Approches de la médecine antique

Approaches to Ancient Medicine 2012

Starts: 20 August 2012
Ends:  21 August 2012

Approaches to Ancient Medicine is an annual conference that has been held every year since 2000. It provides a forum in which younger scholars or research students and more established scholars can meet to exchange ideas and discuss the latest developments in the field of Ancient Medicine, largely construed

Booking for the conference is now open. Please book by 15 July; bookings made after this date will incur a late booking fee.

Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion

Cardiff University

Humanities Building
Colum Drive
Cardiff
CF10 3EU

Programme

Monday 20 August

12.00-13.00     Lunch and registration
Early Greek Medicine
13.00-13.30     Tiberiu Popa (Butler University), The Hippocratics and the Phusiologoi on Material Powers
13.30-14.00     Patrick Macfarlane (Providence College), The Fragments of Evenor of Acarnania
14.00-14.15     Short Break 
Food and Medicine
14.15-14.45     Ravi Sharma (Clark University), Diocles on Foods
14.45-15.15     Níels Hermannsson (University of Edinburgh), Timaeus on Vegetarianism
15.15-15.45    Eleanor Reeve (University College Oxford), Conspiracy Theories and Cabbages: A Catonian Approach to Greek Medicine
15.45-16.15     Tea/coffee
Galen
16.15-16.45     Julia Trompeter (Bochum), Galen’s Theory of the Soul
16.45-17.15     Robert Leigh (University of Exeter), The Authorship of On Theriac to Piso?
Late Antique and Medieval Medicine
17.15-17.45     Caroline Musgrove (Cardiff University), Asclepius Reborn: Medicine in the Thoughts and Actions of Julian the Apostate (MA student)
17.45-18.15     Olga Jarman (St Petersburg State Pediatric Medical University), The Patient as ‘a Sufferer’ in Medieval Byzantine Ascetic Poetry: Emotions of the Patient about their own Illness and Ways of Counseling
18.15-18.45     Ludwig Zoré (Université de Rouen), Classical Traces of the Articella through the Studies of Some European Manuscripts

Tuesday 21 August

Body…
9.30-10.00       Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge University), Wombs for the Gods
10.00-10.40     Manfred Horstmanshoff (University of Cologne) and Lutz Alexander Graumann (University Marburg), The Clubfoot Re-examined
10.40-11.10     Cornelis van Tilburg (Universiteit Leiden), To Remove or Not to Remove? Opinions concerning human excrements in the Graeco-Roman World
11.10-11.30     Tea/coffee
… And Mind
11.30-12.00     Emily Fletcher (University of Toronto), Plato on Psychosomatic Health and Disease
12.00-12.30     Ido Israelowich (Tel Aviv University), Madness and Madmen in the Eyes of the Roman Law and Roman Jurists
12.30-1.00       Nadine Metzger (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg), Misanthropy – From Melancholic Symptom to Diagnostic Entity
1.00-14.30       Lunch
14.30               Departure

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