Programme
Thursday, June 12th
9.30 Welcoming addresses: Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, Stephan Kloos, Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA), AAS
Acknowledgements
Session 1: Chair: Dominik Wujastyk, University Vienna
10.00 Katharina Sabernig, Medical University of Vienna, associated researcher of ISA/AAS
Anatomical Findings and Terminology of Blo bzang Chos grags
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Ulrike Steinert, Freie Universität Berlin
Concepts of the Female Body in Mesopotamian Gynaecological Texts
11.30 Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Goldsmiths, University of London
Counting body parts: views from the Hebrew Book of Asaf
12.00 Rodo Pfister, independent academic scholar, Basel
Philology of the Visual Elements of the Body Maps in ‘The Song of the Bodily Husk’ and Their Transmission through Time, Media and Places
12.30 Lunchbreak
Session 2: Chair: Michael Balk, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
13.30 Dominik Wujastyk, University of Vienna
What's Inside? The Ayurvedic Components of the Body
14.00 Cha Wung Seok, Kyunghee University, South Korea
Exchanges of Medical Knowledge and the Status of Anatomy in the East Asian Culture
14.30 Natalia Bolsokhoeva, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies, RAS, Ulan-Ude
Anatomical Paintings from Atsagat Medical School
15.00 Coffee break
16.30 Visit of the Museum for the History of Medicine holding anatomical wax-models
Währingerstraße 25, 1090 Vienna
18.00 Welcoming
Klaus-Dieter Mathes, Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna
Christiane Druml, Vice Rector for Clinical Affairs and Director of the Collections of the Medical University of Vienna
Keynote Lecture
Janet Gyatso, Harvard Divinity School
How to map the body -- and how it matters
Alte Kapelle: Spitalgasse 2, Hof 2, 1090 Vienna
Friday, June 13th
Session 3: Chair: Stephan Kloos, Institute for Social Anthropology, AAS
9.00 Rinchen Dhondrup, Qinghai University Tibetan Medical College
Exploring Mind and Body Connections from the Perspectives of Tibetan Medical Anatomy
9.30 Wangdue, Tibet Center in Austria
The anatomy of TTM corresponding to Astro and the Universe
10.00 Florian Ploberger, independent academic scholar, Vienna
Anatomical Terms of the 27 Chapters of the Subsequent Tantra (Phyi ma’i rgyud) from the Four Tantras of Tibetan Medicine (Rgyud bzhi)
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Stacey Van Vleet, Columbia University
The Circulation of Anatomical Knowledge between Tibet and Ming-Qing China
11.30 Elisabeth Hsu, University of Oxford
The anatomy of heart and liver in Tibetan and Chinese pulse diagnostics
12.00 Break
12.15 Dominik Wujastyk, University of Vienna
Round Table: Final Discussion
13.00 Lunch
Afternoon: optional sightseeing
19.00 Informal Dinner
