BabMed’s 2017 workshop is on the subject of medical commentaries, hosted at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) Berlin. The BabMed workshop is a follow-up of an event held in August 2016 at the MPIWG Berlin on the subject of mathematical and medical commentaries.
MedComm 2017 concentrates on medical commentaries and more general observations on ancient medicine in the Ancient Near East, as well as Greece and China, from perspectives of history of science.
Speakers include: Heinrich v. Staden (Princeton), Paul U. Unschuld (Charité Berlin), Nils P. Heeßel (Marburg), Glenn W. Most (Pisa), Vivian Nutton (UCL London), Enrique Jiménez Sánchez (Madrid), Klaus Wagensonner (Yale), Henry Stadhouders (Utrecht) and Giulia Ecca (BBAW Berlin).
Please notice, that the Key Note Lecture by Glenn W. Most on 26th September 2017 at 18:00 is held at another venue: BBAW Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin-Mitte.
26.9.2017 | |
13:00 - 13:30 | Registration |
13:30 - 14:00 | Greeting Adress Lorraine Daston Markham J. Geller |
14:00 - 20:00 | SESSION I |
14:00 - 14:45 | Interpretations of Hippocratic texts in the first century BCE: "Empiricist" exegesis and its adversaries? Heinrich von Staden |
14:45 - 15:30 | Li Shizhen’s (1518-1593) role as a commentator in his encyclopedia Bencao gangmu Paul Unschuld |
15:30 - 16:00 | Tea and Snacks |
16:00 - 16:45 | Short neo-Babylonian prescriptions with advertising comments: Remnants of folk medicine? Nils P. Heeßel |
17:00 - 18:00 | Transfer to BBAW/Mitte, Gendarmenmarkt |
18:00 - 19:30 | Text and paratext on roll and codex Glenn W. Most |
20:00 - 22:00 | Conference Dinner |
27.9.2017 | |
09:45 - 10:00 | Morning coffee for early arrivals |
10:00 - 13:00 | SESSION II |
10:00 - 10:45 | Abstruse perfection: Connecting sign and prognosis in Babylonian medical commentaries Enrique Jiménez Sánchez |
10:45 - 13:00 | Reading Session Enrique Jiménez Sánchez |
13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch |
14:00 - 15:30 | SESSION III |
14:00 - 14:45 | Unchain divine wrath – new lists of stones and their use in ritual Klaus Wagensonner |
14:45 - 15:30 | "Take a sip and live forever": Musings on Pliny's bios brand of wine Henry Stadhouders |
15:30 - 16:00 | Short Break |
16:00 - 17:30 | SESSION IV |
16:00 - 16:45 | Medical commentary from the Renaissance to Galen Vivian Nutton |
16:45 - 17:30 | Commenting on and commenting through the first Hippocratic aphorism: practices and patterns Giulia Ecca |
17:30 - 18:00 | High Tea, informal gathering at MPIWG courtyard |