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2008 Workshop: Empires and Science

LIST OF SPEAKERS AND TOPICS

George Saliba

“Islamic Science and the Making of the European Renaissance”


1. Announcement
2. Introduction
3. Workshop Program
4. List of Speakers and Topics
5. Preliminary Readings
6. Credits
7. Questions
8. Suggestions for Projects
9. Biographical Sketches


Benjamin Elman

"Global Science and Comparative History: Jesuits and Science
in China and Europe, 1600-1800"

Sheldon Pollock (keynote)

“Modernity, Knowledge, Comparison: Knowledge Systems in the 17th Century Transition,”

David Arnold

“Science as Imperial Bio-Power: Taxonomy and Toxicology in India’s Colonial Encounter”

Antonio Barrera

“The Spanish American Empire, Nature, and the Emergence of
Empiricism in the 16th-century Atlantic World”

Shankar Aswani

"Integrating Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in the Design of
Marine Protected Areas in Oceania"

Damon Salesa

"Navigating the Brown Pacific: Indigenous Knowledge, Colonialism, and Mobility"

Nancy Jacobs

“Winged Networks: Bird Migration and Science Between Europe and Africa”

Fa-ti Fan

"Science in Cultural Encounter: a New Perspective on Science
and Empire"


   


     


 

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