IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
MAX PLANCK RESEARCH GROUP
KUNSTHISTORISCHES INSTITUT MAX PLANCK-INSTITUT FLORENCE
INTERSECTIONS COLLOQUIUM ON:
BLOOD, SWEAT AND TEARS
THE CHANGING CONCEPTS OF PHYSIOLOGY
FROM ANTIQUITY INTO EARLY MODERN EUROPE
16-18 April 2009 NIAS Wassenaar
Academic Committee:
- MANFRED HORSTMANSHOFF (Universiteit Leiden / NIAS)
- HELEN KING University of Reading)
- CLAUS ZITTEL Kunsthistorisches Institut Max Planck-Institut Florence)
- KARL ENENKEL Universiteit Leiden / NIAS / Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences)
SECOND CIRCULAR - DRAFT PROGRAMME
To attend: please write to Mrs. Eline van der Ploeg.
For all further information:
Prof. Manfred Horstmanshoff
NIAS
Meijboomlaan 1, 2242 PR Wassenaar,
The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-70-512 27 00
Telefax: +31-70-511 71 62
E-mail:h.f.j.horstmanshoff@nias.knaw.nl
PROGRAMME:
Wednesday 15 April 2009
18.30-20.30
Supper for Speakers and Organising CommitteeLocation: NIAS, Wassenaar
Thursday 16 April 2009
Location: Conference Hall, NIAS, Wassenaar
- 9.00-10.00
Registration / Coffee - 10.00-10.15
Opening of the Colloquium by Wim Blockmans, Rector of NIAS
Introduction to the theme of the Colloquium by Manfred Horstmanshoff, Universiteit Leiden, NIAS Fellow-in-Residence 2008-2009
I. Two Keynote lectures
Chair: Helen King (University of Reading)
- 10.15-11.00
Vivian Nutton, (University College London)
Keynote lecture ‘Physiologia: from Galen to Jakob Bording’ - 11.00-11.15
Coffee / Tea - 11.15-12.00
Armelle Debru (University Paris Descartes)
Keynote lecture ‘Motions and Emotions’
II. Sweat
- 12.00-12.30
Mieneke te Hennepe (Museum Boerhaave, Leiden)
‘Of the fisherman’s net and sweat holes: Reframing conceptions of the skin in medicine 1572-1714’ - 12.30-13.00
Michael Stolberg (Universität Würzburg)
‘Sweat. Learned Concepts and Popular Perceptions 1500-1800’
13.00-14.15
Lunch
III. The Hippocratic and Galenic heritage
Chair: Vivian Nutton (University College London)
- 14.15-15.00
Elizabeth Craik (University of St Andrews and University of Newcastle upon Tyne)
Keynote lecture ‘The Reception of the Hippocratic Treatise On Glands’ - 15.00-15.30
Julius Rocca (University of Exeter)
‘Conceptualisation and Interpretation in Galen’s Pneumatic Physiology’
- 15.30-15.45
Coffee / Tea - 15.45-16.15
Marco A. Viniegra, (Harvard University)
‘Galenism and the Rise of Black Bile’ - 16.15-16.45
Georgios Papadopoulos (University of Athens)
‘Transformations of (the Concepts of) Natural Faculties in Renaissance Physiology’
Reception
Dinner
Friday 17 April 2009
Location: Conference Hall, NIAS, Wassenaar
IV Analogies and Metaphors
Chair: Claus Zittel (Max Planck Institut, Florence)
- 9.15-10.00
Liba Taub (Director and Curator of the Whipple Museum, Cambridge)
Keynote lecture ‘The Living Body and the Earth: Analogy or Metaphor in Ancient Physical Explanations?’ - 10.00-10.30
Svetlana Hautala (University of Siena)
‘“The Dull Wave”, Meteorological Analogies in the Ancient Medicinal Thought’
- 10.30-10.50
Coffee / Tea
- 10.50-11.20
Christopher Pierce (Architectural Association School of Architecture, London)
‘Anatomy, Allegory and Architecture: Ideas on the Role of the Church Interior in Seventeenth-Century Netherlandish Art’
- 11.20-11.50
Sabine Kalff (Humboldt University, Berlin)
‘The Body is a Battlefield – Conflict and Control in Seventeenth Century Physiology and Political Thought’ - 11.50-12.10
Coffee / Tea
V Body, Soul and Spirit
Chair: Catrien Santing (University of Groningen)
- 12.10-12.40
Jürgen Helm (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
‘Soul and Spirit in the 16th Century’ - 12.40-14.00
Lunch - 14.00-14.30
Roberto Lo Presti (Università di Palermo)
‘As if bodies were machines’. Remarks on the Birth of ‘Modern’ Physiology and the (Re)invention of the Greek Notion of ‘Automaton’
VI Impediments and Stimuli
Chair: Harm Beukers (Universiteit Leiden)
- 14.30-15.00
Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute, The Hague)
‘René Descartes (1596-1650), Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680) and the problem of generation’ - 15.00-15.30
Rina Knoeff (Universiteit Leiden, Anatomical Collections)
‘New Wine in Old Bottles. Herman Boerhaave’s Neurology and the Unchanging Nature of Physiology’
- 15.30-15.50
Tea / Coffee
VII Tears
Chair: Ad Vingerhoets (Psychology, Tilburg University)
- 15.50-16.20
Manfred Horstmanshoff (Universiteit Leiden/NIAS):
‘Analogy versus Anatomy. Petitus and Steno on Tears (1661)’ - 16.20-16.50
Frank W. Stahnisch (University of Calgary, Alberta)
‘The tertium comparationis of the elementa physiologiae: Johann Gottfried von Herder’s Conception of ‹Tears› as Mediators between the Sublime and the Actual Bodily Physiology’
Reception
Dinner
VIII Mechanistic Explanations of Human Physiology
Chair: Karl Enenkel (Universiteit Leiden / NIAS)
- 20.30-21.15
Michael McVaugh (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Keynote lecture ‘Losing Ground: The Disappearance of Attraction from the Kidney’
Saturday 18 April 2009
Location: Conference Hall, NIAS, Wassenaar
IX The Senses
Chair: Manfred Horstmanshoff (Universiteit Leiden / NIAS)
- 9.00-9.45
Véronique Boudon-Millot (Laboratoire "Médecine grecque", Université de la Sorbonne-Paris IV)
Keynote lecture ‘Vision et troubles de la vision : la physiologie de la vue chez Galien.’
- 9.45-10.15
Katrien Vanagt (Twente University of Technology)
‘Plempius’ study of the eye’ - 10.15-10.30
Coffee/Tea
X Blood before and after Harvey
Chair: Eric Jorink (Huygens Institute, The Hague)
- 10.30-11.00
Catrien Santing (University of Groningen)
‘Blood as the Source of Life in 16th Century Medicine’
- 11.00-11.30
Rainer Brömer (Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz)
‘The Nature of the Soul and the Passage of Blood through the Lungs: Galen, Ibn Al-Nafis, Servetus’
- 11.30-12.00
Willem van Hoorn (em. University of Amsterdam and University of Cape Town)
‘Descartes’ Physiological Misunderstanding of Harvey’s Heart’ - 12.00-12.20
Coffee / Tea
XI Concluding Remarks
- 12.20-12.45
Karl Enenkel, Manfred Horstmanshoff, Helen King, Claus Zittel
Concluding Remarks.Conference closes. - 12.45 -
Farewell Lunch at NIAS