Aegyptiaca.

Journal of the History of Reception of Ancient Egypt

Announcement and Call for Papers

Dear friends and colleagues,

I am delighted to announce “Aegyptiaca. Journal of the History of Reception of Ancient

Egypt”.
Aegyptiaca is an international open access journal, published by the Department of
Egyptology, University of Heidelberg. It is dedicated to the documentation and research of
the history of reception of ancient Egypt. The journal will be published biannually in English
language and will accept German and French articles as well. I would like to encourage
everyone to write in English in order to have as broad an audience as possible. The quality is
ensured by a peer review evaluation process and an advisory board consisting of international
well-reputed authorities.
Each volume will feature a) articles in regard to a special focus b) general articles c) reviews
and d) news such as announcements, calls for papers, reports on conferences and short
research reports.

The journal tries to encourage a coherent discussion of the concept of Egypt in the West. As
this topic is an object of research in many different disciplines the journal tries to cover a
whole range of fields and all periods of the history of reception of ancient Egypt and it is open
to different approaches and methods. By doing this the journal tries to keep in mind the
question if and in which regard the confrontation with the idea of Egypt was a relevant factor
of cultural history. The journal will publish articles focussing on special aspects of the history
of reception of ancient Egypt in the different testimonia (may it be texts, art or objects) and
intends to understand the detailed aspects as part of a bigger story at the same time.
This periodical is devoted to assembling all the brilliant research into the different aspects of
the history of reception of ancient Egypt done in numerous disciplines and in regard to
different periods. The journal will cover only the proper research trying to understand Egypt
as a part of Western culture and it will ignore the equally widespread tendency to regard
Egypt in the West as a quirky phenomenon of secondary importance without any effect in the
serious parts of cultural history.
The term “reception” in the (sub)title of the journal is not used in the strict sense of a
constructivist epistemology. Egypt was not encountered in a totally self-determined way.

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Images of Egypt were handed down by tradition, and an artist was confronted with the
expectations of a patron or the requirements of the genre. The term “effective history” would
be suitable as well, however with similar restrictions.

The journal is part of “Propylaeum, Specialized Information Service for Classical Studies”
funded by the “Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft” and supported by the Heidelberg
University Library and Bavarian State Library among others.
The advisory board consists of Jan Assmann (Heidelberg and Konstanz), Brian Curran
(Pennsylvania), Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert (Leipzig), Thomas Gilbhard (Hamburg),
Anthony Grafton (Princeton), Cécilia Hurley-Griener (Neuchatel and Paris), Wouter
Hanegraaff (Amsterdam), Martin Mulsow (Erfurt and Gotha), Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann
(Berlin), Joachim Friedrich Quack (Heidelberg), Miguel John Versluys (Leiden).

All articles will be subject to a “double blind peer-review”. That means that as a first step the
editor assesses whether a submitted paper matches scientific standards and fits the scope of
the journal. The editor will then anonymize the papers and contact two experts to review it. If
the paper is accepted, we will offer a final proof-reading.
All submissions must be spell-checked, copy-edited and proof-read. Submitted texts must be
consistent in terms of capitalisation, spelling, punctuation, abbreviations, references, headings
etc. as detailed in the “guide for authors” attached below.

The first “special topic” is dedicated to the “Master Narrative of Egypt in Western Culture?”
exploring the question whether there is a driving force that can be regarded as a coherent
trace. If you would like your paper to be part of this section it should be submitted by January
15, 2017.

If you have any information, questions and remarks or if you want to submit a paper, please
contact me as the editor:
Dr. Florian Ebeling
Aegyptiaca. Journal of the History of Reception of Ancient Egypt
Department of Egyptology, University of Heidelberg
Marstallhof 4, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany
info@aegyptiaca.org