Ars et Medicina Symposium

Einar Petterson, professor of art history, University of Oslo welcomes the lecturers and participants to the Ars et Medicina symposium, 7-8 May 2012 at the Norwegian Institute in Rome.

Einar Petterson, professor of art history, University of Oslo presents The Pathology of female lust in 17th century Dutch medicine, art and culture.Enhanced podcast: 37 MB

Knut Kvernebo, MD, PhD, FRCS, professor of cardio-thoracic surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Ullevaal, presents Can wounds of religious significance be caused by changes of skin blood flow? A case of a bleeding wound during religious ecstasy 2004 A.D. Enhanced podcast: 43 MB

Dr. Stelios Manganis, School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University, presents his paper The use of PANAS-X scales of affect measure in artwork development.Enhanced podcast: 35 MB

Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo and Paul Craddock, London Consortium Television present their lecture From Medical Science to Posthumanism Creating a multidisciplinary framework.Enhanced podcast: 32 MB

Else Mogensen, PhD, Classical Philology, Ghent University, Brrussels presents her lecture Medicine, Art and the Classics.Enhanced podcast: 16 MB

Ingrid Rowland, Professor, Notre Dame University, Rome presents her lecture Art, Health and Food: Under the Microscope with Athanasius Kircher. Enhanced podcast: 32 MB

Elisa Treccani, PhD candidate, University of Verona presents her lecture The translation of the Régime du corps by Aldobrando da Siena in a Florentine manuscript dated back to 1335. Enhanced podcast: 14 MB

Paola Di Cori, Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Gender Studies at the University of Urbino, presents her lecture Freud, Psychoanalysis and Sculpture.Enhanced podcast: 26 MB

Gloria Lauri-Lucente, Professor and Head of Department of Italian at the University of Malta presents her lecture Eros, Thanatos and the Inception of Psychoanalysis. The Case of Sabina Spielrein, Carl Gustav Jung and Sigmund Freud in the filmic versions of Roberto Faenza and David Cronenberg. Enhanced podcast: 30 MB

David Lomas, Professor of Art History, University of Manchester presents Courbes Médicales: The Graphic Trace in Medicine in Art. Enhanced podcast: 26 MB

Francesca Marchetti, PhD in Byzantine and Eurasia Studies at the University of Bologna presents her lecture The Influence of Late Antique and Byzantine Iconography on Renaissance Illustrated Orthopaedic Texts. Enhanced podcast: 28 MB

Cecilia Mariani, University of Sassari, Sardinia presents her lecture Jenny Saville. Autopsy of contemporary pain. Enhanced podcast: 28 MB

Tessa C. Gurney, PhD candidate, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill presents her lecture “A me non venderà egli vesciche”: Questionable Medici and Medicine Questioned in Machiavelli´s Theater. Enhanced podcast: 28 MB

Mattia Marino, Bangor University presents his lecture “Sick Bodies Brimming with Satanic Thoughts. Visual Verbal Vermin Venoms of Demons in Denims from Lady Gaga to Amélie Nothomb.”Enhanced podcast: 30 MB

Dagmar Reichardt, Professor, University of Groningen presents her lecture “The doctor as poet - the poet as doctor. Trauma, therapeutic autobiography and the power of literature.”Enhanced podcast: 20 MB

Dana Gage, MD, MA candidate, Narrative Medicine, Columbia University presents her lecture The Use of Play as a Model for Training Medical Students.Enhanced podcast: 17 MB

The Lullaby Project from Milan consists of Carlo Virzi, Marta Rabbiosi, Monica Milani, Cosimo Filieri and Alessia Pasini. In this lecture/performance, these musicians, musical therapists, professional singers and leaders of theater-related training groups for children, elderly and disabled people talk about and demonstrate by performance their musical therapy for hospitalized children.Enhanced podcast: 30 MB