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CMRS Medical Humanities ConferenceAsclepius, the Paintbrush, and the Pen: Representations of Disease in Medieval and Early Modern European Art and LiteratureMay 4 - May 5Humanity has always approached disease with a mixture of curiosity and dread. Medieval and early modern people were no exception, displaying a deep fascination with virulent ailments and all sorts of physical deformities. But despite this a attraction, few artists of these eras engaged in the depiction of disease. When they did, their expression was particular to the medium used and differed among artists even when using the same medium. Since such an effort was outside their norm, what factors drove them to pick up pen or brush to approach maladies as a subject of esthetic expression? How did the artists’ experiences influence their choices in portraying disease? Were these depictions the result of something that interfered with their intent to faithfully reproduce the best of nature, or do they reflect a rebellion against what we generally assume to be the period`s artistic and literary quest: the portrayal of spiritual beauty and, later, the rediscovered beauty of the human body?This conference, organized by Professor Massimo Ciavolella (Italian, UCLA) and Professor Rinaldo Canalis, MD (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA), engages these questions and the contemporary perspective they elicit.Funding for this symposium is provided by the Endowment for the UCLA Center for Medieval &#38; Renaissance Studies.&#160;SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2018 | UCLA ROYCE HALL 3148:30 AMRegistration, coffee9:00Welcoming RemarksSession I | Allison Collins (UCLA), chair9:15Francis Wells (Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge)“The Role of the Decorative Arts in Disease”10:00Break10:15Joachim Küpper (Freie Universität Berlin)“Malady in Literary Texts from the Medieval and the Early Modern Periods – Some Hypotheses On a Paradoxical Constellation”11:00Break11:15Gaia Gubbini (Freie Universität Berlin)“Leprosy, Melancholy, Folly, and their Representations in Medieval French Literature”12:00 PMBreak12:15Alain Touwaide (UCLA, The Huntington, and Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions )“The Art of Medicine in Byzantium: Disease and Disability in Byzantine Manuscripts”1:00Lunch BreakSession II | Rinaldo Canalis (UCLA), chair2:15Domenico Bertoloni Meli (Indiana University Bloomington)“Textures of Lesions – Textures of Prints”3:00Break3:15Manuela Gallerani (Università di Bologna)“Illness in art and art in illness: reflections based on paradigmatic works by Italian Renaissance artists”4:00Break4:15Sara Frances Burdorff (UCLA)“‘Yet have I in me something dangerous’: Demonopathy, the Pox, and the Melancholy Dane in Shakespeare’s Hamlet“SATURDAY, MAY 5, 2018 | UCLA ROYCE HALL 3149:00CoffeeSession III | Monique Kornell (CMRS Associate), chair9:30Valeria Finucci (Duke University)“The King and the Art of Brain Surgery”10:15Break10:30Alfonso Paolella (University of Naples)“The ‘mal franzoso’ between art, history and literature. Paracelso and Della Porta”11:15Break11:30Efraín Kristal (UCLA)“Nicolas Poussin’s ‘The Plague at Ashdod’ and the French Disease”12:15Lunch BreakSession IV | Guendalina Ajello Mahler (CMRS Associate )1:30Jenni Kuuliala (University of Tampere)“Miracle and the Monstrous: Disability and Deviant Bodies in the Late Middle Ages”2:15Break2:30Lori Jones (University of Ottawa)“‘Fevers, Botches, and Carbuncles’: Describing the Plague in Late Medieval and Early Modern Medical Treatises”3:15Break3:30Roberto Fedi (Università per Stranieri di Perugia)“The Ailing Artist”4:15Concluding Remarks&#160;