Academic Events
MEDICAL HUMANITIES
ONASSIS CULTURAL CENTER/ ATHENS
WEDNESDAY 26 FEBRUARY 2014
9:30 Registration
The colloquium is coordinated by Professor George Babiniotis,
Former Dean of the University of Athens
10.00-13.00 1st Session
A DIALOGUE BETWEEN HARD SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES
Thanassis Fokas
Professor, Nonlinear Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge/ Καθηγητής, Πανεπιστήμιο του Cambridge
Neuroscience and Humanities: Reflections on Ancient Athens and Vienna at fin de siècle
Eileen Gillooly
Associate Director of the Heyman Center for the Humanities and Society of Fellows, Adjunct Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Columbia University
Medical Humanities and the University Humanities Center
Neni Panourgia
Adjunct Associate Professor of Classics; Fellow, Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Classics, Columbia University
Epistemological Quandaries in Medical Humanities. Crossing Anthropology, Bioethics, Philosophy
12.00-12.30 Coffee Break
Stefanos Geroulanos
Professor of Surgery, University of Zurich
f. Professor of History of Medicine, University of Ioannina
President, International Hippocratic Foundation, Kos
Timeless values in the Hippocratic Oath
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 2nd Session
HISTORY & MEDICINE
Dionysios Stathakopoulos
Lecturer in Byzantine Studies, King’s College London
Of plagues and people
Helen Skaltsa
Professor, University of Athens, School of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmacognosy & Chemistry of Natural Products
Combination of Byzantine medical manuscripts with experimental and in silico tools in the application of pharmaceutical medications
Maria Chroni
Byzantine Studies, Phd, University of Athens, National Hellenic Research Foundation
The Development of the Medical Beliefs in Byzantine World during the 9th Century. Medicine: Craftsmanship or Science?
15.30 Break
16.00-17.30 3rd Session
MEDICINE & ART
Roy Ascott
President of the Planetary Collegium and DeTao Master of Technoetic Art, DeTao Masters Academy Shanghai
Remedial rhizomes: medicine, media, and mind
Juan Carlos Toro Lecaros
Theater Director, Actor, Researcher and PhD Candidate, Theater Studies, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, (UAB), Spain
Meta-theatre and mirror neurons
Anna Hatziyiannaki
Art Historian, President of Artopos NPO for Art and Technology
BIO ART : The design of Evolution
17.30-18.00 Break
18.00-19.30 4th Session
NARRATING DISEASE
Dionysis Goutsos
Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Philology, School of Philosophy University of Athens
Mapping the semantic field of disease in Greek
James Whitehead
Lecturer in Medical Humanities and English, King’s College London
Autobiography, authenticity, and the medical humanities
Ioanna Soufleri
Biology, Phd, Journalist Lambrakis Press Group
Doctors and the Press: moral issues
