{"id":1249,"date":"2024-01-07T23:20:35","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T22:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.resonances-through-history.ch\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2025-06-24T23:10:59","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T22:10:59","slug":"international-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.resonances-through-history.ch\/en\/international-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"International Conference: Biographically Grounded Literature in Late Hellenistic and Early Imperial Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

24. \u2013 26. June 2024 in Bern<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Monday, 24.06.2024, UniS<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:15: Public evening lecture by Heinrich Detering (G\u00f6ttingen)<\/strong>: Rollende Sph\u00e4ren: Biografisches Erz\u00e4hlen zwischen sakralen und s\u00e4kularen Narrativen <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tuesday, 25.06.2024, <\/strong>Haus der Universit\u00e4t<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:00-09:30: Biographically Grounded Literature<\/a> (Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, Travis R. Niles, Stefano De Feo, David Staub) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I. Ancient Literature<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:30-10:15: Formen biographischer Darstellungsweise in der antiken Literaturgeschichte<\/a> (Martin Hose, LMU M\u00fcnchen) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:15-10:45:<\/em> Coffee Break<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:45\u201311:15: Virtue, Fortune, and Divine Intervention in Plutarch\u2019s Aemilius – Timoleon<\/em><\/a> (Geert Roskam, KU Leuven) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:15\u201311:45: \u201cSuch is Human Life\u201d (Charon 19): Biographically Grounded Forms in Lucian<\/a> (Travis Niles, Universit\u00e4t Bern) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:45\u201312:15: \u201cIt Resembled an Act of Providence (\u03c0\u03c1\u03cc\u03bd\u03bf\u03b9\u03b1), Though it Came about by Chance (\u03c4\u03cd\u03c7\u03b7)\u201d (Lucian, Alexander<\/em> 60): The Language of the Divine in Plutarch and Lucian of Samosata.<\/a> (Stefano De Feo, Universit\u00e4t Bern) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:15\u201313:00: Discussion <\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:00\u201314:15:<\/em> Lunch Break in the Haus der Universit\u00e4t<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

II. Authority Figures<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:15-15:00: Divine and\/or Human? Biography and the Construction of Philosophical Authority Figures in Imperial Times<\/a> (Ilinca Tanaseanu-D\u00f6bler, Georg-August Universit\u00e4t G\u00f6ttingen) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:00-15:30: Pythagoras the Messenger from the Gods<\/a> (Johan Thom, Stellenbosch University)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:30-16:00:<\/em> Coffee Break<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:00-16:30: Socrates’s Biography in the Imperial School Praxis<\/a> (Athanasios Despotis, Universit\u00e4t Bonn) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:30-17:00: The Many Lives of Hermes Trismegistos<\/a> (Zlatko Ple\u0161e, UNC Chapel Hill)  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:00-17:45: Discussion <\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:45-18:15: Jesus the Debutant: First Public Appearances in Ancient Biographies and Mark\u2019s Gospel<\/a> (Kasper Bro Larsen, Aarhus Universitet) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wednesday, 26.06.2024, Berghaus Niesen<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

07:07h: Departure from Bern Central Station, Platform 7
08:30h: Arrival on the top of Mt. Niesen, including coffee <\/p>\n\n\n\n

III. Second Temple Judaism<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:00-09:45: When a Human is not the Measure of All Things: God and Humans in Second Temple Judaism<\/a> (Gregory Sterling, Yale) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

09:45-10:15: Between Human and Divine: Philo\u2019s Biography of Moses in a Roman Context<\/a> (Maren Niehoff, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:15-10:45: Resonating Highlights, Highlighting Resonances: Biographical Aspects in the Remembrance of Solomon<\/a> (Nancy Rahn, Universit\u00e4t Bern) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

10:45-11:15:<\/em> Coffee Break<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:15\u201311:45: Eve as Exemplar in the Greek Life of Adam and Eve<\/em><\/a> (Jack Levison, SMU Dallas) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

11:45\u201312:30: Discussion <\/p>\n\n\n\n

12:30\u201313:30<\/em>:<\/em> Lunch Break at the Berghaus<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

IV. New Testament and Early Christian Literature<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

13:30\u201314:15: Die Jesusvita als Gottesgeschichte. die Reden der Apostelgeschichte als Schl\u00fcssel zum Lukasevangelium<\/a> (Reinhard Feldmeier, Georg-August Universit\u00e4t G\u00f6ttingen) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:15\u201314:45: Biographische Formate in der neutestamentlichen Briefliteratur<\/a> (Samuel Vollenweider, Universit\u00e4t Z\u00fcrich) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

14:45\u201315:15: Lives of the Apostles or Foundation Narratives?<\/a> (Tobias Nicklas, Universit\u00e4t Regensburg) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:15\u201315:45: Discussion <\/p>\n\n\n\n

15:45\u201316:15<\/em>: Coffee Break<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

V.<\/strong> Reception history<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:15\u201316:45: In Erwartung der Zerst\u00f6rung. Nonnenbiographien f\u00fcr die Posteriorit\u00e4t<\/a> (Angela Berlis, Universit\u00e4t Bern) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

16:45\u201317:15: Handel\u2019s Messiah<\/em>: The Biography of a Theological Idea<\/a> (Rainer Hirsch-Luipold, Universit\u00e4t Bern\/Benjamin Hartmann, Salzburg) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:15\u201317:45: The Tree of Jesse: Genealogy and God\u2019s Work in Theological and Iconographical Representations<\/a> (Georgiana Huian, Universit\u00e4t Bern) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:45\u201318:15: Discussion <\/p>\n\n\n\n

18:15\u201318:45: Concluding Reflections and Prospects for Future Research<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Invited Discussants: Christoph Riedweg and Benjamin Schliesser<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Return to Bern<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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