Thursday, 21 February 2019
13.30 Registration
14:00-14:30 Welcome and Introduction: Nicole Hartmann and Franziska Naether
14:30-15:15 Kenneth Yu (University of Toronto): Ritual Lament and Blasphemy in Plato’s Laws (7, 800b8-e9)
15:15-16:00 John Gee (Brigham Young University): Internal and External Critiques of Egyptian Religion in the Graeco-Roman Period
16.00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-17:30 PhD-Panel:
Giulia Fiore (Universitá di Bologna): „Why should I dance? The worship of the god is perishing“ Doubting the Divine in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus
Ramón Soneira Martínez (Max Weber Kolleg Erfurt): Ἡ νόσος of declaring that gods do not exist. Condemnation and persecution of atheist positions in Plato’s Laws
Punsara Amarasinghe (School of Advanced Studies Pisa): Understanding Pyrrho’s Skepticism parallel to Madhyamika School in Buddhism
Pablo Pinel Martínez (Universidad Complutense Madrid): The Quest for Arguments for Disbelief in Ancient Greece
17:30-18:00 Response: Michael Satlow (Brown University)
18:30-19:30 Public Lecture: Nickolas P. Roubekas (Vienna University): Doubting vs. Explaining Religion. From 'Atheism' to Theorizing about Religion in Antiquity
20:00 Common Dinner
Friday 22 February 2019
09:30-10:15 Livio Warbinek (Tel Aviv University): Hittites and their Oracles. They believed in them, although they did not trust them
10:15-11:00 Franziska Naether (Leipzig University): Doubting Priests and Practitioners in Ancient Egyptian Religion
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-12:15 Darja Šterbenc Erker (Humboldt University Berlin): Skepticism and Doubt in Religious Traditions in Rome: Deification of Mortals
12:15-13:00 Fernando Bermejo-Rubio (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia Madrid): Laughing at the Promised Salvation – Doubters and Scoffers in Early Christianity
13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:15 Ioannis Papadogiannakis (King’s College London): The Greek Christian Literature of Questions-and-Answers (erotapokriseis) as Literature of Doubt
15:15-16:00 Reuven Kiperwasser (Hebrew University Jerusalem): Chatting with God and the Benefit of the Doubt. Skeptical Theism in Late-Antique Rabbinic Stories
16.00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-17:15 Nicole Hartmann (Humboldt University Berlin): Exploring the Dimensions of Godlessness in the Roman Empire
17:15-17:45 Final Discussion
19:00 Possibility for Common Dinner
Attendence is free of charge. If you would like to attend, please RSVP shortly to Dr. Nicole Hartmann (nicole.hartmann@hu-berlin.de) or Dr. Franziska Naether (Naether@uni-leipzig.de).
Website: http://www.antikes-christentum.de/de/
Program: https://www.gko.uni-leipzig.de/aegyptisches-museum/veranstaltungen/2019.html
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