Talks & Events
Markham J. Geller at the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries
Ort: The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries, London
BabMed talk: Markham J. Geller at EABS Helsinki 2018
Ort: Helsinki SBL/EABS International Conference 2018 Auditorium II - Fabianinkatu 33, Päärakennus
Markham J. Geller: Eclipse Myth - The Long Road from Sumerian to Aramaic
Ort: Department III Conference Romm 265 Max-Plack-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
BabMed talk: Ulrike Steinert at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ort: Montagskolloquium – Diskussionen zur antiken Medizin und Philosophie Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Inst. für Klassische Philologie Hauptgebäude Unter den Linden, Raum 3053
Grace J. Park at Freie Universität Berlin: Sequencing the Ugaritic Alphabet
Ort: Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed Video Seminar: Ulrike Steinert at the interdisciplinary seminar "The Individual and his Body in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin"
Ort: Centre National de la Récherche Scientifique, Ivry sur Seine CNRS building, 27 rue Paul Bert (Porte de Choisy/Porte d'Ivry subway station) or by distance through video-conference (registration required).
Markham J. Geller at the New Bulgarian University
Ort: Bulgarian Institute of Egypotology New Bulgarian University 21 Montevideo Str. Sofia, Bulgaria
BabMed Workshop 5: Medical Commentaries and Comment(aries) on Medicine. Convened in cooperation with the MPIWG Berlin.
Ort: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin . Please go to MPIWG homepage for site map.
Ulrike Steinert at Yale University: Babylonian Medicine in Focus - Some Aspects of Current Research on Medical Cuneiform Texts.
Ort: Yale University, Judaica Reading Room, SML 335B
Ulrike Steinert at Harvard Museum of Natural History: Cracking Bones, Gnawing Flesh, and Pondering Hearts: Body, Mind, and Medicine in Ancient Mesopotamia
Ort: Harvard Museum of Natural History, Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street
Ulrike Steinert at ICTAM IX 2017: The liver in medical texts of ancient China and Mesopotamia (in collaboration with Elisabeth Hsu)
Ort: Medizin- und Pharmaziehistorische Sammlung der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Brunswiker Straße 2, 24105 Kiel
EABS Annual Conference Berlin - Tanja Hidde: "If an elephant swallowed a basket and passed it out" : A Rabbinic Concept of Digestion?
Ort: EABS Annual Conference, Berlin. Seminarraum 1.204 - Universitätsgebäude Hegelplatz; Dortheenstraße 24 (DOR 24)
EABS Annual Conference Berlin - Markham J. Geller: "A Catalogue of Disease in the Babylonian Talmud"
Ort: EABS Annual Conference, Berlin. Seminarraum 1.204 - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Universitätsgebäude Hegelplatz; Dorotheenstraße 24 (DOR 24)
BabMed Panel RAI Marburg – Eric Schmidtchen: About This or That. A Tablet on Behavioural Omens.
Ort: 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Marburg
BabMed Panel RAI Marburg – Henry Stadhouders: "Ishtar succuba".
Ort: 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Marburg
BabMed Panel RAI Marburg – Markham J. Geller: Medical commentaries.
Ort: 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Marburg
BabMed Panel RAI Marburg – S. V. Panayotov: The Treatment of Eye Ailments.
Ort: 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Marburg
BabMed-Panel RAI Marburg – Ulrike Steinert: Therapeutic Strategies in Mesopotamian Women's Healthcare Texts of the 1st Millennium BCE: A Corpus-Based Approach.
Ort: 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Marburg
BabMed Panel RAI Marburg – Sona Ch. Eypper: These Feet Are Made For Walking...
Ort: 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Marburg
BabMed Panel RAI Marburg – Marvin Schreiber: Zodiacal Synchronisation of Diagnosis and Therapy in Late Babylonian Astro-medicine.
Ort: 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Marburg
BabMed Panel RAI Marburg – Francesca Minen: Reading the Skin. A Reconstruction of the Basic Principles of Dermatological Diagnosis.
