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, Kings College London 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: eventbrite.co.uk/e/greek-medical-texts-their-audience-perception-transmission-reception-tickets-12512187289 Please direct enquiries to the organisers: [email protected] or [email protected] 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 Dr Sophia Xenophontos Lecturer in Classics Classics, School of Humanities University of Glasgow 65 Oakfield Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ
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