GREEK MEDICAL TEXTS AND THEIR AUDIENCE: PERCEPTION, TRANSMISSION, RECEPTION
Conference Programme: Greek Medical Texts, KCL, 12-13 December 2014
We are pleased to announce the programme for the conference:
GREEK MEDICAL TEXTS AND THEIR AUDIENCE: PERCEPTION, TRANSMISSION, RECEPTION
Friday 12th - Saturday 13th December 2014
SW 1.09, Somerset House East Wing
Strand Campus, King's College London
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2014-2015/CHS/gmtconference.aspx
This event is open to all and free to attend, but booking is required via our Eventbrite page:
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/greek-medical-texts-their-audience-perception-transmission-reception-tickets-12512187289
Any enquiries please email the organisers: petros.bouras-vallianatos@kcl.ac.uk or sophia.xenofontos@glasgow.ac.uk
Friday 12 December
14.00 Registration
14.15 Introduction
14.30 Session 1
Stavros Kouloumentas (Berlin) Alcmaeon & his addresses: revisiting the preface of a treatise On Nature
Jordi Crespo Saumell (Cagliari) The Anonymus Londinensis & the paideia of the Imperial Period
Michiel Meeusen (Leuven) Solving medical problems 101: an interpretation of Ps.-Alexander of Aphrodisias' Med. puzz. 1, Praef.in light of medical school practice
16.00 Break
16.30 Session 2
Lesley Dean-Jones (UT Austin) Extending the family, the protreptic aim of some Hippocratic treatises
Chiara Thumiger (Berlin) The multiple audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics
Laurence Totelin (Cardiff) Gone with the wind: laughter & the audience of the Hippocratic treatises
Daniel Bertoni (Miami) A popular history of medicine
Saturday 13 December
09.00 Registration
09.30 Session 3
Antoine Pietrobelli (Reims) Galen's books & friends
Sophia Xenophontos (Glasgow) Philosophical protreptic in Galen's Exhortation to the Study of Medicine: construction of authority & audience response
Maria Luisa Garofalo (Rome) The De Propriis Placitis: evolution & systematisation of medical doctrines in Galen's medical & philosophical testament
Dimitris Karambelas (London) Greek medicine & the law: juristic readings & reception of medical texts in the Imperial Age
11.30 Break
12.00 Session 4
Uwe Vagelpohl (Warwick) The user-friendly Galen: Hunayn ibn Ishāq & the Syro-Arabic translation tradition
Elvira Wakelnig (Vienna) Arabic De Natura Hominis-treatises: their tradition, scope & audience
Katherine van Schaik (Boston, MA) Text-less medical instruction? The evolving role of texts in an experiential profession
Joshua Olsson (Cambridge) Medical tetrads in Medieval Islam
14.00 Lunch
15.30 Session 5
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (London) Reading Galen in Byzantium
Christophe Erismann (Lausanne) Medicine & philosophy according to Meletius' De Natura hominis
Erika Gielen (Leuven) Physician versus physician: a comparison of On the Constitution of Man by Meletius and On the Nature of Man by Leo Medicus
17.00 Concluding remarks
17.30 Drinks reception
We are pleased to announce the programme for the conference:
GREEK MEDICAL TEXTS AND THEIR AUDIENCE: PERCEPTION, TRANSMISSION, RECEPTION
Friday 12th - Saturday 13th December 2014
SW 1.09, Somerset House East Wing
Strand Campus, King's College London
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/ahri/eventrecords/2014-2015/CHS/gmtconference.aspx
This event is open to all and free to attend, but booking is required via our Eventbrite page:
http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/greek-medical-texts-their-audience-perception-transmission-reception-tickets-12512187289
Any enquiries please email the organisers: petros.bouras-vallianatos@kcl.ac.uk or sophia.xenofontos@glasgow.ac.uk
Friday 12 December
14.00 Registration
14.15 Introduction
14.30 Session 1
Stavros Kouloumentas (Berlin) Alcmaeon & his addresses: revisiting the preface of a treatise On Nature
Jordi Crespo Saumell (Cagliari) The Anonymus Londinensis & the paideia of the Imperial Period
Michiel Meeusen (Leuven) Solving medical problems 101: an interpretation of Ps.-Alexander of Aphrodisias' Med. puzz. 1, Praef.in light of medical school practice
16.00 Break
16.30 Session 2
Lesley Dean-Jones (UT Austin) Extending the family, the protreptic aim of some Hippocratic treatises
Chiara Thumiger (Berlin) The multiple audiences of the Hippocratic Epidemics
Laurence Totelin (Cardiff) Gone with the wind: laughter & the audience of the Hippocratic treatises
Daniel Bertoni (Miami) A popular history of medicine
Saturday 13 December
09.00 Registration
09.30 Session 3
Antoine Pietrobelli (Reims) Galen's books & friends
Sophia Xenophontos (Glasgow) Philosophical protreptic in Galen's Exhortation to the Study of Medicine: construction of authority & audience response
Maria Luisa Garofalo (Rome) The De Propriis Placitis: evolution & systematisation of medical doctrines in Galen's medical & philosophical testament
Dimitris Karambelas (London) Greek medicine & the law: juristic readings & reception of medical texts in the Imperial Age
11.30 Break
12.00 Session 4
Uwe Vagelpohl (Warwick) The user-friendly Galen: Hunayn ibn Ishāq & the Syro-Arabic translation tradition
Elvira Wakelnig (Vienna) Arabic De Natura Hominis-treatises: their tradition, scope & audience
Katherine van Schaik (Boston, MA) Text-less medical instruction? The evolving role of texts in an experiential profession
Joshua Olsson (Cambridge) Medical tetrads in Medieval Islam
14.00 Lunch
15.30 Session 5
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (London) Reading Galen in Byzantium
Christophe Erismann (Lausanne) Medicine & philosophy according to Meletius' De Natura hominis
Erika Gielen (Leuven) Physician versus physician: a comparison of On the Constitution of Man by Meletius and On the Nature of Man by Leo Medicus
17.00 Concluding remarks
17.30 Drinks reception