Ort: 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Marburg
BabMed Panel RAI Marburg – Krisztián Simkó: A discussion of UGU III.
Ort: 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Marburg
BabMed Panel RAI Marburg – S. Salin: Words of Loss of Sensation and Paralysis in Assyro-Babylonian Medical Texts: Some Considerations.
Ort: 63rd Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Marburg
BabMed Seminar: Religion versus Medizin? – Karl E. Grözinger, Univ. Potsdam/Zentrum Jüdische Studien, Berlin: Heilberuf als 'imitatio dei' – der jüdische Ba'al Schem.
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar: Religion versus Medizin? – Alexandra Grieser, Trinity College, Dublin: „Gesund oder perfekt?“ – Optimierung als Matrix von Religion und Säkularismus.
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar: Religion versus Medizin? – Sabine Schleiermacher, Charité Berlin: Vererbungswissenschaft als Einblick in die Ordnung der Schöpfung: Theologische Begründung der Eugenik in der Zwischenkriegszeit.
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed @ Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften: Markham J. Geller über "Schwarze Magie"
Ort: TOPOI-Haus der FU-Berlin | Freie Universität Berlin Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin Raum: Hörsaal im Erdgeschoss
BabMed Seminar: Religion versus Medizin? – Johannes G. Mayer, Univ. Würzburg: Heilung in der Klostermedizin – von der 'Regula benedicti' des Benedikt von Nursia bis zu Hildegard von Bingen.
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar: Religion versus Medizin? – Dorothea Lüddeckens, Univ. Zürich: Religion und Medizin im Feld alternativer Religiosität der Gegenwart.
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar: Religion versus Medizin? – Volker Hess, Charité Berlin: Lepra in der Frühen Neuzeit: Vom Aus-setzen und Stadt-machen.
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar: Religion versus Medizin? – Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis, FU Berlin: Medizin im Christlichen Imperium Romanum – Erbe und Widerspruch.
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar: Religion versus Medizin? – Dimitri Gutas, Yale University/Graduate School of Muslim Cultures, FU Berlin: Scientific Thought vs Traditional Beliefs in Antiquity and Islam – a discussion.
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar: Religion versus Medizin? – Alexandra von Lieven, FU Berlin: Sachmetpriester, Skorpionsbeschwörer und Ärzte. Religion und Medizin im Alten Ägypten.
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar: Religion versus Medizin? – Paul U. Unschuld, Charité Berlin: Die Geburt der Medizin und die Suche nach existentieller Selbstbestimmung. Das antike China und Griechenland im Vergleich.
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
Daniel Boyarin zum 70. Geburtstag
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar: Religion versus Medizin? – Katja Triplett, Univ. Göttingen: Grenzziehungen zwischen Religion und Medizin: Eine religionswissenschaftliche Betrachtung anhand sogenannter Zauberpflanzen.
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed presentation at CRASIS Masterclass, Groningen – Sona Eypper: The Concept of Happiness in Ancient Mesopotamia
Ort: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL
BabMed Seminar – Bernd Roling: Zwischen Wissenschaft und Okkultismus. Physiognomik in der Frühen Neuzeit
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar – Rosa Maria Piccione: Das 'Werkzeug der Werkzeuge': Zur Entwicklung der Chiromantie aus der Physiognomik der Hand.
