URKEW Seminar Series Lent Term 2011

 Religious and Philosophical Understandings of Nature, Science and the Role of Technology in the East and the West (c. 1368 – 1850)

Please note: times for individual workshops may vary

10 January

Religious and philosophical understandings of nature, science and the role of technology in the East and the West: An introduction

• Time and location: 10.30 – 16.00  Room CLM.D109
• Robert Iliffe (Sussex)
• 'Science, religion and secularisation in early modern Europe'

 

• Scott Mandelbrote (Cambridge)
• 'Science and Religion in comparative perspective. How specific is the Christian experience and its historiography?'

24 January

Hinduism and its Understanding of Nature

• Speaker: Gavin Flood (Oxford)
• 'Hindu Attitudes to Nature in Historical Perspective'
• Time and location: 11.00 – 13.00 Room G108

07 February

Christianity's Understanding of Science and Technology

• William Shea (Padova)
• Was Christianity a Cause of the Scientific Revolution in Europe?
• Time and location: 11.00 – 13.00, Room G108

• Andrea Robiglio (Leuven)
• Christianity: Science and the cosmopolitan man
• Time and location: 14.30 – 16.30 AGWR

 

24 February

Islamic Philosophy and Learning: From the Mediterranean to India

• Nader el-Bizri (Lincoln): 
• Perspectives on Nature in Classical Traditions of Science, Philosophy and Theology in Islamic Civilization
• Time and location: 10.30 – 12.30 Room V203

• Fabrizio Speziale (Sorbonne)
• Useful Scientific Learning in Persianate India (16th-19th century)
• Time and location: 14.30 – 16.30 Room OLD.3.28

Note: this Workshop takes place on Thursday (not on Monday)

07 March 

Confucianism and the understanding of nature in East Asia: a comparison between early modern China and Japan

• Peter Ditmanson (Oxford)
• Neo-Confucianism and the Evolution of "Concrete Learning" (實學)in Late Imperial China
• 11.00 – 13.00 Room G108

 

• James McMullen (Oxford)
• Neo Confucianism in Early Tokugawa Japan
• Time and location: 14.30 – 16.30 ,  AGWR

 

21 March 

Buddhism and the understanding of nature in East Asia: a comparison between early modern China and Japan

10.00 – 16.45 meeting in Room V203, Tower 2

• Speakers: Antonello Palumbo (SOAS):  
• Buddhist networks in the making of early modern China
• Time and location: 10.00 – 10.45, V203

 

• Dr Lucia Dolce (SOAS)
• Buddhism Cosmology of nature in Japan
• Time and location: 11.00 – 13.00 Room G108
  
  
• Tim Barrett (SOAS)
• The Buddhist world view in China - levels of knowledge, conceptions of world geography
• Time and location: 14.30 – 16.30 AGWR