• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Professor Robert Arnott (Green Templeton College)
• Timing: Wednesdays at 17:30 UK time, unless otherwise stated
• Web Address: https://hsmt.web.ox.ac.uk/events
• Organising department: Green Templeton College

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Medicine and health status in prehistoric and archaic Greece
  Dr Tomáš Alušík (Charles University, Prague)

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Medicine, Empire and Difference in the Roman World
  Dr Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge)

Wednesday 20 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The Asklepieion-Pythion of Paros: restudy of the old evidence
  Dr Tomáš Alušík (Charles University, Prague)

Wednesday 3 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Retail Therapy: Selling drugs, buying health in the Roman Empire
  Dr Laurence Totelin (Cardiff University)

Wednesday 17 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - How shall I live? Lifestyle definition between medicine, philosophy and religion in the Early Roman Imperial Period
  Dr Vincenzo Damiani (Universities of Würzburg and Ulm)

Wednesday 3 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Mycenaean healing cult in the Hittite Capital of Hattuša-Boğazköi
  Professor Robert Arnott (Green Templeton College)

Wednesday 28 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Asklepios and Asklepieia: reconstructing the history of a Greek healing cult
  Dr Milena Milfi (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 12 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Medicine from Ancient Cyprus: the literary and archaeological evidence
  Professor Demetrios Michaelides (University of Cyprus)

Wednesday 26 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Hiding in Plain Sight: ancient Chinese anatomy
  Dr Vivien Shaw (Bangor University)

Wednesday 9 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Epidemics in Ancient Mesopotamia
  Dr Troels Pank Arbøl (Linacre College, Oxford)

Wednesday 24 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Copper and Healing from Antiquity to the Age of Covid-19
  Dr Julie Laskaris (University of Richmond, Virginia)

Wednesday 8 December 2021 (9th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Climate Change, Ecological Transitions and the First Plague Pandemic in the Sixth Century AD
  Dr Brandon T McDonald (University of Oxford & University of Basel)

Wednesday 26 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - What would Hippocrates Do? Contagious Classical Reception in the time of COVID-19
  Nicolette D’Angelo (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

Wednesday 9 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Wednesday 23 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Title TBC
  Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
  TBA

Wednesday 9 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - How to look, how to listen and how to speak. The medical consultation during the Pax Romana
  Dr Nick Summerton (Retired GP and Public Health Physician and formerly of Hull/York Medical School)

Wednesday 18 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Therapeutic Practices and the Making of Hippocratic Bodies
  Dr Colin Webster (UC Davis, California and President of the Society for Ancient Medicine and Pharmacy)

Wednesday 1 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Medicine Beyond Civilisation - Southern African San (Bushmen) Medicine from 40000 BCE to the present
  Dr Chris Low (Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre, Cape Town, South Africa and Pitt Rivers Museum)

Wednesday 15 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Medical Practice in Ancient Egypt: Who, What and How?
  Dr Sofie Schiødt (University of Copenhagen)

Wednesday 19 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - The benefits of a closer look: trace analysis on the La Tène Period and Roman surgical instruments found in Central Europe
  Lucie Burešová (National Technology Museum and Charles University, Prague)

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Herbal remedies in the archaeological record from Near Eastern and Eastern Mediterranean sites
  Mandy Bertram (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen)

Wednesday 16 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Editing Aetius of Amida: some remarks on manuscript tradition and sources
  Dr Irene Calà (Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich)

Wednesday 30 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Monkeys, Magic, and Medicine: healing intermediaries in the Bronze Age Aegean
  Dr Marie Nicole Pareja (University of Pennsylvania and Marshall University)

Wednesday 1 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - The iconography of game animals in ancient Afro-Eurasia and Human Disease
  Amanda Porter (Dickinson College, USA)

Wednesday 15 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Negotiating between magic and medicine: what makes for an acceptable Roman medica?
  Dr Christie Vogler (University of Lynchburg, USA)

Wednesday 1 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Diagnosing leprosy in the medieval world
  Thomas Mills (University of Reading)

Wednesday 8 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - What without texts? Discovering healing and medicine in the Harappan Civilisation of South Asia, 2600-1900 BCE
  Professor Robert Arnott (Green Templeton College)

Wednesday 26 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Roman Dissection beyond Galen
  Claire Bubb (ISAW, New York University)

Wednesday 10 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Journeys of Healing: tracing the spread of Asklepios’ cult in Late-Classical and ellenistic Greece
  Figen Geerts (Classics, New York University)

Wednesday 24 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Roman Medicine at Carnuntum (Austria)
  Rupert Breitwieser (Paris Lodron University of Salzburg)

Wednesday 7 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:30 - Disability, assistive technologies, and the limits of medicine in Ancient Greece
  Debby Sneed (California State University)

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Ancient Egyptian medicine: perceptions from different points of view
  Please note change of day for this seminar only
  Professor Tanja Pommerening (University of Marburg, Germany)

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Polybus, not the son-in-law of Hippocrates
  Dr David Leith (University of Exeter)

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Title TBC
  Unfortunately this seminar is cancelled
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA

Wednesday 29 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - Methodological Problems in Retrospective Diagnosis: The Case of the Roman Emperor Augustus
  Dr Nick Summerton (University of Durham)

Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Medicine as a stochastic art in ancient Greece and China
  Dr Arthur Harris (Cambridge)

Wednesday 7 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Ergot in classical medicine
  Dr Katherine Hall (University of Otago Medical School, New Zealand)

Wednesday 21 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - Can mummies tell us about disease and health in Ancient Egypt?
  Dr Robert Loynes (Manchester)

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:30 - International menstrual suppression in the Roman world
  Dr Kassandra Miller (Colby College, USA)