Programme (May 2014)
This programme reflects the most current paper titles that hyperlink to the abstracts. All the papers can be accessed here. You can find the password in your registration email. If you would like to attend the workshop, please email recipes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Coffee and tea will be available from 9 am
9:15-9:30 Welcome
Elaine Leong, MPIWG and Alisha Rankin, Tufts University
9:30-10:30 Determining A Drug’s Properties: Medieval Experimental Protocols
Michael McVaugh, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Commentator: Montserrat Cabré, Universidad de Cantabria
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Renaissance Pharmacy, Testing and the Language of Truth
Valentina Pugliano, University of Cambridge
Commentator: Cesare Pastorino, MPIWG and TU, Berlin
12:00-1:00 Making Trials in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Medicine
Evan Ragland, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Commentator: Sven Dupré, MPIWG
1:00-2:00 Lunch
Antonio Barrera-Osorio, Colgate College
Commentator: Michael Stolberg, Universität Würzburg
3:00-4:00 Experimenting American Drugs in Charitable Institutions and Hospitals
Samir Boumediene, MPIWG
Commentator: Mary Terrall, UCLA and MPIWG
4:00-4:30 Coffee Break
4:30-5:15 Talking Cures in Early Modern England & An introduction to The Casebooks Project: A Digital Edition of Simon Forman’s and Richard Napier’s Medical Records, 1596-1634 [Talk]
Lauren Kassell, University of Cambridge
Participants are welcome to join the MPIWG staff at the Institute Sommerfest in the courtyard.
Friday, 27 June 2014
Coffee and tea will be available from 9 am
Marta Hanson and Gianna Pomata, Johns Hopkins University
Commentator: Martina Siebert, MPIWG
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11.00-12:00 Chemical Experts: Mineral Waters and the Paris Academy of Sciences, 1600-1735
Michael Bycroft, MPIWG
Commentator: Ursula Klein, MPIWG
12:00-12:45 The View from Above? Surgical Technologies’ Assesments in Eighteenth-Century Paris [Talk]
Christelle Rabier, EHESS, Marseille
12:45-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:00 Tests on the Liquefaction of the Blood of Saint Januarius in Naples in the Early Modern Age
Francesco Paolo de Ceglia, University of Bari
Commentator: Harun Küçük, MPIWG
3:00-4:00 Liquidity: Science, Translation, and Manchu Medical Recipes
Carla Nappi, University of British Columbia
Commentator: Michael Stanley-Baker, MPIWG
4:00-4:30 Coffee Break
4:30-5:30 Comment and Roundtable Discussion
Harold Cook, Brown University and Katharine Park, Harvard University
7:00 All speakers and commentators are invited to join us at dinner at Ristorante Il Gattopardo