Dialogues de Marburg sur les arts de guérison antiques

3rd Annual Meeting of the ‘Marburg Dialogues on Ancient Healing Arts’
 

Date: 5-6 July 2024
Location: Landgrafensaal of the Hessian State Archives, Marburg
Friedrichsplatz 15, 35037 Marburg (Lahn)

Friday 5 July 2024
13:15 Registration
13:45 Welcome and introduction Tanja Pommerening and Nils P. Heeßel (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Johannes Kistenich-Zerfaß (Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg)

Session 1, Chair: Stefan Weninger
14:00-14:40 Cultural responses and coping with the negative influence of parasites in the
Roman Empire: a spatial approach
Sebastian Kheml (Masaryk-Universität)

14:40-15:20 Altered Perceptions: Influence of hallucinations on emotions, the body, and cognition
Krystal Marlier (Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
 

15:20-16:00 Opium Poppy in Ancient Greek Botany Maximilian Haars (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
 

Coffee break
 

Session 2, Chairs: Tanja Pommerening and Nils P. Heeßel

16:30-16:40 Was können Altertumswissenschaftler zum Unterricht der modernen anatomischen Terminologie für Mediziner und Pharmazeuten beitragen?
Lutz Alexander Graumann (UKGM Gießen)
 

16:40-18:00 Discussion with all participants

Break

18:30-20:00 Public Keynote
Das medizinische Vermächtnis der ‚toten‘ Sprache Akkadisch
Markham J. Geller (University College London)

ca. 20:15 Joint dinner (optional)

Saturday 6 July 2024
09:40 Welcome

Session 3, Chair: Rita Amedick

09:45-10:25 The role of veterinary medicine in Roman agricultural treatises: Remarks on
Palladius’ Opus agriculturae
Thorsten Fögen (Northeast Normal University, Durham University)

10:25-11:05 Difficult Diagnosis – religious, ethical and medical concepts of illness and
healing in rabbinic literature in their late antique context
Lennart Lehmhauss (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen)

Coffee break

Session 4, Chairs: Tanja Pommerening and Nils P. Heeßel

11:30-12:10 Ancient technologies as informants for Egyptian therapeutic recipes and their
administration
Jonny Russell (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

12:10:12:50 The Observation and Interpretation of Disordered Eating in MesopotamianMedicine
Adam Howe (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

12:50 Closing address

ca. 13:00 Joint lunch (optional)