BabMed Annual Workshop 2
Healing Through Fumigation in Mesopotamia and the Ancient Word
July 20-22, 2015

Organizer: S.V. Panayotov
Freie Universität Berlin, BabMed – Babylonian Medicine

The second BabMed Workshop aims to bring together a group of specialists on Ancient Medicine and Magic and to elucidate different practices of fumigation from both a local (individual) and cross-cultural perspective. The first day will be devoted to papers and group discussions concerning fumigation in Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Greece and China. At a visit to the workshop of the Archaeobotanist Reinder Neef at the German Archaeological Institute in Berlin, we will learn more about plants used for fumigation in Iraq. During Reading Sessions on our second day, cuneiform texts on fumigation will be read, discussed, and interpreted in round-table format at Topoi-Haus-Bibliothek.

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Programme  (PDF version)

Monday, July 20, 2015
after 18:00 h
Welcome Dinner at Biergarten Luise
Königin-Luise-Straße 40, Berlin-Dahlem
phone +49-30-841 888 0, www.luise-dahlem.de (site map)

Tuesday, July 21, 2015 (all sessions at Fabeckstraße 23/25, room 2.2063)
09:30 h
Morning coffee at ‘Holzlaube’, Fabeckstraße 23/25 (metro station Dahlem Dorf)

10:00 h
Welcome note by Markham J. Geller
"Introduction to Fumigation in Mesopotamia" by Strahil V. Panayotov

10:30 h
Chair: Markham J. Geller, Freie Universität Berlin
Tanja Pommerening, Universität Mainz
“Fumigation and Fumigants in Ancient Egyptian Prescriptions“

11:15 h Coffee break

11:45 h
Chair: Markham J. Geller, Freie Universität Berlin
Giulia Ecca, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
“Fumigation in the Gynaecology of Early Imperial Time“

12:30 h
Lunch at „eßkultur“ im Ethnologischen Museum Dahlem, Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin
phone +40-30-830 1433, www.esskultur-berlin.de

14:00 h
Chair: Markham J. Geller, Freie Universität Berlin
Paul U. Unschuld, Charité Berlin
“Fumigation in China“

14:45 h
Reading session I
Chair: Martin Worthington, Cambridge University
Discussions of texts from the “Reader” – in round-table format.

15:30 h Afternoon tea

16:00 h
Reading session II
Chair: Martin Worthington, Cambridge University
Nils P. Heeßel, Universität Würzburg
“BRM IV/32 revisited“

16:45 h
Reinder Neef, Archaeobotanist DAI Berlin
“Plants”
ca. 17.00 h Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Im Dol 2-6. Haus 4, 14195 Berlin, phone +49-30-1877110

17:30 h
Reinder Neef and Julia Gresky, DAI Berlin
“Plants and Human Bones”, guided tour at DAI

18:45 h Dinner at Ethiopian Restaurant Bejte Ethiopia; Schöneberg
Zietenstraße 8, 10783 Berlin, metro station Nollendorfplatz (U3)
phone +49-30-262 59 33; mobile +49-173 619 04 79, www.bejte-ethiopia.de

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015 (all sessions at TOPOI-Haus, Bibliothek)
09:45 h
Morning coffee at TOPOI-Haus

10:15 h
Reading session I
“BM 45393+”
Irving L. Finkel, British Museum London

11:45 h Coffee break

12:00 h
Reading session II
“BM 45393+”
Irving L. Finkel, British Museum London

13:30 h Lunch at TOPOI-Haus, Catering/Finger food

14:30 h
Reading session III
“BM 45393+” and “A fumigation ritual against hip-libbi”
Irving L. Finkel, British Museum London / Henry Stadhouders, Universiteit Utrecht

16:00 h Closing note

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Conference Hotel
Campus Hotel Seminaris, Takustraße 39, 14195 Berlin
phone: +49 (0) 30 -55 77 97,
www.seminaris.de

Wireless Network Access for the duration of the Workshop:
WiFi: ‘Conference’
Password: 56pfnhc6
Conference participants should connect to the wireless networt with de SSID 'conference' and open an arbitrary web page. Instead of that page a form will appear in which the user can enter the key. Access too wireless netowrk will then be granted, und the user will be automatically forwarded to the web page that was originally called.
Please note, that 'conference' is an unsafe open network. Connections are not encrypted.

Berlin Public Transport information and Berlin address finder/maps: www.bvg.de

Berlin Taxi, 'Wuerfelfunk' +49-30-21 01 01
Tegel Airport-Dahlem: 35 to 40 mins, fare approx. 25 EUR
Schoenefeld Airport-Dahlem: 50 to 60 mins, fare approx. 35 EUR

Workshop Venues
Freie Universität Berlin
Tuesday, July 21, 2015: 'Holzlaube', Neubau Kleine Fächer, Fabeckstraße 23/25, Room 2.2063
Wednesday, July 22, 2015: TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14915 Berlin-Dahlem, Room: Library/Ground Floor

BabMed office
Agnes Kloocke
Freie Universität Berlin
BabMed - Babylonian Medicine
'Rostlaube', Habelschwerdter Allee 45, Room JK30/204
14195 Berlin
phone:+49-(0)30 838 58038
contact: babylonian-medicine@geschkult.fu-berlin.de