[FUB-GEAS] FW: Conference announcement- "Practical Knowledge and Medical Practices in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures", Berlin November 2-4, 2015

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Dear Colleagues,

on behalf of the heads of the research unit A03, Prof. Philip van der Eijk and Prof. Markham J. Geller, of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB)
980 "Episteme in Motion"
I would like to inform you about our upcoming international and multi-discipline conference in November.(Details in the following in this e-mail and, please, see the conference programme attached in different
formats)

We kindly ask you, if possible, to circulate this information via your newsletter/ mailing lists/ newsfeed/ twitter-feed, publish it on your website (where applicable), and distribute it among your colleagues, students, institutional members,and subscribers.

Thank you for your help and collaboration.

Sincerely,

Lennart Lehmhaus


Practical Knowledge and Medical Practice in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures

International Conference,Berlin, 2-3 November 2015

The Project A03 (“The Transfer of Medical Episteme in the ‘Encyclopaedic’
Compilations of Late Antiquity”), as part of the SFB 980 "Episteme in Motion", is organizing an international conference on the topic of practical knowledge and actual practices in medical traditions of different ancient cultures.
The heads of project, Prof. Philip van der Eijk and Prof. Markham J.
Geller, welcome speakers from the US, the UK, Europe and Germany who will address in multi-discipline presentations the different healing practices (diagnosis, bloodletting, surgery and other forms of treat¬ment,
incantations) and the role of the “practitioners”. Furthermore, the papers will shed light on the ways in which this practical medical knowledge was gained and transferred via experts, institutions and procedures.

A detailed description and the conference programme are published online at the SFB webpage:
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/en/veranstaltungen/Vorschau/2015/tagung_a03_practical-knowledge.html


Conference Programme

Practical Knowledge and Medical Practice in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures

International Conference, Berlin, 2-3 November 2015

Convened by
Philip van der Eijk (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Markham J. Geller (Freie Universität Berlin)

Organised by
Christine F. Salazar (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Lennart Lehmhaus (Freie Universität Berlin) Franziska Desch (BerGSAS Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies, TOPOI Excellence Cluster Humboldt-Universität zu
Berlin)

on behalf of
Collaborative Research Center (SFB 980) Episteme in Motion, Research Project A03 The Transfer of Medical Episteme in the ‘Encyclopaedic’ Compilations of Late Antiquity Heads: Philip van der Eijk and Markham J. Geller www.sfb-episteme.de/en/teilprojekte/sagen/A03/index.html

The conference is funded by SFB 980 "Episteme in Motion"

supported by
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung/ Foundation

and with the support of
'Zentrum Alte Welt' of Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften


Practical Knowledge & Medical Practice in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures

Monday, November 2, 2015
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Klassische Philologie Marmorsaal, Room 2249a, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin-Mitte

Contact: Sekretariat Prof. Philip van der Eijk Dr. Friederike Herklotz and Katharina Bordiehn Room 3050, +49 (0)30.2093-70426

9.30
Registration

SESSION I, 10.00 – 12.00

10.00
Conference Opening
Welcome by Philip van der Eijk

10.15
Karl-Heinz Leven (Erlangen)
„... auch die Ärzte konnten zunächst nicht helfen“ – Pest-Therapien in der Antike und in byzantinischer Zeit, followed by discussion.
Chair: Christine Salazar (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

(This lecture will also count as the Monday Colloquium for 2 November.)


Lunch break (A list of restaurants in the neighbourhood will be available.)


SESSION II, 14.15 – 16.50

14.15 – 15.25
Matteo Martelli (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Recipes and therapies ascribed to the prophet Esdras in the Byzantine and Syriac tradition.
Chair: Francesca Corazza (Excellence Cluster Topoi, Berlin)

Short break

15.40 – 16.50
Dan Levene (Southampton)
Interdigitation of heterodox and orthodox in the living medical tradition of Ethiopia – stimulating thoughts about earlier Near Eastern magico-medical traditions.
Chair: Lennart Lehmhaus (Freie Universität Berlin)

Afternoon tea at Foyer Marmorsaal, then we walk over to the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften together (ca. 15 minutes’ walk).


SESSION III, 18.00 – 19.30
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Einstein-Saal Jägerstraße 22-23, 5th floor, 10117 Berlin-Mitte.

