In September 2017, Vérène Chalendar of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE) in Paris, successfully defended her PhD thesis “Quand l’animal soigne… Les utilisations thérapeutiques de l’animal dans le corpus médical cunéiforme assyro-babylonien”. Part of the jury were among others Gilles Buisson and Nils P. Heeßel, both well known from several BabMed events. https://www.ephe.fr/recherche/soutenances/verene-chalendar […]
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Workshop on Materia Medica in Topoi Haus Dahlem, July 31st 2018
Starting with the first scriptural cultures, methods for classifying and describing (medical) plants have been developed, by means of which the collected knowledge could be handed down diachronically across language and cultural borders. The topic of this workshop is the study of the related text genres of herbals, thereby uniting the outcome of projects in […]
BAM 9 – Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues now available for open access via de Gruyter publishing
Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues Medicine, Magic and Divination We are happy to break the news that the ninth volume of ‘Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen’ (BAM) is now available for open access on the website of de Gruyter publishing: https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/477148 It was edited and contributed by BabMed Senior PostDoc Researcher […]
Legitimising Magic – Scientific colloquium at Marburg University, July 13/14, 2018
Altorientalistik at the Philipps-University of Marburg warmly invites to attend the scientific colloquium “Legitimising Magic” in Marburg, Germany, July 13–14. “Magic” is one of the most colourful terms used to describe phenomena in the history of religions. From the beginning, magic acquired a distinct negative connotation. Early scholars of the history of religion used it […]
Netanel Anor at RAI 2018, Innsbruck
Netanel Anor, member of the BabMed-seminar and PostDoc researcher for BabMed-PI Markham J. Geller, will give a talk at this year’s Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale in Innsbruck on: Babylonian Seers as Medical Practitioners (July 17th, 16:00-16:30) Please find the full preliminary programme here.
Die Babylonisch-Assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen: BabMed at de Gruyter publishers
Monographs of the BabMed – Babylonian Medicine project will be made available as Open Access publications by de Gruyter publishers in the series initiated by Franz Köcher Die Babylonisch-Assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen. For the announcement of the series at de Gruyter publishers’ homepage please click here.
Netanel Anor at Berner Altorientalisches Forum 2018
Netanel Anor, member of the BabMed-seminar and PostDoc researcher for BabMed-PI Markham J. Geller, will give a short talk at this year’s Berner Altorientalisches Forum (BAF) on: The Extispicy Rituals: Theory and Practice (Panel 3: Belief & Action, June 15th 13:45-14:00) The Forum is a is a joint venture of the universities of Bern, Basel, […]
A congress on the history of surgery in muslim heritage
The 6th international congress on history of medicine in muslim heritage will focus on the topic of surgery. The venue is the Medical School of Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University in Fez (Morocco) and the congress will take place from the 3rd to 6th of October 2018. For more information and registration see the conference […]
Medicine in Bible and Talmud – Helsinki SBL/EABS international conference 2018
Medicine in Bible and Talmud all sessions of the EABS Program Unit convenors: Markham J. Geller and Lennart Lehmhaus (SFB 980 “Episteme in Motion”, Freie Universität Berlin) The Conference Program Book is available online. 1-17 Medicine in Bible and Talmud (EABS) 8/01/2018 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM Room: Room 403 – Fabianinkatu 26, Kielikeskus Theme: […]
Rome, June 4, 2018: Int. Conference on the Use of the Five Senses
Sensing the Past. Detecting the Use of the Five Senses in Ancient Contexts Odeion, Museo dell’Arte Classica, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia Sapienza Università di Roma June 4, 2018 Programme: http://www.antichita.uniroma1.it/sites/default/files/eventi/201805/Sensing_Past.pdf
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