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Axe Interdisciplinarité en Histoire et Philosophie des Sciences

Séminaire du Centre pour une Histoire de la Philosophie et des Sciences vue d’Asie, d’Afrique, etc (CHPSAA)



Archives : 2021-2022



Ce séminaire est une des activités du "Centre pour l’Histoire de la Philosophie et des Sciences vue d’Asie, d’Afrique, etc".

Pour toute question relative à l’organisation et au programme du séminaire, vous pouvez contacter Eleonora Sammarchi.


PROGRAMME 2023-2024


Vendredi, 8 septembre 2023, 14h30 - 17h30, lieu : salle 569 (5è étage) bâtiment Olympe de Gouges Université Paris-Cité 8 Rue Albert Einstein Paris 75013

Le titre et le résumé seront mis en ligne prochainement



Vendredi, 27 octobre 2023, 14h00 - 16h00, lieu : salle 569 (5è étage) bâtiment Olympe de Gouges Université Paris-Cité 8 Rue Albert Einstein Paris 75013

Philosophy and Healing Culture of Ethiopia - Organisation : J. Smith
Program :

  • 14h00-14h15
    J. Smith (SPHERE) Introduction
  • 14h15- 15h00
    Eyob Derillo (Curator of Ethiopian Collections, Department of Asia and Africa Studies, British Library)
    Text and Image : Magic Scrolls, Divination and Recipe Books as Part of the Healing Culture of Ethiopia
  • 15h00-15h15
    Pause
  • 15h15-16h00
    J. Egid (King’s College, London)
    Comments and general discussion



[SEANCE ANNULEE] Vendredi, 10 novembre 2023, 14h30 - 17h30, lieu : salle 569 (5è étage) bâtiment Olympe de Gouges Université Paris-Cité 8 Rue Albert Einstein Paris 75013

What is Indian philosophy ? - Organisation : A. Keller



Vendredi, 8 décembre 2023, 15h00 - 18h00, lieu : salle 569 (5è étage) bâtiment Olympe de Gouges Université Paris-Cité 8 Rue Albert Einstein Paris 75013

New approaches to the history of logic - Organisation : K. Chemla Programme :
  • 15:00—16:20
    Julie Brumberg-Chaumont (PSL/CNRS/LEM)
    The Ancient Model of Logic Inside and Outside ‘Western’ Logic
    Abstract : My presentation is devoted to new methods in the history of logic, that is methods designed to take a new look both on our logical traditions and on those developed in other cultures. To put it in a nutshell, the idea is to break away from a decontextualized, narrowly-defined notion of logic as formal logic. This notion, adopted only very recently (from the 1930s) in the history of logic, and quickly challenged among logicians/philosophers, is to be contrasted with the large, ‘ancient format’ of the concept of logic, the one that has prevailed over 90% of our history, from Aristotle to the 19th century. Logic was then essentially conceived as a theory of argumentation and it contained, at minimum, a theory of signification, of truth, of cognition, of science, an epistemology and, to a limited extent only, a theory of valid inferences. Logic was also a basic school discipline and a major intellectual practice, at least since the Middle Age. A fully-historicized approach to the concept of logic as well as a practiced-oriented history of logic unlock a wealth of intellectual opportunities.
    The presentation comes in two parts. First, I will sketch the collective projects I have developed, where cross-cultural studies of logic are crucial. I will further provide a full appreciation of the consequences the rise of logical pluralism (during the second part of the 20th century) have had on the concept of logic, on its normative dimension, as well as on its social and anthropological significance. I will also say few words about my own attempt to write a social history of logic in the Middle Ages. The second part of the presentation focuses on the history of the idea of a ‘non-occidental’ logic and of a cross-cultural history of logic, the obstacles it meets, as well as the various conceptions it led to along history. We meet then the idea of logic as an ‘imported product’ (an Egyptian or Hebrew invention) and Masson-Oursel’s project of “comparative logic” (in the 1910s), where China, India and “the rest of the world” (but not Africa) were included. The presentation will be based on a recently-published paper (“À l’Est et au Far-Ouest de la logique, rien de nouveau”, 2019 ; English version “When Logic Goes East (and Far-West)”, 2023)
  • 16:20-16:40
    break
  • 16:40—18:00
    Pablo Blitstein (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
    On Chinese philosophy, Chinese science and Chinese logic : some historical reflections on a contemporary idea
    Abstract : In this presentation, I will delve into how European and American historians have approached so-called "Chinese philosophy" and "Chinese science" in the twentieth century, and examine their connection to the emergence of the categories of "philosophy" and "science" in late nineteenth to early twentieth century China. In this context, I will discuss Joachim Kurtz’s book, The Discovery of Chinese Logic, and explore how it contributes to ongoing global discussions surrounding the concept of "Chinese logic". More generally, I will explore the history of the idea that each part of the world should have its own logical tradition.


