Hippocrates in Venice
Weekend of Saturday 21st
– Sunday 22nd September
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| 15th Century Palazzo Ca' Pesaro Papafava |
Aims of the workshop
This workshop is designed
as a scoping and networking event to take forward the work of the Hippocrates
Initiative for Poetry and Medicine.
The four annual International
Symposia on Poetry and Medicine held since 2010 by the Hippocrates
Initiative have shown that there is a substantial wish for an international
umbrella association that would serve as a switchboard for the gathering,
coordination and dissemination of information in the field, and to institute
activities that further an understanding of relations between poetry and
medicine.
The Venice workshop will principally
be a two-day exchange of views aimed at establishing the priorities an umbrella
association ought to have, identifying focal interests for potential research
groups and working parties, and identifying interests for exploration in
subsequent workshops.
There will be a small
number of talks but the emphasis will be on discussion and consultation. Themes
to be considered by speakers and during break-out sessions and round table
discussions will include historical perspectives, epidemics of infection from
the plague of Athens to syphilis, tuberculosis and HIV-AIDS, and modern
non-infectious epidemics, from obesity to heart disease, psychiatric disorders
and cancer.
Other themes may be added
arising from suggestions from workshops participants.
The Venice workshop offers
a key opportunity to be part of the planning process and to help shape a
significant new aid to workers and researchers in a growing field.
Palazzo Pesaro Papafava is a few minute’s walk
from the Rialto Bridge and Ca’ d’Oro.
It is located on the Canale
della Misericordia, opposite the Scuola Grande della Misericordia, with views
towards the Grand Canal and the Lagoon.
