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19. November 2026: Terminologisches aus Divination, Pharmakologie und Medizin in Mesopotamien und Ägypten

04. November 2026, Ansgar Teichgräber - Veranstaltungen

Terminologisches aus Divination, Pharmakologie und Medizin in Mesopotamien und Ägypten. Probleme und Problemlösungsstrategien der Bedeutungsfindung und Übersetzung
Workshop
Leipzig, 19. November 2026

Im Rahmen des Workshops werden auszugsweise spezifische Fachbegriffe oder Gruppen von Terminologien aus verschiedenen antiken Fachbereichen (Medizin, Botanik/Pharmakologie und Divination) des Akkadisch-sprachigen Mesopotamiens und des Alten Ägyptens vorgestellt und diskutiert. Im Zentrum stehen dabei die Annäherung an die terminologischen Bedeutungen, die Übersetzbarkeit von Begrifflichkeiten und Problemlösungsstrategien für den modernen Bearbeiter.

Venue
Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 1, 04107 Leipzig

Organisation
Akademievorhaben Leipzig Akkadian Dictionary

Anmeldung/Kontakt
Um Anmeldung wird gebeten an Eric Schmidtchen: schmidtchen@saw-leipzig.de

Das vollständige Programm, Abstracts und weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Veranstaltungswebsite.


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11-13 November 2026: Responding to Empire

04. November 2026, Ansgar Teichgräber - Veranstaltungen

Responding to Empire
Fourth annual conference of the Research Group Empires (University of Freiburg)
Freiburg, 11 - 13 November 2026

Responding to empires can take different shapes and forms which are often contradictory — from defending and normalising, through negating and ignoring, to opposing and resisting imperial structures. This conference seeks to look at different aspects of responding to empire, beginning with a shift beyond a binary understanding of opposers/defenders. Some speakers, for example, will discuss ambivalent figures and their narrative performances; others will show how communities navigated imperial oppression through forms of active integration. Scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds will consider the wide spectrum of forms that responses to empire can take, ranging from concrete practices to the construction of narratives: this includes fighting for material interests as well as creating counternarratives. Another focal point will be on women, showing different degrees of agency and varying forms of engagement with empire. By bringing together examples from different levels of society, including individuals, communities, and institutions, this conference aims to illuminate the ambiguity and complexity of these actions and positions across different historical periods and geographical contexts.

Venue
FRIAS (Albertstr. 19), University of Freiburg

Organisation
Lulu Tan, Department of Ancient History
Nicola Avallone, Chair for Transatlantic and North American History
Sofia Guimarães, English Department
Friedrich Fensch, Chair for Early Modern History

Contact
kontakt@grk2571.uni-freiburg.de

The complete programme and further information can be found at the conference website.


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4-5 December 2026: Origins and Evolution. The Quest for Beginnings, 1750–1850

04. November 2026, Ansgar Teichgräber - Veranstaltungen

Origins and Evolution. The Quest for Beginnings, 1750–1850 
Second edition of the Würzburg Wellhöfer Colloquium
Friday/Saturday, 4/5 December 2026
Würzburg, Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität Würzburg/hybrid

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“Origins and Evolution” is the second edition of the Würzburg Wellhöfer Colloquium which, every two years, addresses artistic and cultural phenomena of the “Sattelzeit” (the transitional period 1750–1850). The conference is made possible by the Wellhöfer-Stiftung for Museum Research, based at the Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität Würzburg.

ORGANIZATION: Ulrich Pfisterer, München | Damian Dombrowski, Würzburg

PARTICIPATION: The conference can be followed live via the Martin von Wagner Museum YouTube channel.

The complete programme and further information can be found at the conference website.


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Call for Papers: Human/Animal Studies in Classics. Gender

30. October 2026, Ansgar Teichgräber - Call for papers

Human/Animal Studies in Classics. Gender
Kiel, 8–9 October 2027

Submission Deadline: 13 December 2026

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We invite contributions from across the ancient world and from all relevant disciplines, including Classical Philology, Ancient History, Philosophy, Archaeology, Theology, and Art History. Papers may engage with literary, philosophical, religious, visual, epigraphic, or material evidence, as well as with the methodological challenges of bringing Gender Studies, Human-Animal Studies, and intersectional approaches into dialogue. We particularly welcome contributions that move beyond anthropocentric and binary frameworks to examine how gender and species jointly shaped the lived, imagined, and represented relationships between humans and other animals in antiquity. The conference languages are German, English, French and Italian. The publication of the contributions is planned. Researchers at all qualification levels are invited to submit an abstract.
Please send your proposal (max. 300 words) by 13 December 2026 to irene.digioia@email.unikiel.de.

Organisation
Prof. Dr. Islème Sassi (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
Dr. Bettina Reese (Universität Potsdam)
Dr. Irene Di Gioia (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
To the conference series Human-Animal-Studies in Classics.

Contact
irene.digioia@email.uni-kiel.de

The complete Call for Papers in German and English can be found here as PDF.


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Call for Papers: Reconsidering decline. Transitions and transformations in Arkadia and beyond from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD

29. October 2026, Ansgar Teichgräber - Call for papers

Reconsidering decline. Transitions and transformations in Arkadia and beyond from the 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD
International and Interdisciplinary Symposium
Graz, 20–22 May 2027

Submission Deadline: 30 November 2026

We invite individual studies as well as integrated approaches from scholars in the fields of archaeology, epigraphy, history, numismatics, and philology, who are working on the history and culture of Arkadia and the Arkadians in the Hellenistic and Roman periods. Since Arkadia has never been isolated from the rest of the world, we are also interested in communities and regions that have been in contact with Arkadia and its people during this period.

