L'art et la science de soigner

The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance

Symposium

University of Michigan from March 9-10


Thursday 9 March 2017
3:00-4:00 pm
Welcome & Registration (Coffee) and Guided Tour to the Exhibit, The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
(Kelsey Museum of Archaeology)

4:30-5:30 pm
Opening Remarks followed by Keynote Lecture. Christopher A. Faraone: “Women and Children First: The Earliest Evidence for Ancient Greek Body Amulets”
(Library Gallery/Room 100 on the first floor of Hatcher graduate Library)

6:00 pm
Welcome Reception
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

7:00 pm
Dinner with Symposium Speakers


Friday 10 March 2017
9:30-10:00 am
Light Breakfast
(Kelsey Museum of Archaeology)

10:00 am-12:00 pm
Morning Papers (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology):

-Caroline Petit (University of Warwick). “Making Sense of the Medical Tradition: Galen on Amulets and other Borderline Remedies”

-Heidi Hausse (Columbia University) TBA

-Susan Mattern (University of Georgia). “The Atlas Patient: Melancholia and Psychosis in Ancient Greek Medicine”

12:00-2:00 pm
Lunch

2:00-3:45 pm
Afternoon Papers (Kelsey Museum of Archaeology)

-Meg Leja (SUNY-Binghamton). “A Necessary Intervention? Medicine and Religion in Early Medieval Europe”

-Katherine Beydler (University of Michigan). “The Curious Case of Lolium temulentum: agricultural waste or multi-purpose medicine?”

-Aileen Das (University of Michigan).”A Precious Gift to Students: MS Michigan Isl. 1050 and Arabic pharmacology in the Mamlūk Period”

4:00-4:30 pm
Coffee
(Library Gallery/Room 100 on the first floor of Hatcher graduate Library)

4:30-5:30 pm
Closing Remarks followed by Keynote Lecture. Sachicho Kusukawa (University of Cambridge): “What was Andreas Vesalius’ Fabrica about?”
(Library Gallery/Room 100 on the first floor of Hatcher graduate Library)

5:30-6:00 pm
Closing Reception
(Library Gallery/Room 100 on the first floor of Hatcher graduate Library)

6:30 pm
Dinner with Symposium Speakers