PROGRAMME
"Female Bodies and Female Practitioners in the Medical Traditions of the Late Antique Mediterranean World"

Monday evening, 27/10/2014 (Freie Universität Berlin, SFB-Villa,
Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin)

Conference opening: 18.00 ct.;
Keynote Lecture (in colaboration with BabMed project)
Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford)
Talmudic Gynecology and its Relationship to Late Antique Medical Literature: Transfigurations of ‚Women’s Affairs‘(Gynaikeia)

Tuesday, 28/10/2014
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6,
Institut für klassische Philologie, Room 2103)

session 1: 9.30–11.00
Tanja Pommerening (Mainz)
Ancient Egyptian Concepts of Female Anatomy, Physiology, and Specified Pharmacotherapy.
Ulrike Steinert (FU Berlin)
Women’s Healthcare in Ancient Mesopotamian Medicine: Texts, Problems, Interpretations.

Coffee Break

session 2: 11.30–13.00
Giulia Ecca (BBAW Berlin)
Women’s (and Men’s) Infertility in Galen’s Commentary on Aphorisms, Book 5.
Siam Bhayro (Exeter)
Gynaecology in Syriac Sources: Theory and Practice.
Lunch Break

session 3: 14.30–16.00
Caroline Musgrove (Cambridge)
Finding the Authorial Voice in Late Antique Medicine: Maternal Bodies and the Generation of Seeds in the Encyclopaedic Traditions.
Tirzah Meacham (Toronto)
Reality or Theoretical Discussion: Pre-Menarchal Pregnancy, Superfetation, and Pregnancy during Lactation in Rabbinic Literature.

Coffee Break

session 4: 16.30–18.00
Monika Amsler (Zürich)
„My Mother Told Me ...“. An Evaluation of the Treatments of the Sickly Newborn in bShab 134a.
Hannah Tzuberi (FU Berlin)
The Difficult Birth in Mishnaic Law: Regulation, Failure and Empathy.

Wednesday, 29/10/2014
(Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6,
Institut für klassische Philologie, Room 2103)

session 1: 10.00–11.30
Tal Ilan (FU Berlin)
Salome’s Medicinal Recipes and Jewish Women Doctors in Antiquity.
Carmen Caballero-Navas (Granada)
On the Medieval Beginnings of Jewish Gynaecology.

Coffee Break

session 2: 12.00–13.00
Sean Coughlin (TOPOI Berlin), Marzia Soardi (Palermo)
The Female in Aristotle’s Biology and its Byzantine Reception.

Lunch Break

session 3: 15.00–16.30
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (London)
Byzantine Criticism of Galenic Theories on Conception: the Case of Symeon Seth’s Refutation of Galen.
Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge)
John of Alexandria and the ‘sex which is not one’: commentary and gynaecology in late antique medical schools.

Final discussion/Concluding remarks: 16.30–17.00

We would be happy to welcome you at our conference in Berlin. Admission is free, but registration is required. Contact:
f.herklotz@hu-berlin.de