2017 Sep 26 Billy Brewster (East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard) - "What is Death? Xuanzang on the Nature of Mortality." 12:00pm to 1:30pm Location: SC 469
2016 Dec 01 Robert Ames (Harvard, NELC) “Mystical Atheism and Scientific Religion: Iranian Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century” Co-sponsored with the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School 6:00pm to 8:00pm Location: Andover 102
2016 Nov 15 Catherine Abou-Nemeh (Victoria University of Wellington, History) “Cartesian Medicine at Leiden University in the Late 17th Century” 5:00pm to 7:00pm Location: Science Center 469
2016 Nov 08 Duygu Yıldırım (Stanford, History) "Doubled Selves or Separate Worlds? Scientific and Intellectual Networks between the Ottoman Empire and Europe (1650-1800)" 5:00pm to 7:00pm Location: Science Center 469
2016 Nov 01 Florin Morar (Harvard, History of Science) “Relocating the Early Qing in the Global History of Science: The Manchu Translation of the 1603 World Map by Li Yingshi and Matteo Ricci” 5:00pm to 7:00pm Location: Science Center 469
2016 Oct 25 Elias Muhanna (Brown University, Comparative Literature) Book talk, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition: A Compendium of Knowledge from the Classical Islamic World, by Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri 5:00pm to 7:00pm Location: Science Center 469
2016 Oct 13 Alexander Bevilacqua (Harvard, Society of Fellows) “The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Enlightenment” Co-sponsored with the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity School 6:00pm to 8:00pm Location: Andover 102
2016 Sep 29 Efraim Lev (University of Haifa, History) “Notebooks as Mediators between Practical and Theoretical Medical and Pharmaceutical Knowledge in Judeo-Arabic Tradition” Co-sponsored with the Science, Religion and Culture Program at Harvard Divinity Schoo 6:00pm to 8:00pm Location: Plimpton Room, Barker Center
2016 Sep 20 Katharine Park (Harvard, History of Science) and Ahmed Ragab (Harvard, Divinity School and History of Science) “Timepiece” from upcoming book A History of Medieval Science: Knowledge, Objects, and Communities in Europe and the Islamicate World 5:00pm to 7:00pm Location: Science Center 469
2016 Sep 06 Katharine Park (Harvard, History of Science) and Ahmed Ragab (Harvard, Divinity School and History of Science) “Elephant” from upcoming book A History of Medieval Science: Knowledge, Objects, and Communities in Europe and the Islamicate World 5:00pm to 7:00pm Location: Science Center 469