Christ’s College, University of Cambridge Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 April 2017
Organized by Valentina Pugliano (Cambridge) and Nükhet Varlik (Rutgers-Newark)
Generously sponsored by the Wellcome Trust and Christ's College, Cambridge
This conference will offer, for the first time, a comprehensive picture of medicine and healing in the eastern Mediterranean and the Near East, ca. 1400-1750. While a considerable body of scholarship exists on Islamic and Byzantine science and medicine and their influence on the medieval Latin West, the state of medical theory and practice in the following centuries has been comparatively neglected and often spoken of in terms of intellectual stagnation and decline. The conference aims to challenge this narrative and reveal the continued vitality of knowledge making and transfer across the eastern Mediterranean world. Taking as our focus the politically heterogeneous southern Europe and eastern Mediterranean, the Mamluk Kingdom, and the Ottoman Empire, we will reconstruct the healthscape of this region in the early modern period, exploring its medical unity and disunity and the human and environmental factors that played a part in it.
With an introductory lecture by Professor Peregrine Horden, Royal Holloway University of London.
Full programme here: Medicine Environment and Health in the Eastern Mediterranean World
Please register here: Eventbrite Regstration
Registration: Full £50 (per day £25); Students £25. Buffet lunch and refreshments included. We can provide support to book overnight accommodation in college for attendees who wish to do so. For any query, please contact Valentina Pugliano
