Veranstaltungsort / Venue
STAATLICHES MUSEUM ÄGYPTISCHER KUNST
Gabelsbergerstr. 35 • 80333 München
Ansprechpartner / Contact persons
Prof. Dr. Casper de Jonge (c.c.de.jonge@hum.leidenuniv.nl)
Dr. Caroline Veit (mzaw@mzaw.lmu.de)
Wednesday 26 June 2024, 18.15 Book presentation and evening lecture
Renate Schlesier, Mischungen beim antiken Gelage. Reflexionen des frühgriechischen Symposions. Münchner Vorlesungen zu Antiken Welten (MVAW 7, Walther de Gruyter Berlin, 2024)
Casper de Jonge (Leiden /LMU München): The Ancient Sublime Between Gilgamesh, Genesis, and Greece
Thursday 27 June 09.00-09.15
Welcome and Introduction
09.15-10.00
Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge): The prosaic sublime
10.00-10.45
Damien Nelis (Université de Genève): The Ovidian sublime: sources and models
11.15-12.00
Jean-Yves Heurtebise (FuJen Catholic University, Taiwan / French Center for Research on Contemporary China, Taipei) (online): Transculturality of the sublime & sublimity of the transcultural: an inquiry into the possibility conditions of comparing Chinese and Greek sublimes
13.30-14.15
Michela Piccin (North-West University, South Africa): Unlocking the secrets: mastering Mesopotamian speechcraft
14.15-15.00
Enrique Jiménez (LMU München): ‘I will make the rabbit chase the wolf!’ Startling images in the Erra epic
15.30-16.15
Lorenzo Miletti (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II): Poetics, rhetoric, and religious tensions: the scholarly reception of On the Sublime in the mid-16th century
16.15-17.00
Dietmar Till (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen): The sublime in Burke and Kant – a story of tradition and innovation
17.30-18.30
Mélanie Flossmann-Schütze (SMÄK): The sublime in ancient Egypt - objects in the State Museum of Egyptian Art
Friday 28 June 09.15-10.00
Anja Hötschl (LMU München): „… und auf meine Höhen wird er mich stellen / ינדימעי יתמב לעו “ – Erhabenheit in Psalm 18
10.00-10.45
Knut Backhaus (LMU München): The importance of being an ‘idiot’: Early Christianity, the sublime, and a clash of cultures
11.15-12.00
Pierre Destrée (Université catholique de Louvain): Aristotle on the sublime
12.00-12.45
René Nünlist (Universität zu Köln): Ancient critics on the sublime
14.15-15.00
Sebastian Zellner (FU Berlin / Universität Heidelberg): Longinus’ ‘theatre of examination’ and the sublime in imperial historical thought
15.00-15.45
Ruth Bielfeldt (LMU München): Artistic failure as a chance for nature. Thoughts on Longinus’ kolossos hēmartēmenos
15.45-16.00
Concluding discussion
Conference by Prof. Dr. Przemysław Marciniak, 06.07.2023 – 07.07.2023
Investigating Intersemiotic Relations in Pictorial and Verbal Communication in Ancient Egypt, the Near East and Beyond
Conference organized by Patrizia Heindl and Elisa Roßberger
23-26 March 2021 via Zoom
The conference (now: zoomference) focuses on the form and the perception of verbal and non-verbal elements in the graphic design in/on artefacts from ancient Egypt, the Middle East, and beyond. It will bring together scholars from contemporary media studies and visual linguistics with scholars researching ancient cultures’ textual and archaeological remains. The term multimodality will serve as a conceptual anchor for reflections on the interface between semiotic codes, sensory modalities, and cognitive processes.
Organized by Patrizia Heindl (Egyptology) and Elisa Roßberger (Near Eastern Archaeology), the conference generously received funding from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the Münchner Zentrum für Antike Welten (MZAW), the Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology, and the Institute of Egyptology and Coptology at LMU Munich.