Author: Navratil Oldrich
Last saved by: Hana Navrátilová
Company: Koch-Glitsch s.r.o.

Aktion 2005 

Report on the 2005 project activities – project No. 42p3

The project 42p3 was aimed at a scholarly meeting – a symposium – that should bring considerable scientific synergy. The symposium Egypt and Austria II was organized according to the plan, on 5^th to 7^th of October 2005 in the premises of the Osterreichische Kulturforum Prag. The meeting included researchers and students on both Czech and Austrian sides. In addition, the generous space allowance given by the Forum enabled us to invite a larger audience of Prague university students and researchers. This fact contributed to a further cooperation. 

List of Participants: 
Students A: Konrad Antonicek, Angela Blaschek
Students CZ: Lucie Jirásková
Researchers A: Gottfried Hamernik, Johanna Holaubek, Peter Jánosi, Erich Sommerauer, Edith Specht. 
Researchers CZ: Hana Havlůjová, Adéla Macková, Hana Navrátilová, Wolf. B. Oerter
Special guests: Tomislav Kajfež, Antonia Lant. 

The symposium was aimed primarily at the reception of Egypt in the art history of the Austrian and later Austro-Hungarian monarchy. The art history topic included also hermeneutical and methodological questions. 
The themes covered sculpture, architecture, sepulchral art, paintings and film. In addition a number of significant personages embodying the cultural meeting of the Hapsburg monarchy were presented. A special attention was devoted to the forms in which Egypt entered European art and to the meaning the images of Egypt carried herein. Egypt was used as a decoration, a source of rich ornaments, but also as a symbol and manifesto of eternity, endurance, majesty and power. The participants devoted their attention to all these manifold aspects, which in many cases deal more with the modern European culture itself than the ancient Egyptian one. 
	The list of participants and the respective papers is enclosed. 

	The programme and themes gained an interesting enrichment due to the support of the Faculty of Arts, which enabled an invitation of further participants, which were originally not the members of the AKTION team – Dr. Tomislav Kajfez [Laibach], Dr. Gottfried Hamernik [Klagenfurt] and Dr. Antonia Lant [New York]. Thus were also remedied two losses in the original team – A. Selander and R. Gundacker. 

The symposium is a continuation of Egypt and Austria I project. The Egypt and Austria II brought new themes to the analysis of multicultural meetings on the Danube. The interconnection Prague–Vienna has been confirmed again – the archive and library sources are mutually complementing and the approaches to the history of Egyptology and neighbouring disciplines and to the phenomenon of Orientalism are developing significantly in this bilateral scholarly communication. 
The team plans also the proceedings of Egypt and Austria II, edited by Johanna Holaubek, Wolf B. Oerter and Hana Navrátilová scheduled for summer 2006, being a follower to Egypt and Austria I, edited by Johanna Holaubek and Hana Navrátilová. 
The symposium also enjoyed a presentation in the media – broadcasting and newspapers (The Czech Broadcast, I-News etc.).
	In addition, due to the sparingly used EUR sum, it was also possible to invite H. Navrátilová for a short study stay in Vienna, during which she also held a lecture on the Egyptomania in Bohemia in the 19^th century (11. 11. 2005). 

The project shall have a further continuation, this time devoted to the scholarly dealings with the Orient and Egypt in particular. 

Expenses overview 

The expenses covered included accommodation of the Austrian participants in Prague and their per diem upkeep. Since the accommodation was provided in the University guesthouses, the costs were kept slightly under the planned sum (also due the fact that other guests had a faculty support and two members of the original team were not present). Therefore the remaining sum of 3800, - CZK was used for obtaining of specialized book titles for the library of the Czech Institute of Egyptology, to support Prague students of history and Egyptology in further pursuing the research this symposium aimed to promote. 

The costs overview in CZK: 

Accomodation costs		16800,-  
	Guest house Celetna      5400,-
	Guest house Jinonice   11 400,-
VAT 				    840,-
Travel expenses/per diem	 6560,-
Literature 			 3800,- 

Total 				28 000,- 

Enclosed: 

Programme (including participants supported by the Faculty of Arts). 

The EUR part of the project support, including expenses overview, has been processed. 

Dr. Johanna Holaubek 					PhDr. Hana Navratilova 
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Report AKTION 2005– 42p3