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar – Matteo Martelli: Physiognomic Treatises in Syriac. A Survey
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar – Alberto Cantera Glera: Die zoroastrische Vision des Selbst im Jenseits
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar – Johanna Fabricius: Haupt-Sachen – Bildliche und sprachliche Konzepte vom menschlichen Körper in der griechischen und römischen Kultur
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar – Daniel Boyarin: Revisiting Some Fat Rabbis
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed talk at EPHE, Paris – J. Cale Johnson: Citationality and the Construction of the Interlingual in Classical Sumerian Scholastic Dialogue
Ort: Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
BabMed Seminar – Klaus Geus: Physiognomisches bei Ptolemaios (und anderen Astrologen)
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed talk at Vienna Multilingualism Workshop: M.J. Geller on 'Multilingual Lexicography in Mesopotamia'
Ort: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
BabMed Seminar - Gian Franco Chiai: Physiognomik im antiken literarischen Diskurs
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar - Stefanie M. Rudolf: Fragmente physiognomischen Wissens in der syrisch-aramäischen Literatur
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar - Alessandro Stavru: Polemon 'Physiognomikà' und die zweite Sophistik
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed talk: S.V. Panayotov 'Mespotamian Eye Disease Texts', Cambridge University
Ort: University of Cambridge
BabMed Seminar - Beate Pongraz-Leisten: Ritualperformanz und Ritualtext in Mesopotamien
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar - Lucia Raggetti: Pigeon dots, horse spots and twitching limbs in Medieval Arabic physiognomy
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar - Eric Schmidtchen: Die mesopotamischen Handbücher zur Diagnostik und Physiognomatik. Eine mesopotamische Humanwissenschaft?
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar - A. Stavru & G.F. Chiai: Aristoteles und die Physiognomik
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed Seminar - M.J. Geller: Physiognomik zwischen Orient und Okzident
Ort: Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus
BabMed talk at Innsbruck Melammu Workshop: S.V. Panayotov 'Changes and Transformations in Mesopotamian Eye Disease Texts.'
Ort: Innsbruck University
BabMed Internal Workshop 'Newly excavated Aramaic texts on clay vessels and ostraca dealing with divination’. by Esther Eshel, Prof. of Bar-Ilan University, Israel and M.J. Geller, Freie Universität Berlin
Ort: BabMed, TOPOI-Haus, Freie Universität Dahlem
BabMed guest lecture: Glenn W. Most: Hesiod.
Ort: Freie Universität TOPOI-Haus, Bibliothek Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
BabMed talk: Ulrike Steinert 'Von inneren Räumen und blühenden Landschaften: Der weibliche Körper in der babylonischen Medizin'
Ort: Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität München
BabMed presentation at Universität Würzburg: J. Cale Johnson 'Enumeration and the Infrastructural Compendium: Two Ways of Ordering Knowledge in Mesopotamian Intellectual History'
Ort: University of Würzburg
BabMed Annual Workshop 4: Cultural Systems of Classification: Sickness, Health and Local Biologies. Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Medical Cultures in Anthropology and the Historical Sciences
Ort: BabMed, Freie Universität Berlin
BabMed talk by Principal Investigator M.J. Geller: Exchange of “esoteric” knowledge in Late Antiquity between Jewish and Babylonian scholars
Ort: TOPOI Excellence Cluster, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
BabMed-Presentation: S.V. Panayotov OPCA Oxford "The Materiality of Mesopotamian Magic and Medicine"
Ort: University of Oxford
BabMed talk by Principal Investigator M.J. Geller at ISAW NYU Workshop: "The Formation of Cultural Memory"
Ort: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), New York University.
BabMed talk by Principal Investigator M.J. Geller: How Babylonian is the Hippocatic Corpus?
Ort: Wellcome Trust, London
Ulrike Steinert, Oxford: Created to bleed: Blood, women’s bodies and gender in ancient Mesopotamian medicine.
Ort: University of Oxford
BabMed Annual Workshop 3: Physiognomy and Ekphrasis
Ort: Holzlaube, Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin, Room 2.2063
BabMed Seminar 2: Giulia Ecca, Ethical Rules for Obstetricians in the Early Imperial Time
Ort: BabMed Seminar 2, Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed Seminar 2: Tanja Hidde, Senses & Sensibilities - Sight, Smell and Taste in Rabbinic Literature
Ort: BabMed Seminar 2, Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed Seminar 2: Lucia Raggetti, Alexander, Išrāsīm, and the Prophets: Authorship and Pseudo-Authorship in Medieval Arabic Medicine.
