Thursday, January 9, 2020
| 9:00-9:30 | Welcome | |
| 9:30-10:30 | Introduction | Prof. Dr. Tanja Pommerening & Prof. Dr. Annette Imhausen |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break |
Section I: Ancient Egypt
| 11:00-11:45 | rḫ and ḫm – “to know” and “not to know”. But what does this mean? | Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Hoffmann (München) |
| 12:00-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-14:15 | Cognitive verbs and their distribution in ancient Egyptian scientific texts | Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert (Leipzig) |
| 14:20-15:05 | ‘Creative speech’ and ‘knowledge in the heart’ – The terms ḥw and sjꜢ in ancient Egyptian texts | Dr. Nadine Gräßler (Mainz) |
| 15:05-15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30-16:15 | From Artistry to Erudition. The meaning of the verb ḥmw in Egyptian | Dr. Stefan Baumann (Trier) |
Section II: India
| 16:20-17:05 | Śastra and jyotiḥśāstra: the ‘science of light’ in Sanskrit learning | Prof. Dr. Kim Plofker (New York) |
| 17:10-17:55 | ‘Showing a connexion’, some reflexions on the use of yukti by Śaṅkara Vāriyar (fl. 1540) in relation to other attested use of this term in medical and philosophical texts in Sanskrit | Dr. Agathe Keller (Paris) |
Friday, January 10, 2020
Section III: Mesopotamia
| 9:00-9:45 | nēpešu and the heart of Mesopotamian rational practices | Prof. Dr. Jim Ritter (Paris) |
| 9:50-10:35 | On cubs, hands and similar legal terms in Mesopotamia | Prof. Dr. Guido Pfeifer & Steffen Jauß, B. A. (Frankfurt) |
| 10:35-11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00-11:45 | nēmequ & co: Akkadian terms for wisdom and knowledge | Dr. Ulrike Steinert (Mainz) |
| 11:45-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-14:15 | General terms to express knowledge in the Ancient Near East | Prof. Dr. Nils Heeßel (Marburg) |
| 14:20-15:05 | ‘Sign’ and ‘(its) interpretation’ - the Akkadian terms ittu and pišru in scholarly texts from Mesopotamia | Dr. Daliah Bawanypeck (Frankfurt) |
| 15:05-15:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 15:30-16:15 | Seeing, watching, measuring: observational terms in Mesopotamian scholarship | Prof. Dr. Mathieu Ossendrijver (FU Berlin) |
Saturday, January 11, 2020
Section IV: Ancient Greece and Rome
| 9:00-9:45 | The Notion of Sophia beyond Philosophy | Dr. Chiara Ferella (Mainz) |
| 9:50-10:35 | ἐπιστήμη (episteme) | Prof. Dr. Jochen Althoff (Mainz) |
| 10:35-11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00-11:45 | The Art of Science? Origins and usages of the terms ars and scientia in Latin technical texts | PD Dr. Annemarie Ambühl (Mainz) |
| 11:45-13:30 | Lunch |
Section V: China
| 13:30-14:15 | How gewu zhizhi / 格物致知 means „Wissenschaft“? A tri-lingual hermeneutic approach to translation of basic concepts of philosophy | Prof. Dr. Ole Döring (FU Berlin) |
| 14:15 | Final discussion | |
| 14:45 | Coffee Break | |
| from 15:15 | Round Table for Publication | (only for speakers) |