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Programme

Friday, November 4

14.00 - 14.15        Opening, Address by Coordinators C1 and C11 

PANEL ONE: CONCEPTUAL FRAMES

14.15 - 15.00        Jessey Choo
"’The Dew on the Grass’ and ‘the Yogurty Little Lump’: Medieval Chinese Conceptualizations of Fetus and Fetal Development"

15.00 - 15.45        Susanne Töpfer
"’... He opens his amnion. He swims in his redness.’ – The physical activity of parturition in textual and epigraphical sources in Ancient Egypt from the 2nd millennium BC till the 3rd century AD"  
 
15.45 - 16.15        Coffee Break

PANEL TWO: TEXTS

16.15 - 17.00        Katja Triplett
"Care of the reproductive female body in the medico-ritual world of early and medieval Japan"

17.00 - 17.45        Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert
"From theory to practice – A pregnancy spell put into action (pBrooklyn Museum 47.218.2 col. x+III.1-4 plus pBerlin P. 15784+10469)"

17.45 - 18.45        General discussion/Coffee

Screening of Paolo Delaini’s documentary “Legami e riti”

19.30                    Conference Dinner  

Saturday, November 5

9.15 - 9.30           Address by Coordinators C1 and C11 

PANEL THREE: THERAPIES

9.30 - 10.15          Friedhelm Hoffmann
"The Gynaecological Recipes of the Egyptian Papyrus Vienna D 6257"

10.15 - 11.00        M. Erica Couto-Ferreira
"She will give birth easily: Therapeutic approaches in 1st millennium B.C. cuneiform texts on birth" 

11.00 - 11.30        Coffee Break

PANEL FOUR: AGENCIES

11.30 - 12.15        Carmen Caballero-Navas
"'… and she will give birth immediately'. Pregnancy and childbirth in medieval Hebrew medical texts produced in the Mediterranean west" 

12.15 - 13.00        Anna Andreeva
"Rituals for Safe Pregnancy and Birth in Late Medieval and Early Modern Japan"

13.00 - 14.00        Lunch

PANEL FIVE: LIMINALITY AND MOTHERHOOD

14.00 - 14.45        Paolo Delaini
 "The liminality of birth in Avestan framework"

14.45 - 15.30        Giulia Pedrucci
"Breastfeeding and Motherhood in Ancient Greece: A Medical and Philosophical Point of View"

15.30 - 16.00        Coffee Break   

16.00 - 17.30        General discussion   

17.30                   Closing of the conference

Documentary “Legami e riti”

www.youtube.com/user/paolodelainiful