The End of the World or the World of the End? Forms and Functions of Ancient Eschatologies
Prof. Karla Pollmann, one of the ITN supervisors, is organizing a seminar on ancient eschatologies at the University of Reading on September 30, 2017. Everybody is welcome to attend.
Info about event
Time
Location
Reading, England
Organizer
The End of the World or the World of the End?
- Forms and Functions of Ancient Eschatologies
Saturday 30th September 2017
Seminar Room, Park House, Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading, RG6 6AQ
Programme
09 h 45 Welcome and Introduction
10 h 00 Paper 1 (20 mins): Chiara Ciampa (KCL), Archaic Poetry and Presocratics (Pindar and Empedocles)
Respondent: 10 mins: George Gazis (Durham) + 10 min open discussion
10 h 45 Coffee Break
11 h 15 Paper 2 (20 mins): Albert Hogeterp (independent scholar), Dead Sea Scrolls
Respondent: 10 mins: Lester Grabbe (Hull) + 10 min open discussion
12 h 00 Paper 3 (20 mins): Uta Schmidt, From “earth torn asunder“ (Isa 24:19) to “new heavens and new earth“ (Isa 65:17): Different kinds of future in the book of Isaiah
Respondent: 10 mins: Hilary Marlow (Cambridge) + 10 min open discussion
12 h 45 Lunch
14 h 00 Paper 4 (20 mins): Dina Katz (Leiden), Beyond the future: Mesopotamian perceptions of the very end.
Respondent: 10 mins: TBC + 10 min open discussion
14 h 45 Paper 5 (20 mins): Anders-Christian Jacobsen (Aarhus), Origen’s Eschatology
Respondent: 10 mins: Karla Pollmann + 10 min open discussion
15 h 30 Coffee Break
16 h 00 Paper 6 (20 mins): Zara Pogossian (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Armenian Apocalypses
Respondent: 10 mins: Steve Walton + 10 min open discussion
16 h 45 Concluding Open Discussion and Outlook
17 h 45 End (optional: dinner together at participants’ own expense)
This colloquium is organised in conjunction with a forthcoming multi-disciplinary volume Eschatology in Antiquity, edited by Hilary Marlow (hm309@cam.ac.uk), Karla Pollmann (k.f.l.pollmann@reading.ac.uk), and Helen Van Noorden (hav21@cam.ac.uk), which will be published by Routledge as part of their Rewriting Antiquity series. The colloquium is sponsored by the School of Humanities and the Senior Common Room of the University of Reading.
There is no attendance fee, and tea and coffee are provided; lunch is provided for invited presenters/respondents only, but a number of food outlets are available nearby. For administrative questions about the day, please contact Eva Van Herel (eva.vanherel@reading.ac.uk).