Projects

 Current

  • Heracleitus II: Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund funded by the European Union (European Social Fund – ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF). Project title: "Hybrid demoninc entities in Egypt and the Aegean during the 7th and 6th c. BC" (PhD canditate: Ms. Hlectra Apostola).


  • Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project (AEDP) organized and coordinated by Kasia Szpakowska (Swansea University, Wales), Rita Lucarelli (Bonn University, Germany) and Panagiotis Kousoulis (University of the Aegean, Rhodes), with the collaboration of distinguished scholars from eight institutions. The aim of this ambitious, trandisciplinary research project is to study certain lexical, iconographical and chronological criteria for the formation of a category or categories of beings that could be mapped together and systemized to become a “demonology” within the cultural framework of Ancient Egypt. The time span covered is large (from the Old Kingdom through the Roman Period, roughly 3000 BC - AD 400) as are the source materials. 

  • Aegyptiaka Project (AeP): Ecumene and Economy in the Horizon of Religion organised and coordinated by Panagiotis Kousoulis (University of the Aegean, Rhodes) and Ludwig Morenz (University of Bonn, Germany), with the collaboration of distinguished scholars from five institutions. The aims of this interdisciplinary research project are the  systematic study of the Egyptian and egyptianised objects from Late Geometric and Archaic Greece (7th – 6th centuries BC) and the re-evaluation of the cross-cultural interactions, socio-political and economic relations between Egypt and the Aegean world during this period.  

Past

  • Ex Oriente Lux I: η έρευνα και διδασκαλία των πολιτισμών της Αιγύπτου, Εγγύς Ανατολής και Κύπρου στα Ελληνικά Α.Ε.Ι. (20 May 2011): an one-day symposium organised and coordinated by Panagiotis Kousoulis (University of the Aegean, Rhodes), Nota Kourou (University of Athens), Eleni Mantzourani (University of Athens), Kostas Kopanias (University of Athens) and Eleni Tourna (National Archaeological Museum of Athens). For more information (in Greek) click here.


  • Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists (Rhodes, 22-29 May 2008) organised and coordinated by Panagiotis Kousoulis (University of the Aegean, Rhodes) under the aegis of the International Association of Egyptologists, the Supreme Council of Antiquities (Egypt), the University of the Aegean, the Academy of Athens and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture; for the Congress proceedings click here; to download the abstracts volume click here.    

  • Helwan Archaeological Survey and Mapping Project (HASMP) organised and coordinated by Panagiotis Kousoulis (University of the Aegean, Rhodes) and the Supreme Council of Antiquities from 2005 to 2007. The aim of the project was the suevey and digital mapping with the use of G.I.S. of sites and momuments in the Helwan region. This survey was part of the project Pythagoras (see below); for more information click here.
  • First Egyptological Research Seminar at the University of the Aegean (13, 14 and 27 October 2005; 3-4 and 24 November 2005) organised and coordinated by Panagiotis Kousoulis with the participation of: Prof. Ludwig Morenz (University of Bonn), Prof. Yvan Koenig (CNRS), Prof. Anthony Spalinger (University of Auckland) and Dr. Nikolaos Lazaridis (University of Sacramento); the Seminar volume can be downloaded here.
  • Foreign Relations and Diplomacy in the Ancient World: Egypt, Greece, Near East (3-5 December 2004). An international Conference organised and coordinated by Panagiotis Kousoulis (University of the Aegean, Rhodes) and Kostas Magliveras (University of the Aegean), funded by the project Pythagoras (see below); for the Conference proceedings click here.

  • Pythagoras, meter 2.2, developing reasearch cooperation among scholars at the University of the Aegean, funded by the European Union (European Social Fund – ESF) and Greek national funds (2003-2007). Project title: "Egypt-Greece in Antiquity. A historical and archaeological survey with the aid of natural sciences".




  • Ancient Egyptian Theology and Demonology: Studies on the Boundaries between the Demonic and the Divine in Egyptian Magic (27-29 June 2003) organised and coordinated by Panagiotis Kousoulis (University of the Aegean, Rhodes) and Mark Collier (University of Liverpool, UK). The first Egyptological symposium ever organised in Greek academia. For the Symposium proceedings click here.