The Ancient Sublime across Cultures: Elevated Minds from the Nile to the Rhine

William Turner, Light and Colour (Goethe‘s Theory) - the Morning after the Deluge - Moses Writing the Book of Genesis © https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-light-and-colour-goethes-theory-the-morning-after-the-deluge-moses-writing-the-book-n00532

Veranstaltungsort / Venue

STAATLICHES MUSEUM ÄGYPTISCHER KUNST
Gabelsbergerstr. 35 • 80333 München

Ansprechpartner / Contact persons

Prof. Dr. Casper de Jonge (c.c.de.jonge@hum.leidenuniv.nl)
Dr. Caroline Veit (mzaw@mzaw.lmu.de)

Wednesday 26 June 2024, 18.15

Book presentation and evening lecture

Renate Schlesier, Mischungen beim antiken Gelage. Reflexionen des frühgriechischen Symposions. Münchner Vorlesungen zu Antiken Welten (MVAW 7, Walther de Gruyter Berlin, 2024)

Casper de Jonge (Leiden /LMU München): The Ancient Sublime Between Gilgamesh, Genesis, and Greece

Thursday 27 June

09.00-09.15

Welcome and Introduction

09.15-10.00

Richard Hunter (University of Cambridge): The prosaic sublime

10.00-10.45

Damien Nelis (Université de Genève): The Ovidian sublime: sources and models

11.15-12.00

Jean-Yves Heurtebise (FuJen Catholic University, Taiwan / French Center for Research on Contemporary China, Taipei) (online): Transculturality of the sublime & sublimity of the transcultural: an inquiry into the possibility conditions of comparing Chinese and Greek sublimes

13.30-14.15

Michela Piccin (North-West University, South Africa): Unlocking the secrets: mastering Mesopotamian speechcraft

14.15-15.00

Enrique Jiménez (LMU München): ‘I will make the rabbit chase the wolf!’ Startling images in the Erra epic

15.30-16.15

Lorenzo Miletti (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II): Poetics, rhetoric, and religious tensions: the scholarly reception of On the Sublime in the mid-16th century

16.15-17.00

Dietmar Till (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen): The sublime in Burke and Kant – a story of tradition and innovation

17.30-18.30

Mélanie Flossmann-Schütze (SMÄK): The sublime in ancient Egypt - objects in the State Museum of Egyptian Art

Friday 28 June

09.15-10.00

Anja Hötschl (LMU München): „… und auf meine Höhen wird er mich stellen / ינדימעי יתמב לעו “ – Erhabenheit in Psalm 18

10.00-10.45

Knut Backhaus (LMU München): The importance of being an ‘idiot’: Early Christianity, the sublime, and a clash of cultures

11.15-12.00

Pierre Destrée (Université catholique de Louvain): Aristotle on the sublime

12.00-12.45

René Nünlist (Universität zu Köln): Ancient critics on the sublime

14.15-15.00

Sebastian Zellner (FU Berlin / Universität Heidelberg): Longinus’ ‘theatre of examination’ and the sublime in imperial historical thought

15.00-15.45

Ruth Bielfeldt (LMU München): Artistic failure as a chance for nature. Thoughts on Longinus’ kolossos hēmartēmenos

15.45-16.00

Concluding discussion