20.04.2023: Guest Lecture Prof. Rune Nyord: "Ancient Egyptian conceptions of the human being and its place in the world"
The Research Training Group 1876 invites to the lecture of Prof. Rune Nyord (Emory College of Arts & Sciences) entitled "Ancient Egyptian conceptions of the human being and its place in the world" on 04.05.2023 at 16:00. The lecture will take place online.
15.12.2022: We congratulate PD Dr. Dominik Berrens on the Dalberg Prize
We congratulate our alumnus PD Dr. Dominik Berrens on his habilitation lecture on "Letters in Herodotus" at the University of Innsbruck & the receipt of the Dalberg Prize for transdisciplinary junior research.
06.10.2022: Lecture Prof. Arnaud Zucker: "Das Tier oder die Tiere (in den griechischen Texten). Philosophisches Missverständnis über ein Konzept ohne richtige Einzahl."
The Research Training Group 1876 invites to a lecture by Prof. Arnaud Zucker (Université Côte d'Azur) entitled "Das Tier oder die Tiere (in den griechischen Texten). Philosophisches Missverständnis über ein Konzept ohne richtige Einzahl." on November 24, 2022 at 4:30 p.m. in Hegelstr. 59, room 00-309.
The RTG invites to the Conference "Concepts of Humans and Nature in Historical Perspective: Universals and Variation, Continuities and Transformation" on the 6th-8th September 2022. Prior Registration is kindly requested. Further Information you find here.
The exhibition "beZAUBERnde ORTE - Naturbegegnungen in vormodernen Gesellschaften" of the RTG 1876 has been on display at the Schule des Sehens at the Johannes Gutenberg University from 28 June 2022 to 29 July 2022. The content can still be accessed digitally. You can find the digital exhibition here.
11.04.2022: Lecture: Dr. Anna Perdibon - "A tree growing at the mouth of the two rivers. Reflections on animism, materiality and sacred landscape in ancient Mesopotamian religion"
The Research Training Group 1876 invites to the lecture of Dr. Anna Perdibon (Venice) on the topic "A tree growing at the mouth of the two rivers. Reflections on animism, materiality and sacred landscape in ancient Mesopotamian religion" on April 26, 2022 at 4 p.m.. The lecture will take place digitally.
The Dissertation "Im Naturraum. Poetologische Untersuchungen über mittelhochdeutsche Erzähltexte 1270-1320" of Mirna Kjorveziroska is published. More information here.
On 21.03.2022, 5 p.m., Prof. Dr. Paul Pettitt will give a lecture on his field of expertise in cognitive archaeology entitled "The animal inside us all. The behavioural evolution of Homo sapiens and the earliest art."
In the upcoming winter semester, the RTG offers a lecture series on "Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Specific, Interchanged". The lecture series focuses on the results of various dissertation projects that have been developed in the RTG. The event is open to all as an online offer.
The Dissertation "Didaxe und Natur. Darstellung und Funktionalisierung der Natur in Thomasins von Zerklaere ,Welschem Gast‘, in Freidanks ,Bescheidenheit‘ und in Hugos von Trimberg ,Renner‘" of Sandra Hofert is published. More Information here.
29.07.2021: International Method Workshop 'Quality and Quantity' on October 7th - 9th
The international method workshop 'Quality and quantity - approaches to humans and nature in an interdisciplinary dialogue' takes place on October 7th - 9th. In the workshop, interdisciplinary methodological questions from ancient studies are discussed in the context of qualitative and quantitative approaches.
18.05.2021: Congrats on appointment!
We congratulate Prof. Dr. Claudia Lauer warmly on her appointment to the professorship 'German Literature of Older Epochs' at the University of Mainz. Ms. Lauer has been a member of the core faculty since 2018 and represents Medieval German Studies in the RTG. We wish her a good start and look forward to continued good collaboration.
15.04.2021: International Workshop: „In no way does life differ from the sea” on May 10, 2021
Co-organized by our colleague Laura Borghetti the workshop “In no way does life differ from the sea”: Approaching the Non-Human in Byzantium and Beyond takes place on May 10, 2021 from 2 to 6 p.m. The workshop will explore how the human and non-human interact within Ancient and Medieval Greek and Latin literary texts. Further information, also on the registration, can be found on this flyer.
25.02.2021: Digital Workshop: Body and Society on April 16 and 17, 2021
The RTG Fellows cordially invite you to the digital workshop "Body and Society: Body Symbolisms as a Mirror of Ancient Societies" on April 16 and 17, 2021. The Programm can be found here.
09.11.2020: New team of spokespersons
At the meeting of the executive committee on November 5, 2020, Prof. Dr. Jochen Althoff (Class. Philology/Greek studies) was appointed as new spokesperson. From now on, the position of vice spokesperson will be taken over by Prof. Dr. Alexander Pruß (Near Eastern Archaeology). The RTG in all its parts knows what it owes to its former spokesperson and founder, Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening. The new team of spokespersons will strive to continue the RTG in her spirit.