Registration
If you wish to present a paper or a poster, please complete the attached form including your title and abstract of max. 250 words and send it to arkadien@uni-graz.at. 
The registration deadline for posters and presentations is 30 November 2026.

The allotted speaking time for each paper is 20 minutes, followed by a 5-minute discussion slot. Posters can be discussed with the authors in a separate time slot.
Oral contributions are welcome in English, German, or Greek. Please use English only for any written contributions (abstracts, posters, handouts, text/captions on slides).
Notifications of acceptance will be issued by end of January 2027.
The results of our multi-disciplinary symposium will be published in a conference proceedings
volume.

Organisation
Elisabeth Trinkl – Mary E. Voyatzis – Regina Klöckl-Zorić

Contact
arkadien@uni-graz.at

The complete Call for Papers can be found at the conference website and here as a PDF.


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19–20 November 2026: Old and New Research in the Mesopotamian City Fāra/Šuruppak

28. October 2026, Ansgar Teichgräber - Veranstaltungen

Old and New Research in the Mesopotamian City Fāra/Šuruppak
Conference
Munich, 19–20 November 2026

Registration deadline: 1 November 2026

The conference is meant as the kick-off meeting of the DFG-funded project „Stadt, Mensch, Fluss in Sumer: Die Erforschung urbanen Lebens in Fāra / Šuruppak in der Frühdynastisch II – IIIa-Periode (ca. 2700-2475 v. Chr.)“ launched this year. It brings together international scholars who have been intensively studying Fāra for many years with the current research team. The new findings will be discussed and contextualized with experts on the Early Dynastic Period in southern Mesopotamia.

Venue
Premises of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, Südliches Schlossrondell 23, 80638 München

Registration
Please register until 01.11.2026 by m.kellerer@lmu.de for personal participation.

Organization
The conference is being organized by Moritz Kellerer and Adelheid Otto on behalf of the entire Fāra team.

Contact
m.kellerer@lmu.de

The complete program and further information can be found here as a PDF-download.


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2-3 December 2026: Social Norms, Regulations and Biopolitics in the 3rd–6th-Century Roman Empire

28. October 2026, Ansgar Teichgräber - Veranstaltungen

Social Norms, Regulations and Biopolitics in the 3rd–6th-Century Roman Empire
International Conference 
Bern/hybrid, 2-3 December 2026

With the support of the Scientific Exchanges funding of the SNSF (project number IZSEZ0_243763), RomAge and the Institute of Roman Law (University of Bern) are organising a conference on social norms, regulations and biopolitics in the late antique Roman Empire. This conference brings together historians of law, medicine, religion, and society to explore how social norms, legal regulations, and religious discourses interacted to shape biopolitics between the 3rd and 6th centuries CE. Over three days, we will examine late antique legislation, ecclesiastical and ascetic discourses, medical theories, and everyday practices to better understand the mechanisms and logics of control, care, and exclusion in the Roman Empire. 

The conference will be held in a hybrid format. For further information and Zoom access details, please contact: anna.usacheva@unibe.ch or lorenzo.lanti@unibe.ch

Venue
A 119, UniS, Schanzeneckstrasse 1, 3012 Bern

Event organizer 
Anna Usacheva; Lorenzo Lanti

The complete programme and further information can be found at the conference website.


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20.-21. November 2026: 20. Tag der Antiken Numismatik 2026

28. October 2026, Ansgar Teichgräber - Veranstaltungen

20. Tag der Antiken Numismatik
Münster, 20.-21. November 2026

*** Wegen der vielen Anmeldungen starten wir am Freitag etwas früher als sonst: um 17 Uhr im F2 des Fürstenberghauses, Domplatz 20-22, 48143 Münster ***

Den Abendvortrag wird dann um 18:30 Uhr Andrew Burnett halten: "Two bad emperors – Nero and Elagabalus. Or were they? What do the coins tell us?" Des weiteren freuen wir uns auf ein spannendes PROGRAMM mit vielen Beiträgen besonders aus dem Bereich römischer Hortfunde und einzener Fundmünzkontexte; aber auch ikonografische Fragen, digitale Numismatik und Sammlungsberichte werden behandelt. Und der Blick reicht auch über die Grenzen des Römischen Reichs hinaus.

Veranstaltungsorte
Freitagabend: Hörsaal F2 im Fürstenberghaus (Domplatz 20-22, 48143 Münster)
Samstag: Vortragssaal im LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur (Domplatz 10, 48143 Münster)

Organisation
Stefan Kötz – Achim Lichtenberger – Katharina Martin

Das vollständige Programm und weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Veranstaltungswebsite.


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Veranstaltungsreihe: Frag mal LeNA

26. October 2026, Ansgar Teichgräber - Veranstaltungen

Frag mal LeNA
Brownbag-Treffen
Online, 27. Oktober 2026, 19. November 2026, 24. November 2016, 10. Dezember 2026, 14. Januar 2027, 28. Januar 2027 | jeweils 12.00–12.45

Das "Lehrnetzwerk Altertumswissenschaften" (LeNA) veranstaltet im Wintersemester an sechs Terminen Brownbag-Treffen, um sich informell über Lehrformate und Lehrerfahrungen auszutauschen. Interessierte sind herzlich willkommen. Details finden sich im Flyer, hier als PDF, sowie im Programm, hier als PDF. 

Das erste Treffen findet am 27. Oktober 2026, 12.00-12.45, statt. 

Impulsvortrag: Polly Lohmann, Ausgedient? Herausforderungen der Lehrformate Pro- und Hauptseminar

Kontakt
lehrnetzwerk-altertumswissenschaften@proton.me


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