Thursday 24 May 2018 (UB Doelenzaal)
15.00-15.45 Registration and welcome
I. Rhythms and rituals in Mesopotamia
15.45-16.20 Daliah Bawanypeck (Frankfurt/Main): Dealing with diseases: Time in healing rituals and other medical texts
16.20-16.55 Tim Brandes (Mainz): Rhythms of kingship - Social time and Mesopotamian kingship in the 1st millennium BC
Keynote lecture:
17.10-18.10 Walther Sallaberger (München): Royal years and cultic month names: The social relevance behind the counting of time in Early Mesopotamia
Friday 25 May 2018 (UB Doelenzaal)
II. Calendrical rituals in ancient Egypt
9.00-9.35 Victoria Altmann-Wendling (München): Celebrating the Moon: Lunar ritual cycles in ancient Egypt
9.35-10.10 Alexa Rickert (Heidelberg/Tübingen): Annual rhythms. The ritual on New Year's day in the temple of Hathor at Dendera (Upper Egypt)
III. Calendrical cycles in the Greco-Roman world
10.30-11.05 Filippo Battistoni (Innsbruck): Social and astronomical times in the Antikythera mechanism
11.05-11.40 Sofie Remijsen (Amsterdam): The timing of Greek sporting festivals
11.40-12.15 Ilaria Bultrighini (London): Θεῶν ἡμέραι: the seven planets as week gods in the Roman Empire
IV. Calendrical festivals in literary texts
13.45-14.20 Christoph Berner (Göttingen): Rhythms of liberation: Release year, sabbatical year and yobel year as biblical concepts of social time
14.20-14.55 Anke Walter (Newcastle): Ovid and the festive calendar of exile: the festival of Bacchus in Tristia 5.3
14.55-15.30 Christian Badura (Berlin): Ovid's Fasti and the cycles of the Roman calendar
V. Rhythms in Greek and Roman daily life
15.50-16.25 Laura Willer (Heidelberg): Time specifications in invitations
16.25-17.00 Roland Färber (Frankfurt/Main): Tax rhythms and collection rituals in the Hellenistic world
Keynote lecture:
17.10-18.10 James Ker (Philadelphia): Hidden Rhythms: Rituals of the routine in Roman time
Saturday 26 May 2018 (UB Potgieterzaal)
9.15-9.50 Frank Grieshaber (Heidelberg): Computer-based chronology: Calendar Gazetteer and Calendar Information System
9.50-12.00 Internal session of the DFG-network CHRONOS