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SESSION I: Infectious Disease: Treatment and Responses in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts Respondent: Christoph Wieselhuber (University of Bremen, Homo Debilis Creative Unit)
Erin Connelly (University of Nottingham): ‘Treating Infection in the Middle English Translation of the Lilium Medicinae’
Professor John Flood (Emeritus, University of London): ‘Crisis? What Crisis? Professional Responses to Sweating Sickness in England and Germany’
Dr Conor Kostick (University of Nottingham): ‘Climate, Epidemics and Epizootics 400 - 1000 CE’
SESSION II: Responses to Leprosy Respondent: Alexander Grimm (University of Bremen, Homo Debilis Creative Unit)
Dr Damien Jeanne (University of Caen): ‘Religious Behavior Facing Illness in the Middle Ages: the Lepers’ Case’
Ninon Duborg (University of Paris): ‘Being a Leprous Cleric: In/ability to Hold a Benefice’
Andreas Dimopoulos (Brunel University): ‘Disabling Law and Leprosy in the Middle Ages’
SESSION III: Infection between Medieval and Modern Respondent: Dr Christina Lee
Dr Steve Atkinson (University of Nottingham): 'The biology behind plague virulence’
Dr Steve Diggle (University of Nottingham): ‘Bacterial Small Talk: Quorum Sensing in Bacterial Infections’
Dr Freya Harrison (University of Nottingham): ‘Testing the Efficacy of a 1,000-year-old Antimicrobial Remedy’
Professor Ben Krause-Kyora (University of Kiel): ‘Leprosy - New Insights from Ancient Specimens’
SESSION IV: Trauma and Disease Respondent: Erin Connelly (University of Nottingham)
Professor Wendy Turner (Georgia Regents University): ‘Medieval Psychotics: Infection of the Brain, Influence of the Moon, and Intermittent Disorder’
Joanna Phillips (University of Leeds): ‘ “Oh, the grief of all … Each day saw the funerals of their comrades”: Infectious Disease and the Crusader Sieges of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries’
SESSION V: Miracles & Care Respondent: Dr Irina Metzler (Wellcome Trust Fellow/ University Swansea)
Professor Charlotte Roberts (Durham University): ‘Applying the “Index of Care” to a Person who suffered Leprosy in Late Medieval England’
Dr Jenni Kuulaila (University of Tampere, University of Bremen/Homo Debilis Creative Unit): ‘Definitions and Roles of Leprosy Miracles in Later Medieval Hagiographic Documents’
Clara Jáuregui (University of Barcelona): ‘The Santa Margarida’s Hospital of Barcelona: a Leper’s Way of Life’
SESSION VI: Metaphors Respondent: Professor Wendy Turner
Professor Sonja Kerth (University of Bremen, Homo Debilis Creative Unit): ‘Leprosy as Metaphor? Concepts of Hansen's Disease in Mediaeval German Narratives’
Stefanie Künzel (University of Nottingham): ‘Epidemic Disease in Anglo-Saxon England’
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