PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE
MONDAY, 17th September 2018
8:00 Registration
9:00 Opening of the conference
Session 1 Early travellers to Egypt and the Middle East
9:15 Pernjak Dejan, “Pictures of Egypt and the Middle East in Georgrius Huszthius’ from Rascinia Descriptio peregrinationis”
9:45 Udo Staf, “The history of the Lucovich family from Prcanj (near Kotor)”
10:15 Lucie Storchová, “Religious Zealotry, Terrifying Unreason or a Model of Toleration? Imagining Islam in Fictional Travelogues of Václav Matěj Kramérius (1802-08)”
10:45 Coffee break
Session 2 Travellers to Egypt and the Orient during the first half of the 19th century
11:00 Irene Guidotti & Carlo Rindi Nuzzolo, “Epidemics Between Europe and Egypt in a Rediscovered Work of Giuseppe Nizzoli”
11:30 Johanna Holaubek, “Maria Schuber (1799-1881), a Courageous Woman and her Journey to the Orient”
12:00Tomislav Kajfež, “A Case of Modern-Day Burial in Ancient Egyptian Sarcophagi”
12:30-14:00 Lunch break
Session 3 Travellers to Egypt and the Orient during the second half the 19th century
14:00 Vera Vasiljević, “The Bombardment of Alexandria 1882 in the writings of Milan Jovanović Morski”
14:30 Sanda Kočevar, “Jakov Šašel – The Origin of his Bilder”
15:00 Susanna Moser, “Carlo de Marchesetti: an Austrian botanist in the land of the Pharaohs”
15:30 Angela Blaschek, “Anton von Prokesch-Osten jr. (1837-1919)”
16:30 Guided city tour with a professional English guide
TUESDAY, 18th September 2018
Session 4 Formation of Egyptian collections in the second half of the 19th century
9:00 Éva Liptay, “The Egyptian coffin and mummy of Stephan Delhaes”
9:30 Jozef Hudec, “Aegyptiaca on an exhibition in Pressburg/ Bratislava in 1865”
10:00Marta Herucová, “Oriental Paintings in the former Keglević’ Chateau Topoľčianky”
10:30 Coffee break
Session 5 Formation of Egyptian collections in the second half of the 19th century
10:45 Regina Hölzl, “‘The Forgotten Papyrus’ of the Miramar Collection”
11:15 Anja Kovačić, “Egyptology in the Varaždin area: the contribution of the Bombelles and Paszhtory-Varady family”
11:45 Marina Kovač, “The Egyptian Collection of the Museum of Slavonia and its donors”
12:15-13:45 Lunch break
Session 6 Egypt in Art/Orientalist Art
13:45 Ernst Czerny, “Carl Rudolph Huber and the temptation of the East”
14:15 Petra Vugrinec, “Egyptian Motifs in Croatian Modern Painting: Vlaho Bukovac, Bela Csikos Sesia, Robert Auer”
14:45 Vesna Kamin Kajfež, “Adolf Loos’s purchase in 1914. The story of Ivan Napotnik and his ‘Egyptian Woman’”
15:15 Ágnes Mészáros, “’École hongroise’ of orientalist painting – does it exist?”
16:00 Guided tour Zagreb City Museum (Opatička 20)
WEDNESDAY, 19th September 2018
Excursion to north-west Croatia (Krapina-castle Trakoščan-Varaždin)
Thursday, 20th September 2018
Session 7 Travellers to Egypt and the Orient during the second half the 19th century and the early 20th century
9:00 Edith Specht, “Pater Joseph Ohrwalder: two lives, two wives”
9:30Eszter Feró, “Mária Fáy, the first Hungarian woman traveler and her journey to the Orient”
10:00 Coffee break
Session 8 Fran Gundrum Oriovčanin in Egypt (1902) – the unpublished manuscript of his diary part 1
10:15 Ivana Funda, “Fran Gundrum Oriovčanin’s voyage from Trieste to Alexandria in November 1902”
10:45 Andreja Škrlec, “Fran Gundrum Oriovčanin’s tour of the tombs in Upper Egypt”
11:15 Mladen Tomorad, “Fran Gundrum Oriovčanin in Luxor (4th-7th December 1902)”
11:45-13:15 Lunch break
Session 9 Fran Gundrum Oriovčanin in Egypt (1902) – the unpublished manuscript of his diary part 2
13:15 Margareta Filipović Srhoj, “Gudrum’s description of the constructing and the grand opening of the old Aswan Dam in 1902”
13:45 Lana Končevski, “Fran Gundrum Oriovčanin: ’From Križevci to Cairo‘ – Ethnographic data”
14:15 Kristina Milković, “The Society represented in the Manuscript ’My journey to Egypt‘ of Fran Gundrum Oriovčanin”
15:00 Guided tour – the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb (Trg Nikole Šubića Zrinskog 19)
19:00 Opening of the exhibition „Egypt in Croatia: Croatian fascination with Egypt from Antiquity to the early 21st century“ at the Museum Mimara (Rooseveltov trg 5)
friday, 21st September 2018
Session 10 Travellers during the first half the 20th century
9:00 Jaro Lajovic, “Dr. Karel Pečnik – a Slovenian physician in Egypt”
9:30 Grzegorz First, “From Habsburg Galicia to the Ottoman Egypt. Impressions from the voyage to Egypt by Fr. Stanisław Trzeciak (1904)”
10:00Sabina Kaštelančić, “Ivan Meštrović’s Correspondence to Ruža Meštrović from Egypt in 1927. The Artist’s Fascination with Egypt reflected in his picture postcards to Ruža Meštrović”
10:30 Ivica Šute, “From Split to the Pyramids. How did the Croatian poet Vladimir Nazor experience Egypt in 1935”
11:00 Coffee break
Session 11 Egyptomania in Art
11:15 Marina Bagarić, “Egypt in an Image of Zagreb: Buildings, Monuments, Street Furniture”
11:45 Andrea Fullér, “Egyptianizing Funerary Architecture in Budapest”
12:15 Zorana Jurić Šabić, “Ivan Meštrović – Creating Art for Eternity. Meštrović’s Fascination with Ancient Egypt as Illustrated in The Family Mausoleum in Otavice”
12:45 – 14:15 Lunch break
Session 12 Varia and Studies
14:15 Elisabeth Monamy, “Food archaeology. A neglected field of research awakes”
14:45 Clemens Gütl, “Across Borders And Cultures: New Approaches to Sound Recordings from The Maghreb”
15:15 James Goff, “The Viennese Circle for the Study of the Egyptian Book of the Dead: A Dialogue with the Ineffable”
15:45 Adéla Jůnová Macková, “František Lexa (1876–1960) and his Family. The Daily Life of the first Czechoslovak Egyptologist”
16:45 Guided tour – the Museum of Arts and Crafts (Trg Republike Hrvatske 10)
19:30 Farewell dinner in the restaurant „Kaptolska klet“ (Kaptol 5)
SATURDAY, 22nd September 2018 – 2nd excursion
Excursion to Samobor and the castle Veliki Tabor
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