Call for Papers: AVISTA 2001 (Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science, Technology, and Art: Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 3-6 May 2001)
Forwarded to HISTNEUR-L from STAMA. Check <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~avista/kz2001.html> and <http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/> for further developments (the notice, below, does not include the conference dates but the International Congress on Medieval Studies website does) . Russell Johnson --- Begin Forwarded Message --- Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 22:58:13 -0500 From: "Barbara S. Bowers" <bbowers@osu.edu> Subject: Call for Papers, AVISTA 2001 To: stama@asap.unimelb.edu.au The following call for papers may be of interest to your list subscribers. AVISTA is the Association Villard de Honnecourt for the Interdisciplinary Study of Science, Technology, and Art. Visit out web site at www.avista.org for more information about our organization, past sponsored sessions, and our journal AVISTA FORUM. Barbara S. Bowers AVISTA Secretary The short version: Call for Papers, AVISTA sessions at the International Medieval Studies Congress Kalamazoo 2001. Topic: The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice. 20-25 minute paper presentations on all aspects of research touching on the Medieval hospital and medical practice. Abstracts for proposals should be sent to Barbara S. Bowers, The Ohio State University, Jones Twr. 455, 101 Curl Dr., Columbus Ohio, 43210, Email bbowers@osu.edu. 614-688-9556. Deadline: September 15, 2000. Full text version: Call for Papers, International Medieval Studies Congress, Kalamazoo 2001. The Medieval Hospital and Medical Practice: Bridging the evidence, interdisciplinary approaches to the Medieval hospital and medical practice. Seeking proposals for 20-25 minute presentations touching on all aspects of research concerning the Medieval hospital and medical practice. Topics may include, but are not limited to the following: 1) Hospital, site and structure: Setting, furnishings, art, architecture, archaeological evidence 2) Image and object, sources for studying the Medieval hospital and medical practice 3) Hospital foundation and regulation - Monastic, municipal, church involvement - Charters, regulations, patronage, customs 4) Military connections - Hospitalers, Order of St. Anthony - Field hospital and battlefield surgery 5) Disease, epidemiology, plague, leprosy 6) The practice of medicine, practical and theoretical - Remedies, cures, regimen, diagnosis, prognosis, surgery and surgical instruments 7) Reconstructing Medieval medical practice. - Presentations by scholars of research involving practical experiments with Medieval medical treatment, herbs, remedies, botanicals, alchemy, and/or presentations of parallel cases in modern medical use of leeches, phlebotomy, or other treatments with Medieval origins serving to inform historical research. Abstracts for proposals should be sent to Barbara S. Bowers, The Ohio State University, Jones Twr. 455, 101 Curl Dr., Columbus Ohio, 43210. 614-688-9556. Email: bbowers@osu.edu. Deadline: September 15, 2000. --- End Forwarded Message ---