The Involvement of the Individual’s Body in the Ritual and Ceremonial Process in Hittite Anatolia A Lecture and Video-Conference by Alice Mouton, CNRS Paris and Catholic University of Paris Thursday, December 15, 2016 4 p.m.-6 p.m. (Paris time) at the Ivry sur Seine CNRS building, 27 rue Paul Bert, Porte de Choisy/Porte d’Ivry subway station, […]
Monatsarchiv für November 2016
Vienna Symposium on ‘Multilingualism, Communication and Social Reality in Pre-Modern Eurasia: Linguistic, Ritual, and Socio-Economic Aspects’, Dec 13-15, 2016
Multilingualism, Communication and Social Reality in Pre-Modern Eurasia: Linguistic, Ritual, and Socio-Economic Aspects International Workshop organized by the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Vienna Linguistic Society and the Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Vienna, December 13–15, 2016 Venue: Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences Hollandstraße 11–13 […]
Talk: Markham J. Geller live at Lviv University, October 2016
BabMed Principal Investigator M.J. Geller: ‘Watchers as Healers’ at Lwiw Enochic Conference in October 2016. The famous Book of Watchers from Enochic literature describes the fallen angels who brought knowledge of healing arts to mankind by teaching them to women. This lecture will relate the Watchers and the related figure of Metatron to Mesopotamian prototypes […]
Deadline Nov 30, 2016: Groningen Master Class on ‘Ancient Health’
Dear PhD students, Please find below the information for the next CRASIS Masterclass (2 ECTS) ANCIENT HEALTH: Concepts, Materiality and the Experience of Life Keynote & Master: Prof. Ralph Rosen (UPenn) We cordially invite PhD and Research Master students, post-doctoral researchers, and established scholars to submit a proposal for the sixth CRASIS Annual Meeting and PhD/ReMa […]
Health and Wellbeing in the Ancient World
Helen King (Professor of Classical Studies, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes) is going to launch a free 6-week introduction to ‘Health and Wellbing in the Ancient World’, which goes live on February 2017 on the MOOC platform, FutureLearn. For the link please click here.
„WHY WE (SHOULD) TRANSLATE SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY“, Berlin conference 24.–25.11. 2016
The Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies invites to their conference on WHY WE (SHOULD) TRANSLATE SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY. Documents on the circumstances, politics, motives, and process of scientific translation in the West (of India) from Antiquity to the Renaissance“ Berlin, 24.–25. November 2016, convened by Dimirti Gutas, Beatrice Gründler and Manolis Ulbricht (SFB […]
Morallehren der Antike – Tagung am Leipziger Institut für Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft
Teaching Morality in Antiquitiy: Wisdom Texts, Oral Traditions, and Images Morallehren in der Antike: Weisheitstexte, Bilder und mündliche Traditionen 29. November bis 01. Dezember 2016 im Vortragssaal der Bibliotheca Albertina, Beethovenstr. 6, 04107 Leipzig. Um Anmeldung wird gebeten, bitte direkt an Dr. Takayoshi Oshima: t_m_oshima(at)uni-leipzig.de. Den vollständigen Programmablauf finden Sie hier auf der Webseite des […]
Das Berliner Antike-Kolleg öffnet die Türen der Villa in der Otto-von-Simson-Straße 7 für das erste geisteswissenschaftliche Einstein-Zentrum CHRONOI.
Am Mittwoch, 16. November 2016, 18 Uhr wird das Dahlemer Einstein-Zentrum des BAK, CHRONOI, eröffnet. Alle Einzelheiten zum Veranstaltungsprogramm für den Eröffnungsabend finden Sie hier: https://www.berliner-antike-kolleg.org/-/veranstaltung-berliner-antike-in-der-basilika A. Kloocke
Talmudic medicine project at 2016 SBL meeting San Antonio, Texas
The project A03 „The Transfer of Medical Episteme in the ‘Encyclopaedic’ Compilations of Late Antiquity”, run by BabMed Principal Investigator Prof. Markham J. Geller in the framework of the Comparative Research Center SFB 980 “Episteme in Motion”, is featured at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL) in San Antonio, Texas. […]
Call for papers: 37. Treffen des Arbeitskreises „Alte Medizin“ in Mainz
Tanja Pommerening vom Institut für Altertumswissenschaften, Ägyptologie, der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mänz lädt herzlich zum 37. Treffen des Arbeitskreises “Alte Medizin” am 1. und 2. Juli 2017 ein. Das Oberthema der Tagung lautet “Körper und die Medizin der Alten Welt.” Heutzutage werden menschliche Körper nicht nur als biologische, sondern vor allem auch als soziale Gebilde aufgefasst, […]
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