Event calendar

Mona Sawy: „Cop­tic Med­i­cine and its Reme­dies. Explor­ing an Ancient Pharmacopoea”

22 April 2025 – 5 PM (CET)

This 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.
This explo­ration will uncov­er the var­i­ous medica­ments used in Cop­tic med­i­cine, includ­ing herbs, min­er­als, and ani­mal prod­ucts, and their appli­ca­tions in treat­ing a range of ailments.
Through an exam­i­na­tion of ancient texts, med­ical papyri, and recent archae­o­log­i­cal find­ings, we will shed light on the sophis­ti­cat­ed under­stand­ing of phar­ma­col­o­gy pos­sessed by the Copts. Addi­tion­al­ly, this pre­sen­ta­tion will high­light the con­ti­nu­ity and trans­for­ma­tion of these med­ical prac­tices over cen­turies, illus­trat­ing their influ­ence on both medieval and mod­ern medicine.
By under­stand­ing the phar­ma­copoeia of Cop­tic med­i­cine, we gain insights into the cul­tur­al and sci­en­tif­ic her­itage of one of the world’s old­est civ­i­liza­tions and its endur­ing impact on con­tem­po­rary med­ical practices.

To reg­is­ter for this event please fol­low the link:

Cop­tic Med­i­cine and its Remedies

Cen­tre for the Study of Med­i­cine and the Body in the Renais­sance (CSMBR) – Assis­tant Coordinator
Domus Comeliana, Via Car­di­nale Maf­fi 48, 56126 Pisa, Italy
Tel.: +39.02.006.20.51 – Mobile: +39.333.13.12.203
Email: ah@csmbr.fondazionecomel.org

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Phar­maziehis­torische Bien­nale der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Phar­mazie (DGGP) zum The­ma „Salze und Anorganika”
26. und 27 April 2025
Lüneburg

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Kon­takt: Kathrin Bosse-Bringe­watt (gbringewat@yahoo.de, 040–89018831)

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Please join us for our May LSHTM Med­ical Anthro­pol­o­gy sem­i­nar with Dr Nick Long, Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Anthro­pol­o­gy at LSE.
May 6th 2025, 4pm bst
In per­son at LSHTM – room G41 Kep­pel Street, or Online (fol­low the link above). Please note this sem­i­nar will not be recorded.

Dr Long will be pre­sent­ing “The hypnotist’s dilem­ma: mys­ti­cal recu­per­a­tion, coun­ter­pro­duc­tive care, and the anx­i­eties of sym­bol­ic healing”

Abstract: Thou­sands of Indone­sians have embraced hyp­nother­a­py as a means of address­ing per­son­al and med­ical issues in a man­ner that moves away super­nat­ur­al forms of ‘tra­di­tion­al heal­ing’ and towards notions of a psy­cho­log­i­cal self. Such projects of ‘psy­cho­log­i­cal mod­erni­sa­tion’ are nev­er­the­less unset­tled when patients arrive com­plain­ing of super­nat­ur­al afflic­tion. Hyp­nother­a­peu­tic prin­ci­ples rec­om­mend accept­ing the client’s real­i­ty and work­ing sub­junc­tive­ly with­in it, yet by doing so one risks being cod­ed as the exact­ly the kind of tra­di­tion­al heal­er from which one wish­es to dis­tance one­self. Trac­ing respons­es to this dilem­ma with­in clin­i­cal prac­tice, this paper sug­gests that anthro­po­log­i­cal the­o­ries of ‘sym­bol­ic heal­ing’ and ‘sub­junc­tive med­i­cine’ need to be updat­ed to reflect the dif­fi­cul­ties cer­tain sym­bols can present in set­tings with anx­ious and frac­tious rela­tions to devel­op­men­tal­ist ‘moder­ni­ty’.

Biog­ra­phy: Dr Nick Long is an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Anthro­pol­o­gy at the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics and Polit­i­cal Sci­ence (LSE). Along­side recent work on respons­es to COVID-19 in the UK and Aotearoa New Zealand – includ­ing co-found­ing the Care And Respon­si­bil­i­ty Under Lock­down (CARUL) research col­lec­tive, he has long-term inter­ests in psy­cho­log­i­cal anthro­pol­o­gy and the anthro­pol­o­gy of Indone­sia. He is cur­rent­ly work­ing on an ESRC-fund­ed study of Indonesia’s hyp­nother­a­py cir­cuit, and won the 2019 Stir­ling Prize for Best Pub­lished Work in Psy­cho­log­i­cal Anthro­pol­o­gy for his arti­cle ‘Sug­ges­tions of Pow­er: Search­ing for Effi­ca­cy in Indone­si­a’s Hyp­no­sis Boom’.