Ort: BabMed Seminar 2, Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed Seminar 2: Lennart Lehmhaus, "Man nehme danach viel roten Wein und viel rotes Fleisch" - Aderlass in talmudischen Texten zwischen Medizin und Lifestyle
Ort: BabMed Seminar 2, Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed Seminar 2: Maddalena Rumor, Animal-based pharmacology from the Babylonian to the Graeco-Roman world
Ort: BabMed Seminar 2, Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed Seminar 2: Eric Schmidtchen, Das prognostisch-diagnostische Handbuch als Kompilation
Ort: BabMed Seminar 2, Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed Seminar 2 Double Feature: F. Desch, Materia medica - Heilpflanzen in der Medizin der Antike / M. Hoppe, Texte zur Behandlung von Impotenz
Ort: Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed talk at 47th AJS, Boston - Tanja Hidde, Ravenous hunger and Bowel trouble - Babylonian rabbinic concepts for a healthy way of life.
Ort: Association of Jewish Studies, Boston
BabMed Seminar 2: Strahil V. Panayotov, Mesopotamian Therapeutic Texts Dealing with Eye Diseases
Ort: Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed Seminar 2: Ulrike Steinert, A Matter of Theory: Female Blood and Menstruation in Babylonian and Greek Medicine
Ort: BabMed Seminar 2, Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed Seminar 2: Elizabeth M. Craik, How many Hippos? Authorship in the Hippocratic Corpus
Ort: Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed Seminar 2: Paul U. Unschuld, What is (Chinese) Medicine?
Ort: Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed Seminar 2: J. Cale Johnson and Alessandro Stavru, Physiognomic omens
A presentation within BabMed Seminar 2 Greek and Babylonian Medicine – A Comparative View Winter Semester 2015/2016 Tuesday, 6-8 pm, Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin Convened by Markham J. Geller/Principal Investigator BabMed The study of Babylonian medicine has often suffered from an overreliance on the localization of illnesses in particular body parts, but new work on Babylonian therapeutics suggests that Mesopotamian physicians were concerned with the conditions and circumstances in which illness and misfortune might affect a patient. Physiognomy and ekphrasis represent two different ways of describing these conditional factors and also call for a much more thorough engagement with Graeco-Roman sources. The BabMed Seminar 2 is being organised in cooperation with TOPOI excellence cluster Berlin Dahlem.
Ort: Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed Seminar 2: Markham J. Geller, Response to Markus Asper
A presentation within BabMed Seminar 2 Greek and Babylonian Medicine – A Comparative View Winter Semester 2015/2016 Tuesday, 6-8 pm, Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin Convened by Markham J. Geller/Principal Investigator BabMed Much of Greek and Babylonian medicine was contemporary and shared much of the same geography in terms of climate, flora and fauna. Both systems shared similar concepts of disease and common strategies for treating disease (pharmaceutical recipes and minimal surgery). Although medical theories tend to separate these two systems of medicine, the actual practices appear to have more in common than has previously been recognised. The BabMed Seminar 2 is being organised in cooperation with TOPOI excellence cluster Berlin Dahlem.
Ort: Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed Seminar 2: Markus Asper, Early Greek Medical Texts and Babylonian Medicine: Some Questions.
A presentation within BabMed Seminar 2 Greek and Babylonian Medicine – A Comparative View Winter Semester 2015/2016 Tuesday, 6-8 pm, Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin Convened by Markham J. Geller/Principal Investigator BabMed The BabMed Seminar 2 is being organised in cooperation with TOPOI excellence cluster Berlin Dahlem. ABSTRACT
Ort: Bibliothek TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed lecture: Bulmos/Boulímos in the Talmudic Tradition.
Tanja Hidde, Researcher at BabMed Berlin, presenting at the workshop of the BabMed partner project at Bar-Ilan University. . To conference programme flyer
Ort: Medical Knowledge from Ancient Babylonia to Talmudic Babylonia Sunday, September 20, 2015, at 2.30 pm The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
BabMed lecture: Goodbye Julius Preuss - Unexpected Instances of Medicine in the Bavli.
