9:00 - 9:30am
Symposium

Life is death

Alain Prochiantz
Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East
9:00 - 9:30am
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Chair: David Hamidovic, University of Lausanne

    Speaker(s)

    Alain Prochiantz

    Professor at the Collège de France, Director of the Collège de France (2015 to 2019)

    Events

    Opening of the symposium
    Thomas Römer

    Symposium
    9:00 - 9:15am

    Samsî-Addu in the prime of life
    Nele Ziegler

    Symposium
    9:15 - 9:45am

    The aging young hero. The question of age for Assyrian monarchs
    Lionel Marti

    Symposium
    9:45 - 10:15am

    The old king who didn't want to be cold
    Jean-Daniel Macchi

    Symposium
    10:15 - 11:00am

    Why live to a ripe old age ? The obsession with long life in ancient China
    Anne Cheng

    Symposium
    11:15 - 11:45am

    The perception of old age in Hittite society
    Boris Alexandrov

    Symposium
    11:45am - 12:15pm

    He's 110 years old, and to this day eats 500 loaves of bread, half a beef and drinks 10…
    Nicolas Grimal

    Symposium
    12:15 - 1:00pm

    Old people talk
    Jean-Marie Durand

    Symposium
    2:15 - 2:45pm

    The ancients in Paleo-Babylonian times
    Michaël Guichard

    Symposium
    2:45 - 3:15pm

    The trials of old age (according to the Hebrew Bible)
    Jack Sasson

    Symposium
    3:15 - 4:00pm

    Some positive cultural associations of old age in the Hebrew Bible
    Saul Olyan

    Symposium
    4:15 - 4:45pm

    " Éclats de rire " : the case of the elderly woman
    Regine Hunziker-Rodewald

    Symposium
    4:45 - 5:15pm

    " Moses was 120 years old when he died " (Dt 34,7) …
    Thomas Römer

    Symposium
    5:15 - 5:45pm

    Life is death
    Alain Prochiantz

    Symposium
    9:00 - 9:30am

    Tithonos and eternal old age : narrative variations on the human condition in archaic G…
    Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

    Symposium
    9:30 - 10:00am

    Tithonos, the cicada and immortality : glyptic variations and the making of myths in Ro…
    Véronique Dasen

    Symposium
    10:00 - 10:30am

    The discreet presence of old age in the New Testament
    Christian Grappe

    Symposium
    11:00 - 11:30am

    Approaches to old age in early Christianity
    Petra von Gemünden

    Symposium
    11:30am - 12:00pm

    Why do older people speak " words of vanity " according to Song of Songs R…
    David Hamidovic

    Symposium
    12:00 - 12:45pm

    Cuneiform tablets : living beings that age, die and rise again
    Dominique Charpin

    Symposium
    2:00 - 2:30pm

    " May he live for 3 600 years ! "…
    Grégory Chambon

    Symposium
    2:30 - 3:00pm

    " I have been young and I have grown old " (Ps 37:25).…
    Sophie Ramond

    Symposium
    3:00 - 3:30pm

    Lax old men and rebellious youth. Generational conflict in biblical historiography
    Hervé Gonzalez

    Symposium
    4:00 - 4:30pm

    How to read the " poem about old age " from Qohelet 12:1-7 ?
    Matthieu Richelle

    Symposium
    4:30 - 5:00pm

    The use of olden times between the Koran and Abbasid society
    Jacqueline Chabbi

    Symposium
    5:00 - 5:30pm

    Closing of the symposium
    Thomas Römer

    Symposium
    5:30 - 6:30pm

    See also

    Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts
    Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East