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PASSAGES FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE MIDDLE AGES V
Infirmitas. Social and Cultural Approaches to Cure, Caring and Health.
August 23 - 26, 2012
University of Tampere, Finland
Pinni B building (for a map of the campus area, click here).

The fifth international Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages conference will focus on social and cultural approaches to health and illness, cure and caring, and notions of ability and disability. These topics are of major importance for communities and societies both in Antiquity and during the Middle Ages, yet research is still fragmentary and more synthetic and interdisciplinary approaches are rare. The conference's focus lies on society and the history of everyday life, on the differences and similarities between elite and popular culture, and on the expectations linked to gender and life-cycle stage, visible in the practices and policies under scrutiny. How were physical and mental disability/ability defined within daily life; what were the social consequences of illness; how was social interaction reflected in caring for the sick; how were cure and caring organised in families, communities and in society?

The conference aims at broad coverage not only chronologically but also geographically and disciplinarily (all branches of Classical and Medieval Studies). The speakers of the conference will include Nancy Caciola (University of California, San Diego), William V. Harris (Columbia University), Gábor Klaniczay (Central European University, Budapest), Ray Laurence (University of Kent) and Christian Krötzl (University of Tampere).

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University of Tampere,
School of Social Sciences and Humanities, History

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