CONFERENCES: "Knowledge to die for"
From Hauke Ziemssen <[log in to unmask]>:
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We would like to invite you to the conference “Knowledge to die for:
Transmission of Prohibited and Esoteric Knowledge through Space and
Time” on May 2-4 at the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of
Science.
The conference deals with prohibited, heretical and esoteric
knowledge, as attested in Mesopotamia and in ancient Jewish, Rabbinic,
and Apocalyptic literature, as well as in Christian and Islamic
contexts, pre-Islamic and later Iranian sources, and incorporating
Judeo-Christian-Muslim heterodoxies.
Speakers will include: Michael Stone (Jerusalem), Boris Uspenskij
(Naples), Gebhard Selz (Vienna), Tal Ilan (Berlin), Alexander Kulik
(Jerusalem), James Russell (Harvard), Dimitri Gutas (Yale), Hans
Kippenberg (Bremen), Angelika Neuwirth (Berlin), Antonio Panaino
(Bologna), Maria Macuch (Berlin), Velizar Sadovski (Vienna), Jens
Braarvig (Oslo), Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst (Berlin), Yuri Stoyanov
(London), David Shankland (London), Matteo Martelli (Berlin).
We are looking forward to seeing you at the conference.
Location: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte.
Boltzmannstraße 22. 14195 Berlin
organiser: Prof. Dr. Florentina Badalanova Geller
<[log in to unmask]>; Phone: +49.30.838.51606
contact: Kirsten Koners <[log in to unmask]>;
Phone:+49.30.838.57687
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