Presented By: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
The Art and Science of Healing Symposium
Thursday, March 9
4:30-5:30 pm
-Opening Remarks followed by Keynote Lecture. Christopher A. Faraone: “Women and Children First: The Earliest Evidence for Ancient Greek Body Amulets”
(Library Gallery/Room 100 on the first floor of Hatcher graduate Library)
Friday, March 10
10:00 am-12:00 pm
-Caroline Petit (University of Warwick). “Making Sense of the Medical Tradition: Galen on Amulets and other Borderline Remedies”
-Heidi Hausse (Columbia University) TBA
-Susan Mattern (University of Georgia). “The Atlas Patient: Melancholia and Psychosis in Ancient Greek Medicine”
2:00-3:45 pm
-Meg Leja (SUNY-Binghamton). “A Necessary Intervention? Medicine and Religion in Early Medieval Europe”
-Katherine Beydler (University of Michigan). “The Curious Case of Lolium temulentum: agricultural waste or multi-purpose medicine?”
-Aileen Das (University of Michigan).”A Precious Gift to Students: MS Michigan Isl. 1050 and Arabic pharmacology in the Mamlūk Period”
4:30-5:30 pm
Closing Remarks followed by Keynote Lecture. Sachicho Kusukawa (University of Cambridge): “What was Andreas Vesalius’ Fabrica about?”
(Library Gallery/Room 100 on the first floor of Hatcher graduate Library)
4:30-5:30 pm
-Opening Remarks followed by Keynote Lecture. Christopher A. Faraone: “Women and Children First: The Earliest Evidence for Ancient Greek Body Amulets”
(Library Gallery/Room 100 on the first floor of Hatcher graduate Library)
Friday, March 10
10:00 am-12:00 pm
-Caroline Petit (University of Warwick). “Making Sense of the Medical Tradition: Galen on Amulets and other Borderline Remedies”
-Heidi Hausse (Columbia University) TBA
-Susan Mattern (University of Georgia). “The Atlas Patient: Melancholia and Psychosis in Ancient Greek Medicine”
2:00-3:45 pm
-Meg Leja (SUNY-Binghamton). “A Necessary Intervention? Medicine and Religion in Early Medieval Europe”
-Katherine Beydler (University of Michigan). “The Curious Case of Lolium temulentum: agricultural waste or multi-purpose medicine?”
-Aileen Das (University of Michigan).”A Precious Gift to Students: MS Michigan Isl. 1050 and Arabic pharmacology in the Mamlūk Period”
4:30-5:30 pm
Closing Remarks followed by Keynote Lecture. Sachicho Kusukawa (University of Cambridge): “What was Andreas Vesalius’ Fabrica about?”
(Library Gallery/Room 100 on the first floor of Hatcher graduate Library)
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