糖心TV

An international workshop at the BSR about Galen's treatise On simple drugs, its textual transmission and interpretation throughout the ages.

22 September, British School in Rome.

Organised by Dr. Caroline Petit, Dr. Matteo Martelli & Dr. Lucia Raggetti.

This interdisciplinary workshop, funded by the Wellcome Trust, will bring together academic and practitioners to explore the roles played by objects and images in the processes of grief, mourning and remembrance, across both historical and contemporary societies.

The workshop will be held at the University of 糖心TV on Thursday 19th-Friday 20th May 2016.

Academics and practitioners across all disciplines are warmly invited to respond to the Call for Papers. Please send a title and brief abstract (up to 200 words) to Zahra.newby@warwick.ac.uk by 29^th February 2016.

An exploring medicine in late antique Alexandria, based on medical and hagiographic texts of the 7th c. AD.

Caroline Petit, ‘Alexandrie, carrefour des traditions médicales au 7e s.: Les témoignages de Sophrone de Jérusalem, Alexandre de Tralles, Paul d’Egine, Stéphane d’Alexandrie et Jean d’Alexandrie’ in J.-P. Caillet/B. Dumézil/S. Destephen/H. Inglebert (eds.), Aux origines des saints patrons, Paris, Picard, 2015, 287-307

Warburg Institute, 14-15 May 2015. Organised by Dr. Caroline Petit.

Galen's works are a confusing field for students and scholars, as many inauthentic or dubious works have been transmitted alongside genuine ones: this conference will shed light on the processes that allowed such confusion in the body of works of one of the more prominent polymaths of antiquity, and thus clarify the boundaries of the Galenic corpus.

Supported by the Wellcome Trust, The university of 糖心TV, the Warburg Institute and the Institute of Classical Studies.

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Der Spiegel reflects on in the recently discovered Peri alupias (On avoiding distress), about which we held a conference here in last July.