36.2841, Confs: Asymmetric Communication in Ancient Societies (Germany)
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Subject: 36.2841, Confs: Asymmetric Communication in Ancient Societies (Germany)
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Date: 22-Sep-2025
From: Tobias Paul [asymcom-conference at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: Asymmetric Communication in Ancient Societies
Asymmetric Communication in Ancient Societies
Date: 16-Oct-2025 - 17-Oct-2025
Location: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Contact: Tobias Paul
Contact Email: asymcom-conference at hu-berlin.de
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Akkadian (akk)
Ancient Greek (to 1453) (grc)
Egyptian (Ancient) (egy)
Latin (lat)
Sumerian (sux)
Language Family(ies): Afroasiatic; Hurro-Urartean; Indo-European;
Nilo-Saharan; Turkic
This conference, hosted by CRC 1412 “Register”
(https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/projects/b03), explores the role of
asymmetric communication in ancient societies, focusing on how power
imbalances, status differences, and socio-cultural hierarchies shaped
modes of interaction.
Attendance is in person only. Please register by October 10, 2025, via
asymcom-conference at hu-berlin.de.
https://www.archaeologie.hu-berlin.de/de/aknoa/veranstaltungen/konferenzen/asymmetric-communication-in-ancient-societies
Program
Thursday, October 16, 2025
09:00 Registration, reception, workshop materials
Panel 1: Between Proximity and Distance I – Strategies of Appraisal
10:00–10:30 Welcome and theoretical introduction
Svenja Damm, Silvia Kutscher, Tobias Paul, Dina Serova
(HU Berlin)
10:30–11:00 Ensuring Communicative Success in Asymmetric
Communication: Rituals and Prayers
Theresa Roth (HU Berlin)
11:00–11:30 Veiled and Unveiled Polemics: A Study of Rhetorical
Aggression in Ancient Egypt
Svenja Damm (HU Berlin)
11:30–12:00 Coffee break
Panel 2: Religious Discourse I – Analyzing Christian Psalms and Gospel
12:00–12:30 Counterquestions in the Gospels
Hans-Martin Gärtner, Cecília Sarolta Molnár (Hungarian
Research Centre for Linguistics)
12:30–13:00 Corpus Linguistic Representation of Asymmetric
Communication for Register Research
Mortimer Drach, Anna Helene Feulner, Jürg Fleischer,
Gohar Schnelle, Lars Erik Zeige (HU Berlin)
13:00–14:30 Lunch break
Panel 3: Negotiations of Power and Hierarchy
14:30–15:00 Communication Between the Elite and Non-elite in
Pharaonic Egypt
Sami Uljas (Uppsala University)
15:00–15:30 Idiomatic Expressions in Legal, Administrative and Social
Demotic Texts
Mahmoud el-Bokl (Helwan University)
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
Panel 4: Communication in Death and to the Death
16:00–16:30 A “Sister” Speaks to her “Brother”: Letters to the Dead
Leire Olabarria (University of Birmingham)
16:30–17:00 Fractal Recursivity: Military Men and Asymmetric
Communication
Niv Allon (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
17:00–17:30 The “Atmosphere” of Private Tomb Façades
Romane Betbeze (HU Berlin)
Friday, October 17, 2025
Panel 5: Religious Discourse II – In Dialogue with the Divine
09:30–10:00 Statues in Prayer: Modeling Dialogues Between Humans and
Gods
Anne Grischeck (Freie Universität Berlin)
10:00–10:30 Asymmetrical Communication with the Divine and the Living
Baudouin Luzianovich (Sorbonne Université, Paris)
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
Panel 6: Between Proximity and Distance II – Using Complex Devices
11:00–11:30 Enantiosemy as Register-Coded Asymmetry
Gael Papola (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
11:30–12:00 Enigmatic Elements in Egyptian Iconography in the Reign
of Hatshepsut
Filip Taterka (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
12:00–13:30 Lunch break
Panel 7: Beyond Writing – Visual and Non-verbal Communication
13:30–14:00 Dimensions of Meaning: Ritual Linen in Asymmetric
Communication
Katarzyna Kapiec (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)
14:00–14:30 Reaching Hands: Parallel Egyptian and Minoan Ritual
Gestures
Christos Kekes (University of Crete)
14:30–15:00 Unveiling Power Dynamics in Gandharan Buddhist Art
Numan Anwar (Directorate General of Archaeology and
Museums, Pakistan)
15:00–15:30 Coffee break
15:30–17:00 Wrap-up and final discussion
Svenja Damm, Silvia Kutscher, Tobias Paul, Dina Serova
(HU Berlin)
18:00 Farewell drinks
Organizers: Silvia Kutscher – Dina Serova – Svenja K. Damm – Tobias B.
Paul – Amnah El-Shiaty
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