Animals and the Environment in Ancient Mediterranean Medicine
International Conference (in Hybrid Format): University of Exeter, UK, July 5-6th 2023.
This conference will explore animals as both objects of ancient medical and scientific endeavour and as subjects in their own right within their wider environmental context. It responds to recent calls for sustained dialogue between medical history (human and veterinary) and the burgeoning field of human-animal history. Classical studies have broadly embraced the animal turn but with little focus on medicine so far. The aim here is to develop a richer, more wide-ranging account of animals within the ancient history of human/veterinary medicine alongside, and in conversation with, similar developments for later historical periods, and to reflect on the connections drawn in antiquity between humans, animals, and their environment, from a perspective of health, disease and wider well-being.
Panel Topics include: Women, Sex and Animals; Turning Zoonotic; Animal Subjects; Veterinary Medicine and Animal Husbandry; Animal Materialities
Speakers Include Colin Webster (UC Davis); Laurence Totelin (Cardiff); Chiara Thumiger (Kiel); Ulrike Steinert (Mainz); Caroline Petit (Warwick); Vivian Nutton (London);
David Leith (Exeter); Daniel King (Exeter).
For further details (including full programme and registration) are available here.
To go direct to registration click here.
We have some funds to support graduate student participation, so please contact Rebecca Fleming at R.Flemming@exeter.ac.uk if you would like to come but need some help, or with any other questions.