Congress programme

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Monday, 24 August 2009


17:00 Congress Opening
by the presidents of the FIEC and the Mommsen-Gesellschaft

Welcome Notes

Keynote Speaker (lecture open to the public):
Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Gehrke (DAI Berlin): Geschichte und Kunst

Venue: HU Main Building, AudiMax

to follow: Reception in the Bode-Museum

Tuesday, 25 August 2009


9:00 - 13:20 Panels

13:20 - 15:20 Lunch break

15:20 - 18:50 Panels

19:00 Open Lecture:
Prof. Alessandro Barchiesi (Arezzo/Stanford): On Metamorphoses
Venue: HU Main Building, AudiMax

to follow: Publishers' Reception

Wednesday, 26 August 2009


9:00 - 13:20 Panels

13:20 - 15:00 Lunch break

15:00 FIEC Assembly

19.00 Organ recital
(St.-Hedwigs-Kathedrale, next to Bebelplatz, 10117 Berlin-Mitte)
Organ: Florian Wilkes
Admission free, donations to St. Hedwig's for the church music are welcome

Thursday, 27 August 2009


9:00 - 13:20 Panels

13:20 - 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 - ca. 20:00 Excursion to Potsdam

Friday, 28 August 2009


9:00 - 13:20 Panels

13:20 - 15:20 Lunch break

15:20 - 18:50 Panels

19:00 Open Lecture:
André Laks (Université de Paris-Sorbonne): Lire les présocratiques : quelques modèles
Venue: HU Main Building, AudiMax

to follow: FIEC Party, Restaurant "Pfefferberg"

Saturday, 29 August 2009


9:00 - 11:00 Panels

ab 11:00 Closing ceremony in the Foreign Office (address: Werderscher Markt 1, see City Map)

Closing Lecture:
Donna Kurtz (Oxford): The future of the past: CLAROS


List of Panels


Panel 1: Images, Texts, Reality
Panel 2: Language of the Body
Panel 3: Cultural Encounters and Fusions in the Roman Empire
Panel 4: Continuity and Change in Late Antiquity
Panel 5: Powers of Persuasion
Panel 6: Turning Points in the Reception of Classical Antiquity
Panel 7: Classical Antiquity and Modern Mass Media
Panel 8: Comparative History: Greece, Rome and Others
Panel 9: Trade in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
Panel 10: Epigraphical Documents: Reflection of Reality or Construction of Historical Knowledge?
Panel 11: The Philosophical Significance of Cosmology and Theology
Panel 12: Social and Political Dimensions of Kinship: Family, Neighbourhood, City
Panel 13: Urban Spaces
Panel 14: Literature of Knowledge
Panel 15: Greek and Roman Epic
Panel 16: Religion in Society
Panel 17: Recent Discoveries
Panel 18: Open Topics
Panel 19: Die deutsche Altertumswissenschaft