Keynote lecture
Ralph Jackson (British Museum, London)
Medical Instruments in Late Antiquity: Continuity and Change.
Chair: Roland Wittwer (Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften)


Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus, Vortragssaal Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Contact: Sekretariat Prof. Markham J. Geller: Sabine Büchner, Professur für Wissensgeschichte Room 108, +49 (0)30.838-58041

from 9.15 Morning coffee at TOPOI Wintergarten

9.45
Welcome address on behalf of SFB 980
Gyburg Uhlmann (Freie Universität Berlin)

SESSION I, 10.00 – 10.45

Strahil V. Panayotov (Freie Universität Berlin) What do we know about Mesopotamian surgery – and what would we like to know? Chair: M. Ossendrijver (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Short break

SESSION II, 11.15 – 12.15

Keynote lecture
Nils P. Heeßel (Würzburg)
The domiciliary visit of the Babylonian healer – what do we actually know about the practical side of Babylonian diagnostics?
Chair: J. Cale Johnson (Freie Universität Berlin)

Lunch (for speakers/ chairs only), served at TOPOI-House

SESSION III, 13.45 – 15.00

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (London)
On the practice of bloodletting in the Hebrew medical work Sefer Asaf.

Lennart Lehmhaus (Berlin)
“Red for Red” – bloodletting between medicine and lifestyle in Talmudic sources.

Chair Session IV: Almut Renger (Freie Universität Berlin)

Coffee / tea

SESSION IV, 15.30 – 17.00

Shulamit Ch. Shinnar (New York)
Rabbinic Techniques for Examining Parturient Tissue: Considering the Place of Graeco-Roman Medical Traditions within the Rabbinic Textual Corpus.
Chair: Ulrike Steinert (Freie Universität Berlin)

Stefanie M. Rudolf (Freie Universität Berlin) The Syriac Medicine man – medical science according to Bar Bahlul. Chair:
Lucia Raggetti (Freie Universität Berlin)

Concluding remarks by Markham J. Geller

High tea / refreshments

SESSION V, 18.15 – 19.45
TOPOI-Haus, Vortragssaal

Keynote lecture
Paul U. Unschuld (Charité Berlin)
What Is (Chinese) Medicine?
Chair: Gerd Graßhoff (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Workshop, 9.30 – 14.30
Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus, Kaminzimmer, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem ‘Practical Medicine in Jewish Scriptures and Adjacent Traditions’ Chair:
Franziska Desch (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) Participants include among others: Shulamit Shinnar (New York), Igor Itkin (Berlin), Lucia Raggetti (Berlin), Lennart Lehmhaus (Berlin).


Brief Conceptual Outline
To focus this meeting on the theme of Medical Practice will serve as a reminder that ‒ whatever elaborate theories ancient experts might have held ‒ this was not all that mattered in the day-to-day needs of their profession. Yet, the paucity of written evidence and archaeological remains frequently tell us more about the intellectual underpinnings of ancient medicine than about actual medical procedures. Since theory and practice were of equal importance in the constitution and transmission of medical knowledge, it is worthwhile to try and tease out whatever infor¬ma¬tion is available about the reality of me¬di¬cal treatments. The conference presentations will address the different healing practices (dia¬gno¬sis, bloodletting, surgery and other forms of treat¬ment, including incantations) and the ways in which this practical medical knowledge was gained and transferred via experts, institutions and pro-cedures. The multi-perspective comparative approach to Mesopotamian, Greek, Byzantine, Jewish-Talmudic, Chinese, Persian and Syriac medical traditions will help to sharpen the understanding of practical medicine in the Mediterranean across different periods and in varying socio-cultural contexts.

Christine F. Salazar and Lennart Lehmhaus Conference Organisers SFB 980/A03

Lennart Lehmhaus
Freie Universität Berlin
SFB 980 - "Episteme in Bewegung"
Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin
Projekt A03 "Talmudic Medicine"
Prof. Markham J. Geller
c/o Hittorfstraße 18
14195 Berlin
Tel +49 (0)30 838.57687
Fax +49 (0)30 838.53770



Lennart Lehmhaus
Freie Universität Berlin
SFB 980 - "Episteme in Bewegung"
Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin
Projekt A03 "Talmudic Medicine"
Prof. Markham J. Geller
c/o Hittorfstraße 18
14195 Berlin
Tel +49 (0)30 838.57687
Fax +49 (0)30 838.53770


Lennart Lehmhaus
Freie Universität Berlin
SFB 980 - "Episteme in Bewegung"
Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin
Projekt A03 "Talmudic Medicine"
Prof. Markham J. Geller
c/o Hittorfstraße 18
14195 Berlin
Tel +49 (0)30 838.57687
Fax +49 (0)30 838.53770

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