Prof. Almut Renger (Head: Project C02 “Asceticism in Motion: Forms and Transfer of Habitualized Knowledge in Antiquity and Late Antiquity”) and her team are presenting an international conference on the topic of ‘Gendering Ascetic Knowledge in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam’ as part of the SFB 980 “Episteme in Motion”. L. Lehmhaus, research associate in Prof. […]
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Call for Papers: Physiognomy and Ekphrasis – BabMed Annual Workshop 3
Physiognomy and Ekphrasis: The Mesopotamian Tradition and its Transformation in Graeco-Roman and Semitic Literatures February 16–17, 2016, Freie Universität Berlin BabMed Annual Workshop 3, Conference organisers, J. Cale Johnson and Alessandro Stavru, invite proposals to be included in the conference and/or the conference volume. Please send your abstract (250 words) to the organizers by October […]
Ancient Pompeiians with good dental health
The results of CT scans conducted by the Archaeological Superintendency of Pompeii of the plaster casts of Pompeiians who perished in the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius give interesting insights into both the dental health and the diet of these ancient people. Read the full article here. Marius Hoppe
COLLABORATIVE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP “Scholarship between clay and light. Libraries, archives and documents in the Eastern world” of the SFB 980
Prof. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum (Head: Project A01), Prof. Jochem Kahl (Head: Project A02), Prof. Jörg Klinger (Head: Project A01), and Prof. Eung-Jeung Lee (Head: SFB Associate Project) are presenting the workshop on ‘Scholarship between clay and light. Libraries, archives and documents in the Eastern world’ of the SFB 980. J. Cale Johnson, BabMed Deputy head, will […]
“Medicine and Philosophy in Antiquity”, conference program
October 1st-3rd, 2015, St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI Since it has become increasingly common that the philosophical and medical traditions of the Ancient World developed together, it is getting clear that both must be studied in conjunction as well. Disciplinary boundaries and the vast body of relevant material often tend to reinforce the separation […]
Medical Knowledge from Ancient Babylonia to Talmudic Babylonia
BabMed Working Session in Jerusalem: On September 20, 2015, Israel prize winner Shamma Friedman and head of the BabMed partner project at Bar-Ilan University invites the public to discuss the links in medical knowledge between the Babylonian eras of Ancient Mesopotamia and the Bavli. Deputy head of project, Aaron Amit, will give insights to the […]
TOPOI-Lecture on Conceptualisations of Body Processes in Ancient Egypt
Rune Nyord, Cambridge University, is presenting his lecture on ‘Hidden Realms: Conceptualisation of Internal Body Processes in Ancient Egyptian Thought’. Dr. Rune Nyord is Egyptologist, and fellow at Christ’s College in Cambridge where he has worked on the project Conceptions of the ‘afterlife’ in ancient Egyptian mortuary religion funded by the Carlsberg Foundation […]
How a pregnant woman died of parasites in Ancient Greece
Hidden within an ancient bronze water jug exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki in Greece are the cremated remains of three elite individuals. Anthropologists examining the fragments have come to a startling conclusion about cause of death: the pregnant woman may have died when a parasitic cyst ruptured, killing her and her baby. Read […]
Just published: The Class Reunion, by Johnson/Geller
In The Class Reunion—An Annotated Translation and Commentary on the Sumerian Dialogue Two Scribes, J. Cale Johnson and Markham J. Geller present a critical edition, translation and commentary on the Sumerian scholastic dialogue otherwise known as Two Scribes, Streit zweier Schulabsolventen or Dialogue 1. The two protagonists, the Professor and the Bureaucrat, each ridicule their […]
Depicting Jewish Tought – summer conference at IJS
This year’s summer conference at the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London is to be held on 1-2 September 2015. The conference is co-sponsored by the Centre for International Cooperation, Freie Universitaet, and the Zentrum fuer Juedische Studien, Berlin. The conference ‘Depicting Jewish Thought’ convened by L. Muehlethaler will be held in honour of […]
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