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Examination of the question of center and periphery. Abstract on the original … 19 Jun 2025 11:00 - 12:00 Event Carlos Lopes The perverse effects of development aid Guest lecturer Abstract The conference will explore the persistent debates around foreign aid, revealing how various tools such as structural adjustment programs, discussions of aid effectiveness, macroeconomic conditionality and rating agency perceptions of risk all … 6 Nov 2025 17:30 - 18:30 Event Hourig Sourouzian Statuary from the million-year-old temple of Amenhotep III at Thebes Guest lecturer Exceptionally, this conference will be held on a Tuesday. Abstract Here, despite the almost total loss of architectural structures, the remains of this temple have revealed the presence of abundant royal and divine statuary of various types and materials, … 3 Jun 2025 17:00 - 18:00 Event François Déroche Conclusions Symposium 16 May 2025 16:30 - 17:00 Event Henning Sievert Traces of Lost Books. What Did High-Level Bureaucrats Read Before 1840? Symposium 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 May 2025 16:00 - 16:30 Event Lucia Raggetti Abū al-ʿAlā ibn Zuhr, His Library, and the 'Galenic Book Club': Bibliophilia, Indirect Tradition, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Islamicate Scholarship Symposium 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 … 16 May 2025 15:30 - 16:00 Event Boris Liebrenz The Manṭiq al-waḥš and the Early Arabic Illustrated Book Symposium 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 … 16 May 2025 14:30 - 15:00 Event Annabel Gallop Qur'anic art in Southeast Asia: Localising the Sulawesi Diaspora Geometric Style Symposium 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 … 16 May 2025 14:00 - 14:30 Event Serpil Bağcı Revising the Iskendernāme: Akkoyunlu and Safavid Turkmen Manuscripts of Ottoman Legendary History Symposium 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 … 16 May 2025 11:30 - 12:00 Event Christoph Rauch Data-Supported Collection History – Provenance Information in the Qalamos Portal Using the Example of the Berlin Collection Symposium 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 … 16 May 2025 11:00 - 11:30 Event Sara Fani Strategies of the Early Modern International Book Trade: Acquisition and Sales by Diplomats, Scholars, and Booksellers in the Islamicate World Symposium 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 … 16 May 2025 09:30 - 10:00 Event Stephen Quake Understanding the Mysteries of the Cell: How Do Mutations Arise in Our Bodies? Guest lecturer Abstract The question of how heritable mutations arise is one of long-standing interest in biology. In the case of bacteria, there was a debate about whether mutations arise as a consequence of adaptation to selective pressure from the environment, or … 26 May 2025 17:00 - 18:00 Event Jawdath Jabbour Avicenna at Topkapı. The Avicennian collections in ʿAṭūfī's catalog (1502-1504) Symposium 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 … 15 May 2025 14:30 - 15:00 Event Lbachir Tahali A Wandering Library: an Attempt to Restore the Manuscripts of Mulāy Zaydān Scattered Outside the Escurial Symposium 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 … 15 May 2025 14:00 - 14:30 Event Michele Bernardini The Donation of a Safavid Shāhnāme to the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in 1093/1682-3 by the Ḳapūdan-i deryā Mușṭafā Muṣāḥib, from Documents in the Florence State Archive Symposium 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, … 15 May 2025 11:30 - 12:00 Event Mahdi Sahragard A Newly Discovered Manuscript from the Ghaznavid Court Scriptorium: A Codicological Study of a Fragmentary Qurʼan dated 434 AH/1042 CE Symposium 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 … 15 May 2025 11:00 - 11:30 Event François Déroche Medieval Moroccan Bookbinding in the Light of the Escorial Collection Symposium 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 … 15 May 2025 10:00 - 10:30 Event Panagiota Sarischouli Graeco-Egyptian voces magicae: Historicizing a Cross-Cultural Phenomenon Guest lecturer Panagiota Sarischouli is invited by Prof. Jean-Luc Fournet, Chair of Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology . Abstract Although the phenomenon of voces magicae is most often associated with Roman and Late Antique Egypt, the use of … 4 Jun 2025 14:00 - 15:00 Event Claudia Colini The Booklet and the Multivolume Set in the History of the Qur’anic book Symposium Abstract If we consider the role of the book as a communication tool, an analysis of its different materials and forms can reveal aspects of its use and function. For example, its dimensions and form can influence its mobility, its materials can affect … 15 May 2025 09:30 - 10:00 Event Mark Bowick Nonabelian Topological Defects Guest lecturer Abstract The line defects of three dimensional uniaxial nematics have a simple abelian algebra governing their interactions and so simply pass through one another. I will discuss, instead, biaxial nematics for which the fundamental group is non-abelian. … 2 Jun 2025 14:00 - 15:00 Event Myriam Cottias, Catherine Porter, Magali Bessone & Jhon Picard Byron Round table : Remembrance and reparations Symposium Round table moderated by Myriam Cottias, CNRS, CIRESC, with the participation of Catherine Porter, New York Times , Magali Bessone, Université Paris 1 … 14 Jun 2025 09:00 - 10:45 Event Gusti-Klara Gaillard-Pourchet The debt of independence: the price of general freedom in 1793/1794 Symposium 13 Jun 2025 09:00 - 09:30 Event Didier Fassin Certify Lecture 27 May 2025 15:15 - 16:15 Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹‹ … Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 … Next page ›› Last page Last »
