BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//jEvents 2.0 for Joomla//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Rome BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20240229T000000 RDATE:20240331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241027T020000 RDATE:20250330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T020000 RDATE:20260329T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20261025T020000 RDATE:20270328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20271031T020000 RDATE:20280326T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20281029T020000 RDATE:20290325T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20291028T020000 RDATE:20300331T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20301027T020000 RDATE:20310330T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20311026T020000 RDATE:20320328T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CET END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240331T030000 RDATE:20241027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T030000 RDATE:20251026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260329T030000 RDATE:20261025T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20270328T030000 RDATE:20271031T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20280326T030000 RDATE:20281029T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20290325T030000 RDATE:20291028T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20300331T030000 RDATE:20301027T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20310330T030000 RDATE:20311026T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:Europe/Rome CEST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9ec249e0efeefcbbbc647293bb0f673c CATEGORIES:Call for papers CREATED:20250119T200606 SUMMARY:LECTIO XIV International Conference 'Representing the Human and Animal Body' DESCRIPTION: The LECTIO 2025 conference is dedicated to the representation of the human body, both in itself and in its relation to other animals, from antiquity to the present day. For centuries, the “fabric of the human body” was model ed on dissections of sheep, monkeys, and pigs until anatomists like Andreas Vesalius began to challenge this practice in the first half of the sixteen th century. Indeed, since antiquity, animals have served as visual and ling uistic metaphors to help decipher the appearance and inner workings of the human body. Representations of the human body have continuously been shaped against the backdrop of the entire bestiary, a legacy still evident in mod ern medical discourse with such terms as “goose skin” and “cancer”.\nThe co nference aims to explore aspects of the longstanding debate surrounding the visual representation of the human and animal body. Alongside visual repre sentation, the conference also seeks to examine the use of words and metaph ors in representing living human and animal bodies, as well as the interpla y—or tension—between the media of language and imagery. It furthermore aims to trace the transmission of knowledge across linguistic traditions, focus ing on issues of terminology and translation related to the human and anima l body throughout history.\nThe visual and linguistic representation of the living body provides a unique lens through which to examine humans’ relati onship with “the other,” across species and cultures. Gender differences ar e particularly relevant in this context, as the human body was historically equated with the adult male body in European medicine and art. This bias c ontinues to pose challenges today, such as in drug testing, which often pri oritizes male patients, resulting in treatments less suited to women’s bodi es.\nBy focusing on representations of the body across history and into the present, the LECTIO 2025 Conference aims to bring together specialists fro m diverse disciplines, including medicine, intellectual history, history of science, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy, art history, book hist ory, legal history, and religious studies. True to LECTIO’s interdisciplina ry mission, this approach fosters cross-disciplinary dialogue, significantl y enriching our understanding of visual and linguistic representations of t he human and animal body from antiquity to the present day.\nThe conference proceedings will be published in the LECTIO Series (https://www.kuleuven.b e/lectio/series).\nCall for papersWe invite submissions on any relevant top ic in the history of medical sciences and health, broadly conceived, and en courage a wide range of disciplinary approaches, time periods, and geograph ical contexts, including contemporary practices. Possible topics include bu t are not limited to:\n\n - the use of images, words, and metaphors to visu alize and describe human and animal bodies in medicine, law, theology, lite rature, and culture across the ages;\n - the techniques and materials used in visualizing and describing human and animal bodies;\n - the translation of medical knowledge in text and image, from the Greek-Arabic-Latin traditi on to the present, including interactions with non-European traditions such as those of China;\n - the descriptions, representations and classificatio ns of animal species, from an intercultural a global perspective.ubmit your abstractWe invite two types of presentations:\n\n - talks (between 30 and 40 minutes, including Q&A)\n - flash presentations (10 minutes, by mean s of poster or video)Please send your abstract of 250-300 words by 1 March  2025 (end of the day). \nFor more info (https://www.kuleuven.be/lectio/even ts/lectio-xiv-international-conference-representing-the-human-and-animal-bo dy).\n X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

 The LECTIO 2025 conference is dedicated to the representation of t he human body, both in itself and in its relation to other animals, from an tiquity to the present day. For centuries, the “fabric of the human body” w as modeled on dissections of sheep, monkeys, and pigs until anatomists like Andreas Vesalius began to challenge this practice in the first half of the sixteenth century. Indeed, since antiquity, animals have served as visual and linguistic metaphors to help decipher the appearance and inner workings of the human body. Representations of the human body have continuously bee n shaped against the backdrop of the entire bestiary, a legacy still eviden t in modern medical discourse with such terms as “goose skin” and “cancer”.

The conference aims to explore aspects of the lon gstanding debate surrounding the visual representation of the human and ani mal body. Alongside visual representation, the conference also seeks t o examine the use of words and metaphors in representing living human and a nimal bodies, as well as the interplay—or tension—between the media of lang uage and imagery. It furthermore aims to trace the transmission of knowledg e across linguistic traditions, focusing on issues of terminology and trans lation related to the human and animal body throughout history.

The v isual and linguistic representation of the living body provides a unique le ns through which to examine humans’ relationship with “the other,” across s pecies and cultures. Gender differences are particularly relevant in this c ontext, as the human body was historically equated with the adult male body in European medicine and art. This bias continues to pose challenges today , such as in drug testing, which often prioritizes male patients, resulting in treatments less suited to women’s bodies.

By focusing on represen tations of the body across history and into the present, the LECTIO 2025 Co nference aims to bring together specialists from diverse disciplines, inclu ding medicine, intellectual history, history of science, linguistics, liter ary studies, philosophy, art history, book history, legal history, and reli gious studies. True to LECTIO’s interdisciplinary mission, this approach fo sters cross-disciplinary dialogue, significantly enriching our understandin g of visual and linguistic representations of the human and animal body fro m antiquity to the present day.

The conference pro ceedings will be published in the LECTIO Series.

Call for papers

We invite submissions on any relevant topic in the history of medical sciences and h ealth, broadly conceived, and encourage a wide range of disciplinary approa ches, time periods, and geographical contexts, including contemporary pract ices. Possible topics include but are not limited to:

ubmit your abstract

We invite two types of presentations:

Please send your abstract of 250-300 words by 1 March 2025 (end of the day).&nb sp;

For more info.

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