9th International Conference on Ancient Latin Medical Texts
Programme and registration forms (May 2007)
- Abstracts (, 182 KB)
Conference location
Location and surroundings of Hulme Hall (the conference venue) and the University: Hulme Hall on Google Maps
Here is a link to the University 'map page', including advice for travellers.
Accommodation
Single (en-suite) rooms in Hulme Hall are being allocated on a first-come-first-served basis (via the registration form, above).
If you require a double room, please make your own arrangements, either with Chancellors (one of the University's conference centres, less than a mile from Hulme Hall), or with a local hotel; you may find a selection via the following links:
www.manchesteronline.co.uk/manchester/hotels
SECOND CIRCULAR AND CALL FOR PAPERS (September 2006; revised January 2007)
Thank you for expressing an interest in the Ninth International Conference on Ancient Latin Medical Texts (ALAMET-IX), which will take place at Hulme Hall, University of Manchester, England, from Wednesday to Saturday, 5-8 September 2007. Note that the timing of ALAMET-IX is such as to allow participants to combine this event with the "Approaches to Ancient Medicine" conference to be held at Newcastle University on Monday-Tuesday 3-4 September 2007: see http://www.ncl.ac.uk/historical/medicine/cfp_ancient_medicine07.htm
General theme
The general theme for the conference is Language and Context. Papers may be very broad, in the manner of suggestive surveys, or narrowly focused on a single text or even a single word!
Plenary lectures
I am delighted and very grateful to be able to announce that the opening and closing lectures will be given by Professor Heinrich von Staden (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) and Professor Philippe Mudry (University of Lausanne), respectively.
Proposals of papers
Proposals of papers are now invited on any aspect of this theme relating to Latin medical texts or language in the pre-Salernitan period. While the lower chronological limit traditional in this conference is thus retained, proposals of papers on later texts which shed light on their pre-Salernitan forebears are welcomed.
Topics most commonly addressed at previous conferences in this series have included: the transmission, the sources and the reception of Latin texts, and the relations between texts through both primary and secondary traditions; problems of editing and interpretation; the language (medical and non-medical) of the texts, its development over time and its variation in sociolinguistic terms. Naturally, in all of these areas the Greek background is always vital, and papers on the relationship between Greek and Latin traditions (provided only that they heed the Latin emphasis of the conference) are also encouraged. Papers are welcomed also on (e.g.) the relations of Latin medical texts with (i) their historical contexts (social, scientific, etc.), or (ii) other texts in Latin, prose or verse, which speak about medicine or use medical language, sensu proprio or metaphorically. Of course, this list is illustrative rather than exhaustive.
Proposals (title + abstract of between a half and one side of A4) are now requested, in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, or Latin,
either by e-mail to the conference address ALAMETIX@manchester.ac.uk
or by post to the organiser, David Langslow, Dept of Classics & Ancient History, University of Manchester. Manchester M13 9PL England
FROM NOW, and in any case BEFORE 15th January 2007 (please note the slightly earlier deadline).
Entertainment and excursion
The provisional plans mentioned in the First Circular are becoming firmer: in particular, the receptions in the John Rylands Library Deansgate and the Manchester Museum are confirmed for the early evening of the Thursday and the Friday, respectively; it is hoped that the Saturday excursion will be to the Jodrell Bank Observatory and the Granada Arboretum.
Cost
Applications for financial support are still pending. However, the all-inclusive cost per person for accommodation in Hall and all meals from Wednesday evening to Saturday lunch, will not exceed £250 (pounds sterling). (The cost of bed-and-breakfast in Hall will be about £40 per person per night. The registration fee will be about £45.) It is hoped that as and when financial support is secured, subsidies will be made available.
Academic Committee
The Academic Committee comprises, in addition to the organiser: J. N. Adams (Oxford), M. A. Beagon (Manchester), A. Ferraces Rodriguez (A Coruna), K.-D. Fischer (Mainz), I. Mazzini (Macerata), Ph. Mudry (Lausanne), N. Palmieri (Reims/St Etienne), T. G. Parkin (Manchester), J. Pigeaud (Paris), H. von Staden (Princeton), and M. E. Vazquez Bujan (Santiago de Compostela).
Organising Committee
The local Organising Committee comprises, in addition to the organiser: M. A. Beagon, V. Knight, D. R. Lehoux, T. G. Parkin, and C. Pilsworth.
I am very grateful to both groups of colleagues for agreeing to serve.
Please feel free to forward this circular to anybody who you think will be interested.