26.10.2020: Congratulations on appointment!
The long-time spokesperson of the RTG 1876, Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening (Egyptology), accepted an appointment to a professorship at the University of Marburg. Mrs. Pommerening developed the idea of the RTG 1876 more than 7 years ago and worked out the concept with great energy and persistence until it was ready for application. The scientific work within the RTG has been professionalized continuously and further developed in all directions under the constant guidance of Mrs. Pommerening. As organizer and supervisor, she has worked with untiring energy in all places within and outside of the university and has been very committed to the RTG, the Egyptology in Mainz and young scientists. Fortunately, Mrs. Pommerening will remain with the core faculty and she will continue her supervising activity to a full extent. We wish her a good start and a successful work in Marburg and thank her for the many years of support and collaboration!
04.08.2020: "Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures: Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies" by Ulrike Steinert published!
The Book "Systems of Classification in Premodern Medical Cultures: Sickness, Health, and Local Epistemologies", edited by Dr. Ulrike Steinert is published. More Information here.
25.06.2020: Call for Applications: 1 doctoral position as of October 1st, 2020.
The RTG 1876 is filling 1 doctoral position, starting on October 1st, 2020. Application deadline is on July 31st, 2020. For more information see here.
27.02.2020: Call for Applications: 5 doctoral positions as of October 1st, 2020.
The RTG 1876 is filling 5 doctoral positions, starting on October 1st, 2020. Application deadline ends on April 30th, 2020. For more information see here.
19.02.2020: Dissertation "Politische Tierbildlichkeit in Byzanz" published!
The Dissertation "Politische Tierbildlichkeit in Byzanz - Spätes 11. bis frühes 13. Jahrhundert" of Tristan Schmidt is published. More Information here.
06.01.2020: Call for Papers: 40th meeting of the interdisciplinary working group "Ancient Medicine"
This year, the 40th meeting of the interdisciplinary working group "Ancient Medicine" takes place. Proposals for panels or lectures are requested until January the 31st, 2020. Further informationen here.
01.10.2019: Lecture Series of the RTG 1876 in winter semester 2019/20
The RTG 1876 invites to its Lecture Series "Lebendig oder tot, gesund oder krank? Der menschliche Körper in vormodernen Kulturen“. More Information here (in German).
15.07.2019: Dissertation "Konzepte der 'exotischen' Tierwelt im Mittelalter" published
The Dissertation of Dr. Stephanie Mühlenfeld "Konzepte der 'exotischen' Tierwelt im Mittelalter" has been published. Find more information here.
15.07.2019: International Conference on 15th-17th July 2019
The RTG invites to the International Conference "Concepts of Humans and Nature between Specificity and Universality" on the 15th-17th July 2019. Prior Registration is kindly requested. More Information here.
15.06.2019: "Impious Dogs, Haughty Foxes and Exquisite Fish" published!
The volume "Impious Dogs, Haughty Foxes and Exquisite Fish. Evaluative Perception and Interpretation of Animals in Ancient and Medieval Mediterranean Thought" edited by Tristan Schmidt and Johannes Pahlitzsch has recently been published. This volume results from the International Conference 2016 of the RTG 1876 "Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? Construction and Transfer of Knowledge of Man and Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages". For further information, please click here.
15.06.2019: 39. Meeting of the Ancient Medicine Interdisciplinary Working Group
The Ancient Medicine Interdisciplinary Working Group will meet for the 39. time on 15. and 16. June. The Topic is "Ungesagtes und Unsagbares - Leerstellen und Ambiguitäten in der Heilkunde als epistemologische Herausforderung". More Information on the Flyer (German).
05.03.2019: "Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing?" published!
The RTG-Members Jochen Althoff, Dominik Berrens and Tanja Pommerening published their book "Finding, Inheriting or Borrwoing? Construction and Transfer of Knowledge in Antiquity and the Middle Ages". This volume results from the International Conference 2016 of the RTG with the same title. More Information here.
06.02.2019: Dissertation "MondSymbolik - MondWissen" published!
The Dissertation "MondSymbolik – MondWissen. Lunare Konzepte in den ägyptischen Tempeln griechisch-römischer Zeit" of Victoria Altmann-Wendling is published. More Information here.
17.12.2018: Dissertation "Hirtenbilder – Untersuchungen zur kulturimmanenten Sicht auf eine altägyptische Personengruppe" published
The dissertation of Dr. Sonja Guth (née Gerke) "Hirtenbilder – Untersuchungen zur kulturimmanenten Sicht auf eine altägyptische Personengruppe" has been published in the series Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur (SAK). More Information can be found here.
