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Panagiotis Kousoulis
Panagiotis Kousoulis is an Associate Professor of Egyptology at the Department of Mediterranean Studies of the University of the Aegean and Director of the Laboratory for the Ancient World of the Eastern Mediterranean (Rhodes, Greece).
He studied Archaeology and History of Art at the National and Capodistrian University of Athens and Egyptology at the University of Birmingham and University of Liverpool (United Kingdom). He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (State Scholarship's Foundation of Greece) at the University of Liverpool (2001-2002), and Visiting Scholar at the same University (2006, 2008). He is the representative of Greece at the Council of the International Association of Egyptologists (2008-2015), scientific collaborator of the Cultural Center of the Embassy of the Arabic Republic of Egypt (Athens, 2005 till today) and research member of many Egyptological and archaeological societies: the American Academy of Religion (2010-2011, invited scholar in the 49th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 19-22/11/2011, panel: The Mediterranean Material Cultures and the Study of Religion – Understanding the Past), the American Research Center in Egypt (2003 till today), the Egypt Exploration Society (1997 till today) and the Societas Magica (2014 till today). He has been teaching Egyptology, Near Eastern archaeology and cross-cultural interactions in the eastern Mediterranean in postgraduate and undergraduate level at the Department of Mediterranean Studies of the University of the Aegean since 2003.
He is the scientific coordinator of the following international egyptological projects funded by the EU and Greek resources in cooperation with scholars from Greek and foreign Institutions: Aegyptiaca Project: Ecumene and Economy in the Horizon of Religion (2007 till today), Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project (2011 till today), Helwan Archaeological Survey and Mapping Project (2005-2007), Project HERAKLITUS ΙΙ (2010-2015), Project Pythagoras, meter 2.2: Egypt and Greece in Antiquity: Historical and Archaeological Approach with the aid of the natural sciences (2003-2007), E-learning Life-long Programmes of Continuing Education in Egyptology and the Ancient Egyptian Language (2012 till today), Egyptian Magic in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens (2014 till today).
His research interests include the Egyptian belief system (ontology, theology, demonology, ritual, magic), the Egyptian funerary ideology and practice (archaeology of death), the social history of ancient Egypt, the Egyptian language (Middle and Late Egyptian) and script (hieroglyphic, hieratic, Ptolemaic inscriptions), the cross-cultural interactions between Egypt, Greece and the Near East and the Aegyptiaca of the Early Iron Age Eastern Mediterranean.
Panagiotis has organized six international conferences on Rhodes and Athens: the Ancient Egyptian Theology and Demonology Symposium (2003), the Foreign Relations and Diplomacy in the Ancient World International Conference: Egypt, Greece, Near East (2004), the First Egyptological Seminar at the University of the Aegean (2005), the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists (2008), the Εx Oriente Lux Ι Symposium (2011) and the Aegyptiaca Project: the Symposium - Religion, Politics and Culture in the Mediterranean from the 8th to 6th c. BC (2016). He has also been invited and participated in many international conferences and colloquia in Greece, Europe and America.
He has published eight books and many articles in peer reviewed journals, collective volumes and conference proceedings. His books / edited volumes include: Magic and Religion as Performative Theological Union: the Apotropaic Ritual of Overthrowing Apophis (Liverpool, 1999), In Search of the Afterlife: Death and Mummification in ancient Egypt (Thessaloniki: Archetypo-Metekdotiki, 2004) [in Greek], Moving Across Borders: Foreign Relations, Religion and Cultural Interactions in Ancient Mediterranean, OLA 159 (Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2007, with Κ. Magliveras), Studies on the Ancient Egyptian Culture and Foreign Relations, Egyptological Series 1 (Rhodes: University of the Aegean, 2007), Ancient Egyptian Demonology: Studies on the boundaries between the Demonic and the Divine in Egyptian Magic, OLA 175 (Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2011), Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Egyptologists, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, 22-29 May 2008 (Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2015, with N. Lazaridis), Introduction to the Ancient Egyptian Language and Script (Athens, 2015) [in Greek], Ancient Egypt and the World of Greek Antiquity (Athens, 2015) [in Greek], Egyptian Hieroglyphics: Morphology and Syntax of Middle Egyptian (Athens: Papazisi Publishers, in press) [in Greek].
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