Opening Ceremony of the AGYA Annual Conference

Public Event
 

Please note that registration is required for this event. To register, please use the link indicated below. Thank you!

Moderation of the Festive Opening Event
Dr. Noran Amin & Prof. Dr. Jens Scheiner
AGYA Member, Cairo University, Egypt & AGYA Alumnus, University of Göttingen, Germany

19:00Welcome and Registration with the Musical Delights by BonnBrass
 
19:30Welcome Message (online, tbc)
H.E. Dorothee Bär
German Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Space

Opening Addresses
Britta Voß
Head of Communications, LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn, Germany
Prof. Dr. Mamdouh Moawad Ali Hassan
President of the Academy of Scientific Research & Technology (ASRT), Egypt, and Co-Chair of the AGYA Advisory Board

Inauguration of the new AGYA Members 2026
Dr. Julia Leib & Prof. Dr. Abdulsatar Sultan
AGYA Co-Presidents, Leipzig University, Germany & Catholic University in Erbil, Iraq
 
20:15

Keynote Lecture
Local vs. Centralised Knowledge Production: Some Observations from Graeco-Roman Antiquity and Neighbourhoods

Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Christoph Markschies
President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW), Germany
President of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, Germany
Co-Chair of the AGYA Advisory Board
 

21:00Networking Dinner Reception &
Guided Tours at the LVR-Landesmuseum
with Contributions from AGYA Members and Alumni
 
  • Please register here.

Date: 21 October 2026

Time: 07:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Venue: LVR-Landesmuseum
Colmantstr. 14-16
53115 Bonn
Germany

Language: English

Calendar: ICS/ICAl

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