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Reg­is­tra­tion is now open for the upcom­ing DDD17 Con­fer­ence: The Pol­i­tics of Death, tak­ing place 27–30 August 2025 at Utrecht Uni­ver­si­ty, the Netherlands! 🖤

🔗 Click here to reg­is­ter — but don’t wait too long: reg­is­tra­tion clos­es Fri­day, 16 May 2025.

Here’s a glimpse of what’s in store:

🧠 Inspir­ing sessions

A wide range of pan­el ses­sions, includ­ing paper pre­sen­ta­tions, round­ta­bles, and workshops.
👉 Get a sneak peek at the cur­rent programme

🎤 Thought-pro­vok­ing plenaries

Keynote by Dr. Kami Fletcher
Expe­ri­en­tial keynote by Prof. Enny Das
A ple­nary round­table on euthana­sia in the Dutch context
👉 Read more about the ple­nar­ies here

🎉 Excit­ing extras!

A Death Book Club 📚
Guid­ed Dark Tourism tours in beau­ti­ful Utrecht 🏛️
A unique Death Muse­um excur­sion to Amsterdam 🚋
A three-course veg­e­tar­i­an Con­fer­ence dinner

👉 Read more about the addi­tion­al events here

We warm­ly invite you to join us in Utrecht this sum­mer to explore, reflect on, and dis­cuss all things death. Look­ing for­ward to see­ing you there!

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Call for Papers for „Crip­ping Repro­duc­tive Jus­tice: Rethink­ing Repro­duc­tive Futures”
Sym­po­sium tak­ing place on Octo­ber 15, 2025, in Barcelona, Spain

This event will bring togeth­er schol­ars and activists to explore the inter­sec­tions of dis­abil­i­ty and repro­duc­tive jus­tice, fos­ter­ing inter­dis­ci­pli­nary dia­logue and chal­leng­ing ableist assump­tions in repro­duc­tive and sex­u­al health poli­cies, prac­tices, and movements.

Keynote Speak­er: Dr. Ali­son Kafer

Dr. Ali­son Kafer is Direc­tor of LGBTQ Stud­ies and Embrey Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Wom­en’s, Gen­der, and Sex­u­al­i­ty Stud­ies at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Fem­i­nist, Queer, Crip and co-edi­tor of Crip Genealo­gies. Her work, includ­ing con­tri­bu­tions to Crip Author­ship and Fight­ing Mad: Resist­ing the End of Roe v. Wade, explores dis­abil­i­ty and queer crip world-mak­ing, par­tic­u­lar­ly at the inter­sec­tions of repro­duc­tive, envi­ron­men­tal, gen­der, and racial justice.

We invite abstracts (max. 300 words) for 15-minute pre­sen­ta­tions in Eng­lish that cen­tre dis­abled people’s expe­ri­ences and crit­i­cal­ly engage with repro­duc­tive and dis­abil­i­ty jus­tice frame­works. Con­tri­bu­tions from diverse perspectives—including crip the­o­ry, spec­u­la­tive meth­ods, and inter­sec­tion­al jus­tice approaches—are high­ly encouraged.

Key Details:

📅 Sub­mis­sion Dead­line: April 25, 2025
📢 Noti­fi­ca­tion of Accep­tance: May 30, 2025
📍 Event Date & Loca­tion: Octo­ber 15, 2025 | Barcelona, Spain
📩 Sub­mit abstracts & queries to: Dr. Han­nah Gib­son (Hannahgrace.Gibson@uab.cat)
For more details, please find the full Call for Papers attached. We would appre­ci­ate it if you could cir­cu­late this among your net­works and col­leagues who may be interested.
We look for­ward to your con­tri­bu­tions and/or attendance!
Best regards,
Dr. Han­nah Gib­son and Lau­ra San­miquel Molinero.
AFIN Research Group
Uni­ver­si­tat Autóno­ma de Barcelona 

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