ConferencesConferences & Call for Papers 2009/2010
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Call for papers and Conferences
Conference - 'The Texts of the Medical Profession in Antiquity: Genres and
Purposes', University of Oslo, 16th-18th September 2010
Speakers: Philip van der Eijk, Rebecca Flemming, Ann Ellis Hanson, Vivian
Nutton, Heinrich von Staden, Laurence Totelin, Isabella Andorlini, Elizabeth
Craik, Anastasia Maravela, Brooke Holmes, Caroline Petit, Pilar Pérez
Canizares, Maria Rosaria Falivene, Chloe Balla, Florence Bourbon, M. Erica
Couto-Ferreira, Louise Cilliers, Barbara Böck, Magali de Haro Sanchez, Nóra
Zergi, Dimitrios Mantzilas, Ido Israelowich, David Leith, Alexander
Arweiler, Aileen Das.
For full programme and practical details, see the conference website at:
http://www.hf.uio.no/ifikk/forskning/aktuelt/arrangementer/konferanser-seminarer/greekmedicine.html
Organisers: Anastasia Maravela, Isabella Andorlini, David Leith
The exhibition « Quoi de neuf, docteur ? Médecine et santé à l’époque romaine » will be running at the Musée romain de Nyon, rue Maupertuis 9 from 29 May 2010 until 31 October 2010. For further details, see
http://www.nyon.ch/fr/agenda/quoi-de-neuf-docteur-medecine-et-sante-a-lepoque-romaine-732-13679
Professor Helen King, Department of Classics, University of Reading
APPROACHES TO ANCIENT MEDICINE Cardiff University, 23-24 August 2010, Second Call for Papers "Approaches to Ancient Medicine" If you are interested in giving a paper at the Cardiff conference, please send an abstract of up to 200 words to me at the address below by 1 March 2010 at the latest. There is no theme, and any proposal within the broad definition of Ancient Medicine (including Egyptian and Near Eastern medicine) and its reception will be considered. It is hoped that the programme will be finalised in late March 2010.
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Workshop: The texts of the medical profession in antiquity - genres and purposes to be held at the University of Oslo, 16th-18th September 2010
Organisers: Isabella Andorlini (University of Parma); David Leith (University College London) and Anastasia Maravela-Solbakk (University of Oslo)
Confirmed speakers: Heinrich Von Staden (Princeton), Vivian Nutton (UCL), Philip van der Eijk (Newcastle), Laurence Totelin (Cardiff), Rebecca
Flemming (Cambridge), Ann Ellis Hanson (Yale).
We are inviting the submission of abstracts for papers (duration: 20-30 min.) to be presented at the workshop "The texts of the medical
profession in antiquity: genres and purposes" (16-18 September 2010 in Oslo). David Leith
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Byzantine Medical Manuals in Context, 19 September 2009, London.
Full programme: http://personal.rhul.ac.uk/urra/350/conference2.pdf
Scientists and Professionals in the Ancient World Conference, 7-9 September
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
The programme and registration information will soon be available on the conference website:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/science-and-empire/scipro.shtml.
Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt and Greece: Zur Übersetzbarkeit von Wissenschaftssprachen des Altertums, 27.-29. Juli 2009, Universität Mainz
Conference-programme: http://www.aegyptologie-altorientalistik.uni-mainz.de/430.php
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Scientists and Professionals in the Ancient World Conference, 7-9 September 2009
School of Classics, University of St Andrews
Call for papers (expires end of March 2009): http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/science-and-empire/
Contact: Katerina Oikonomopoulou
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Approaches to Ancient Medicine, 24-25 August 2009
Newcastle University
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Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, and Science, 6-7 July 2009
An international conference at the University of Mancester
Programme: http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/subjectareas/classicsancienthistory/eventsnews/lucretius
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Writing Science: Mathematical and Medical Authorship in Ancient Greece, April 23rd-24th 2009
NYU Center for Ancient Studies, Ranieri Colloquium
More information: http://ancientstudies.fas.nyu.edu/page/events#WS
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Ancient History Seminar, Spring 2009: Strabo
University of London School of Advanced Studies
Thursdays throughout the spring term at 4.30 pm, Senate House Room 337
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ICS Series 2008/09: Galen and Philosophy
Senate House, Lodnon (in Russell Square), North Block room NB 336
Mondays at 4.30 pm, Oct. 6th 2008 - March 16th 2009
International Conference on Language - Text - Literature:
Archetypes, Concepts and Contexts of Ancient Scholarship and Grammar
Thessaloniki, Greece Dec. 5-7, 2008
further information: http://www.lit.auth.gr/announcements.php?id=37
International Federation of the Societies of Classical Studies
Kongress Berlin, 24. - 29. August 2009
im Hauptgebäude der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
http://www.fiec2009.org/
Collecting Legal Texts in Late Antiquity
Convenor: Prof. Boudewijn Sirks
All Souls College, Oxford – Wednesday 14 May, 11am-1pm
http://www.ocla.ox.ac.uk/home_eve.shtml
Medicine in the Ancient World
Cyprus, The Archaeological Research Unit of the University of Cyprus
27-29 September 2008
http://hist-congress.med.uoc.gr
Workshop on Scientific Writing in the Roman Empire
University of St Andrews, School of Classics
10 May 2008
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/science-and-empire/galen.shtml
Ancient Libraries Conference. School of Classics, University of St Andrews
9-11 September 2008
for information and call for papers (deadline, 30 April 2008) see:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/science-and-empire/
Newcastle University, 21-22 August 2008
Call for Papers: Following on from the earlier conferences at Newcastle (2000, 2005, 2007) and Reading (2001, 2003 and 2006), the next "Approaches to Ancient Medicine" conference will be held at Reading University on 21-22 August 2007. If you are interested in giving a paper, please send an abstract of up to 200 words to Helen King at the address below by 15 February 2008 at the latest: Professor Helen King
Head of Department of Classics, University of Reading, PO Box 218, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AA