Marta Iommelli (Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale)

"Trees and Shrubs in Mesopotamian Therapeutic and Cultural Contexts"

Antonio Panaino (Università di Bologna)

“Stars and Constellations of the Ancient Iranians”

Marina Escolano-Poveda (University of Liverpool)

(in collaboration with Kim Ryholt, University of Copenhagen)

"Heavenly Bodies: Astrological Physiognomies in Egypt and Qumran"

Reimund Leicht (Freie Universität Berlin)

"The dynamics of scientific decline in Late antiquity: Some tentative thoughts about models of interpretation for the history of science"

Tommaso Scarpelli (Universität Leipzig)

"The Weather in Mesopotamian Cultural History during the 2nd and 1st Millennium BC – Insights from a Recent Research"

Hamid Bohloul (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, ASTRA Projekt) 

"Royal Horoscopes in Persian"

Jeffrey Kotyk (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte)

"The zodiac signs in East Asian mandalas"

27. November 2024

Levente László (Guest Scientist, ZODIAC Projekt)

Robert Middeke-Conlin (Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology)

"Another day at the office: Tracking epistemic change in the minutiae of daily work-life in ancient Mesopotamia"

Pouyan Rezvani (Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

"Ptolemy's star catalogue in the medieval Islamic sources"

Tim Brandes (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

"The Concept of Time in Mesopotamia"

15. April 2024

Francesca Rochberg (University of California, Berkeley)

"The Ontological Turn and Why We Should Be Interested"

Ulrike Steinert (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

"Therapeutic Agents and Medical Knowledge in First Millennium BCE Mesopotamia: New Insights from Women's Health Care Texts (and Beyond)"

29. Mai 2024

Andreas Winkler (Freie Universität Berlin)

"A New Animal - the Development of the Egyptian Zodiac"

Stamatina Mastorakou (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte)

"Unveiling the Celestial Imagery at the “Philosopher’s Tomb” at Pella”

Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Freie Universität Berlin)

"On the fourteenth day of the Moon, Hope and Peace were born: The earliest Greek lunarium"

Friedhelm Hoffmann (Ludwing-Maximilians-Universität München)

"Zur Überlieferung ägyptischer medizinischer Rezepte im 1. Jahrtausend v. Chr. - Beobachtungen am römischen Papyrus Wien D6257"

Jeanette C. Fincke (Leiden)

"The Moon in the 'Cattle Pen': The Halo of the Moon as Seen by Assyrian and Babylonian Astronomers"

Frederik Bakker (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), starts at 17:00!!!

"The Truth of Epicurus' Multiple Explanantions for Celestial Phenomena”

Mathieu Ossendrijver (Freie Universität Berlin)

"The Astronomers in Seleucid Uruk Revisited"

Marvin Schreiber (Freie Universität Berlin)

"The Babylonian Number Syllabaries in Context: New Evidence and Tentative Interpretation"

Annette Imhausen (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)

"The Conceptualization of Mathmatics in Pharaonic Egypt"

Serafina Cuomo (Durham University)

"A distributed cognition framework in the study of ancient Greek and Roman numeracy"

Anna Monte (Università degli Studi di Udine)

"Ophthalmology in Graeco-Roman Egypt: a papyrological journey through eye diseases and their ancient treatments"

Adrian Pirtea (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte)

"Celestial Omen Texts in Late Antique and Early Medieval Eurasia. Towards a Connected History of the Astral Sciences"

Sebastian Richter (Freie Universität Berlin)

"Al-Rāzī in Upper Egypt? A 9th-/10th-Century Coptic Archive of Medical and Alchemical Manuscripts and its Intellectual Background"

Paul Unschuld (Charité Berlin)

"The manifold messages of the most ancient Chinese medical texts: Who informed the anonymous authors?"

Winter term 2022/23

13. Februar 2023          

Nils Heeßel (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

"Wie viel wog ein KISAL? Oder: Weshalb gab es neben dem Scheqel noch eine andere Gewichtseinheit in assyrisch-babylonischen Rezepten?"

Jacob Dahl (University of Oxford)

"Back to the Future: Proto-Elamite and Linear Elamite"

Stefanie Rudolf (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte)

A Great Star Falls" - Comets and Meteors in Syriac Literature and Language