An international conference at the Warburg Institute, London, 14-15 May 2015 organised by Dr. Caroline Petit, University of Warwick
The conference is supported by the Wellcome Trust, the University of Warwick, the Institute of Classical Studies and the Warburg Institute.
Draft programme:
Thursday 14 May
10.00-10.20 : Registration and welcome, tea and coffee
10.20-10.30 Welcome address (Prof. Greg Woolf, Director of the Institute of Classical Studies).
10.30-10.45 Caroline Petit (Warwick): Pseudo-Galenic texts from antiquity to the Renaissance: different patterns (an introduction)
Antiquity (chair: Simon Swain)
10.45-11.15 Vivian Nutton (UCL): Crumbs from the rich man’s table? Three Roman pharmacological texts.
11.15-11.45 Laurence Totelin (Cardiff): Easy Remedies – Difficult texts: the pseudo-Galenic Euporista.
11.45-12.00 tea and coffee
12.00-12.30 Véronique Boudon-Millot (CNRS, Paris): Is the Theriac to Piso attributed to Galen authentic?
12.30-13.00 Nathalie Rousseau (Paris IV-Sorbonne): Remarques sur la langue de la Thériaque à Pison
Lunch
Oriental tradition (chair: Charles Burnett)
14.00-14.30 Siam Bhayro (Exeter): Galen and Pseudo-Galen in the Syriac tradition
14.30-15.00 Aileen Das (Manchester): Universalizing Medicine: the ps.-Galenic Commentary On Hippocrates ‘Sevens
15.00-15.30 Mauro Zonta (Roma): About the authenticity of Galen’s Perì alypìas in Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew, compared to the recently found Greek text
15.30-16.00 Tea & coffee
Middle Ages (West) (chair: Cloudy Fischer)
16.00-16.30 Arsenio Ferraces Rodríguez (Universidad da Coruña): An early medieval pseudo-Galen: the chapter De ponderibus medicinalibus
16.30-17.00 Charles Burnett (Warburg): The Ps. Galenic De spermate in the middle ages
17.00-17.30 Outi Merisalo (Jyväskylä): La fortune du De spermate dans les éditions imprimées de Galien du XVe au XVIIe s.
17.30-18.30 Reception (all participants)
Friday 15 May
Late antiquity and Byzantium (chair: Peregrine Horden)
10.15-10.45 Klaus-Dietrich Fischer (Mainz): Drugs to declare. A fresh look at some works with pharmaceutical content attributed to Galen
10.45-11.15 Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (KCL): Pseudo-Galenic Texts on Urines and Pulse in Late Byzantium: The Case of Wellcome MS.MSL.60
11.15-11.45 Tea & coffee
11.45-12.15 Brigitte Mondrain (EPHE, Paris): Les traités pseudo-galéniques dans les manuscrits byzantins
12.15-12.45 Barbara Zipser (Royal Holloway): Pseudo-Galenic texts in Byzantine Iatrosophia
12.45-13.15 Marie Cronier (CNRS, Paris): Les Definitiones Medicae pseudo-galéniques à Byzance
Lunch
Latin translations and editions (chair: Vivian Nutton)
14.15-14.45 Christina Savino (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin): The Pseudogalenic commentaries on Hippocrates edited by G.B. Rasario (1517-1578)
14.45-15.15 Mareike Jas (Munich): Nicolaus of Rhegium as an independent witness to the text of pseudo-Galen´s historia philosopha
15.15-15.45 Stefania Fortuna (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona): Pseudo-Galenic texts in the printed editions of Galen