1st Conference of the NFN “Imperium and Officium: Comparative Studies in Ancient Bureaucracy and Officialdom”

“Official Epistolography and the Language(s) of Power”

University of Vienna, 10-12 November 2010

Programme


Tuesday,
9 November		 Wednesday,
10 November		 Thursday,
11 November		 Friday,
12 November
day of arrival Section 1:
Administration and Empire
Chair: Jursa, Michael		 Section 5:
'The King and I'
Chair: Jursa, Michael		 Section 9:
Official and Private
Chair: Taeuber, Hans
9-9.30 a.m.
Jursa, Michael (Wien): welcome address		 9-9.30 a.m.
Charpin, Dominique (Paris): To Write or not to Write: The Duty of Information towards the King in the Amorite Near East (20th--17th Centuries B.C.)		 9-10 a.m.
Jursa, Michael -- Hackl, Johannes (Wien): Argumentation, Causation, Persuasion and Rhetorics in Late Babylonian Epistolography: The Contrast Between Official Correspondence and Private Letters
9.30-10 a.m.
Ando, Clifford (Chicago): Three Revolutions in Government		 9.30-10 a.m.
Radner, Karen (London): How to Address a King? Officials and Clients in Correspondence with the Assyrian King (8th and 7th Century BC)
10-10.30 a.m.
Haensch, Rudolf (München): Gestaltung und Präsentation von Dokumenten der römischen Herrschaft. Imperiale Selbstdarstellung und ihre Rezeption		 10-10.30 a.m.
Baker, Heather (Wien): Doing the King's Work: Perceptions of Service in the Assyrian Royal Correspondence		 10-10.30 a.m.
Bryen, Ari (Berkeley): Naturalizing the Language of Power: Official Vocabularies and Private Documents
10.30-11 a.m. coffee break 10.30-11 a.m. coffee break 10.30-11 a.m. coffee break
Section 2:
Administration and Population
Chair: Palme, Bernhard		 Section 6:
Royal Letters
Chair: Baker, Heather		 Section 10:
Sociocultural Settings
Cheiar: Reinfandt, Lucian
11-11.30 a.m.
Eck, Werner (Köln): Die römischen Amtsträger und die sozialen Gruppen im Imperium Romanum. Herrschaft und Kommunikation		 11-11.30 a.m.
Frahm, Eckart (New Haven): 671 BCE: The Microhistorical Dimensions of Neo-Assyrian Royal Letters		 11-11.30 a.m.
Hofmann, Vera (Wien): Mimesis et aemulatio. Hellenistische und römische Korrespondenz als Beispiel für Mechanismen kultureller Rezeption
11.30-12 a.m.
Fournet, Jean-Luc (Paris): Des villageois en quête de la parole officielle: le cas des pétitionnaire d'Aphrodité (Egypte, VIe s. ap. J.-C.)		 11.30-12 a.m.
Fales, Mario (Udine): Idiolects and Identities in the Neo-Assyrian Epistolary Corpus		 11.30-12 a.m.
Choat, Malcolm (Sydney): Private and Official Salutations in Roman and Byzantine Egypt: Epistolary Greetings in Latin, Greek and Coptic
12 a.m.-2 p.m. lunch break 12 a.m.-2 p.m. lunch break 12 a.m.-2 p.m. lunch break
Section 3:
Inside the Administration I
Chair: Hunger, Hermann		 Section 7:
Rhetoric of Hegemony I
Chair: Tost, Sven		 Conclusion
2-2.30 p.m.
Sallaberger, Walther (München): Verwaltungskorrespondenz, Diktion und Funktion sumerischer und akkadischer Briefe im Reich der Dritten Dynastie von Ur (2110--2003 v. Chr.)		 2-2.30 p.m.
Taeuber, Hans (Wien): Hellenistische und römische Herrscherkorrespondenz im Lichte moderner Managementtheorie		 2-3.30 p.m.
general discussion
2.30-3 p.m.
Michel, Cécile (Paris): Les lettres des rois d'Aššur découvertes à Kaniš (XIX--XVIIIe s. av. J.-C.)		 2.30-3 p.m.
Kearsley, Rosalinde (Sydney): The Language of Power in Early Imperial Galatia: an Epigraphic Letter in Intent, though not in Form
3-3.30 p.m.
Armoni, Charikleia (Köln): Amtliche Ermahnungsbriefe aus dem hellenistischen Ägypten		 3-3.30 p.m.
Corcoran, Simon (London): 'The Augusti and Caesars Say': Imperial Communication in a Collegiate Monarchy
3.30-4 p.m. coffee break 3.30-4 p.m. coffee break
Section 4:
Inside the Administration II
Chair: Mitthof, Fritz		 Section 8:
Rhetoric of Hegemony II
Chair: Procházka, Stephan
4-4.30 p.m.
Palme, Bernhard (Wien): Kopialbücher römischer Amtsträger und Militärs		 4-4.30 p.m.
Papaconstantinou, Arietta (Oxford): The Rhetoric of Power and the Voice of Impotence: the Tension between Central and Local in the Official Letters of Umayyad Egypt
4.30-5 p.m.
Tost, Sven (Wien): Diktion und Funktionalität verwaltungsinterner Korrespondenz von Amtsträgern des Sicherheitswesens im spätantiken Ägypten		 4.30-5 p.m.
Reinfandt, Lucian (Wien): The Return of the Near East: 'Empireness' in Arabic Administrative Writings
5-7 p.m. break
7-10 p.m. reception and exhibition
"Stimmen aus dem Wüstensand. Briefkultur im griechisch-römischen Ägypten" at the Papyrusmuseum der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek		 7-8 p.m.
Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne (Dean of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies of the University of Vienna) -- Mettinger, Arthur (Vice Rector of the University of Vienna):
welcome address

Rollinger, Robert (Innsbruck): keynote address
Herrschaftliche Repräsentationsstrategien und die Language(s) of Power: Überlegungen zum programmatischen Charakter der achaimenidischen Königsinschriften		 7-10:30 p.m. farewell dinner at the Palmenhaus im Burggarten