Previous Conferences

Founded in 2020 as a new series in intellectual history, VivaMente has grown into an established and valued platform for scholars seeking to discuss new ideas and to push the boundaries of what we know, and of how we may understand it better or differently. Below you will find our past VivaMente Conferences. Stroll around, take inspiration, and, if you have any ideas you would like to discuss with us, do get in touch. We are always open to new proposals.

VivaMente 2024
Narratio in Medicine and the Law
Interpretative and Scientific Knowledge in Medical and Medico-Legal Case Histories from Antiquity to the Renaissance
VivaMente 2025
Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Health
Medicine and Society in the Middle Ages (1200-1400)
VivaMente 2020
Medicine in the Philosophy of Descartes
Light and Shadow
VivaMente 2022
From Automata to Transhumans
Debating Human Nature and Its Limitations: 1600-2000
VivaMente 2023
Fertility, Medicine and the Body
Theory and Practice across the Premodern World