LONDON CONFERENCE, 7-8 SEPTEMBER 2022 (PROGRAMME)
THE HEALING
CLASSICS
MEDICAL
HUMANITIES AND THE GRAECO-ROMAN TRADITION
Hybrid Conference, 7-8 September 2022
King’s College London, Strand Campus, Room K4U.12
*Programme
- London time applies*
Wednesday 7 September
9.00-9.20: Registration
9.20-9.30: Welcome and Introduction
9.30-11.00: Session 1: ‘Health in/and Community’
- 9.30-10.00: Mary Margaret McCabe (KCL), “Health’s Trousers” ONLINE
- 10.00-10.30: Edith Hall (Durham), “Sorrow but Survival: The Therapeutic Moral
Example of the Chorus of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon”
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10.30-11.00: Chiara Blanco (Edinburgh), “Disease, Community and Communication
from Antiquity to Today” ONLINE
11.00-11.15: Coffee
11.15-12.45: Session 2: ‘Imperial Constructions of Health 1’
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11.15-11.45: Michiel Meeusen, “An Anatomy of Medical Deceit: Galen on Catching
Malingerers”
- 11.45-12.15: Kassandra Miller (Colby
College), “Who
Has Time to Exercise? Health, Leisure, and Identity in Galen’s On Hygiene”
- 12.15-12.45: Colin Webster (UC Davis), “On Living
Longer and Dying More: Empirical and Imperial Epistemologies in Antiquity and
the Present”
12.45-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.30: Session 3: ‘Imperial Constructions of Health 2’
- 14.00-14.30: Georgia Petridou (Liverpool), “Apollo’s Arrow, Aelius Aristides, and the
Antonine Plague”
- 14.30-15.00: Nephele
Papakonstantinou (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg), “Embodied emotions
and the self in Roman Rhetorical Education under the High Empire”
- 15.00-15.30:
Daniel King (Exeter), “Reading the Ill Body: Diagnosis as an explanatory
process in Imperial medicine and culture”
15.30-16.00: Tea
16.00-18.00: Session 4: ‘Creative Classics’ & ‘Classics and Disability’
- 16.00-16.30: Peter Meineck (NYU), “(Re) Performing Trauma – A Field Report”
- 16.30-17.00: Susan Deacy
(Roehampton), “‘Sounds like being autistic’: how the ‘classical tradition’,
especially myths of Hercules, resonates with autism”
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17.00-17.30: Ellen Adams (KCL), “Blindness: classical
antiquity and modernity”
- 17.30-18.00: Christian Laes (Manchester), “Insomnia in
Antiquity”
18.30:
Dinner
Thursday 8 September
8.45-9.00: Welcome
9.00-10.30: Session 5: ‘Grief and Dignity’
- 9.00.-9.30:
John Boulton (University of Sydney/Newcastle, NSW), “Dignitas infanti mortuo: the legacy of
baby loss in the Graeco-Roman Tradition” ONLINE
- 9.30-10.00:
Jane Bellemore (University of Newcastle, NSW), “Corellius’s choice: autonomy,
ethics, and dying with dignity” ONLINE
- 10.00-10.30: Vasiliki Kondylaki (Lausanne),
“Achilles’ ἄχος in the Iliad:
Homer as a grief therapist?”
- 10.30-10.45: Coffee
10.45-12.45: Session 6: ‘Disease and Healthcare Interactions’
- 10.45-11.15: Brian Hurwitz (KCL), “Modelling
Graeco-Roman Trickery as Medical Treatment”
- 11.15-11.45: Loren Demol (Macquarie
University), “Patient Care and ‘Human Qualities’ in Ancient Graeco-Roman Medicine”
- 11.45-12.15: Saloni de Souza (UCL), “When the Age is in, So is
the Wit: Old Age in Health and Social Care”
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12.15-12.45: Chiara Thumiger (Cluster of Excellence Roots, Kiel), “‘Cura eum
possideat’. Disease as Animal, Disease as Plant”
12.45-13.00: General discussion,
publication plans, conclusion
13:00-15:00: Lunch and reception
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