Klaus-Dietrich Fischer - The Frontiers of Ancient Science

Isabella Andorlini, a former researcher at the Girolamo Vitelli Papyrological Institute in Florence, is currently Associate Professor of Papyrology at the University of Parma. Her research has been principally concerned with the Corpus of Greek Medical Papyri project. She is the editor of the Greek Medical Papyri (I, Florence 2001; II, Florence 2009) and the author of a range of essays on other aspects of the medical tradition. She has published literary and documentary papyri from various international collections. In the Academic Year 2002/2003 she was awarded a Membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

Markus Asper received his PhD from Freiburg University in 1994. After some time at Konstanz and Mainz, he spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (20032004). From there, he moved on to appointments at Pennsylvania State University and New York University before he came to Humboldt University at Berlin in 2010, where he is currently Professor of Greek. His main areas of research are Hellenistic poetry, especially Callimachus, and ancient literature on science (see most recently the collection Writing Science of 2013).

Han Baltussen is the Hughes Professor of Classics at the University of Adelaide (Australia). He was a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 2006 (Fall/Winter). He is the author of Theophrastus Against the Presocratics and Plato (2000), co-editor of Philosophy, Science, and Exegesis in Greek, Latin, and Arabic Commentaries (2 vols, 2004), author of Philosophy and Exegesis in Simplicius: The Methodology of a Commentator (2008), editor of Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight Studies of a Tradition and its Afterlife (2012), and co-translator of Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotles Physics 1.59 (2012). His current work is concerned with the Peripatetics after Aristotle, ancient grief management, and forms of censorship in antiquity.

Alan C. Bowen, Director of the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science (Princeton), is a historian of ancient Greco-Latin science and philosophy. His most recent books are New Perspectives on Aristotles De caelo (2009, with Christian Wildberg) and Simplicius on the Planets and their Motions: In Defense of a Heresy (2013). He is currently writing a monograph on Hellenistic astronomy. He is also the editor (with Tracy Rihll) of the journal Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science and Director (with Francesca Rochberg) of EKOHEarly Knowledge of the Heavens: A Digital Library for Mediterranean, Near Eastern, and South Asian Contexts.

Philippe Charlier is an Assistant Professor in Forensic Medicine and an anthropologist (MD, PhD, LittD). He is the head of the Laboratory of Medical and Forensic Anthropology at West Paris University (UVSQ, AP-HP). His specialization is in retrospective diagnosis and human identification.

Andrea Falcon is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Concordia University, Montreal. He works on Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition in antiquity, with a focus on Aristotles philosophy of nature. He is the author of Corpi e Movimenti: la fortuna del De caelo nel mondo antico (Bibliopolis 2001); Aristotle and the Science of Nature: Unity without Uniformity (Cambridge University Press 2005); Aristotelianism in the First Century BCE: Xenarchus of Seleucia (Cambridge University Press 2011).

Christopher Athanasius Faraone is the Frank C. and Gertrude M. Springer Professor of the College and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. His work is primarily concerned with ancient Greek religion and poetry. He is co-editor (with D. Dodd) of Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives (2003), (with L. McClure) of Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Ancient World (2005), (with F. Naiden) of Ancient Victims, Modern Observers: Reflections on Greek and Roman Sacrifice (2011), and (with D. Obbink) of The Getty Hexameters : Poetry, Magic, and Mystery in Ancient Selinous (Oxford 2013). He is the sole author of Talismans and Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Ancient Greek Myth and Ritual (1992), Ancient Greek Love Magic (1999), The Stanzaic Architecture of Ancient Greek Elegiac Poetry (2008) and numerous articles on ancient Greek magic, poetry, and religion. He is currently working on a book on ancient Greek amulets.

Educated at the universities of Munich, Edinburgh, and Berlin (Free University), Klaus-Dietrich Fischer was awarded a doctorate in Classics for his edition of Pelagonii ars ueterinaria in 1980. His professional career was in the History of Medicine, teaching first at Berlins Free University (from 1976) and later (from 1987) at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, where he has organised, first with Werner F. Kmmel and now with Tanja Pommerening, annual workshops (Arbeitskreis Alte Medizin). If he remembers correctly, he first met Heinrich von Staden at a conference in Saint-tienne in 1989, and has been very grateful for his encouragement and friendship spanning almost a quarter of a century. It was Heinrich who convinced him to apply to the Institute for Advanced Study, where he spent many happy months in 2009 as a Member of the School of Historical Studies, literally a few steps from his office, and again as a Visitor in Summer 2011.

Allan Gotthelf (19422013), one of the foremost experts on Aristotles philosophy of biology, was at the time of his death Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at The College of New Jersey and Anthem Foundation Distinguished Fellow for Research and Teaching in Philosophy at Rutgers. A collection of his essays, Teleology, First Principles, and Scientific Method in Aristotles Biology, was published by Oxford in 2012. He was a Member at the Institute of Advanced Study in 2001.

Danielle Gourevitch is an Emeritus University Professor, Directeur of Studies at the cole pratique des hautes tudes, a specialist in the history of ancient medicine, and the author of over three hundred articles and fifteen books. Her latest book recently appeared from De Boccard (Paris, 2013): Limos kai loimos: A Study of the Galenic Plague. She has collaborated with Philippe Charlier on a series of colloquia on pathography and the publications of their proceedings. The most recent, 4e colloque international de pathographie. Saint-Jean-de-Cole, mai 2011, was published by De Boccard in 2013.

Brooke Holmes is Professor in the Department of Classics at Princeton University. She is the author of The Symptom and the Subject: The Emergence of the Physical Body in Ancient Greece (Princeton, 2010) and Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy (Oxford, 2012), and two co-edited volumes, Aelius Aristides between Greece, Rome, and the Gods (Brill, 2008), with W. V. Harris, and Dynamic Reading: Studies in the Reception of Epicureanism (Oxford, 2012), with W. H. Shearin, as well as numerous articles on Greek literature, the history of medicine and the body, and ancient philosophy. She was a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in 20072008 on a Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors.

Carl Huffman is Senior Research Professor at DePauw University. He specializes in ancient Pythagoreanism and is the author of Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic and Archytas of Tarentum: Pythagorean, Philosopher and Mathematician King, both published by Cambridge. He has held two NEH fellowships, a Howard Foundation Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was a visitor in the School for Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study in 2009 while holding a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies.