Tuesday, 6 September 2022
| 18:00 | Get together & Welcome Dinner for the Speakers |
Wednesday, 7 September 2022
| 9:15 | Registration & Coffee |
| 9:45 | Welcome & Introduction |
| 10:20 | Prof. Markham J. Geller (University College London) Common Sense Anatomy. How Mesopotamians engendered the human body |
| 11:15 | Jonny Russell Variations and continuities in medical concepts: towards a historical contextualisation of Egyptian sry.t and Mesopotamian suālu |
| 12:10 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 | Dr. Ulrike Steinert & Judit Garzón Rodríguez The powers of semen and their conceptualization in ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian cultures |
| 14:55 | Jessica Knebel, Sibel Ousta & David Usieto Cabrera Fire as an agent of punishment – a universal concept? On the use of fire against individuals in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Byzantium |
| 15:50 | Coffee Break |
| 16:05 | Dr. Elisabeth Günther (Universität Trier) Ugly bodies: Humor in Apulian vase-painting |
| 17:00 | Christoph Appel & Francisco Gómez Blanco Gladiators and Tragic Heroes: Exploring and Comparing Semantics and Mediality of Public Violence and Pain in Roman Antiquity |
| 19:30 | Conference Dinner |
Thursday, 8 September 2022
| 10:30 | Registration & Coffee |
| 10:50 | Welcome |
| 11:00 | PD Dr. Sara Kipfer (Universität Heidelberg) Anthropomorphism and Anthropopathism of Nature in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond: Socionatural Entanglements as universals? |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 | Prof. Dr. Tobias Bulang (Universität Heidelberg) Tierkunde(n) des Mittelalters. Konkurrenz und Interferenz von Naturkonzepten |
| 14:55 | Nicky van de Beek & Benny Waszk Human-animal interactions in the prehistoric Near East and North Africa: Case studies from Göbekli Tepe and Hierakonpolis |
| 15:50 | Closing remarks |
| 16:05 | Coffee & concluding discussions |