Representations of Early Modern Anatomy and the Human Body
4th Workshop of the Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease (CHMD)
22 June 2007
Durham University, Queen’s Campus Stockton
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION IS NEXT WEDNESDAY, 6 JUNE 2007
Please use the online form at
http://www.dur.ac.uk/resources/chmd/news/BookingForm.pdf
The fourth CHMD workshop will discuss the effects of (visual)
representations of human anatomy on the understanding of the body. It seeks
to contribute to a better understanding of early modern knowledge of the
human body in its cultural context. Therefore the workshop addresses
questions such as:
- What was the specific understanding of anatomy by particular audiences?
- How did representations of the anatomical body construct collective
identities?
- How were anatomical objects constructed, and how did they change?
- What meanings were assigned to the anatomical body from the 16th to18th
century?
The workshop brings together historians working on different aspects of
European anatomy from the 15th to the 19th century:
Papers:
Simon Chaplin (Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons): Exemplary
Bodies: Public and Private Dissections in Georgian London.
Rina Knoeff (Leiden University): Animals inside: Anatomy, Interiority and
Virtue in the Early Modern Dutch Republic.
Sachiko Kusukawa (University of Cambridge): Andreas Vesalius and the
canonisation of the human body.
Roberta McGrath (Napier University, Edinburgh): We Have Never Been Modern:
Neo-medievalism, Visual Representation and Women's Bodies.
Sebastian Pranghofer (Durham University): “[…] depicted as described by
Galen”: The Visual Representation of the rete mirabile in Early Modern Anatomy.
Claudia Stein (Warwick University): Commentary
For further Information on the workshop please contact the organiser,
Sebastian Pranghofer ([log in to unmask]), or visit the
workshop homepage, http://www.dur.ac.uk/chmd/news/workshop4/. Please use the
online form on the workshop homepage for registration. Deadline for
registration is 6 June 2007. Lunch will be provided.
The workshop is funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Venue:
Durham University, Queen’s Campus
Centre for the History of Medicine and Disease Wolfson Research Institute
Seminar Room Stockton-on-Tees TS17 6BH
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