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SATURDAY, 21 AUGUST - SUNDAY, 22 AUGUST

Bridging the Baltic: Medicine in the Baltic Sea region IV symposium, organized by the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Rīga Stradiņš University, Odense University, and Lund University

MONDAY, 23 AUGUST

RSU Anatomy Museum, 9 Kronvalda blvd.
 
09:00-16:00 Pre-Congress Workshop (ONLINE) by Yoel Donchin "The Smart Use of Video Clips and Movies as an Effective Tool for Teaching History of Medicine” (25.00 EUR). More information

14:30 - 16:00 Inaugural Joint Session of ISHM (International Society for History of Medicine) and IAHN (International Association for the History of Nephrology)

Chairs: Carlos VIESCA-TREVIŇO,  Athanasios DIAMANDOPOULOS

16:00 - 17:00 ISHM Executive bureau meeting

17:00 - 18:00 ISHM Administrative council meeting & polls

18:00 - 18:45 Opening ceremony

18:45 - 19:30 Keynote lecture by Jacalyn DUFFIN (Canada) “Stanley's Dream: The Medical Expedition to Easter Island”.

20:00 Get-together reception at Pauls Stradins Museum of History of Medicine

 

TUESDAY, 24 AUGUST

RSU Anatomy Museum, 9 Kronvalda blvd.

10:00 - 12:00 Session 1
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Dana BARAN

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 - 14:30 Session 2
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Vilma GUDIENE

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 - 16:30 Session 3
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Benjamin KUNTZ

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 17:45 Keynote lecture by Nils HANSSON (Germany) “How (not) to Win the Nobel Prize: Winners and Losers in Nobel Prize history”.

17:45 - 18:30 Panel discussion moderated by Nils HANSSON “The Gender Award Gap in Medicine”. Panelists: Marika GARNIZONE (Latvia), Jacalyn DUFFIN (Canada) and Jocalyn CLARK (U.K.)

19:00 - Old town tour and Pharmacy museum

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25

RSU Anatomy Museum, 9 Kronvalda blvd.

Satellite symposium Anatomy & Beyond
In collaboration with AEIMS / BIOMAB / ARSIC
Supported by Embassy of Belgium to Sweden and Latvia, General Representation of the Government of Flanders in Poland and the Baltic States, Vesalius Trust and Mr Didzis Gavars

09:45-10:00 Symposium opening

Session A. Moderator Ieva LĪBIETE, Latvia. ONSITE

  • 10:00-10:30 Alien Anatomies. Richard WINGATE, U.K.
  • 10:30-11:00 Anatomy for the surgeon: Then, Now and into the future. Francis WELLS, U.K.
  • 11:30-12:00 Existential Anatomy. Joe DAVIS, U.S.

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break

Session B. Moderator Ann VAN DE VELDE, Belgium

  • 13:00-13:30 Regenerative synthetic ecosystems and evolving asteroid starships: a cybernetic reframing of the politics, poetics and ethics of space colonization. Angelo VERMEULEN, Belgium.
  • 13:30-14:00 Intelligent Facial Prostheses. Andrew BURD, U.K./China.
  • 14:00-14:30 Exploring the Link Between Our Cultural & Biological Evolution through Art : in the Anthropocene Age. Mara G. HASELTINE, U.S.

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break

Session C. Moderator Pascale POLLIER, Belgium / U.K.

  • 15:00-15:30 Anatomy Museums of a Critical Posthumanist. Nina SELLARS, Australia.
  • 15:30-16:00 The edge of Anatomy. Andrew CARNIE, U.K.
  • 16:00-16:30 The Past of the Future. Eleanor CROOK, U.K.

16:30-17:00 Coffee break

17:00-17:45 ISHM Keynote lecture by Alexander Lucas Bieri (CH) “Andreas Vesal’s Lasting Impact on the Art of the Danse Macabre”.

Panel “Death and Beyond”. Moderator Alya DIRIX, Belgium / Greece.

  • 17:45-18:00 How would Sophocles's Antigone bury and rebury her brother tomorrow? Theo DIRIX, Belgium / Greece.
  • 18:00-18:15 Dealing with the Dead - Sentiment versus Modernity. William EDWARDS, U.K.
  • 18:15-18:30 Should humans from the past exist as digital humans in the future? Mark ROUGHLEY, U.K.
  • 18:30 - 18:45 Open floor panel discussion

19:00-19:15 Bryan W. GREEN, U.K. Performance “Anatomy & Beyond”.

Vernissage of the “Anatomy & Beyond” exhibition
Rector’s reception at the Anatomy Museum

THURSDAY, 26 AUGUST

RSU Anatomy Museum, 9 Kronvalda blvd.

10:00 - 12:00 Session 4
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Ramunas KONDRATAS

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 - 14:30 Session 5
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Agostinho MOREIRA DE SOUSA

 14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 - 16:30 Session 6
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Juris SALAKS

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

19:00 - Gala dinner. Pauls Stradiņš Awards Ceremony.

Organizers kindly invite you to join the Gala dinner, which will take place in Wellton Riverside SPA Hotel with a terrace and a wonderful view of the longest river of Latvia, the Daugava (additional fee)

Address: 33, 11. Novembra krastmala, Riga, LV-1050, Latvia

FRIDAY, AUGUST 27

RSU Anatomy Museum, 9 Kronvalda blvd.

10:00 - 10:45 Keynote lecture by Dan HEALEY “The Notebooks of Gulag Doctors: Medical service in Stalin’s Labour Camps”.

10:45-11:30 Panel discussion moderated by Florian Steger (Germany) “Medicine and Totalitarianism”. Panelists: Marcin Orzechowski (Germany), Ineta Lipša (Latvia)

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

12:00-13:30 Session 7
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Aistis ŽALNORA

13:30-14:30 Lunch break

14:30-16:30  Session 8
up to 10 min per presentation

Chair: Florian STEGER

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00- 19:00 General assembly. Closing & Professor Mark Mirsky award ceremony

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