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    It is with deep and sincere regret that we have decided to postpone the conference ‘Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World’, following advice received this morning from Maynooth University regarding travel to and from the campus in light of the current coronavirus outbreak.
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    Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World

    Postponed
    Maynooth University, Ireland

    This interdisciplinary conference explores the reception and transmission of medical knowledge between and across England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and Scandinavia during the medieval period, and will draw on history, literature, philosophy, science, religion, art, archaeology and manuscript studies. It will interrogate medical texts and ideas in both Latin and vernacular languages, addressing questions of translation, cultural and scientific inheritance and exchange, and historical conceptions of health and of the human being within nature.

    Confirmed speakers: Dr Debby Banham (University of Cambridge); Prof. Guy Geltner (University of Amsterdam); Prof. Charlotte Roberts (Durham University)

    Organising committee: Dr Sarah Baccianti (Queen’s University Belfast); Dr Siobhán Barrett, Dr Bernhard Bauer & Dr Deborah Hayden (Maynooth University)

    Registration

    Registration for the conference is open:
    https://shop.nuim.ie/index.php?app=ecom&ns=prodshow&ref=2100108

    Programme and Abstracts

    The programme is available to download here: 

    MMNAW_Programme

    A book of abstracts is available here: 

    MMNAW_Abstracts

    Information

    For information on accommodation and travel please download the following booklet: 

    MMNAW_Information

    Financial Assistance

    Individuals can apply to the following organisations for financial support to attend the conference:

    TOEBI
    http://www.toebi.org.uk/grants-for-graduates/
    Applications should be sent via email to Dr. Helen Appleton (helen.appleton@ell.ox.ac.uk)

    Viking Society for Northern Research
    https://www.le.ac.uk/ee/viking/researchfund.htm
    Applications should be send via email to Dr. Hannah Burrows (hannah.burrows@abdn.ac.uk)

    The Medieval Academy of America
    https://www.medievalacademy.org/page/Travel_Grants

    Royal Historical Society
    http://royalhistsoc.org/grants/conference-travel/