Tuesday 23 May 2017 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot Open to all, subject to availability 09:00 - 09:30 Skip youtube video player Listen to audio Download audio Audio recording 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 Previous Symposium 22 May 2017 09:00 to 09:15 Thomas Römer Opening of the symposium Symposium 22 May 2017 09:15 to 09:45 Nele Ziegler Samsî-Addu in the prime of life Symposium 22 May 2017 09:45 to 10:15 Lionel Marti The aging young hero. The question of age for Assyrian monarchs Symposium 22 May 2017 10:15 to 11:00 Jean-Daniel Macchi The old king who didn't want to be cold Symposium 22 May 2017 11:15 to 11:45 Anne Cheng Why live to a ripe old age ? The obsession with long life in ancient China Symposium 22 May 2017 11:45 to 12:15 Boris Alexandrov The perception of old age in Hittite society Symposium 22 May 2017 12:15 to 13:00 Nicolas Grimal He's 110 years old, and to this day eats 500 loaves of bread, half a beef and drinks 10… Symposium 22 May 2017 14:15 to 14:45 Jean-Marie Durand Old people talk Symposium 22 May 2017 14:45 to 15:15 Michaël Guichard The ancients in Paleo-Babylonian times Symposium 22 May 2017 15:15 to 16:00 Jack Sasson The trials of old age (according to the Hebrew Bible) Symposium 22 May 2017 16:15 to 16:45 Saul Olyan Some positive cultural associations of old age in the Hebrew Bible Symposium 22 May 2017 16:45 to 17:15 Regine Hunziker-Rodewald " Éclats de rire " : the case of the elderly woman Symposium 22 May 2017 17:15 to 17:45 Thomas Römer " Moses was 120 years old when he died " (Dt 34,7) … Symposium 23 May 2017 09:00 to 09:30 Alain Prochiantz Life is death Symposium 23 May 2017 09:30 to 10:00 Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge Tithonos and eternal old age : narrative variations on the human condition in archaic G… Symposium 23 May 2017 10:00 to 10:30 Véronique Dasen Tithonos, the cicada and immortality : glyptic variations and the making of myths in Ro… Symposium 23 May 2017 11:00 to 11:30 Christian Grappe The discreet presence of old age in the New Testament Symposium 23 May 2017 11:30 to 12:00 Petra von Gemünden Approaches to old age in early Christianity Symposium 23 May 2017 12:00 to 12:45 David Hamidovic Why do older people speak " words of vanity " according to Song of Songs R… Symposium 23 May 2017 14:00 to 14:30 Dominique Charpin Cuneiform tablets : living beings that age, die and rise again Symposium 23 May 2017 14:30 to 15:00 Grégory Chambon " May he live for 3 600 years ! "… Symposium 23 May 2017 15:00 to 15:30 Sophie Ramond " I have been young and I have grown old " (Ps 37:25).… Symposium 23 May 2017 16:00 to 16:30 Hervé Gonzalez Lax old men and rebellious youth. Generational conflict in biblical historiography Symposium 23 May 2017 16:30 to 17:00 Matthieu Richelle How to read the " poem about old age " from Qohelet 12:1-7 ? Symposium 23 May 2017 17:00 to 17:30 Jacqueline Chabbi The use of olden times between the Koran and Abbasid society Symposium 23 May 2017 17:30 to 18:30 Thomas Römer Closing of the symposium Next See also Thomas Römer, chair The Hebrew Bible and its Contexts Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East