The symposium welcomes contributions on the following topics:
· Healing knowledge and institutions in the Ancient, Byzantine, Seljuk, and Ottoman periods
· Healing in textual and visual culture
· The role of women in healing knowledge and practice
· Talismans, amulets, and healing objects
· Healing spaces and sacred sites
· Folk medicine, ocaks, and traditional healing practices
· Healing rituals and practices
· Ethnobotany and plant knowledge
· Healing narratives: myth, legend, and literature
· Food culture and healing: historical perspectives
· The contemporary revival of traditional healing: a critical perspective
· The relationship between healing and medicine
