School of Humanities | Sgoil nan Daonnachdan

 Monday 27 August 2012

Registration and Tea / Coffee  

10.00 – 11.30

Session 1: Healing and Curing:  Holy Wells, Saints and Relics - Chair: Dr Sarah Erskine

1. Anne Paton, PhD Candidate, Glasgow University: Hagiography, Leprosy and Ireland
2. Andy Gourlay, PhD Candidate, Glasgow University: Miracles, Saints and Relics:  A Double-Edged Sword?
3. Dr Emily Donoho, Geography and Life Sciences, Glasgow University: Holy Wells in the Highlands, the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century

11.45 - 1.15

Session 2: Medical Texts:  Translating Theory into Practice - Chair:  Dr Helen McCormack

1. Dr Kathleen Walker-Meikle, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, University of York: Keeping the Beast at Bay:  Treating Animal Bites in the Middle Ages
2. Sara Oberg Stradal, PhD Candidate, Glasgow University: The Practical and Ideological Uses of Diagrams in Late Medieval English Surgical Manuscripts and Folding Almanacs
3. Dr Daniel McCann, Postdoctoral researcher, Queens University Belfast: Feeling Dreadful:  Religion, Emotion and Therapy in The Scale of Perfection
Chair:  TBC

1.45 – 3.15

Session 3: Constructing Healthy Cities, Medieval and Early Modern - Chair: Prof. Christopher F. Black

1. Dr Luisa Izzi, Tutor, University of St Andrews: Healing and the Sacred in Early Medieval Rome
2. Marie-Louise Leonard, PhD Candidate, Glasgow University: Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Mantua
3. Dr Neil Murphy, Lecturer, University of Winchester: The Development of Plague Hospitals in Early Modern France
Chair: TBC

3.30 – 5.00

Session 4: Popular Medicinal Responses in Print

1. Sara Mori, Università  degli studi dell'Aquila: Charlatans, Secretists and Quacks. Circulation and Diffusion of Medical Knowledge in Italy between the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
2. Dr Clare McKechnie, Co-ordinator of the Medical Humanities Research Network & Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh:  Nineteenth-Century Cancer Cures:  Developing Modern Methods
3. Dr Megan Coyer, Wellcome Trust Research Fellow, Glasgow University : The Popular and the Professional:  Medicine in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press
Chair: TBC

5.15 – 6.15

Plenary 1: Professor Samuel K. Cohn, Glasgow University:  'Epidemics in History: Cultural Toxins, Cultural Healing'  -  Chair: Marie-Louise Leonard

Tuesday 28 August 2012

11.00 – 12.45

Session 5:  Healing the Body, Curing the Soul? - Sponsored by the Society for Renaissance Studies  
Chair: Dr Jenny Rampling

1. Alessandra Celati, PhD Candidate, University of Pisa: Heresy, Medicine and Paracelsianism in Sixteenth Century Italy: the Case of Girolamo Donzellini (1513-1587)
2. Katerina Georgoulia, PhD Candidate, University of York: Medicine and Visuality:  Disease as a Metaphor of Heresy during the Counter-Reformation Period
3. Maria Kavvadia, PhD Candidate, European University Institute: ‘Medical Gymnastics’; an Early Modern Method of Medical Treatment for the Body and for the Soul
Chair: TBC

1.15 – 2.45

Session 6: Institutional and Domestic Medicine

1. Steven Taylor, PhD Candidate, University of Leicester: Children, Confinement and Cure: Treating Child Lunatics in England’s County Asylums, 1845-1900
2. Bill Mann, Retired Academic, Open University: ‘Surviving Love and Disease’: William Buchan, Domestic Medicine (1769), How Enlightened? 
Chair: TBC

3.00 – 4.30

Session 7: Healing in Times of Social and Political Conflict

1. J. lanto Jocks, Recent Graduate, Glasgow University:  Aspects of Healing and Curing in mid- Nineteenth Century Military Surgery
2. Dr Alastair Lockhart, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cambridge: World War Two and Spiritual Healing in Britain
3. Hilary Ingram, PhD Candidate, University College London: “A Little Learning is a Dangerous Thing”: Nineteenth Century British Medical Missions under Scrutiny
Chair: TBC

Farewell wine reception