Aspects of Healing and Curing, Medieval and Modern: Research in Progress

Department of History Afternoon Symposium
Aspects of Healing and Curing, Medieval and Modern:  Research in Progress
Wednesday 8 February 2012 
Lecture Room, 10 University Gardens, 2 - 5.30pm 
This symposium focuses on aspects of ‘healing and curing’ by bringing together historians whose research falls within this broad theme.  Papers will address topics including plague and pestilence, spiritual healing and battlefield medicine.  The symposium aims to highlight the diversity of current research on this exciting and important topic, which will be explored further in a forthcoming conference entitled ‘Healing and Curing to the Age of Modern Medicine’ in August 2012. 
Programme
14.00  Opening Presentation and Welcome: Marie-Louise Leonard
14.15  Session 1:  (Chair) Jenny Boyle
Dr Marilyn Dunn ‘Pestilentia in seventh century England'
Dr Tony Pollard ‘…’
15.05  Tea/Coffee Break 
15.20  Session 2:  (Chair) Andy Gourlay
Ms Sarah Erskine ‘A Matter of Life or Death?  
Saintly Cures for Moral Sicknesses in Medieval Vitae’
Dr Andrew Roach ‘Penance as Healing in East and West'
16.10  Tea and Coffee
16.25  Session 3:  (Chair) Marie-Louise Leonard
(Speaker required) ‘…’ 
Dr Martina King ‘TBC’
17.15  Closing Remarks:  Prof. Julia Smith
17.30  Wine Reception
To reserve a place at this event please contact:  s.erskine.1@research.gla.ac.uk

History Subject: Afternoon Symposium
Aspects of Healing and Curing, Medieval and Modern: Research in Progress

Wednesday 8 February 2012
Wolfson Medical Building, Seminar Room 2, 2-5.30pm

This symposium focuses on aspects of ‘healing and curing’ by bringing together historians whose research falls within this broad theme.  Papers will address topics including plague and pestilence, spiritual healing and battlefield medicine.  The symposium aims to highlight the diversity of current research on this exciting and important topic, which will be explored further in a forthcoming conference entitled ‘Healing and Curing to the Age of Modern Medicine’ in August 2012.

Programme

14.00  Opening Presentation and Welcome: Marie-Louise Leonard

14.15

 

Session 1:  (Chair) Jenny Boyle

  • Dr Marilyn Dunn ‘Pestilentia in seventh century England'
  • Dr Tony Pollard title ‘First Aid Under Fire: Archaeological Encounters with Battlefield Medicine’
15.05 Tea/Coffee Break

15.20

 

Session 2:  (Chair) Andy Gourlay

  • Ms Sarah Erskine ‘Objects of Healing:  Associative Relics in Early Medieval Ireland'
  • Dr Andrew Roach ‘Penance as Healing in East and West'
16.10 Tea and Coffee
16.25

 Session 3:  (Chair) Marie-Louise Leonard

  • Dr Gavin Miller ’Constant miracles’: discursive Christianity and the Davidson Clinic for Medical Psychotherapy
  • Dr Martina King, 'Curing with a story: Bacteriology and 'microbe hunting'
17.15 Closing Remarks: Prof. Julia Smith
17.30

Wine Reception in the Lecture Room, 10 University Gardens

To reserve a place at this event please contact:  s.erskine.1@research.gla.ac.uk or m.leonard.1@research.gla.ac.uk

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Symposium sponsored by the Wellcome Trust