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Bust of Janus , marble (Summer Garden, Saint Petersburg). Hugo Meijer is invited by Pr Jean-Jacques Hublin. Abstract What are the origins of war and peace ? Our species, Homo sapiens , presents a remarkable paradox : we are the only species capable of …
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The term " random geometry " refers to any process by which a geometric object or families of geometric objects can be constructed at random. A simple process involves randomly assembling basic elements : vertices and edges in the case of random graphs, …
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Compartmented vesicles as cellular mime with dynamic phase separation and confinement of proteins and enzymes. This lecture explores recent innovations in biomaterials, focusing on biomimetic and biohybrid polymers. It discusses how synthetic materials …
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Mechanism of polymer vesicle (polymersome) formation by liquid-liquid phase separation observed by fluorescence microscopy. Presentation This lecture explores recent innovations in biomaterials, focusing on biomimetic and biohybrid polymers. It discusses …
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Kyle Harper
The origins of the Justinian plague: From Central Asia to the Mediterranean
Kyle Harper
The origins of the Justinian plague: From Central Asia to the Mediterranean
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Left: Mihirakula (r. 515-540), probable victim of the plague; right: Justinian (r. 527-565), who escaped. Kyle Harper has been invited by the Collège de France assembly at the suggestion of Pr Frantz Grenet. Lecture followed by discussion with Pr Frantz …
17:00 to 18:30
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Abstract The Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Europe underwent profound changes during the late 18 th and early 19 th centuries, before the Ottoman Empire reinvented and rebuilt itself between 1840 and 1880. Contrary to earlier assumptions, this …
16:00 to 16:30
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Abstract The Andalusian family of the Banū Zuhr astounded the Mediaeval world with a lineage of physicians spanning several generations. The family library served as the foundation for erudite medical research, and the manuscript tradition of the Kitāb …
15:30 to 16:00
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Abstract An illustrated page preserved in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has equally attracted and puzzled a number of art historical attempts at interpreting the texts and images found on them. It has been identified as the fragment of an …
14:30 to 15:00
Annabel Gallop
Qur'anic art in Southeast Asia: Localising the Sulawesi Diaspora Geometric Style
Annabel Gallop
Qur'anic art in Southeast Asia: Localising the Sulawesi Diaspora Geometric Style
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Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and …
14:00 to 14:30
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Abstract Among several literary and scientific works of the Ottoman poet Ahmedi (d. 1413) the Iskendernāme ( Book of Alexander ) is the most celebrated one. More than one hundred manuscripts have survived, which were copied between the fifteenth and …
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Abstract With the launch of the Qalamos portal, the descriptions of more than 40,000 Islamic manuscripts from around 45 institutions in Germany have been made accessible. Supported by the systematic integration of accession data, manuscript annotations …
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Abstract The early modern period was a pivotal moment in European engagement with the diverse literary traditions of the Islamicate world, and the languages transmitting them. Scholars, collectors, and printers actively sought after manuscripts from these …
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Jawdath Jabbour
Avicenna at Topkapı. The Avicennian collections in ʿAṭūfī's catalog (1502-1504)
Jawdath Jabbour
Avicenna at Topkapı. The Avicennian collections in ʿAṭūfī's catalog (1502-1504)
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Abstract The inventory of books in the library of Bāyazīd II compiled by ʿAṭūfī at the request of the sultan is a major witness to Ottoman cultural history in the sixteenth century. By crossing codicological and textual perspectives, the paper will seek …
14:30 to 15:00
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Abstract Taking into consideration the trials that Mulay Zaydān’s library housed at El Escorial went through in the course of its history, we realise that it does not include all the manuscripts that belonged to the Saʿdian sultan. It should be remembered …
14:00 to 14:30
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Abstract MS Or.5, preserved at the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, contains a Safavid Shāhnāme dated Shavvāl 990/ September-October 1582. Included in Angelo Michele Piemontese’s catalogue of Persian manuscripts in Italian libraries (1989), the manuscript, …
11:30 to 12:00
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Abstract This study presents the first comprehensive analysis of a significant Qurʼanic manuscript discovered in the Geniza of the Imām Riḍā shrine in Mashhad, comprising 244 fire-damaged folios. The manuscript's colophon identifies its scribe as Abū ʿAlī …
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Abstract The study of Medieval bookbinding in the Muslim world has come up against major methodological problems, but faces also (and perhaps because of these problems) a certain scepticism on the part of specialists in manuscript studies. The Escorial …
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