This month the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCLA will host a weekend conference focusing on the traditional knowledge of the therapeutic uses of plants. Co-organized by Alain Touwaide, this conference will bring together specialists from various disciplines involved in the study of medical traditions and will foster cross-disciplinary studies between medicine and the humanities.
The weekend conference will begin on Saturday, February 27 with a keynote lecture by Alain Touwaide titled, “Medical Traditions: Knowledge in the Making”. This will be followed by sessions about medicinal plants, herbals, culture and medicine. The conference concludes on Sunday, February 28.
A summary of planned presentations follows.
Conference Highlights:
- Aspirin in Antiquity? Or Principles and Practices of Retrospective Pharmacognosy
- Medicine Box and Dining Table: Uses of Exotic Plants in Ancient Greece and Rome
- Medicinal Plants from Monastery Medicine for the 21st Century
- Tracing Drug Trajectories in the Early Modern Netherlands: Evidence from Newspaper Advertisements
- The De la Cruz-Badiano Manuscript of 1552: America’s First Herbal in the 21st Century
- More than Chemistry: Cultural Contexts for Healing and Well-being for First Peoples of Northwestern North America
- Ayurveda Pharmacology: An ancient paradigm, modern relevance
- The Chinese Botanico-Medical Tradition
- Imperialism, Modern Pharmacology and Traditional Medicine: Rudolf Kobert (1854-1918) and the Pharmakologisches Institut in Dorpat
- Traditional Chinese Medicine: An Ancient Treasure for the World Beyond Artemisinin
- Future application of Traditional Medical Knowledge intrinsically linked to Conservation of Culture and Biodiversity in Geographical Origins of Wild Medicinal Plants: The case of Nanwuweizi from the Giant Panda Habitat
For conference details and to register, go to Medical Traditions for the 21st Century.
This event if free and open to the public. Registration is required.
Seating is limited.
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