Sciences, Philosophie, Histoire – UMR 7219, laboratoire SPHERE

Organisation and financial support :
Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships Programme, European Union (EuroMoroccanScience, FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF Grant agreement nº 329548)

Scientific committee :
Francisco Javier Martínez, Pascal Crozet,
Laboratoire SPHERE, UMR 7219

PROGRAMME

WEDNESDAY 24

9:00 – 9:30
Francisco Javier Martínez, Pascal Crozet.
Presentation.

9:30
Feza Günergun
(Department of the History of Science, Istanbul University, Turkey)
Reconciling novelty and tradition in science : Gazi Ahmed Muhtar Pasha (1839-1919),
Ottoman military officer, envoy and reformist.

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00
Francisco Javier Martínez
(MC & SPHERE, UMR 7219, France)
Black, rural, rebel, modern : assembling the many lives
of the Moroccan doctor Mahboub ben al-Mahmoud (1888 – circa 1970).

12:00 – 13:00
Méropi Anastassiadou
(INALCO, Paris, France)
Nationalist philantropy ? The involvement of physicians
in Constantinople’s Greek Literary Syllogue in the early 20eth century. [in French]

15:00
Ebubekir Ceylan
(Yunus Emre Institute, Turkey)
Jafar al-Askari : The Life of an Ottoman soldier and his role in Modern Iraqi Army.

16:00 Coffee Break

16:30
Pascal Crozet
(CNRS, SPHERE, UMR 7219, France)
Between Paris and Cairo : the professional career of an Egyptian astronomer, Ismail Mustafa (1826-1901).
[in French]

17:30 – 18:30 Meltem Kocaman
(Department of the History of Science, Istanbul University, Turkey)
Kamuran Sirri (d. 1936) : Biography of a Turkish electrical engineer in the age of modernization.

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]THURSDAY 25

9:30 Şeref Etker
(Independent Scholar, Istanbul (Turkey)
Political chemistry across the Baghdadbahn : A personal history of Dr. Cevat Mazhar.

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Pierre Ageron
(Laboratoire de mathématiques Nicolas Oresme
 & IREM, Université de Caen, France
Science, reform and autonomy in Morocco :

Mawlây Ahmad bin ‘Abdallâh al-Tanânî, known as al-Suwayrî (1811-1902).

12:00 – 13:00 Yücel Yanıkdağ
(University of Richmond, USA)
Dr. Mazhar Osman : Psychiatry, Social Pathology and Modernization
in the Late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey. (titre à confirmer)

15:00 Hossein Masoumi-Hamedani
(Science Department, Center for the Great Encyclopedia, Tehran, Iran)
(The Two Aspects of Scientific Modernization in Iran : Some Case Studies).

16:00 Betty S. Anderson
(Boston University, USA)
Science Education at the Syrian Protestant College.

17:00 Coffee Break

17:30 Francisco Javier Martínez, Pascal Crozet
Closing remarks.