Conferences & Call for Papers 2012/13

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Call for papers  and Conferences 

Conference:

Paradigm and Method in Ancient Historiography, Science, and Theology, A CAMNE Workshop at Durham University, 3–4 May 2013

This workshop seeks to develop a scholarly dialogue concerning the epistemological assumptions, writing strategies, and methodological applications employed by ancient authors of historical writings, scientific and technical compositions, and theological works. Papers will be delivered by a group of scholars whose academic interests pursue the interrelationships between various disciplines of knowledge in ancient cultures.  All events will take place at the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University, 38 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3EU. This workshop is open to the public, and there is no cost to participate. Any enquiries can be directed to the organizer, Phillip Horky ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). Postdoctoral students are particularly encouraged to attend the workshop.

The SAW project (Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World) organises a conference 

'Shaping the sciences of the ancient world: Text criticism, critical  editions and translations of ancient and medieval scholarly texts (18th-20th  centuries)' 
which will take place 17-21 June 2013 in Paris.
We now  invite proposals for papers on the conference topics.  Information and the call  for papers are available at http://sawerc.hypotheses.org/236
The deadline  for proposals is 30 November 2012. Authors will be notified of paper acceptance  or rejection by 30 December 2012.
Email:  
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Telephone: +33  (0)1 57 27 89 39
Mathematical Sciences in the Ancient World
European Research Council Advanced Grant 2010 
Website sawerc.hypotheses.org

XIVe colloque international hippocratique.
Hippocrate et les hippocratismes : médecine, religion, société.
Paris 8-9-10 novembre 2012

Quarante ans après le premier colloque hippocratique fondé à Strasbourg en 1972 par Louis Bourgey et Jacques Jouanna, le XIVe colloque international hippocratique est organisé à Paris. Ce colloque a pour but, tout en maintenant l'objectif premier qui était d'enrichir notre connaissance et notre appréciation de la Collection hippocratique, d'élargir la recherche aux différents hippocratismes qui se sont succédé dans la tradition médicale et philologique. Étant donné l'ampleur de la perspective, en lien avec le laboratoire d'excellence "Religions et sociétés dans le monde méditerranéen", il s'agit d'abord d'explorer, dans la Collection
hippocratique, les différents types de rationalité et les différentes relations au contexte religieux (médecine des sanctuaires, pratiques magiques) et philosophique des Ve et IVe siècles. Dans la même perspective, l'étude a également été étendue à la transmission et l'interprétation de l'hippocratisme dans la pensée polythéiste ainsi que dans les trois grandes religions monothéistes (juive, chrétienne, islamique).
http://www.paris-sorbonne.fr/les-actualites/colloques-et-conferences/?d=2012-11

ANCIENT COSMOLOGIES
2-4 November 2012
S11, School of Classics, University of St Andrews

More information is available at
www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/events/conferences/cosmologies/
If you intend to come to the conference please send an email to
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it with your name and academic affiliation.

Medicine of the Mind – Philosophy of the Body. Discourses of Health and Well Being in the Ancient World”,

Vom 29. Juni bis zum 01. Juli 2012 findet in Berlin die Konferenz „Medicine of the Mind - Philosophy of the body'. Discourses of Health and Well Being in the Ancient World” statt.

Hier werden WissenschaftlerInnen aus den Altertumwissenschaften, Medizingeschichte, Historie und
Anthropologie der Medizin sowie praktizierende MedizinerInnen über die Rolle des Patienten in der antiken
Medizin diskutieren. Dabei soll anstelle des autoritären Diskurses antiker Ärzte über ihren Beruf, ihre Kenntnisse, Theorien und Praktiken eine Rekonstruktion der Rolle, Position und Erfahrung des Patienten versucht werden.
Deadline für die Registrierung: 31. Mai 2012
Die Veranstalter bieten einige Reisestipendien für StudentInnen an.
Weitere Informationen:
http://www.classicsmedicine.org/Aktuelles/homo-patiens/

Conference
HOMO PATIENS: Approaches to the patient in the ancient world
29.06.2012-01.07.2012, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Humboldt-
Universität zu Berlin
This meeting brings together a variety of scholars in the field of
classical studies, medicine and history of medicine to discuss the figure
of the 'patient' in ancient medicine. In particular, the conference aims
at shifting the focus from the ancient doctors' authoritative discourses
about their profession, knowledge, theories and practices to reconstruct,
to whatever extent this is possible, the role, position and experience of
the patient.
Keynote speakers: Prof. Manfred Horstmanshoff (Internationales Kolleg
Morphomata, University of Cologne, DE), Prof. Helen King (Open
University, UK), Prof. Susan Mattern (University of Georgia, USA), and
Prof. John M. Wilkins (University of Exeter, UK).

Further information and registration form can be found on the conference
website, http://www.classicsmedicine.org/Aktuelles/homo-patiens/

The conference is free; please register by emailing your registration form
to Stefanie Jahnke ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) no later than
May 31, 2012.
Some travel bursaries might be available for students. Please contact the
organisers.
Chiara Thumiger ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
Georgia Petridou( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
Alexander von Humboldt Professorship of Classics and History of Science
‘Medicine of the Mind - Philosophy of the body’. Discourses of Health and
Well Being in the Ancient World.
http://www.classicsmedicine.org/Aktuelles

Medical Humours and Classical Culture: Blood

At the 2013 meeting of the American Philological Association, to be held January 3-6 in Seattle, Washington, the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacy (SAM) will sponsor a panel featuring recent research on medical humours in classical culture, with a focus on blood. Blood has a special relationship with life in the understandings and practices of the classical world: a vital substance, rich in meaning. Ancient medicine, however, counted blood with the rest of the bodily constituents, all equally important to human function—one of four humours in the Galenic system (not even that in some Hippocratic physiologies) or one fluid combination of corpuscles and void among many. Still, the therapeutic pre-eminence of venesection, for instance, and blood's particular involvement in reproduction strain this egalitarianism.
We invite proposed papers which explore any aspect of blood’s role in classical medicine within the broader context of classical culture. Please e-mail a summary of your proposed paper (of 20 mins) to Dr Rebecca Flemming ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). It should be 500-600 words, and arrive by February 1, 2012.

Call for Papers

APPROACHES TO ANCIENT MEDICINE 20-21 August 2012
Continuing the annual series held at Newcastle, Reading, Cardiff and Exeter since 2000, the 2012 "Approaches to Ancient Medicine" conference will be held at the University of Cardiff on Monday and Tuesday 20-21 August 2012, hosted by the School of History, Archaeology and Religion.
If you are interested in giving a paper at the conference, please send an abstract of up to 200 words to Dr. Laurence Totelin ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) by 20 February 2012 at the latest. Papers should be of 20 minutes duration. In addition to papers relating to the classical Greek and Roman period we welcome proposals relating to medicine in late antiquity, to the transmission of classical medicine including via the Syriac/Arabic traditions and to its reception at all periods up to the early modern.
It is hoped that the programme will be finalised in late March 2012.