06.12.2018: New Mercator Fellow
Since the 1st December 2018 is Prof. Dr. Douglas Cairns Mercator Fellow at the RTG 1876. Further information follows.
29.10.2018: Volume "Naturvorstellungen im Altertum" published
The edited volume "Naturvorstellungen im Altertum - Schilderungen und Darstellungen von Natur im Alten Orient und in der griechischen Antike" has been published as proceedings of a workshop, organised by the PhD students of the RTG 1876 in spring 2016. More Information can be found here.
08.09.2018: RTG 1876 represented on Science Fair in Mainz
On September 8th – 9th the RTG will be represented at the Mainz Science Fair with an own booth on the topic of „Communication & Body – Concepts of Early Cultures“. More information can be found here.
At this year's DIES ACADEMICUS former PhD student of the RTG 1876 Dr. Stephanie Mühlenfeld's thesis "Konzepte der exotischen Tierwelt" was honoured with a research award by the Friends of the Johannes Gutenberg-University.
The core faculty of the Gutenberg Nachwuchskollegs (GNK) has elected Univ.-Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening as new director.
...The 37th meeting of the interdisciplinary working group "Alte Medizin" will take place on July 1st and 2nd, 2017. ...
The 28th meeting of the working group "Ancient Science and its Reception" (AKAN) will take place on June 24th, 2017. ...
The Research Training Group 1876 "Early Concepts of Man and Nature" invites to the lecture "Portrait of a Lady - ‘Real’ women, ‘imagined’ women and the development of female representation in Prehistoric Cyprus" by Prof. Luca Bombardieri (Università di Torino). ...
The Research Training Group 1876 invites to the public lecture “The Shifting Gaze: Vision in the Neo-Assyrian Royal Inscriptions” by Dr. Ainsley Hawthorn (Yale University). ...
The Research Training Group "Early Concepts of Man and Nature" invites in the winter semester 2016/17 to a public lecture series. ...
The Research Training Group "Early Concepts of Man and Nature" invites to its International Conference "Finding, Inheriting or Borrowing? Construction and Transfer of Knowledge about Man and Nature in Antiquity and the Middle Ages". ...
The Research Training Group "Early Concepts of Man and Nature" and the ScienceCampus Mainz "Byzantium between Orient and Occident" invite to a lecture by Dr. Divna Manolova (University of Edinburgh) on July 12, 2016. ...
The Research Training Group "Early Concepts of Man and Nature" and the Interdisciplinary Working Group "Ancient Medicine" invite to a lecture on "Die Entwicklung einer 'theoretischen Pharmakologie' im 13. Jahrhundert" by Dr. Iolanda Ventura (CNRS Orléans) on July 7, 2016. ...
36th International Conference of the interdisciplinary working group “Alte Medizin” from July 2nd to 3rd, 2016. ...
The 27th meeting of the working group "Antike Naturwissenschaften und ihre Rezeption" (AKAN) will take place on June 11, 2016. …
The Research Training Group "Early Concepts of Man and Nature" and the Interdisciplinary Working Group "Ancient Medicine" invite to a lecture on "Arabische Kommentare zu den hippokratischen Aphorismen: Ein Fall des medizinischen und philosophischen Wissenstransfers" by Prof. Dr. Dr. Peter E. Pormann (University of Manchester). ...
The Research Training Group 1876 invites to the workshop "Naturvorstellungen im Altertum. Schilderungen und Darstellungen von Natur im Alten Orient und in der griechischen Antike". ...
The Research Training Group 1876 and the DFG-network "Humanistische Antikenübersetzung und frühneuzeitliche Poetik in Deutschland (1450-1620)" invite to the workshop "Wissen von Mensch und Natur. Tradierung, Aktualisierung und Vermittlung in frühneuzeitlichen Übersetzungen". ...
The Research Training Group 1876 invites to the public lecture “Monkeys in Aegean Image and Imagination” by Prof. Karen Polinger Foster (Yale University). ...
The Research Training Group 1876 presents the research colloquium of the Research Unit "Historical Cultural Sciences" on the topic "Methodologische Überlegungen zu frühen Konzepten von Mensch und Natur". ...
The Research Training Group 1876 invites to the public lecture “Frames als Modell zur Analyse und Beschreibung von Konzepten, Konzeptstrukturen, Konzeptwandel und Konzepthierarchien” by Prof. Dr. Dietrich Busse (Universität Düsseldorf). ...
Members of the Research Training Group 1876 participate with a panel entitled "Inside and Outside Ancient Times: A Modern View on Ancient Cultures?" in the Annual Conference "Scales of Knowledge: Zooming In and Zooming Out" of the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context" at the University of Heidelberg. ...
The Research Training Group 1876 presents „Das Wissen vom Tier – Geschaffen von Dir!“ and introduces its work. ...
