PROGRAMME SUMMARY
WITHIN THE SECOND EDITION OF THE HORIZONS OF THE HUMANITIES PROGRAMME UNIVERSITY OF ŁÓDŹ HOSTED THIRTEEN LECTURES (TEN OF WHICH WERE STREAMED) PRESENTING CURRENT STATE OF RESEARCH INTO SELECTED ASPECTS OF ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN HISTORY.
We would like to express our gratitude to:
the City Council of Łódź (Łódź Akademicka Programme) - for founding our project
the University of Łódź Foundation - for administrative support
the Rector of the University of Łódź, prof. Elżbieta Żądzińska - for her approval to organise the 30th Rector's Lecture
the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History - prof. Maciej Kokoszko, the Director of the Institute of History - prof. Dariusz Jeziorny, Dr. phil. Dr. habil. Michael Green, the Faculty of Philosophy and History PR team, the Communication and PR Centre team of the University of Łódź - for their help and support in organising all the lectures
the Rector's Office team - for their help in organising the Rector's Lecture.
We cordially invite you to listen and watch the so far available recordings from the event.
Alain Touwaide (Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions)
June 6: Being Sick, Being Treated in Byzantium. Byzantine Remedial Therapy (soundcloud)
June 7: Medicine at the Border. Cross-cultural Exchanges in Medicine in Sicily and Southern Italy (youtube) (soundcloud)
Gerasimos Merianos (National Hellenic Research Foundation)
May 11: Humble but not insignificant: References to wine lees in Greek (al)chemical texts (youtube)
Maria Leontsini (National Hellenic Research Foundation)
May 13: Condiment or medicine? Capers from the Hippocratic Corpus to the Byzantine and Arab dietary treatises (youtube)
Ilias Anagnostakis (presented by Maria Leontsini)(National Hellenic Research Foundation)
May 11: Lessons and insights from Chrysothemis: We are also what we don't eat or shouldn't or would like to eat (soundcloud)
The talks by Gerasimos Merianos, Ilias Anagonstakis and Maria Leontsini were delivered within the fifth edition of the international, interdisciplinary scholarly conference Colloquia Ceranea.
Ivan Biliarsky (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences)
October 3: Sources of the Medieval Bulgarian Law (youtube)
Rudolf Dekker (Centre for the Study of Egodocuments and History / Erasmus University Rotterdam)
October 19: The Privacy of the Prison. Writing about Yourself in Jail, 1500–2000
Ineke Huysman (Huygens Institute, Amsterdam)
October 20: The Person behind Johan de Witt: The Daily Life of the Grand Pensionary and His Circles
François-Joseph Ruggiu (Sorbonne Université / Oxford University)
October 20: What Was Private in Early Modern Privacy? What Was Intimate in Early Modern Intimacy? An Exploration Through the French Personal Writings
The talks by Rudolf Dekker, Ineke Huysman and François-Joseph Ruggiu were delivered within the international scholarly conference Egodocuments and Privacy in the Early Modern Era.
Mohammed Ismail Al-Nasarat (Al-Hussein Bin Talal University)
October 24: Petra and the Nabataeans in the Classical Writings (youtube)
Barbara Zipser (University of London)
October 30
first lecture: Vision and Blindness in Ancient and Medieval Medicine (soundcloud)
second lecture: Treatment in Ioannes Archiatrus (soundcloud)
Isabel Grimm Stadelmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
November 7: The Aktouarios John Zacharias (c. 1275–1330) and his Treatise on the “Psychic Pneuma”: a Byzantine “Burnout Therapy”? (youtube) (soundcloud)
8 XI: Byzantine Medicine: Professional Interaction between Tradition and Innovation (youtube) (soundcloud) (photo report from the event)
