Colloque : “Traditions of Materia Medica (300 BCE – 1300 CE)”

Date : 16 au 18 Juin 2021

Lieu : Humboldt-Universität (Berlin, Allemagne)

Le colloque est hébergé par le Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 980 Episteme in Bewegung et l’Institut für Klassische Philologie de l’Humboldt-Universität de Berlin. Il est organisé par Sean Coughlin, Christine Salazar, Elizaveta Shcherbakova, et Philip van der Eijk.

L’événement est gratuit et ouvert à toute personne intéressée, mais il est nécessaire de s’enregistrer, les places étant limitées. Pour l’enregistrement, merci de visiter le site du colloque, https://www.sfb-episteme.de/en/veranstaltungen/Vorschau/2021/A03_traditions-of-materia-medica.html, ou envoyer un email à info@sfb-episteme.de avec votre nom, université ou laboratoire de rattachement et vos centres d’intérêt, avant le 11 juin 2021.

Présentation :
The theme of the conference is the transmission of pharmacology (in its many forms) before and after the writings of Galen of Pergamum. What approaches to drugs and medicines existed before Galen? How should we characterize them? And how was earlier pharmaceutical knowledge transferred, filtered, refined and challenged following the dissemination of Galen’s pharmacology?
The conference brings together scholars working on ancient Greek, Demotic, Coptic, Latin and Arabic pharmacology and medicine to discuss these questions. We will have talks on central but understudied authors and traditions, and we will discuss some ground-breaking methods of studying these traditions currently being developed in the history and philosophy of science, philology, botany, chemistry, archaeology, lexicography and digital humanities.

Programme :

16 Juin 2021
13:00 Introduction
13:10 David Leith, Exeter: Pharmacology in the Asclepiadean Sect
13:35 Irene Calà, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München: The Libri medicinales of Aetius Amidenus as Source for the Followers of Herophilus: Additional Fragments of Andreas of Carystus
14:00 Break
14:10 Caterina Manco, Paul Valéry – Montpellier: Galien lecteur du De materia medica de Dioscoride
14:35 Costanza de Martino, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Philumenus’ Sources in De venenatis animalibus eorumque remediis
15:00 Break
15:10 Amber Jacob, New York University: A Demotic Pharmacological Compendium from the Tebtunis Temple Library
15:35 Anne Grons, Philipps-Universität Marburg: Materia Medica in Coptic Medical Prescriptions
16:00 Break
16:10 Manuela Marai, Warwick: Wound and Skin Infection Treatment in Galen: Potential Antimicrobial Substances for Drug Development
16:35 Effie Photos-Jones, Glasgow: What Do You Do With a Problem Like … Lithargyros

17 June 2021
13:00 Greeting
13:10 Laurence Totelin, Cardiff: Traditions of Ancient Euporista
13:35 Caroline Petit, Warwick: Towards a new edition of Galen’s treatise On Simple Drugs
14:00 Break
14:10 John Wilkins, Exeter: Materia Medica: A Study of Galen’s Inheritance of Materia Medica and His Theorising of It
14:35 P. N. Singer, Einstein Centre Chronoi Berlin: A Change in the Substance: Theory and its Limits in Galen’s Simples
15:00 Break
15:10 Krzysztof Jagusiak and Konrad Tadajczyk, Łódź: Sitz Baths (ἐγκαθίσματα) in the Galenic Corpus
15:35 Simone Mucci, Warwick: ἀρχιατροί, Antidotes and Hellenistic and Roman Rulers
16:00 Break
16:10 Maximillian Haars, Philipps-Universität Marburg: Annotated Catalogue and Index of Medicinal Plants and Herbal Drugs in the Galenic Corpus
16:35 Barbara Zipser, Royal Holloway University London, and Andreas Lardos, Zurich: New Approaches to Ancient Botanical Lexicography

18 June 2021
13:00 Greeting
13:10 Alessia Guardasole, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris: The Diacodyon (διὰ κωδυῶν) Remedy Throughout the Centuries
13:35 Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Edinburgh: Pharmacological Substances from Asia in Late Antique and Byzantine Medical Works
14:00 Break
14:10 Matteo Martelli, Bologna: Minerals for Medicine and Alchemy: Dyes and Dry Pharmaka
14:35 Maciej Kokoszko, Łódź: A Few Words on a Certain Sweet Sauce, or On Dietetics and Materia Medica Included in De observatione ciborum by Anthimus
15:00 Break
15:10 Zofia Rzeźnicka, Łódź: Peeling / Scrubs in the Libri Medicinales of Aetius of Amida
15:35 Sean Coughlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Alchemies of Scent: Experimental Approaches to Medicinal Perfumes
16:00 Break
16:10 Lucia Raggetti, Bologna: Aristotle and a Gem Shop on Peacock Alley
16:35 Closing Remarks

Les résumés de toutes les communications sont consultables : https://www.sfb-episteme.de/en/veranstaltungen/Tagungen/traditions-of-materia-medica/Abstracts-and-Programme.html