Please join us for a SPECIAL PUBLIC LECTURE
by Dr. Efraim Lev, Associate Professor
Department of Land of Israel Studies
University of Haifa, Israel
“Practical and Theoretical Medicine in Medieval Eastern Societies: The Case of the Cairo Genizah “
on: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 4:00pm
Dodd Research Center - Konover Auditorium
Register for the event here!
Dr. Lev is co-director of a center recently established at University of Haifa called The Interdisciplinary Center for the Broader Application of Genizah Research, a center that is using newly available digital technologies to foster wider and more diverse use of the extraordinary historical archives of the Cairo Genizah. (If you are unfamiliar with the Cairo Genizah, you can get a quick sense of it from the site of Cambridge’s digital collection. There will also be a display in the Dodd Center of some of their Genizah Research during that same week – come check it out!
Dr. Efraim Lev (B.A., M.Sc. Ph.D) is serving as the Head of the Department of Humanities and Arts at the Technion, Israel. Prof. Lev studied at Bar-Ilan University and was trained both as a historian and as a field biologist and therefore his academic work has always had a strong interdisciplinary focus. His current research focuses on ethno-pharmacology and the history of medicine in the medieval Middle East with particular emphasis on the medical documents in the Cairo Genizah (11th-13th century). In his project, “Medicine of the Genizah People”, he created a carefully planned framework of research teams, that reconstructed the medieval inventory of the practical materia medica of the Genizah community; and studied and published its original and practical prescriptions, list of drugs and medical notebooks.
The event is open to the community, faculty, staff, students - all are welcome to attend. Refreshments will be served just prior to and following the event. It will last approximately 1 hour, with time for questions and answers following.
Please visit our website for any additional information, and to register: judaicstudies.uconn.edu.
For more information, contact: Rae Asselin at rae.asselin@uconn.edu