University of Texas at Austin, 11, 12 and 13 August, 2008

XIIIth Colloquium Hippocraticum

What's Hippocratic about the Hippocratics?


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PROGRAM

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The Monday and Wednesday sessions will be held in the Quadrangle Room of the Texas Union, the Tuesday sessions in the Sig Auditorium of the Dell Children’s Center.


Monday August 11th: The Formation of the Corpus

7:30-8:20: Shuttles to Texas Union from hotel

7:30-8:20: Registration and breakfast buffet in Lone Star Room

8:30-8:45: Opening remarks by Dr. Randy Diehl, Dean of Liberal Arts

8:45-10:45: First paper session: Early Days

Moderator: Cynthia Shelmerdine

Philip van der Eijk, “The first and the second Hippocrates,” University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Paul Demont, “Géographie, histoire et organization de la medicine selon Platon,” Université de Paris, Sorbonne.

Susan Prince, “The Peripatetic Hippocrates and other Monists in the Anonymus Londinensis,” University of Cincinnati.

Eric D. Nelson, “History of an Appendix: What’s Hippocratic about the Pseudepigraphics?” Pacific Lutheran University.

10:45-11:00: Tea/Coffee

11:00-12:30: Second paper session: Hippocrates’ Rising Star?

Moderator: Julie Laskaris

Ann Hanson, “Hippocratic writers and ancient readers: authorship and individuation,” Yale University.

Amneris Roselli—“flppokrate€vw ëma te ka‹ élhy«w: Ippocrate testimone di verità, da Apollonio di Cizio a Galeno,” Università di Napoli ‘L’Orientale’.

Rebecca Flemming, “From Corpus to Canon(s): Debating the Hippocratic in the Roman Empire,” Jesus College Cambridge.

12:30-2:00: Lunch@Blanton Art Museum

2:00-3:30: Third paper session: Galen’s view of Hippocrates

Moderator: Rebecca Flemming

Véronique Boudon-Millot, “What does Galen mean by Hippocratics and Hippocrateans?” Université de Paris, Sorbonne

Todd Curtis, “Galen’s approach to what is Hippocratic in De natura hominis: A rhetorical analysis of In Hippocratis de natura hominis commentaria,” University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

R.J. Hankinson, “Galen on Hippocratic physics,” University of Texas at Austin.

3:30-4:00: Tea/Coffee

4:00-5:00: Keynote address: Jacques Jouanna, Université de Paris, Sorbonne

Introduced by R.J. Hankinson

"Le régime dans la Collection hippocratique:
la notion de diaita, et les grands problèmes."

5:00-6:00: Shuttles to hotel & reception

6:00-8:00: Opening reception in Texas Medical Association Gallery

Exhibit: “The History of Medical Illustration”


Tuesday August 12th: Drugs and Desire within and beyond the Corpus

8:15 a.m.: Bus leaves hotel

8:30-9:00: Breakfast buffet at Dell Children’s Center

9:00-10:30: Fourth paper session: Pharmaceutical practice among the Hippocratics and others

Moderator: Philip van der Eijk

John Scarborough, “Some organizational principles and pharmaceutical therapies in the Hippocratic Diseases of Women I,” University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Alain Touwaide, “What’s Hippocratic about the Hippocratics? The contribution of materia medica and therapeutics,” Smithsonian Institution.

Laurence Totelin, “Hippocratic and Aristophanic recipes: same difference,” University of Cambridge, Dept. of History and Philosophy of Science.

10:30-10:45: Tea/Coffee

10:45-12:15: Fifth paper session: Desire as Disease

Moderator: Bronwen Wickkiser

Brooke Holmes, “What is medical about medicine? The problem of pleasure,” Princeton University.

Jennifer Kosack, “Fighting and mastering disease: metaphors and masculinity,” Bowdoin College.

Leanne McNamara, “‘Love is like the Measles.’ Hippocratic and non-Hippocratic approaches to lovesickness,” University of Melbourne.

12:15-1:15: Lunch@Sig Auditorium

1:15-2:15: Keynote address: Heinrich von Staden, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Introduced by Ralph Rosen

“The Oath and the oaths:
Is the Hippocratic Oath Hippocratic?”

2:30: Bus leaves Dell campus

2:45-4:45: Free time for Blanton/HRC/Texas History Museum, Capitol, etc.

4:45-6:30: Tour of Austin & Lake Austin with “Austin Duck Adventures”

6:30-8:00: Banquet @ Shoreline Grill

8:30-9:00: Bat-watching & drinks on patio

9:00: Bus returns to hotel


Wednesday August 13th: Patterns and Distinctions in the medical thought of Classical Greece

7:45-8:30: Shuttles to Texas Union from hotel

8:30-9:00: Breakfast buffet in Lone Star Room

9:00--10:30: Sixth paper session: Dreams and Eros in Hippocratic and Asklepeian Healing

Moderator: Elizabeth Craik

Maithe Hulskamp, “Medical dreams in the Hippocratic Corpus,” University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Bronwen Wickkiser, “Erotic experience in the cures of Asclepius and the Hippocratics,” Vanderbilt University.

Marquis Berrey, “Male erotic desire in the Hippocratics,” University of Texas at Austin.

10:30-10:45: Tea/Coffee

10:45-12:15: Seventh paper session: Hippocratic Bodies, whole and parts

Moderator: Joel Mann

Patrick Macfarlane, “Teeth in the Hippocratic Corpus,” Providence College.

Roberto Lopresti, “Perceiving the coherence of the perceiving body,” University of Palermo.

Robert Alessi, “Bodily features in the Corpus Hippocraticum: remarks about the method of classification of individuals into groups,” Université de Poitiers.

12:15-2:00: Lunch @ AT&T Executive Center

2:15-3:45: Eighth paper session: Connections of Language and Ideas within the Corpus

Moderator: Tom Palaima

Elizabeth Craik, “The affiliations of Glands to other Hippocratic treatises,” University of St. Andrews.

Pilar Pérez Cañizares, “The treatise Affections in the context of the Hippocratic Collection,” University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

Juan Antonio López Férez, “Autómatos y su familia léxica en el Corpus hippocraticum,” UNED Madrid.

3:45-4:00: Tea/Coffee

4:00-5:30: Ninth paper session:Hippocrates and the Sophists

Moderator: Michael Gagarin

Makoto Anzai, “The Authorship of the Hippocratic De arte,” Hokkaido University.

Joel Mann, “On the (distinctively Hippocratic?) Art,” St. Norbert’s College.

Ralph Rosen, “Towards a Hippocratic anthropology? On Ancient Medicine and the origin of humans,” University of Pennsylvania.

5:30-5:45: Wrap-up

5:45-6:15: Shuttles to hotel


 

Now available: Paper Abstracts.

General notes for speakers


 

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