Event Kyle Harper The origins of the Justinian plague: From Central Asia to the Mediterranean Guest lecturer 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 … 20 May 2025 17:00 - 18:30
Event Marco Bonechi What to do with Mesopotamia after Ebla rips the horizon ? Guest lecturer Abstract Discussion of cultural, commercial and political relations between the Levant and Mesopotamia in the Ebla archive period (with Anatolia and Egypt in the background). Examination of the question of center and periphery. Abstract on the original … 19 Jun 2025 11:00 - 12:00
Event Carlos Lopes The perverse effects of development aid Guest lecturer Abstract The conference will explore the persistent debates around foreign aid, revealing how various tools such as structural adjustment programs, discussions of aid effectiveness, macroeconomic conditionality and rating agency perceptions of risk all … 6 Nov 2025 17:30 - 18:30
Event Hourig Sourouzian Statuary from the million-year-old temple of Amenhotep III at Thebes Guest lecturer Exceptionally, this conference will be held on a Tuesday. Abstract Here, despite the almost total loss of architectural structures, the remains of this temple have revealed the presence of abundant royal and divine statuary of various types and materials, … 3 Jun 2025 17:00 - 18:00
Event Henning Sievert Traces of Lost Books. What Did High-Level Bureaucrats Read Before 1840? Symposium 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 May 2025 16:00 - 16:30
Event Lucia Raggetti Abū al-ʿAlā ibn Zuhr, His Library, and the 'Galenic Book Club': Bibliophilia, Indirect Tradition, and the Transmission of Knowledge in Islamicate Scholarship Symposium 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 … 16 May 2025 15:30 - 16:00
Event Boris Liebrenz The Manṭiq al-waḥš and the Early Arabic Illustrated Book Symposium 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 … 16 May 2025 14:30 - 15:00
Event Annabel Gallop Qur'anic art in Southeast Asia: Localising the Sulawesi Diaspora Geometric Style Symposium 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 … 16 May 2025 14:00 - 14:30
Event Serpil Bağcı Revising the Iskendernāme: Akkoyunlu and Safavid Turkmen Manuscripts of Ottoman Legendary History Symposium 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 … 16 May 2025 11:30 - 12:00
Event Christoph Rauch Data-Supported Collection History – Provenance Information in the Qalamos Portal Using the Example of the Berlin Collection Symposium 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 … 16 May 2025 11:00 - 11:30
Event Sara Fani Strategies of the Early Modern International Book Trade: Acquisition and Sales by Diplomats, Scholars, and Booksellers in the Islamicate World Symposium 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 … 16 May 2025 09:30 - 10:00
Event Stephen Quake Understanding the Mysteries of the Cell: How Do Mutations Arise in Our Bodies? Guest lecturer Abstract The question of how heritable mutations arise is one of long-standing interest in biology. In the case of bacteria, there was a debate about whether mutations arise as a consequence of adaptation to selective pressure from the environment, or … 26 May 2025 17:00 - 18:00
Event Jawdath Jabbour Avicenna at Topkapı. The Avicennian collections in ʿAṭūfī's catalog (1502-1504) Symposium 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 … 15 May 2025 14:30 - 15:00
Event Lbachir Tahali A Wandering Library: an Attempt to Restore the Manuscripts of Mulāy Zaydān Scattered Outside the Escurial Symposium 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 … 15 May 2025 14:00 - 14:30
Event Michele Bernardini The Donation of a Safavid Shāhnāme to the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana in 1093/1682-3 by the Ḳapūdan-i deryā Mușṭafā Muṣāḥib, from Documents in the Florence State Archive Symposium 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, … 15 May 2025 11:30 - 12:00
Event Mahdi Sahragard A Newly Discovered Manuscript from the Ghaznavid Court Scriptorium: A Codicological Study of a Fragmentary Qurʼan dated 434 AH/1042 CE Symposium 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 … 15 May 2025 11:00 - 11:30
Event François Déroche Medieval Moroccan Bookbinding in the Light of the Escorial Collection Symposium 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 … 15 May 2025 10:00 - 10:30
Event Panagiota Sarischouli Graeco-Egyptian voces magicae: Historicizing a Cross-Cultural Phenomenon Guest lecturer Panagiota Sarischouli is invited by Prof. Jean-Luc Fournet, Chair of Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology . Abstract Although the phenomenon of voces magicae is most often associated with Roman and Late Antique Egypt, the use of … 4 Jun 2025 14:00 - 15:00
Event Claudia Colini The Booklet and the Multivolume Set in the History of the Qur’anic book Symposium Abstract If we consider the role of the book as a communication tool, an analysis of its different materials and forms can reveal aspects of its use and function. For example, its dimensions and form can influence its mobility, its materials can affect … 15 May 2025 09:30 - 10:00
Event Mark Bowick Nonabelian Topological Defects Guest lecturer Abstract The line defects of three dimensional uniaxial nematics have a simple abelian algebra governing their interactions and so simply pass through one another. I will discuss, instead, biaxial nematics for which the fundamental group is non-abelian. … 2 Jun 2025 14:00 - 15:00
Event Myriam Cottias, Catherine Porter, Magali Bessone & Jhon Picard Byron Round table : Remembrance and reparations Symposium Round table moderated by Myriam Cottias, CNRS, CIRESC, with the participation of Catherine Porter, New York Times , Magali Bessone, Université Paris 1 … 14 Jun 2025 09:00 - 10:45
Event Gusti-Klara Gaillard-Pourchet The debt of independence: the price of general freedom in 1793/1794 Symposium 13 Jun 2025 09:00 - 09:30
