11:15 to 11:45
Symposium

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

Anne Cheng
Growing old and being old in the ancient Near East
11:15 to 11:45
    Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
    Open to all, subject to availability
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    Chair: Jean-Marie Durand, Collège de France

    Speaker(s)

    Anne Cheng

    Professor at the Collège de France

    Events

    Symposium
    09:00 to 09:15
    Thomas Römer

    Opening of the symposium
    Symposium
    09:15 to 09:45
    Nele Ziegler

    Samsî-Addu in the prime of life
    Symposium
    09:45 to 10:15
    Lionel Marti

    The aging young hero. The question of age for Assyrian monarchs
    Symposium
    10:15 to 11:00
    Jean-Daniel Macchi

    The old king who didn't want to be cold
    Symposium
    11:15 to 11:45
    Anne Cheng

    Why live to a ripe old age ? The obsession with long life in ancient China
    Symposium
    11:45 to 12:15
    Boris Alexandrov

    The perception of old age in Hittite society
    Symposium
    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
    14:15 to 14:45
    Jean-Marie Durand

    Old people talk
    Symposium
    14:45 to 15:15
    Michaël Guichard

    The ancients in Paleo-Babylonian times
    Symposium
    15:15 to 16:00
    Jack Sasson

    The trials of old age (according to the Hebrew Bible)
    Symposium
    16:15 to 16:45
    Saul Olyan

    Some positive cultural associations of old age in the Hebrew Bible
    Symposium
    16:45 to 17:15
    Regine Hunziker-Rodewald

    " Éclats de rire " : the case of the elderly woman
    Symposium
    17:15 to 17:45
    Thomas Römer

    " Moses was 120 years old when he died " (Dt 34,7) …
    Symposium
    09:00 to 09:30
    Alain Prochiantz

    Life is death
    Symposium
    09:30 to 10:00
    Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge

    Tithonos and eternal old age : narrative variations on the human condition in archaic G…
    Symposium
    10:00 to 10:30
    Véronique Dasen

    Tithonos, the cicada and immortality : glyptic variations and the making of myths in Ro…
    Symposium
    11:00 to 11:30
    Christian Grappe

    The discreet presence of old age in the New Testament
    Symposium
    11:30 to 12:00
    Petra von Gemünden

    Approaches to old age in early Christianity
    Symposium
    12:00 to 12:45
    David Hamidovic

    Why do older people speak " words of vanity " according to Song of Songs R…
    Symposium
    14:00 to 14:30
    Dominique Charpin

    Cuneiform tablets : living beings that age, die and rise again
    Symposium
    14:30 to 15:00
    Grégory Chambon

    " May he live for 3 600 years ! "…
    Symposium
    15:00 to 15:30
    Sophie Ramond

    " I have been young and I have grown old " (Ps 37:25).…
    Symposium
    16:00 to 16:30
    Hervé Gonzalez

    Lax old men and rebellious youth. Generational conflict in biblical historiography
    Symposium
    16:30 to 17:00
    Matthieu Richelle

    How to read the " poem about old age " from Qohelet 12:1-7 ?
    Symposium
    17:00 to 17:30
    Jacqueline Chabbi

    The use of olden times between the Koran and Abbasid society
    Symposium
    17:30 to 18:30
    Thomas Römer

    Closing of the symposium

    See also

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