Language in Crisis, Crisis in Language, Language on Crisis
Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Antiquity to Modern Times
digital, 20.-21.11.2025
Die übliche Bedeutung der Begriffe für Handlungen änderten sie nach eigenem Gutdünken ab. (Thuc. 3,82,4). So beurteilt der antike Historiker Thukydides die Folgen von Bürgerkrieg auf Sprache. Seine Aufgabe sei es daher, die Geschehnisse in einer kritischen Sprache zu beschreiben.
In interdisziplinären Panels (Klassische Philologie, Ägyptologie, Altamerikanistik, Orien-
talistik, Islamwissenschaft, Afrikanistik) und Abendvorträgen (Prof. H. Kuße, Slawistik Dres-
den; Prof. M. Lowrie, Classics Chicago) untersuchen wir, wie in antiken Kulturen die Wechsel-
wirkung von Sprache und Krise die sprachliche Beschreibung der Krise prägt. Gibt es transkul-
turelle Merkmale einer Sprache der Krise? Wie beleuchtet der Vergleich antiker Krisenberichte
unseren eigenen Sprachgebrauch?
Anmeldeschluss: 16.11.2025
Organisation: Isabel Caspar; Margherita Coughlan
Kontakt:
Anmeldelink: https://lets-meet.org/reg/e98906ecf0f0767d35
Conference Program
Thursday, November 20th
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6:00pm – 7:30pm |
Prof. Holger Kuße (TU Dresden, Institute of Slavic Studies) Cultural Linguistics: Fundamentals and Examples from Argument to Zombie |
Friday, November 21st
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10:00am – 10:30am |
Welcome Speech (Isabel Caspar & Margherita Coughlan) |
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10:30am – 12:00pm |
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10:30am – 11:00am |
Dr. Daniel Grana-Behrens (University of Bonn, Germany) The 'Ugly' and 'Death' of Maya Hieroglyphic Writing in the Context of Jan Assmann’s Theory of Cultural Memory |
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11:00am – 11:30am |
Dr. Christian Prager (University of Bonn, Germany) ma'ilaj ‘he was not seen’: Kings, Queens and Crisis in Classic Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions |
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11:30am – 12:00pm |
Bruno Santrovitsch da Silva (Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil) Narrating Crisis in the Ancient World: Inversion, Restoration, and the Transformative Power of Texts from Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece |
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12:00pm – 12:30pm |
Break |
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12:30pm – 2:00pm |
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Room 1 |
Literature and Philosophy |
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12:30pm – 1:00pm |
Anton Glüer (University of Würzburg, Germany) Coping with Inner Crisis: Reflections on Emotion in Greek and Roman Tragedy |
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1:00pm – 1:30pm |
Tang Li (UC Los Angeles, USA) Plato on the Change and Disagreement of Value-Embedded Language |
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1:30pm – 2:00pm |
Tybo Vercamer (Ghent University, Belgium) Between Moral Decay and Roman Tragedy. A Study of the Evolution of Political Thought on Internal Division Through the Lens of Cato the Elder and Virgil |
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2:45pm – 3:15pm |
Simone Arcari (University of Tor Vergata, Italy) Language on Crisis: The case of μυστήριον |
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3:15pm – 3:45pm |
Sujitha Ajithkumar Pillai (Università della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy) Language in Crisis: The Sidi Diaspora and the Transformation of African Languages in India |
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3:45pm – 4:15pm |
Dr. Marcus Ziemann (Florida State University, USA) Migration, Mobility, and Crisis in Northwest Semitic Literatures |
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2:00pm – 2:45pm |
Break |
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Room 2 |
History |
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12:30pm – 1:00pm |
Jordi Martin Pons (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) Cleopatra as a Rhetorical Figure in the Crisis of Imperial Language |
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1:00pm – 1:30pm |
Michael Castellino (Università di Trento, Italy) The City's Power inside and outside: Textual and Political Dynamics in Athens in 415/4 BC |
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1:30pm – 2:00pm |
Fletcher Erskine (University of Edinburgh, Scotland) Metakrisis: The Emperor Julian in the Shadow of the Third-Century Crisis |
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2:45pm – 4:15pm |
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4:15pm – 4:30pm |
Break |
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4:30pm – 5:00pm |
Discussion (Isabel Caspar & Margherita Coughlan) |
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6:00pm – 7:30pm |
Prof. Michèle Lowrie (UChicago, Classics) Securitas, a Concept Born of Crisis |
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