Transmission of Scientific Knowledge from the Near East to Europe
De 26-05-2015 a 27-05-2015
1st International Colloquium John of Seville and Limia
Ex Oriente lux.
Transmission of Scientific Knowledge from the Near East to Europe
Faculty of Humanities
Cordoba, Spain | 26th-27th May 2015
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Tuesday 26th
10:00 – 10:30 Opening Session
Chair: Eulalio Fernández Sánchez (Dean of the Faculty of Humanities)
Greetings:
Charles Burnett (The Warburg Institute, London)
Pedro Mantas-España (University of Córdoba – CNERU)
José Meirinhos (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala (University of Córdoba - CNERU)
10-30 – 11:30 Opening key note
Charles Burnett (The Warburg Institute, London), John of Seville and Limia
11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 11:30
Pedro Mantas España (UCO - CNERU), Divinatory Arts and their projection into Western Science
11:30 - 12:00
Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala (UCO - CNERU), Destroying the Syriac manuscript heritage. Lost leaf of an Arabic herbarium in karshūnī tore out from a codex
12:00 – 13:00 Discussion
13:30 – 15:30 Lunch
17:00 - 17:30
Iolanda Ventura (CNRS-IRHT, Paris), Gerard of Cremona and the ʻLiber Albenguesim medicinarum simplicium et ciborumʼ
17:30 - 18:00
José Meirinhos (Universidade do Porto), The Internal Senses of the Soul: the Arab Philosophers Read by the Scholastics
18:00 – 18:30 Coffee break
18:30 19:00
Ann Giletti (Rome), Accused of Heresy: Moorish Natural Philosophy in the Dock
19:00 – 20:00 Discussion
20:00 – 22:00 Dinner
Wednesday 27th
10:00 - 10:30
Dag Nikolaus Hasse (Universität Würzburg), On the Identity of Anonymous Arabic-Latin Translators in Twelfth-Century Spain
10:30 - 11:00
Thomas E. Burman (University of Tennessee), Mark of Toledo’s Translation of Ibn Tūmart, Tathlīth al-Waḥdānīyah, and Almohad ‘Fundamentalism’
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 12:00
Francisco Caramelo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Myth, Divination and Science in Ancient Mesopotamia
12:00 – 13:00 Discussion
13:30 – 15:30 Lunch
17:00 - 17:30
Alexander Fidora (ICREA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), The Latin Talmud and its Christian Translators
17:30 - 18:00
Maurizio Massaiu (CNERU, Córdoba), Some Remarks on the Transmission of Building Techniques from the Near East to the West: the Case of Muqarnas
18:00 – 18:30 Coffee break
18:30 – 19:30 Discussion
19-30 – 20:30 Closing key note
Federico Corriente (Saragossa University), Transmission of knowledge and acknowledgement by the West of the sources and merits of Near Eastern sciences
20:30 – 22:30 Farewell dinner
Scientific Committee
Charles Burnett (London)
Pedro Mantas España (Córdova)
José Meirinhos (Porto)
Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala (Córdova)
Henrique Leitão (Lisboa)
Organization
Cordoba Near Eastern Research Unit - CNERU (Córdoba)
Gabinete de Filosofia Medieval / Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto (Porto)
The Warburg Institute (London)
Financiamento, avaliação e auditoria do Instituto de Filosofia:
FCT / COMPETE / QREN / UE
