Montag, 9. März 2020 (Bushuis, VOC-zaal)
15.00-15.40 Arrival with coffee / Introduction
Time in Egypt: knowledge, symbolism and usage
15.40-16.05 Rita Gautschy (Basel): The water clock of Amenhotep III: votive gift or utilitarian object?
16.05-16.50 Sofie Remijsen (Amsterdam): Alexandria and the diffusion of clock time
17.15-17.40 Alexa Rickert (Münster): Wandering through the horizon of eternity. Reflections of ancient Egyptian time concepts in the architecture of the temples of the Greco-Roman period
17.40-18.40 Joachim F. Quack (Heidelberg): Who in Ancient Egypt cared about the Lunar Cycle?
Dienstag, 10. März 2020 (Bushuis, VOC-zaal)
Perspectives on time in Mesopotamia
9.30-10.10 Tim Brandes (Mainz): The knowledge of time in Mesopotamian scholarship
10.10-10.35 Daliah Bawanypeck (Frankfurt/Main): Ancient Near Eastern annual festivals and the formation of identity
11.00-11.25 Irene Sibbing-Plantholt (Berlin): The identity of death: feelings about (the end of) life time in Ancient Mesopotamia
Time as political statement
11.45-12.10 Filippo Battistoni (Pisa): The three calendars of Tauromenion: time and historical change in the 1st century B.C.
12.10-12.50 Mario Baumann (Gießen): A history of missed opportunities: rulers and timeliness in Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire
(Universiteitsbibliotheek, Belle van Zuylenzaal)
Time and Christian identity
15.30-16.10 Ilaria Bultrighini (London): Battle of the days: Jupiter’s Day, Sabbath, and the Lord’s Day in the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity
16.10-16.35 Jérôme Bonnin (Paris): Sundials in Christian iconography, how to interpret them? The example of the Bethesda Pool
17.00-17.40 Lasse Sonne (Copenhagen): Christianizing time in Early Medieval Scandinavia
17.40-18.00 Buchvernissage
Mittwoch, 11. März 2020 (Bushuis, VOC-zaal)
Time and space in the Greco-Roman World
9.30-9.55 Anke Walter (Newcastle): The time-space of festivals in Latin literature
9.55-10.35 Roland Färber (Düsseldorf): Time, place, and social activity in Hellenistic city-states
Time and Jewish identity
11.05-11.30 Ortal-Paz Saar & Jelte van Boheemen (Utrecht): Time in Jewish historic texts: A Digital Humanities approach
11.30-12.30 Sacha Stern (London): Jewish and Christian calendars: from sectarianism to heresy