Concepts of Humans and Nature between Specificity and Universality - 15-16-17/07/2019, Mainz (German
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 15-16-17/07/2019
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz (Mainz, Germany)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Dr. Chiara Ferella; Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening; Prof. Dr. Jochen Althoff
INFO: web - grk1876@uni-mainz.de
INSCRIPCIÓN/REGISTRATION/REGISTRAZIONE: link
PROGRAMA/PROGRAM/PROGRAMMA:
Monday, 15.07.2019
8:40 Registration
9:10 Stefan Müller-Stach
Welcome by the Vice President for Research and Early Career Academics
of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
9:15 Tanja Pommerening
Welcome and Introduction to the Research Training Group
“Early Concepts of Humans and Nature: Universal, Specific, Interchanged”
9:25 Chiara Ferella and Ulrike Steinert
Introduction to the International Conference
Panel 1
ZONES, PARTS, FUNCTIONS:
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BODY EXPERIENCE AND BODY CONCEPTS
9:40 Simone Gerhards and Nadine Gräßler (Mainz)
From Embodied Experience to Body Concepts
10:20 Rosemary A. Joyce (Berkeley, California)
Being and Meaning in Prehispanic Central America
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Rune Nyord (Atlanta, Georgia)
Bodies of Stone and Wood: Concepts and experiences of statues as substitute bodies in ancient Egypt
12:10 Yudit K. Greenberg (Winter Park, Florida)
The Lovers’ Bodies in the Gitagovinda and Shir Ha-shirim (Song of Songs): A comparative reading of Hindu and Jewish sacred texts
12:50 Lunch
14:20 Reuven Kiperwasser (Jerusalem)
Order of Universe and (Dis)Orders of Body
15:00 Han Nijdam (Leeuwarden)
Body Schemas in Medieval Frisian Law Texts
15:40 Coffee Break
16:10 Shahrzad Irannejad and Aleksandar Milenkovic (Mainz)
Zones, parts, functions: Three case studies
16:50 Panel Discussion
17:20 Break
Venue
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Alte Mensa/Atrium Maximum Johann Joachim-Becher-Weg 5
55128 Mainz
18:00 Keynote Lecture
Barbara Tversky (Stanford, California)
Putting the Mind in the World
19:00 Reception
Tuesday, 16.07.2019
Panel 2
CONCEPTUALIZING SKY AND HEAVEN
HUMAN INTERACTIONS WITH COSMIC PHENOMENA
9:30 Laura Borghetti, Sandra Hofert, Mirna Kjorveziroska, Marie-Charlotte von Lehsten and Katharina Zartner (Mainz)
Skies and Heavens: an interdisciplinary perspective
10:10 Edward Wright (Phoenix, Arizona)
Cosmos and Afterlife: The impact of advances in cosmology on the religious imagination in ancient Israel and early Judaism
10:50 Coffee Break
11:20 Marvin Schreiber (Berlin)
Relationship, Correspondence, and Construction of the Cosmic Structures of Heaven and Earth in First Millennium BCE Mesopotamia
12:00 Tom H. Davies (Princeton, New Jersey)
Three first-millennium BC theories of the solar journey
12:40 Lunch
14:10 Daniel W. Graham (Provo, Utah)
Greek Cosmology
14:50 Matthias Däumer (Wien)
The Script That Fell to Earth. Media-Mythological Thoughts on the 'First Book of Enoch' and Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzival'
15:30 Coffee Break (with opportunities for personal exchange with the poster organizers)
16:15 Feray Coskun (Istanbul)
Celestial Phenomena, Nature and Man in the Ottoman Cosmographies
16:55 Panel Discussion
Wednesday, 17.07.2019
Panel 3
INVESTIGATING CONCEPTS OF THE DEAD BODY
9:30 Rebekka Pabst and Oxana Polozhentseva (Mainz)
Dead Bodies: Conceptualizations of the corpse from ancient Egyptian and Medieval perspectives
10:10 Wilfried Rosendahl (Mannheim)
On the handling of the corps – a cross-cultural view from the Palaeolithic to the early modern period
10:50 Coffee Break
11:20 Alondra Domínguez Ángeles and Adriana Gómez Aiza (Hidalgo, Mexico)
Corporeal Transformation: Self-decapitation and nahualism in Mesoamerican tradition
12:00 Annette Kehnel (Mannheim)
“They Don’t Accept Death”
12:40 Lunch
14:10 Fabian Neuwahl (Köln)
At Last Death Filled the Sanctuaries with Lifeless Bodies…: Dead bodies in ancient plague descriptions
14:50 Romedio Schmitz-Esser (Graz)
The Return of the Mummy: Medieval Knowledge of Ancient Egyptian Embalming
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Panel and Conference Discussion
17:00 Concluding Remarks and End of Conference