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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
