Symposium organizers: Costanza Dopfel (Saint Mary’s College of California, USA), Stefano Arieti, Alessandra Foscati, Antonella Parmeggiani (Università di Bologna, Italy)
The detailed program is available in the symposium website: https://events.unibo.it/pregnancy-childbirth
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30 MAY, 14.30-15
Welcome and Introduction
Costanza Gislon Dopfel (Saint Mary’s College of California, USA)
Bruno Cola (Presidente della Società Medica Chirurgica di Bologna)
Luigi Tomassini (Direttore del Dipartimento di Beni Culturali)
15-15.30
Introductory Lecture
Charles Burnett (Warburg Institute, U.K.)
30 May, Tuesday, 15.30-18
Medicine and the Transmission of Knowledge
Speakers Shlomo Sela (Bar-Ilan University, State of Israel), Fiona Harris-Stoertz (Trent University, Canada), Alessandra Foscati (Università di Bologna, Italy), Adrian Wilson (University of Leeds, U.K.), Iolanda Ventura (Université d’Orléans – IRHT Paris), Stefano Arieti (Università di Bologna, Italy)
31 May, Wednesday, 9.30-12
Texts and Iconography
Speakers Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute, U.K), Valentina Calzolari Bouvier (Université de Genéve, Switzerland), Francesca Marchetti (Indipendent researcher, U.K.), Costanza Gislon Dopfel (Saint Mary’s College of California, USA), Claudia Pancino (Università di Bologna, Italy)
31 May, 15-17.20
Religion, Medicine, Law and Childbirth Rituals
Speakers Lorenzo Verderame (Università di Roma, Italy), Paolo Delaini (Università di Bologna, Italy), Luigi Canetti (Università di Bologna, Italy), Gabriella Zuccolin (University of Cambridge, U.K), Mary Morse (Rider University, USA), Antonella Parmeggiani (Università di Bologna, Italy)
31 May, 17.20-18.40
Anthropology and Archaeology of Childbirth
Speakers Cécile Chapelain de Seréville-Niel and Raphaëlle Lefebvre (CRAHAM-Inrap, France), Mirko Traversari and Giorgio Gruppioni (Università di Bologna, Italy), Emanuela Gualdi-Russo and Sabrina Masotti (Università di Ferrara, Italy), Elisabetta Cilli and Gaia Gabanini (Università di Bologna, Italy)