Program

1. Einleitung/ Introduktion

12:00         Heide Frielinghaus: Grußwort

Doris Prechel: Begrüßung und Einleitung

12:30         Jens Eder: Keynote lecture: Figuren der Geschichte: Erzähltheoretische Perspektiven auf                             historische Charaktere

13:30         Lunch

2. Mesopotamien und Europa / Mesopotamia and Europe (Chair: Sebastian Grätz)

14:30         Ludek Vacín: Sulgi and Charles: Searching for Ideal Kingship in Third- Millennium Mesopotamia                   and Medieval Europe

15:15         Ludger Körntgen: Challenged Rule and God's Grace: The Holy Emperor Henry II (1002–1024)                     between Conflicts on Earth and Future in Heaven

16:00         Break

16:30         Caroline Waerzeggers: How to Overrule a Kingdom? Composite Monarchy and Its Experiments                    in the Early to Mature Persian Empire

17:15         Christine Walde: In Suetons Laboratorium der Kaiserviten: Literaturwissen-schaftliche                                   Überlegungen zur Konstruktion von Herrscher-bildern

19:00         Dinner

3. Mesopotamien / Mesopotamia (Chair: Hans Neumann)

09:30         Nele Ziegler: Jaḫdun-Lim von Mari

10:15         Marc van de Mieroop: Hammurapi of Babylon: Early Babylonia’s Napoleon?

11:00         Break

11:30         Rémi Bois: Between the Despot and the Shepherd: The Case of the Achaemenid šip Feast

12:15         Alexander Pruß: The King’s Image

13:00         Lunch

3. Hethiter / Hittites (Chair: Jörg Klinger, Giulia Torri)

14:00         Amir Gilan: Ḫattušili and Me: In Search of the “Real” Ḫattušili

14:45         Billie Jean Collins: Finding Muršili II: Toward a Portrait of a Great King

15:30         Break

16:00         Theo van den Hout: The Compassionate Master or the Limits of Hittite Political Rhetoric

16:45         Susanne Görke: The Hittite King: Questions and Answers

19:00         Dinner

4. Assyrien / Assyria (Chair: Stefan Maul)

9:30          Jan Gerrit Dercksen: The King of Assur 2000–1600 BC:  Between Ruler of a City-State and                          Founder of an Empire

10:15        Eva Cancik: Tukultī-Ninurta I

11:00         Break

11:30         Eckart Frahm: Great and Not-So-Great Men (and Women): Biography and Value Judgment in                       Historical Discourses about the Neo-Assyrian Period

12:15         Andreas Fuchs: Assurbanipal: Facetten eines ganz besonderen Herrschers

13:00         Lunch

14:00         Final Discussion (Chair: Billie Jean Collins)