Activiteiten
2025
Healing and Sealing: Ritual Protection for Children in AntiquitySaar, O.-P. (Speaker)
12 Dec 2025
, The Magic of Language and the Language of MagicScenarios: Social and Cultural History through the Lens of MagicSaar, O.-P. (Invited speaker)
6 Sept 2025
, Southern Iraq from Late Antiquity to Early Islam: New Directions of ResearchAppeals for Protection of the Grave on Jewish and Non-Jewish Funerary InscriptionsSaar, O.-P. (Speaker)
25 Jun 2025
, European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS) Annual ConferenceThe Future of Paleography, Paleography of the FutureSaar, O.-P. (Organiser)
10 Apr 2025
Magical Signs in Cairo Genizah Manuscripts - Detection and ConnectionSaar, O.-P. (Speaker)
10 Apr 2025
, The Future of Paleography, Paleography of the FutureARCHON Research School (External organisation)Saar, O.-P. (Member)
2025 → …
2024
Unusual Death on EpitaphsSaar, O.-P. (Invited speaker)
21 Nov 2024
, “Gravestones. Marking Death from Antiquity to the Modern Era”Emotions on Medieval Jewish EpitaphsSaar, O.-P. (Invited speaker)
10 Sept 2024
Migraines and Their Magical Treatment in Late AntiquitySaar, O.-P. (Invited speaker)
10 Jun 2024
, Illness, Health, and Healing in Late AntiquityThe Christianization of Aristocratic Men in the Roman East, 324-450 CESaar, O.-P. (Co-supervisor)
2024 → …
Member of PhD examination committeeSaar, O.-P. (Member of committee)
2024 → 2025
2023
Bishop Burchard, Rabbi Kaduri, and the Marvelous Adventures of an EggSaar, O.-P. (Invited speaker)
8 May 2023
, Premodern Jewish Magical Affairs: Textual Transmission, Authority, and Practices of Esoteric KnowledgeOthering and Identity in the Ancient Near EastSaar, O.-P. (Organiser)
26 Jan 2023
Annual symposium of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO-Day)Saar, O.-P. (Organiser)
26 Jan 2023
, Annual symposium of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO-Day)ARCHON Research School (External organisation)Saar, O.-P. (Member)
2023 → …
2022
Migraine and Other Headaches in the Mesopotamian Incantation BowlsSaar, O.-P. (Invited speaker)
27 Oct 2022
, DIAGNOSIS: Late Antique Taxonomies in Medicine and HealingGender and the Mesopotamian Incantation BowlsSaar, O.-P. (Invited speaker)
4 Apr 2022
, The Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Their Late Antique Jewish ContextsDe Gruyter (Publisher)Saar, O.-P. (Editor)
2022 → …
2021
Incantations and Nursery Rhymes: Text Stability in Jewish MagicSaar, O.-P. (Invited speaker)
21 Oct 2021
Ambrose and the JewsSaar, O.-P. (Co-supervisor)
2021 → …
2020
Time in Jewish Historic Texts: A Digital Humanities ApproachSaar, O.-P. (Invited speaker)
11 Mar 2020
, Chronos Conference: Time & Society in Ancient Cultures2019
Cursing beyond the Grave: Imprecations and Jewish Funerary CultureSaar, O.-P. (Invited speaker)
7 Nov 2019 → 8 Nov 2019
A Time for Every Purpose: Extracting Dates from Hebrew and Aramaic TextsSaar, O.-P. (Speaker)
11 Sept 2019 → 13 Sept 2019
, DH Benelux Conference2018
Justice and Aggression in some Late-Antique Curse TextsSaar, O.-P. (Invited speaker)
18 Sept 2018
All That Remains: The Education and Conservation on Jewish Funerary CultureSaar, O.-P. (Organiser)
11 Jun 2018 → 12 Jun 2018
Digital Humanities and Jewish EpigraphySaar, O.-P. (Organiser)
19 Feb 2018 → 21 Feb 2018
Jewish papyri from EgyptSaar, O.-P. (Co-supervisor)
2018 → …
2017
Emotions in Late-Antique Jewish Epitaphs: Palestine and the DiasporaSaar, O.-P. (Invited speaker)
11 Jul 2017
, British Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference, Edinburgh, 2017A Sea of Stone: Digitally Analyzing Jewish Funerary InscriptionsSaar, O.-P. (Invited speaker)
4 Jul 2017
, DH BeneluxMember of PhD examination committeeSaar, O.-P. (Member of committee)
2017
2016
"Letters in the Dust: the Epigraphy, Archaeology and Conservation of Medieval Jewish Cemeteries"Saar, O.-P. (Organiser)
7 Nov 2016 → 8 Nov 2016
PEACE: Portal of Epigraphy, Archaeology, Conservation and Education on Jewish Funerary CultureSaar, O.-P. (Invited speaker)
7 Oct 2016
, Digital Humanities Community Event"Manuscripts as Magical Agents", Hamburg University Centre for the Study of Manuscript CulturesSaar, O.-P. (Invited speaker)
10 Jul 2016