With the Support of
8 January 2013
Université Paris Diderot
Room 483A Malevitch (a.m.) and 646A Mondrian (p.m.)
4th and 6th Floors, Building Condorcet, 4 rue Elsa Morante, 75013 Paris. Access map
PROGRAMME : abstracts downloadable here
9 :30 Marion Cousin (Université de Lyon 1)
The introduction of Euclidian geometry in Japanese education : mathematical language and logical reasoning in textbooks during Meiji era (1868-1912)
10 :30 Aleksandra Majstorac Kobiljski (Needham Research Institute, Cambridge)
Reading the Image : Technical Drawings and the Writing of the History of Technology in Modern Japan
11 :30 Coffee Break
12 :00 Leon Antonio Rocha (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
“The spirit of this sexology, how could the pedantic scholars be able to see its essence ?” Ye Dehui 葉德輝 (1864-1927)’s The Shadow of the Double Plum Tree Anthology (Shuang mei jing an congshu 雙梅景闇叢書, 1903-1914)
13 :00 Lunch
14 :30 Stéphanie Homola (EHESS, Paris)
Standing for Chinese science through 20th-century France and China : Liu Zihua and the “Cosmology of the eight trigrams”
15 :30 Coffee Break
16 :00 Jiří Hudeček (Chiang Ching-kuo International Sinological Centre, Charles University, Prague)
What kind of independence ? Competing visions of the development of mathematics in twentieth century China