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Revealing Galen’s Simples

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Revealing Galen’s Simples

Saturday, April 30, 2016; 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM

 Page from the Galen Palimpsest in natural color and after processing to reveal the under text (2015).

Page from the Galen Palimpsest in natural color and after processing to reveal the under text (2015).

An article published in the New York Times on June 1, 2015, described the discovery of a Syriac manuscript that contained the oldest known translation of Galen’s On the Mixtures and Powers of Simple Drugs. The text of this manuscript was erased in the eleventh century. Scientists and scholars from around the world are working to recover it. This symposium will feature the manuscript itself and presentations by imaging specialists, Syriac scholars, and historians of medicine working to reveal the secrets of this challenging manuscript.

The weekend of our conference will be extremely busy on the Penn campus and some roads may be closed because of an athletics event. We earnestly advise you to walk or take public transport to the campus rather than driving.

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Schedule
Saturday, April 30, 2016

9:00-9:30 am Coffee

Session 1: Galen, Greek Medicine, and the Syriac Palimpsest
(session chair: Will Noel)

  • 9:30-10:00 Ralph Rosen (Penn, Classical Studies) and Peter Singer (London),
    Galen and the Greek Medical Tradition
  • 10:00-10:30 William Noel (Penn, Kislak Center),
    New Science meets Old Science: Ancient Manuscripts and Digital Technology
  • 10:30-10:45 Discussion

10:45-11:00 am Coffee

Session 2: Galen’s Simples Revealed
(session chair: Michael Toth, R. B. Toth Associates)

  • 11:00-11:10 Michael Toth (R. B. Toth Associates), Digitization and Access
  • 11:10-11:40 Renee Wolcott (Philadelphia), The Syriac Galen Palimpsest
  • 11:40-12:10 Roger Easton (Rochester), Imaging the Syriac Galen Palimpsest
  • 12:10-12:40 Siam Bhayro (Exeter), Discovering Galen’s Simples
  • 12:40-1:00 Discussion

1:00-2:30 pm Lunch (on your own)
Galen Palimpsest on display in the Lea Library

Session 3: New Discoveries
(session chair: Ralph Rosen)

  • 2:30-2:50 Michael Toth (R. B. Toth Associates), The New Program, the New Leaves
  • 2:50-3:10 Peter Pormann (Manchester),
    The Final Frontier: Galen’s Syriac Versions and Graeco-Arabic Translation Technique
  • 3:10-3:30 Robert Hawley, Irene Calà, and Jimmy Daccache (Paris),
    The Textual Interest of the Syriac Versions of Galen’s Simples

3:30-4:00 Discussion, Coffee

Session 4: Digitizing Galen
(session chair: Keith Knox)

  • 4:00-4:20 Douglas Emery (Penn, Kislak Center), Open Galen: The Digital Manuscript
  • 4:20-4:40 William Sellers (Manchester), Working with the Data
  • 4:40-5:00 Corneliu Arsene (Manchester), Revealing the Palimpsest

5:00-5:30 pm Discussion and Closing Remarks (Ralph Rosen)
Class of 1978 Pavilion
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, sixth floor
3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA

Free and open to the public (please show photo ID at entrance)

Source : http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/galen.html

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Call for applications : Christians and Muslims in Africa

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Call for applications | ‘Christians and Muslims in Africa. Towards a Framework for the Study of Multi-Religious Settings’ | Summer School ZMO Berlin | 14-20 July 2016

From 14-20 July 2016, the Summer School with theme ‘Christians and Muslims in Africa. Towards a Framework for the Study of Multi-Religious Settings’ will be held at ZMO Berlin. Call for applications is now open, application deadline is 15 February 2016.

Christians and Muslims in Africa. Towards a Framework for the Study of Multi-Religious Settings

This summer school is an initiative of the project Habitats and Habitus. Politics andAesthetics of Religious World-Making hosted at the ZMO, which seeks to further the development of comparative approaches to the study of Christians and Muslims in Africa, especially in urban multi-religious settings, and beyond. This Summer School, which will take place at ZMO Berlin is convened by Birgit Meyer (Utrecht University/ZMO), Abdoulaye Sounaye(ZMO), Marloes Janson (SOAS), Kai Kresse (Columbia University/ visiting fellow BGSMCS).

Advanced PhD students and post-docs are invited to apply, application deadline is 15 February 2016. For more information and for application requirements, please visit the website of the ZMO.

Source : Leiden University http://www.hum.leiden.edu/nisis/news/call-for-applications-summerschool-zmo-2016.html

 

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