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Call for papersWorkshop: The texts of the medical profession in antiquity - genres and purposesto be held at the University of Oslo, 16th-18th September 2010&#160;&#160;Organisers: Isabella Andorlini (University of Parma); David Leith (University College London) and Anastasia Maravela-Solbakk (University of Oslo)&#160;Confirmed speakers: Heinrich Von Staden (Princeton), Vivian Nutton (UCL), Philip van der Eijk (Newcastle), Laurence Totelin (Cardiff), Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge), Ann Ellis Hanson (Yale).&#160;We are inviting the submission of abstracts for papers (duration: 20-30 min.) to be presented at the workshop &#8221;The texts of the medical profession in antiquity: genres and purposes&#8221; (16-18 September 2010 in Oslo, Norway). The papers may deal with any text or group of medical texts from Graeco-Roman antiquity as long as what is in focus are issues of genre, cross-generic relations and/ or purpose. We are particularly interested in discussions of generic features and classification as well as the purpose of medical texts recovered on papyri. We are also keen on papers exploring the term &#8221;handbook&#8221; both within medicine and in comparison with the use of the term for other prose texts.Please submit your abstract by March 1st, 2010 to:anastasia.maravela-solbakk@ifikk.uio.no