JUNE 26, morning session
8:45-9:00 Gianna Pomata and Yvonne Wübben: Welcome and introductory remarks
I. Transmitting, adapting, and recording practice: the recipe
Chair: Gianna Pomata (Johns Hopkins University)
Commentator: Elaine Leong (MPIWG, Berlin)
Speakers:
9:00-9:45 Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University): Castoreum or the testicle of the Istrian beaver: ingredient presentation strategies in ancient recipes
9:45-10:30 Efraim Lev (University of Haifa): Recipes between prescriptions and formulas - theory vs. practice in medieval Arabic medicine according to the Cairo Genizah
10:30-11:15 Stefan Reichmuth (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum): Probata, tables and diagrams: standardised recipes in Arabo-Islamic medicine and magic
11:15-11:30 COFFEE
11:30-12:15 Ahmed Ragab (Harvard University): Tajarib, formularies and the making of medical thinking in Medieval Islam
12:15-1:00 Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University): Genre-blending in Chinese medicine: when formulas (fang) and Secrets of the Pulses (Maijue) came together (14th to 16th centuries)
1:00-2:30 LUNCH
Afternoon session
II. Between practice and theory: the case
Chair: Andreas Mayer (Centre Koyré, CNRS-EHESS, Paris)
Commentator: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Speakers:
2:30-3:15 John Forrester (Cambridge University): Revisiting “Thinking in cases”: the case of ‘Agnes’
3:15-4:00 Asaf Goldschmidt (University of Tel Aviv): Reasoning with cases: the transmission of clinical medical knowledge in twelfth-century Song China
4:00-4:15 COFFEE
4:15-5:00 Gianna Pomata (Johns Hopkins University): A science of individuals: focusing on the patient’s “particular nature” in pre-modern European medical case collections
5:00-5:45 Maria Böhmer (University of Zurich): Transgressing disciplines and genres: a medical case on the move in 19th-century Europe
5:45-6:15 General discussion on the morning and afternoon sessions
7:30 DINNER
JUNE 27, morning session
III. Transmitting and transforming theory: the commentary
Chair: Yvonne Wübben (Freie Universität, Berlin, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum)
Commentator: Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, University of Chicago)
Speakers:
9:00-9:40 Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge University): Ancient medical commentaries: identity, pedagogy, and knowledge
9:45-10:30 Thomas Rütten (Newcastle University): Hippocrates commentaries: a neglected epistemic genre of the late Renaissance
10:30-10:45 COFFE
10:45-11:30 John B. Henderson (Louisiana State University): Chinese medical commentaries
11:30-12:15 Angela Ki Che LEUNG (University of Hong Kong): Unraveling a modern disease framed in the classics: the strategy of Zeng Chaoran’s ‘Jiaoqi chuyan’ (‘Preliminary words on the Leg-qi ailment’, 1887, Canton)
12:15-2:00 LUNCH
JUNE 27, afternoon session
IV. Transmitting and codifying knowledge: the textbook
Chair: Carlo Ginzburg (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Commentator: John Carson (University of Michigan)
Speakers:
2:00-2:45 Rafael Mandressi (Centre Koyré, CNRS—EHESS, Paris): From commentary to textbook: textual practices and epistemic projects in early 16th-century anatomy
2:45-3:30 Lorraine Daston (MPIWG, Berlin): Cloud atlases and the physiognomy of the sky
3:30-3:45 COFFEE
3:45-4:30 Yvonne Wübben (Freie Universität, Berlin, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum): Textbook, treatise, manual: a history of psychiatric genres
4:30-5:15 Andreas Mayer (Centre Koyré, CNRS-EHESS, Paris): Textbook psychoanalysis – an impossible genre?
5:15-5:45 General discussion on the morning and afternoon sessions
5:45-6:15 Liba Taub (Cambridge University): Concluding remarks
Please register until 24 June 2015 per email: ute.hoffmann@rub.de (Ute Hoffmann)