The Research Training Group 1876 invites to the public lecture “Die Grotten auf der Akropolis von Rhodos – Künstliche Natur im Kontext hellenistischer Wohnkultur” by Dr. des. Sabine Neumann (University of Marburg).
…The Research Training Group 1876 invites to the public lecture “Who’s afraid of Scientism – A Network Framework of Cultural History”.
…35th international conference of the working group “Alte Medizin” from June 20 to 21, 2015.
…The 26th meeting of the working group "Antike Naturwissenschaften und ihre Rezeption" (AKAN) will take place on June 13, 2015.
…The Research Training Group 1876 invites to the public lecture “The Invention of the Alphabet from Egyptian Hieroglyphs: The Canaanite Miners that Invented the Alphabet in the Beginning of the 2nd Millennium” by Prof. Orly Goldwasser (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
…The Research Training Group 1876 invites to the workshop “Prototype Theory and Egyptian Hieroglyphs (an introduction)” by Prof. Orly Goldwasser (Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
…The Research Training Group 1876 and the Interdisciplinary Study Group “Ancient Medicine” invite to the public lecture “Erklären und Verstehen fremder Medizin: Klassifikation von Heilkunde zwischen Szientismus und Kulturalismus” by PD Dr. Walter Bruchhausen (RWTH Aachen).
…12.12.2014 - 14.12.2014: Conference at Château du Liebfrauenberg
From December 12 to 14, 2014 the doctoral students of the Research Training Group 1876 will hold a conference at Château du Liebfrauenberg.
The Research Training Group 1876 will hold on November 27, 2014 a workshop with PD Dr. Martin F. Meyer.
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On November 21 and 22, 2014 the Research Training Group 1876 will hold a w
orkshop entitled
"From the
classification of the concept:
Interdisciplinary heuristics for conceptualization of flora, fauna, people and landscape".
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The Research Training Group "Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Local, Borrowed" invites to the public lecture “Tools and living things: some observations on the interconnection between concepts and categories” by Prof. Roy Ellen (University of Kent).
…The Research Training Group “Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Local, Borrowed” invites in the winter semester 2014/15 to a public lecture series.
…The Research Training Group "Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Local, Borrowed" invites to the public lecture “Ameisen und Bienen – Staatsverfassungen sozialer Insekten” by Prof. Dr. Niels Werber (University of Kent).
…The Research Training Group "Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Local, Borrowed" invites to the public lecture "Versuch über den fremden Schlaf. Am Beispiel der griechisch-römischen Antike" by Prof. Dr. Christine Walde (University of Mainz).
...The 34th meeting of the interdisciplinary working group "Alte Medizin" will take place from July 5 to 6, 2014.
...On July 1st, 2014, a workshop on "Byzantiumand the Islamic World" will take place in cooperation with the
Doktorandennetzwerk Byzanz Mainz.
...The 25th meeting of the working group "Antike Naturwissenschaften und ihre Rezeption" (AKAN) will take place from June 13 to 14, 2014.
...On June 10th, 2014, a workshop on "Byzantium
and the Islamic World" will take place in cooperation with the Doktorandennetzwerk Byzanz Mainz. ...
The 4th animaliter-conference entitled "Tier und Wort. Sprechen über Tiere - Sprechen mit Tieren - Sprechende Tiere" will take place from May 26 to 27, 2014 at the Technical University in Darmstadt.
...The Research Training Group "Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Local, Borrowed" invites to the public lecture "Gendered Nature: Depictions of Femininity in Later Byzantine Literature" by Kirsty Stewart (Oxford University).
...The Interdisciplinary Study Group "Ancient Medicine" invites to the public lecture "Kam Hippokrates nach China? Das chinesische Äquivalent des Corpus Hippocraticum" by Pr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Paul Ulrich Unschuld (Charité Berlin).
...The Research Training Group 1876 will hold on November 14, 2013 a workshop with the cooperation partner Prof. Dr. Ragnar Kinzelbach.
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The new Research Training Group investigates concepts of man and nature in cultures of Orient and Occident from the dawn of history (ca. 3,200 B.C.E.) to the Middle Ages / Opening Ceremony on November 11th
...The Research Training Group "Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Local, Borrowed" invites to the official inauguration with a public lecture on "Heilen im Alten Orient" by Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Stefan M. Maul (University of Heidelberg).
...The Research Training Group 1876 "Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Local, Borrowed" will start its research and training programme on 1st October 2013:
...33rd international conference of the working group "Alte Medizin" from July 6 to 7, 2013:
...International conference of the working group "Antike Naturwissenschaften und ihre Rezeption" on June 15, 2013:
...The German Research Foundation (DFG) establishes the Research Training Group 1876 "Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Local, Borrowed" at Johannes Gutenberg University, starting in October 2013:
...The Research Training Group 1876 "Early Concepts of Man and Nature: Universal, Local, Borrowed" will start its research and training programme on 1st October 2013:
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