The Worth Library (1733), and the Tercentenary of the School of Physic, Trinity College, Dublin, present
G A L E N (c. 129-200 A D): IN THE GREEK, ARABIC, JEWISH, RENAISSANCE AND GAELIC WORLDS:
AN ADVANCED RESEARCH SEMINAR
Wednesday 15 June 2011 in The Edward Worth Library, Dr Steevens’ Hospital, Dublin 8.
Convenor: Professor W. J. Mc Cormack: bilmccormack@eircom.net
Programme
Chaired by Emer Lawlor & Eamon O’Flaherty
9.30 Ilham Ibnou-Zahir (University Hassan II, Mohammedia Faculty Ben M’Sik, Casablanca): ‘The Beast Within’: Galen, Al-Ghazali, and Maimonides (followed by discussion).
10.30 coffee
11.00am Aoibheann Nic Dhonnchadha (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies): Léann Ghailéin i dtéacsanna leighis na Gaeilge, 1350-1650.
11.45am Magda Kozluk (University of Lodz): ‘Omnia cum symbolis expressa pathemata’ : la présence de Galien dans les recueilles d’emblèmes aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles (followed by discussion).
1.00pm lunch
2.00pm Jacqueline Vons (University of Tours): André Vésale et la critique de Galien dans la Fabrica.
3.00pm Jean-Paul Pittion (Trinity College Dublin, Emeritus): Vesalius and William Harvey: On Galen and the Animal Model in Physiology (followed by discussion).
4.00pm Reception