It is almost time: in the context of the Galen project an international conference will be held in Utrecht from Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 September 2021. Invited scholars will present papers in such areas as Galen’s physiology/anatomy, the soul-body relationship, ethics/moral psychology, cosmology and religion, as well as what these different perspectives on human…

An article by Robert Vinkesteijn titled ‘Mixing body and soul: Galen on the Substance of Soul in QAM and De Propriis Placitis’ was published in Phronesis. In a late treatise, That the Capacities of the Soul Follow the Mixtures of the Body (QAM), Galen of Pergamum infamously offered the view that the substance of the…

Robert Vinkesteijn successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled Philosophical Perspectives on Galen of Pergamum: Four Case-Studies on Human Nature and the Relation Between Body and Soul in the Academiegebouw on 2 October 2020. The doctorate was awarded with highest distinction.

By Ellen Verkerk The kick-off of our new module Greek ”Medicine – Galen” was given by Prof Tieleman on February the 7th (2018). He gave a lecture on this topic for our students of the fifth grade in order to introduce this new addition to the curriculum. It was an interesting first encounter with Galen….

During the high school course on Galen (2018), the students of the Gemeentelijk Gymnasium Hilversum have been learning about the various aspects of Galen’s work. The students in the Galen course in Hilversum studied and dissected sheep hearts in the light of relevant texts from De Anatomicis Administrationibus and De Usu Partium (translated into Dutch)….

On March 7, from 1-3 pm, Dr Aileen Das (Ann Arbor, Michigan) will deliver a lecture titled : ‘Un/bounding Knowledge with the Timaeus: Galen and his Islamicate Successors’.   Venue: Utrecht, Drift 15, room 0.03. Those interested in attending please contact t.l.tieleman@uu.nl.

Prof. Tieleman has been invited to give a lecture at the conference Aristotelian Biology and Christian Theology in the Early Empire in Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 11-12 January 2019 (convenor: Prof. Anna Marmodoro). The lecture will take place on the 11th of January 2019, and is titled ‘Nemesius of Emesa on Aristotle and Galen’.

We look forward to welcoming dr Inna Kupreeva, Senior lecturer in Ancient Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Kupreeva specialises in Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition. She also pursues research in Platonism and Stoic philosophy, as well as medieval philosophy. Dr. Kupreeva will be will be our guest from 19 February-25 April. On 23-24 April…

The Galen Project has the pleasure of welcoming several guests and exchange research findings/questions. From 5-10 March, Dr Aileen Das (Ann Arbor, Michigan) will be guest of the Galen Project. From 19 February-25 April 2019, Dr Inna Kupreeva (University of Edinburgh) will be a guest of the Galen project. Several lectures and talks are centered…

Robert Vinkesteijn has given two talks in Italy, concerning the vegetative soul in Galen. On the 12th and 13th of september 2018, he gave a lecture titled: ‘An animal is a better plant; the vegetative soul in Galen‘, at the “Vegetative Powers: Endowing Bodily Life from Late Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period” conference in Padua. The…