Conference 'Healing the People: Printing and Popularizing Medicine in Early Modern Japan', Leiden University, May 20 & 21

[Angelika Koch]

Dear colleagues, 

I would like to draw your attention to an upcoming conference, 'Healing the People: Printing and Popularizing Medicine in Early Modern Japan', to be held at Leiden University on May 20 & 21. This will be a hybrid event and you are cordially invited to join us via Zoom or in person. Please simply register via the following link before May 18 and you will receive a Zoom link twenty-four hours before the event.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeYdFEczHfJuIdA-Ncks8OqIDmV7ZmEQ5ysZOsH1xojzgxAsA/viewform?usp=sf_link . 

I am including the flyer and programme below. Please note that all times are in CET. 

With best wishes,

Angelika Koch

PROGRAMME

INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ‘HEALING THE PEOPLE: POPULARIZING AND PRINTING MEDICINE IN EDO JAPAN’

Leiden University, May 20-21, 2022

Day 1: Friday May 20

9:00-9:05

Welcome

Angelika Koch (Leiden University)

9:05-10:30

KEYNOTE 

Susan Burns (University of Chicago)

Advertisements for Patent Medications in Early Modern Japan

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-12:30

KEYNOTE

Shigehisa Kuriyama (Harvard University)

The Primacy of Popular Imagination in the Historical Experience of  Sickness

12:30-13:30

Lunch break

13:30-15:30

Panel 1: Printing Medicine in Early Modern Japan

Chair: Ivo Smits (Leiden University)

Peter Kornicki ( University of Cambridge, Emeritus) (R)

Baiju’s Medical Printing and the Abandonment of Movable Type in Early 17th-century Japan

Daniel Trambaiolo (University of Hong Kong) (R)

The Old Cures and the New: Life Cycles of Medical Knowledge in Print

Angelika Koch (Leiden University)

Disease Attacks! Or Medical Advertising as Narrative: A Case Study of Ehon medetagusa

Day 2: Saturday May 21

09:00-11:00

Panel 2: Medicine and Literature in Early Modern Japan

Chair: Doreen Müller (Leiden University)

Lawrence Marceau (Ritsumeikan University, Arts Research Centre) (R)

Bodies in the Japanese Aesop: What is Normal and What is Abnormal?

Alessandro Bianchi (Bodleian Library, University of Oxford)

Erudite Parodies and Intellectual Divertissements: Medicine and Literature in Early Modern Japan

Mayumi Tsuda (Keio University) (R)

Smallpox Illustrated Books and Their Publication: What We Can Learn From Jippensha Ikku’s Karukuchibanashi

11:00-11:15

Coffee break

11:15-12:30

Panel 4a: Lay Perspectives on Medicine and Healing

Chair: Anna Andreeva (Ghent University)

Koizumi Yurina (Pola Foundation)

フランス人宣教師ド・ロ神父の活動と庶民の医学・福祉観　――　長崎県外海地方にとっての近世と近代　(in Japanese)

Kawasaki Mizuho (Bunri University of Hospitality) 

Image of Medicine in the Sato-Kagura of the Kanto Region: Motifs of Medical or Magical Practitioners and their Musical Representations

12:30-13:30

Lunch break

13:30-15.00

Panel 3: Health Cultivation Texts in Early Modern Japan

Chair: Andreas Niehaus (Ghent University)

Michael Kinski (Goethe University Frankfurt)

Takai Ranzan’s Health Manual ‘Injikai’ (Precepts on Sex)

Joshua Schlachet (University of Arizona)

Better Pay the Cookbook than the Doctor: Decentering Medical Expertise in Early Modern Japanese Dietary Guides

15:00-16:30

Panel 4b: Lay Perspectives on Medicine and Healing

Chair: Angelika Koch (Leiden University)

Maren Ehlers (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)

Popularizing Smallpox Vaccinations in Echizen Province and Beyond

Fabian Drixler (Yale University)

Abortion as a Punchline and the Pharmaceutical Knowledge behind the Joke

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

17:00-17:30

Roundtable discussion 

*Talks marked (R ) will be given remotely.