Symposium: Vesalius and the Languages of Anatomy

Please see details below about an upcoming symposium related to Vesalius and the exhibition Languages of Anatomy: From Vesalius to the Digital Age.

Symposium: Vesalius and the Languages of Anatomy

Organized by Valeria Finucci, CMRS, Romance Studies and Theater Studies

Thursday Sept. 17 and Friday Sept. 18, 2015

THURSDAY, September 17, 2015, Carpenter Room Rubenstein Library #249, 2nd Floor

Opening Session, 4:00-4:15

Naomi Nelson, Director, Rubenstein Library

“Welcome Remarks: Today at the Rubenstein”

Valeria Finucci, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Romance Studies

“Introduction: Vesalius and the Languages of Anatomy”

SESSION I: Visualizing Vesalius, 4:15-6:15

Moderator: Valeria Finucci, Romance Studies, Duke University

Eugene Flamm, Neurosurgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center

“Illustration of the Brain in Pre- and Post-Vesalian Publications of the 15th and 16th Centuries”

Margaret Brown, Exhibit Librarian, Duke University

“Collecting and Exhibiting the History of Medicine at Duke University Libraries”

Rachel Ingold, Curator, History of Medicine Collection, Duke University

“Vesalius in the Trent Collection”

Visit Exhibition, 6:15

“The Languages of Anatomy: From Vesalius to the Digital Age”

Chappell Gallery and Trent History of Medicine Room

Welcome Reception, Gothic Lounge, Rubenstein Library, 2nd Floor, 6:45

FRIDAY, September 18, 2015, Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library #153

8:30-9:00 Coffee, tea, pastries, fruit

SESSION II: Vesalius’ Hands-On Knowledge,  9:00-10:45

Moderator: Thomas Robisheaux, History, Duke University

Cynthia Klestinec, English, Miami University

“Vesalius and the Works of the Hands”

Pablo Maurette, Comparative Literature, University of Chicago

“The Organ of Organs: Vesalius, Casserio, Crooke, and the Wonders of the Human Hand”

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break

SESSION III: Vesalius and Padua, 11:15-1:00

Moderator: Elvira Vilches, Romance Studies, Duke University

Hélène Cazes, French, University of Victoria

“The Anatomist, the Butcher, and the Cannibal: the Fabric of Scandal”

Maurizio Rippa-Bonati, History of Medicine, University of Padua, and

Valeria Finucci, Romance Studies, Duke University

“Vesalius’ Padua”

Lunch Break, Rubenstein Library, 1:00-2:00

SESSION IV: Vesalius and the Female Body, 2:00-3:45

Moderator: Jehangir Malegam, History, Duke University

Jennifer Kosmin, History, Bucknell University

“Vesalius’ Midwives: Authority, Gender and Generation in the 1543 Frontispiece of De humani corporis fabrica”

Lucia Dacome, Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto

“Through the Glass Womb: Anatomy and Midwifery in 18th Century Bologna”

Coffee Break, 3:45-4:15

SESSION V: Vesalius’ Legacy, 4:15-6:00

Moderator: Valeria Finucci, Romance Studies, Duke University

Jonathan Sawday, English, Saint Louis University

“‘But Yet the Body is his Book’: Books of the Body in England After Vesalius.”

Fabrizio Bigotti, Wellcome Trust Centre for Medical History—University of Exeter

“Vesalius’ Legacy and its Development in the Medico-Philosophical Contest of the Renaissance”

Contact: Rachel Ingold, (919)684-8549 or rachel.ingold@duke.edu