a project entitled Back(wards) to the Future, in which she investigated two ancient Egyptian spatio-temporal terms for ‘in front of/before’ and ‘behind/after’. The focus of her enquiry was the meaning and potentially metaphorical qualities of these expressions. The link between the expression of space and time led her to work closely with the graduate group “The conception of spaces in language” (C-I-1). Now a postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, based at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Camilla is broadening her enquiry of spatio-temporal expressions by comparing the use of a variety of forms. Her analysis of these forms ranges from their meaning in individual texts to their use across a variety of texts throughout the pharaonic period. In this capacity Camilla happily continues her collaboration with members of the TOPOI group. |
General Information
Group
Junior Fellow
01.04.2009 - 31.03.2010
Contact
Projects
third-party funded project
Back(wards) to the Future. The orientation and metaphorical significance of the Egyptian prepositions r-HA.t 'in front/before' and m-xt 'behind/after'
Responsible Person
Responsible Person
research project
Activities
talk
"CSG V - Forum, Lecture: Der Orient als Vorstellung Altägyptens. Literarische Fallstudien aus dem Neuen Reich"
part of the Lecture Series CSG V - Forum „Space & Collective Identities”
part of the Lecture Series CSG V - Forum „Space & Collective Identities”
workshop
Career
Awards
2010-2012: Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2009-2010: Junior Research Fellowship, Excellence Cluster 264 TOPOI. 2008: Macquarie University Humanities Higher Degree Research Fund, Macquarie University International Office Travel Scholarship and Society for the Study of Early Christianity Travel Grant. 2007: Macquarie University Postgraduate Research Fund, Macquarie University Humanities Higher Degree Research Fund and Macquarie University International Office Travel Scholarship. 2004-2007: Australian Postgraduate Award. 2004: Munich Reinsurance Supplementary Award and Macquarie University International Office Travel Scholarship. 2003: University Medal for Ancient History, Macquarie Ancient History Association Honours Thesis Prize and Macquarie University Honours Scholarship. 2002: Macquarie University International Office Travel Scholarship. 2000: Macquarie University Innovation Scholarship.
Publications
| [2012] | A diachronic approach to the syntax and semantics of Egyptian spatio-temporal expressions with HA-t ‘front’. Implications for cognition and metaphor Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla |
| 2009 | Glossing Ancient Egyptian. Suggestions for adapting the Leipzig Glossing Rules Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla. Kammerzell, Frank. Werning, Daniel |
| Books | |
| forthcoming | Di Biase-Dyson, C. (In Preparation): The Frontiers of Characterisation. Towards a literary-linguistic approach to Late Egyptian narratives. [Probleme der Ägyptologie] Leiden. Brill. Approximately 430 pages. |
| Journal Arcticles | |
| Di Biase-Dyson, C. (2008): Reconsidering Reported Speech in Late Egyptian: A Contextual Approach, Lingua Aegyptia 16, 39-63. | |
| Published Conference Proceedings | |
| 2008 | Di Biase-Dyson, C. (In Press): Two Characters in Search of an Ending: The Case of Apophis and Seqenenre. Proceedings of the 10th International Congress of Egyptologists, Rhodes, May 2008 [Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta]. |
| 2009 | Di Biase-Dyson, C. (2009): Linguistic Insights into Characterisation. The Case Study of Wenamun. Proceedings of Crossroads IV, Conference of Egyptian Language Studies, Basel, March 2009 [Lingua Aegyptia 17]. |
| 2008 | Di Biase-Dyson, C. (2008): Two Characters in Search of an Ending: A Linguistic Approach to an Ancient Egyptian Story. Voices Around the World: Proceedings of the 35th International Systemic Functional Congress, Sydney, July 2008, 328-333. |
Curriculum Vitae
| Education and Qualifications | |
| 2004-2008 | PhD in Egyptology at Macquarie University, Sydney, under Associate Professor Boyo Ockinga. Dissertation: Characterisation across Frontiers: Foreigners and Egyptians in the Late Egyptian Stories from linguistic and literary perspectives. |
| 2003 | BA (Honours) in Ancient History at Macquarie University. Dissertation: Reinterpreting Amenemheb's Travels in Syria. Linguistic and Toponymic Analyses of his Autobiography. |
| 2000-2002 | Bachelor of Arts in Ancient History at Macquarie University. Study of Egyptian language, Egyptian and Mediterranean archaeology, history, religion and art history, Ancient Greek, German and French. |
| Research Projects | |
| 2010-2012 | Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow. Project entitled The space of time in Ancient Egyptian language. Functional, diachronic, typological and cognitive perspectives. |
| 2009-2010 | Junior Research Fellow, Excellence Cluster 264: TOPOI. The Formation and Transformation of Space and Knowledge in Ancient Civilisations. Project entitled Back(wards) to the Future. The orientation and metaphorical significance of the Egyptian prepositions r-HA.t 'in front/before' and m-xt 'behind/after' |
| Teaching Experience | |
| Summer 2011 | Lecturer (together with Daniel Werning), "Übersetzung ägyptischer Sprachdenkmäler aus dem Berliner Ägyptischen Museum", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. |
| Lecturer, "Ägyptische Literatur" as part of the course "Grundlagen der Archäologie und Kulturgeschichte Nordostafrikas", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. | |
| 2010-2011 | Lecturer, "Einführung ins Hieratische", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. |
| 2005 | Tutor, "Myth in the Ancient World”, Macquarie University, Sydney. |
| 2004-2005 | Tutor, "Egyptian Archaeology: An Introduction", Macquarie University, Sydney. |
| Conference and Workshop Organisation | |
| 2010 | Assistant to Thekla Wiebusch, Action Chair of COST Action A31 for organisation of COST A31 Final Conference “Categorizing Human Experience: Classification in Languages and Knowledge Systems”, École Normale Supérieure, Paris. |
| Co-organiser (with Janne Arp) of workshop and presentation series “Spaces in places, bodies and minds. A year in Review by the TOPOI Junior Research Fellows 2009-2010”, Free University Berlin. | |
| Conference presentations | |
| 2011 | The space of time in Ancient, Network Conference of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation, Georg August-Universität, Göttingen. |
| 2010 | Back(wards) to the Future.,“Spaces in places, bodies and minds. A year in Review by the TOPOI Junior Research Fellows 2009-2010”, Freie Universität Berlin. |
| Ancient Egyptian Spatial Prepositions. Tracking the interaction of diachrony and register, Annual Meeting of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Humboldt University of Berlin. | |
| 2009 | When is before? The role of syntax and cognitive frameworks in the semantics of Egyptian spatio-temporal prepositions, Workshop on Lexical Semantics in Ancient Egyptian, University of Liège. |
| March 2009: Linguistic insights into characterisation: The case study of Wenamun, Crossroads IV: Conference of Egyptian Language Studies, University of Basel. | |
| 2008 | Two Characters in Search of an Ending: A Linguistic Approach to an Ancient Egyptian Story, 35th International Systemic Functional Congress, Macquarie University, Sydney. |
| 2007 | He said, she said': A reconsideration of indirect speech in Late Egyptian, Macquarie University Language Colloquium, Sydney. |
| The 'Doomed Prince' meets his 'Other': Foreigners in Ramesside narrative from literary and linguistic perspectives, Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Toledo, Ohio. |