On Friday April 18 and Saturday April 19, the Center for the Ancient
Mediterranean will host a conference on Popular Medicine in the
Graeco-Roman World. All sessions will take place in 501 Schermerhorn
Hall. The conference is free and open to the public, and is
co-sponsored by the Columbia University History Department, the
Program in Classical Studies, and the Stanwood Cockey Lodge Foundation
of the Classics Department. We hope to see you there!
The conference schedule is as follows:
Friday April 18th
9:15-9:30 Opening Remarks. William Harris
FIRST SESSION: RELIGIOUS AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS
Session chair: Francesco de Angelis
9:30-10:15: Patricia Baker, "Conceptions of a Salubrious Environment:
Construction and Design of Greco-Roman Healing Sanctuaries"
10:15-11:00: Olympia Panagiotidou, "Asklepian Therapy as an
alternative healing choice: A case of placebo effect"
11:00-11:30: Coffee break
Session chair: Katja Vogt
11:30-12:15: Chiara Thumiger, "Prometheus' gift: healing and hope in
popular and technical reflections on medicine"
12:15-13:00: Rebecca Flemming, "Anatomical votives in
Republican/Hellenistic Italy: How popular and how medical?"
13:00-14:15: Lunch break
SECOND SESSION: RECIPES AND REMEDIES
Session chair: Deborah Steiner
14:15-15:00: Isabella Andorlini, "Crossing the Borders between
Egyptian and Greek medical practice: papyri and related archaeological
tools"
15:00-15:45: Julie Laskaris, "Metals in Medicine: from Telephus to
the Greek Magical Papyri."
15:45-16:15: Refreshment break
16:15-17:00: Laurence Totelin, "Pharmakopolai: a re-evaluation of the
sources"
17:00-17:45: Arsenio Ferraces Rodriguez, "Medical recipes from
Antiquity to the early Middle Ages: who made them, how, and for whom
they were made"
17:45-19:00: Reception
Saturday April 19th
THIRD SESSION: SOME MAJOR TEXTS
Session chair: Rebecca Flemming
9:30-10:15: Heinrich von Staden, "The relationship between 'popular'
and 'scientific' medicine in Celsus' Medicina".
10:15-11:00: Danielle Gourevitch, "Popular Medicines and Practices in Galen"
11:00-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-12:15: Vivian Nutton, "Popular medicine in the Galenic Corpus"
12:15-13:00: Ann Ellis Hanson, "The barnyard and the bedroom, the
Geoponika and Hippocrates' women"
13:00-14:15: Lunch break
FOURTH SESSION: DOCTORS AND OTHERS
Session chair: William Harris
14:15-15:00: Liz Irwin, 'Imperial ambitions and the popularization of
medical theory at Athens'
15:00-15:45: Catherine Hezser, " 'Honor Your Physician Even Before
You Have Need of Him' (y. Taan. 3:6, 66d): Representations of the
Physician in Jewish Literature from Hellenistic and Roman Times
15:45-16:15: Refreshment break
16:15-17:00: David Leith, "How Popular Were the Medical Sects?"
17:00-17:45: Ido Israelowitch, "Medicine in the Roman Army"
17:45-19:00: Reception
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