Les modèles anatomiques

History and Cultureal Representations of Human Remains 

Anatomical models 

Academy of Medicine - Paris

April 4, 2013 

For registration and information: talairac@univ-tlse2.fr & rafael.mandressi@damesme.cnrs.fr


9.00-9.15 : Welcome speech

9.15-10.00 : Rafael Mandressi (CNRS, Centre Alexandre Koyré),
Artificialisations du corps dans la première modernité européenne

10.00-10.30 : Jack Hartnell (Courtauld Institute of Art, London),
Anatomical Image as Anatomical Model: Evoking Skin and Surgery in a Tactile Anatomical Scroll

10.30-11.00 : Marieke Hendriksen (University of Groningen),
The Fabric of the Body: Textile in Anatomical Models and Preparations

11.00-11.30 : Coffee break

11.30-12.00 : Jean-Louis Fischer (CNRS),
Les cires de foetus humains du Musée de la Specola : Une modélisation unique du dogme de la préexistence des germes

12.00-12.30 : Margaret Carlyle (MacGill University, Canada),
Manikins, Midwives, Medical Men: Obstetrical Hardware in the Paris Medical Marketplace, c. 1750-c.1789

12.30-14.00 : Lunch Break

14.00-14.30 : Victoria Diehl (Spanish National Research Council),
The Iconographic Catholic Legacy of Clemente Susini’s Anatomical Venus

14.30-15.00 : Nike Fakiner (Spanish National Research Council),
Impressions in wax: Alexander von Humboldt and Gustav Zeiller’s Anatomical Wax Models

15.00-15.30 : Mechthild Fend (University College London),
Contagious Contacts: The Dermatological Moulage as Indexical Image

15.30-16.00 : Coffee break

16.00-16.30 : Anna Maerker (King’s College London),
Models and Performance in Leicester Square and the Strand, 1831-32

16.30-17.00 : Birgit Nemec (University of Vienna, Department for the History of Medicine),
Modelling the Human – Modelling Society. Anatomical Models in late 19th- and early 20th-
Century Vienna and the Politics of Visual Cultures