Einstein Center Chronoi

Join us on-site or online on Thursday 30/10 at 3 pm (CET) for a Chronoi Talk by Sarah Wisialowski on how prayer and revelation intersect to uncover hidden knowledge.

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Join us on-site or online on Thursday 16/10 at 3 pm (CET) for a Chronoi Talk by Andreas Haug on the loss of ancient Greek rhythm and its consequences for time, motion, and song.

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Annual Chronoi Lecture 2025 Our Executive Board will give this year's final Annual Chronoi Lecture, reflecting on the centre's work and offering insights into how time was measured, structured and experienced across ancient cult...

SAVE THE DATE! Our Executive Board will give this year's final Annual Chronoi Lecture on Dec 1, reflecting on the centre's work and offering insights into how time was measured, structured and experienced across ancient cultures.

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Symeon Stylites auf der Säule, Basaltrelief, 5./6. Jh., Syrien, 84,5 x 76 x 18,5 cm, 260 kg. Berlin, Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Inv.-Nr. 9/63.

Am 17.09. um 17 Uhr hält unsere Fellow Daniela Wagner einen Vortrag über die Wahrnehmbarkeit von Zeit im Bild anhand eines Basaltreliefs des Hl. Symeon Stylites an der Herzog August Bibliothek (hybrid).

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Bericht von Andreas Ludwig (@zzfpotsdam.bsky.social) zur Tagung "Dinge-Erzähen-Werte", Kooperation mit @zfl-berlin.bsky.social, @leizarchaeology.bsky.social, DASA Dortmund und @ecchronoi.bsky.social.

After a busy summer semester and our “Time Revolution” workshop, Chronoi is taking a summer break. Thank you to our fellows and partners for contributing to our research program this semester. Have a wonderful summer, and see you again in October!

Workshop: “Time Revolution: Contemporary Thought and the Struggle Against Scientific Necessity” Join us on July 17th and 18th for a workshop organized by Amir Engel

Interdisciplinary aspects of time will be the focus of our two-day workshop starting tomorrow, July 17–18, at 9:30 am, at the @bbaw.bsky.social (Einstein Saal). Join us to explore ideas about time across art, literature, natural science, social theory, politics, and theology.

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Wie strukturierte man Alltag, Arbeit, Religion und Medizin im 15. Jh.? Ein neuer Blogbeitrag der Herzog August Bibliothek zeigt, wie ein Blockbuch als „Zeitobjekt“ diente – verfasst im Anschluss an den Studientag Zeitobjekte in Kollaboration mit dem EC‑C.

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We are delighted to congratulate our former fellow, András Kraft, on receiving the highly competitive @fwf-at.bsky.social Astra Award for his new project, "Apocalypse Rescripted: Unraveling the Maze of Byzantine Apocalyptic Literature."

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Join us on-site on Thursday 17/07 at 6 pm (CET) for an evening conference titled "The Politics of Not Speaking" by Amir Engel, Sami Khatib, Elad Lapidot, and Jayne Svenungsson at the BBAW (@bbaw.bsky.social)‬.

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Join us on-site or online on Thursday 10/07 at 3 pm (CET) for a Chronoi Talk by Lajos Berkes on the dating systems in greek, coptic, and arabic practices in late antique Egypt.

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Join us on-site or online on Thursday 03/07 at 3 pm (CET) for a Chronoi Talk by Holger Essler on the theological work of Philodemus and the challenges and solutions regarding the reconstruction of the text.

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Join us on-site or online on Thursday 26/06 at 3 pm (CET) for a Chronoi Talk by Chiori Kitagawa on the awareness and unawareness of natural calendar in ancient Egyptian iconographies.

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Join us on-site or online on Thursday 19/06 at 3 pm (CET) for a Chronoi Talk by Annapaola Passerini on the radiocarbon perspectives on the Bronze Age in the South Caucasus.

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Join us on-site or online on Thursday 12/06 at 3 pm (CET) for a Chronoi Talk by Cornelia Logemann on a Chalice from Avignon and its changing audience in the 14th century.

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We’re pleased to add a new volume to our De Gruyter series: (A)synchronic (Re)actions by our former fellow, Marta Pallavidini, explores how crises were perceived in Hittite Anatolia – by contemporaries, neighbors, and modern historians. It is now available in open access:

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Vom 25.–27. Juni 2025 findet unsere Tagung "Dinge - Erzählen - Werte" in Mainz statt. Organisiert wird die Tagung u.a. vom @leizarchaeology.bsky.social, @zfl-berlin.bsky.social und @zzfpotsdam.bsky.social.
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Join us on-site or online on Wednesday 28/05 at 3 pm (CET) for a Chronoi Talk by Goce Naumov on the temporality and notion of prehistoric and historic time.

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Join us on-site or online on Wednesday 30/04 at 3 pm (CET) for a Chronoi Talk by George Karamanolis on Porphyry and Gregory of Nyssa on the world's coming to be at once.

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Join us on-site or online on Wednesday 23/04 at 6 pm (CET) for a Lecture by Ekaterina Kashina on the Portable art of Late Stone Age hunter-gatherer-fishers in the North-East European forest zone.

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Time and the Temporality of Learning to Write in Early Mesopotamia

Join us on-site or online on Thursday 24/04 at 3 pm (CET) for a Chronoi Talk by Paul Delnero on time and the temporality of learning to write in early mesopotamia.

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Welcome back after the semester break! Our Chronoi-Talk have started again with András Kraft's lecture on "Temporal Velocities in Byzantine Apocalyptica".

Join us on-site or online on Thursday 17/04 at 3 pm (CET) for a Chronoi Talk by András Kraft on temporal velocities in the Byzantine apocalyptica.

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Wie wird die Antike politisch instrumentalisiert? Angeregt durch unser Jahresthema 25/26 diskutieren Expert:innen aus Politik-, Geschichts- & Altertumswissenschaften diese Vereinnahmung im Offenen Hörsaal der @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social. 📣Start: 15.4. lmy.de/tkGJw

Join us on on-site or online on Tuesday 08/04 at 6 pm (CET) for our Workshop "Maps and Mapping: House Models for the Living and the Dead across Ancient Eurasia" with Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann, Goce Naumov, Cinzia Pappi and Paul Delnero!

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Join us on-site or online on Thursday 23/01 at 3 pm (CET) for a Chronoi Talk by Cinzia Pappi on the evolution of studies of Hammurabi and his era, exploring how modern historiography has shaped our understanding of this figure over the past century.

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A new volume in our book series has just been published and is now available online. "The Thebaid in Times of Crisis: Revolt and Response in Ptolemaic Egypt," edited by Ralph Birk and Laurent Coulon, examines societal crises in Hellenistic Egypt, focusing on the Thebaid region.

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Join us live or online on Thursday 16/01 at 3 pm (CET) for a Chronoi Talk by Menahem Ben Sasson on the dynamic canonical time-marks in four visions of Daniel.

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We're proud to congratulate our former Fellow, Kassandra Miller, on receiving the 2024 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit––the highest award for classical scholarship in the U.S.––for her book Time and Ancient Medicine: How Sundials and Water Clocks Changed Medical Science (OUP, 2023).
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Join us live or online on Thursday 09/01 at 3 pm (CET) for a Chronoi Talk by Pascal Butterlin on the project Citadel of Sargon.

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