
Workshop "Rethinking a Lifetime: Perspectives from Antiquity until Present"
October 24, 2019
9:00 - 18:00
Organizer: Dr. Irene Sibbing-Plantholt (Freie Universität Berlin, Research Associate at Einstein Center Chronoi)
Venue:
Einstein Center Chronoi
Otto-von-Simson-Straße 7
14195 Berlin
Program
9.30 - 9.45 | Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum & Irene Sibbing-Plantholt (FU Berlin/EC Chronoi)
Welcome and Workshop Opening
9.45 - 10.15 | Jonathan Tenney (Cornell University)
What is a Lifetime? Mesopotamian Abstractions of Human Development
10.15 - 10.45 | Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia (CNRS Paris)
Playing with Age: Expressions of Age and their Relation to Actual Lifetime and Occupations
10.45 - 11.00 | Coffee break
11.00 - 12.00 | Discussion led by Menahem Ben-Sasson (HUJI/EC Chronoi)
12.00 - 14.00 | Lunch Break
14.00 - 14.30 | Dorothee Elm von der Osten (EC-C/SFB 980)
Perpetua Felicitas: Caesuras in the Female Life Cycle and Early Christian Literature of Martyrdom
14.30 - 15.00 | Jens Brockmeier (American University Paris)
Life, Time, and Narrative
15.00 - 15.30 | Yadin Dudai (Weizmann Institute of Science/NYU)
Time Past in Time Present: How Remote Memories from the Early Lifetime of an Ancient Near Eastern Culture Shape the Life of Individuals in Contemporary Israel
15.30 - 15.45 | Coffee Break
15.45 - 17.00 | Discussion led by Wolfgang Klein (MPI for Psycholinguistics/BBAW)
17.00 - 17.15 | Closing Remarks