Dear Colleagues,
please take note of this CFP for our Panel
Project A03, The Transfer of Medical Episteme in the ‘Encyclopaedic’
Compilations of Late Antiquity (Markham J. Geller/ Philip J. van der
Eijk), Collaborative Research Center – SFB 980 “Episteme in Motion, The
Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern
Period”, Berlin
DEADLINE: Next Friday, 19.12.2014
Proposal for a panel at
CHAM International Conference, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 15-18 July 2015
Medical knowledge in motion. Exchange, Transformation and Iteration in the
Medical Traditions of the Late Antique Mediterranean World
Convenors:
Lennart Lehmhaus: lehmhaus@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Matteo Martelli: martellm@hu-berlin.de
Christine Salazar: christine.salazar@hu-berlin.de
Abstract:
The proposed panel seeks to bring together scholars who investigate the
transfer of Graeco-Roman medical knowledge in different cultural contexts
from a synchronic and diachronic perspective. The papers will address
conceptual, literary, social and institutional manifestations of cultural
exchange in this field of science and practice.
Description of the panel:
The research project about “The Transfer of Medical Episteme in the
‘Encyclopaedic’ Compilations of Late Antiquity” under the supervision of
Prof. Philip van der Eijk and Prof. Mark Geller seeks to contribute to the
CHAM Congress with a pre-organized panel on medical practices and theories
in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. The project is currently
running within the framework of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB
980) “Episteme in Motion", based at the Freie Universität in Berlin.
(http://www.sfb-episteme.de/en/teilprojekte/sagen/A03/index.html)
The overall topic of the panel is concerned with medical discourse(s) in
different traditions. We aim at investigating the forms in which medical
knowledge was developed, canonized, transformed and exchanged within
different cultural milieux throughout the Late Antique and Early Medieval
Mediterranean world. Specific attention will be devoted to the following
topics:
1) Reception and canonization of Greek Classical Medicine in the Byzantine
medical encyclopedias (Oribasius, Aetius of Amida, Paul of Aegina), with a
certain interest also in the material circulation of manuscripts and
texts.
2) Jewish medical practice and theory as embedded both in the Talmudic
tradition and in more recent technical treatises.
3) Medical discourses in the surrounding areas, with specific attention to
the reception and transformation of Greek medicine in the Syriac tradition
and in the Islamicate world.
The diachronic structure of the panel will help to contextualize the broad
array of processes of transmission, transfer, rejection, modification and
invention of medical knowledge. From a macro-perspective the combination
of papers aims at observing not only how medicine developed and changed
through various strategies (borrowing/ camouflage etc.), but also how the
interactions of medical ideas within different contexts are related to the
history of science(s) and knowledge in general.
The format of the panel will combine pre-organised sessions with solicited
papers by invited speakers and at least one open session to which
interested scholars can apply with a paper proposal.
Further information:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/cham/cham2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3336
Application/ Paper via online-form here:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/cham/cham2015/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=3336