Markham J. Geller, Principal Investigator of BabMed, speaks at the workshop of the BabMed partner project at Bar-Ilan University. . To conference programme flyer
Ort: BabMed-Workshop Medical Knowledge from Ancient Babylonia to Talmudic Babylonia Sunday, September 20, 2015, at 2.30 pm The Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem
BabMed Annual Workshop 2: Healing Through Fumigation in Mesopotamia and the Ancient World
Ort: 'Holzlaube' Neubau Kleine Fächer, Raum 2.2063/Fabeckstraße 23-25 und im TOPOI-Haus, Bibliothek/Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
BabMed training seminar on digital copying of cuneiform tablets
Dr. Luděk Vacín (University of Hradec Králové, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic) offers a training seminar on making digital copies of cuneiform tablets. The seminar will include a tutorial on the (basic and advanced) steps of drawing copies using vector graphics especially Adobe Illustrator. As there are are a resticted number of places, please register beforehand at our BabMed office: babylonian-medicine@geschkult.fu-berlin.de . Contact details of L. Vacín please see at University of Hradec Karálové homepage . For further information please also see " Digital Cuneiform Blog ".
Ort: Rostlaube; JK30/207
BabMed talk: Diet and Regimen in the Two Talmudic Traditions from Palestine and Babylonia.
For further information and full conference programme please see here .
Ort: "Knowledge Transfer and Cultural Exchanges": II. CHAM International Conference, FCSH/Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, 15-18 July 2015
BabMed conference panel: Depicting Demons' Activity Through Symptom Descriptions; E. Schmidtchen
Ort: 61st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Geneva and Bern, Int. Conference
BabMed conference panel: Purging Pollution: sikillu in Mesopotamian and Graeco-Roman Purification Rituals; Maddalena Rumor
Ort: 61st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Geneva and Bern, Int. Conference
BabMed conference panel: Healing in Images and Text: The Sickbed Scene; S.V. Panayotov
Ort: 61st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Geneva and Bern, Int. Conference
BabMed conference panel: "How much is that Doggie in the Window, Woof Woof?" - Retrieving the Pedrigee of an Orphaned Figurine; H. Stadhouders
Ort: 61st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Geneva and Bern, Int. Conference
BabMed conference panel: Eye Anatomy and Symptoms: Images and Realities; Annie Attia
Ort: 61st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Geneva and Bern, Int. Conference
BabMed conference panel at the 61st RAI
In line with the theme of the RAI 61 (Geneva and Bern), namely ‘Text and Image’, the Descriptivism and Probative Metaphor workshop will look at the contrast between metaphor and descriptive language in the technical disciplines. This panel is the third BabMed workshop panel and like previous BabMed panels it will strive to include talks dealing with commensurable materials from postcuneiform Mesopotamia and the broader history of technical literatures. Full program of the 61st RAI in Geneva and Bern Detailed program of the BabMed panel
Ort: Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012 Bern, Schweiz
BabMed conference panel:The Image of Babylonian Medicine within Medical History; M.J. Geller
Ort: 61st Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Geneva and Bern, Int. Conference
BabMed Vortrag: „Drei Dinge lassen den Körper wachsen“ – ein vergleichender Blick auf die Regeln zur gesunden Lebensweise (diaita) in den beiden Talmudtraditionen
Weitere Informationen finden Sie auf der Internetseite des Interdisziplinären Arbeitskreises "Alte Medizin" .
Ort: Joh. Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 35. Treffen des Interdisziplinären Arbeitskreises „Alte Medizin“
BabMed guest lecture: Harry Falk, former Institute for the Languages and Cultures of South Asia (Indology), Freie Universität Berlin, "Divine blessings for the ruler: stellar cults from the Commagene to Kushan in India"
Ort: TOPOI-Haus, Freie Universität Berlin
BabMed talk by M.J. Geller: "The Babylonian Talmud - Things are not Always What They Seem"
Ort: Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universität Berlin
BabMed guest lecture: Heinrich von Staden, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton "Words, Sounds, and Objects in Greco-Roman Medical Magic"
Ort: BabMed, Freie Universität Berlin
BabMed presentation by U. Steinert and S. V. Panayotov: "Thoughts Regarding the Mesopotamian Healing Professions"
Ort: University of Würzburg