BabMed’s 2017 workshop is on the subject of medical commentaries, hosted at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) Berlin. The BabMed workshop is a follow-up of an event held in August 2016 at the MPIWG Berlin on the subject of mathematical and medical commentaries.

MedComm 2017 concentrates on medical commentaries and more general observations on ancient medicine in the Ancient Near East, as well as Greece and China, from perspectives of history of science.

Speakers include: Heinrich v. Staden (Princeton), Paul U. Unschuld (Charité Berlin), Nils P. Heeßel (Marburg), Glenn W. Most (Pisa), Vivian Nutton (UCL London), Enrique Jiménez Sánchez (Madrid), Klaus Wagensonner (Yale), Henry Stadhouders (Utrecht) and Giulia Ecca (BBAW Berlin).

 

Please notice, that the Key Note Lecture by Glenn W. Most  on 26th September 2017 at 18:00 is held at another venue: BBAW Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin-Mitte.

Program

26.9.2017
13:00 - 13:30
Registration
13:30 - 14:00
Greeting Adress
Lorraine Daston
Markham J. Geller
14:00 - 20:00
SESSION I
14:00 - 14:45
Interpretations of Hippocratic texts in the first century BCE: "Empiricist" exegesis and its adversaries?
Heinrich von Staden
14:45 - 15:30
Li Shizhen’s (1518-1593) role as a commentator in his encyclopedia Bencao gangmu
Paul Unschuld
15:30 - 16:00
Tea and Snacks
16:00 - 16:45
Short neo-Babylonian prescriptions with advertising comments: Remnants of folk medicine?
Nils P. Heeßel
17:00 - 18:00
Transfer to BBAW/Mitte, Gendarmenmarkt
18:00 - 19:30
Text and paratext on roll and codex
Glenn W. Most
20:00 - 22:00
Conference Dinner
27.9.2017
09:45 - 10:00
Morning coffee for early arrivals
10:00 - 13:00
SESSION II
10:00 - 10:45
Abstruse perfection: Connecting sign and prognosis in Babylonian medical commentaries
Enrique Jiménez Sánchez
10:45 - 13:00
Reading Session
Enrique Jiménez Sánchez
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
SESSION III
14:00 - 14:45
Unchain divine wrath – new lists of stones and their use in ritual
Klaus Wagensonner
14:45 - 15:30
"Take a sip and live forever": Musings on Pliny's bios brand of wine
Henry Stadhouders
15:30 - 16:00
Short Break
16:00 - 17:30
SESSION IV
16:00 - 16:45
Medical commentary from the Renaissance to Galen
Vivian Nutton
16:45 - 17:30
Commenting on and commenting through the first Hippocratic aphorism: practices and patterns
Giulia Ecca
17:30 - 18:00
High Tea, informal gathering at MPIWG courtyard