Conferences and Webinars / Future EventsThis series explores women’s contributions to various medically relevant fields and practices such as natural philosophy, household remedies, plant manipulation and selection, as well as midwifery.19/03/2025
Future Events / Online LecturesThis talk delves into the pharmacopoeia of ancient Egypt as preserved and practiced by the Copts, who have inherited and adapted a rich medical tradition that dates back to the time of the pharaohs.22/04/2025
Future Events / Online LecturesThis talk explores metabolism as concept of history of biology, using it as starting point for the exploration of a wider metaphorical level: the regulation of the relationship, material as much as conceptual, between self and non-self, and between human and environment (consumption and dietetics, processing, travel, trade, analogy and [...]06/05/2025
Future Events / Online LecturesIs it possible to discern what is concealed within the human soul through what is outwardly manifest? This lecture will explore attempts to contextualise the reasoning characteristic of physiognomic practices as sign-based inference within the medieval Arabic tradition.06/05/2025
Future Events / Summer SchoolsThis summer school will offer an overview of the current state of the art in the fields of early modern anatomy and surgery, of the major historiographical debates, and of promising perspectives and sources for future research.08/07/2025
Conferences and Webinars / Future EventsThis conference explores the creation and dissemination of medical knowledge in late medieval and early modern Europe within established and informal networks.22/10/2025
