Diseases and Death in Premodern and Modern Era
Pardubice 10. – 11. 12. 2019
Venue: Pardubice, Náměstí Československých legií 565, Room 03004
Tuesday 10. 12. 2019
Opening Session
10:00 WELCOME ADDRESS
don José Miguel de Lara Toledo (The Cultural Attaché of Spanish Embassy in
the Czech Republic)
10:30 KEYNOTE SPEECH
Vaccines, Spas and Yellow Fever: Experts, Professional Honour and the State
in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Darina Martykánová (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
Víctor Núñez García (Universidad de Sevilla)
11:15 Coffee Break
I. CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF MEDICINE
11:40 The Discourse of Hysteria, Delirium and Melancholy in Nineteenth-Century Spain. Methodological problems and sources
Javier Martínez Dos Santos (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid/ CSIC)
12:00 Future Epidemics and Other Health Terrors: The Image of Sickness in Nineteenth-Century Cartoonists
Ainhoa Gilarranz Ibáñez (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3)
12:20 Cultures of Neurasthenia: The Medical Discourse of Neurasthenia in Spain
in Transnational Perspective, c.1880-1930
Violeta Ruiz Cuenca (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
12:40 – 13:10 Discussion
13:30 – 15:00 Conference Lunch
II. SOCIAL PRACTICE, MEDICINE AND MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS
15:00 Honour, Life and Death: The Practice of Dueling in Nineteenth-Century Spain
Elia Blanco Rodríguez (Universidad del País Vasco)
15:20 Anonymous Bodies? The Process of Disciplination in Tuberculosis Sanatoriums
Šárka Rábová (Univerzita Pardubice)
15:40-16:10 Discussion
16:10 Coffee Break
16:40 Epidemics, Death, and Sanitary Infrastructures in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Manila
Ros Costelo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid/University of the Philippines)
17:00 Diseases and Deaths of “Forgotten Children”: On Medical Treatment in the Institutes for Children´s Mental Disroders and Reformatory Schools in Bohemia, 1900-1950
Elisabeth Ryšavá (Univerzita Pardubice)
17:20 – 17:50 Discussion
18:00 Guided tour through Pardubice city
Wednesday 11. 12. 2019
III. DEATH, DISEASES AND BURIAL RITES
10:00 Custodial, Corporal, Capital Punisment? History of Mortality in the Pankrac Prison
Tereza Kopecká (Univerzita Karlova Praha/Fakultní nemocnice Motol)
10:20 Death of a Child in Noble Family: Prince Walter Prosper (1839-1841) and Funeral Ritual of Schwarzenbergs in the Nineteenth Century
Jan Bouška (Univerzita Karlova Praha)
10:40 Funeral of Jaromír Czernin 1908
Michal Jirman (Univerzita Jana Evangelisty Purkyně Ústí nad Labem)
11:00 – 11:30 Discussion
11:30 Closing remarks
Vladan Hanulík (Univerzita Pardubice)
12:00 - 14:00 Conference Lunch
14:00-18:00 Post-conference guided tour to Hospital Kuks
Visit of Hospital Kuks (hospital, old pharmacies, Sporcks´family tomb)
18:00 Return to Pardubice