Vendredi, 12 janvier 2024, 14h30 - 17h30, lieu : salle 569 (5è étage) bâtiment Olympe de Gouges Université Paris-Cité 8 Rue Albert Einstein Paris 75013

Circulation of texts and technical knowledge within East Asia and between East Asia and Europe (16th-19th centuries) Organisation : Florence Bretelle-Establet
  • 14:30 – 15:30
    Marie-Océane Lachaud, (PhD, INALCO, IFRAE)
    Title : Construction of medical knowledge in premodern Korea : knowledge and practices related to variolation and vaccination
    Abstract : Smallpox is a well-known disease since the 6th century in China, Japan, and Korea which has continued to wreak terrible havoc on young children population until the 20th century. Over the centuries, physicians elaborated several treatments for smallpox. From the 17th century, Chinese physicians developed a new technique called variolation which consisted, notably, in inserting dried smallpox crusts into one of the patient’s nostrils. This variolation technique was expected to produce a mild form of smallpox which was considered safer than contracted smallpox naturally during an epidemic. Then, at the end of the 18th century, a new process, the cowpox inoculation, was discovered in Europe, and soon after the first publication presenting the technique, the process reached East Asia. In this presentation, I would like to question how variolation and cowpox inoculation were introduced to the Korean peninsula in the 18th and 19th centuries. More specifically, through which books did Koreans learn about these two techniques ? How medical knowledge about these two methods was shaped through the books used as references ? Who were the main actors in these process ? Are there any major changes in the way these two methods were introduced to Korea ? And if so, what can these changes tell us about the medical conception but also the social and political evolution of Korea between the 18th and 19th centuries ?

  • 15:30 – 15:45
    Pause

  • 15:45 – 16:45
    Mau Chuan-hui, (Pr Institute of History, National Tsing Hua University)
    Title : An overview of the history of the transmission of sericultural knowledge in the Eurasian continent : a comparative study of Nong sang jiyao (The essentials of the agriculture and sericulture, preface of 1273) and La cueillete de la soye (1599)
    Abstract : When I studied the history of exchanges of silk industry between China and France, I observed that there are some similarities between La cueillete de la soye (1599) and the Nong sang jiyao 農桑輯要 (The essentials of the agriculture and sericulture, preface of 1273), especially regarding the structure and the logic of classification.
    China is the cradle of the silk industry, and it is well-known that the sericulture knowledge and know-how spread from China to the other parts of the Eurasian continent. Up to the 19th century, Chinese sericulture occupied the leading position in the world. With the aim to raise the quality and the quantity of their silk production, some Western scientists working on sericulture tried to deepen their knowledge and skills by studying existing sericulture treatises including Italian, French and Chinese ones, and by using certain scientific methods. The Chinese silk knowledge came essentially from the translations of Chinese works published by French Jesuits in the collection Description de la Chine (1735) edited by Jean-Baptiste Du Halde (1674-1743). The scientists, especially Matthieu Bonafous (1793-1852) even compared these Chinese texts with La cueillete de la soye, compiled by the famous agronomist Olivier de Serres (1539-1619) on Henry IV’s request, while the latter encouraged the development of sericulture in France. Almost all modern scholars considered the Nongzheng quanshu 農政全書 (Complete treatise on agriculture, 1639) of Xu Guangqi 徐光啟 (1562-1633) as the basis of this translation, but if one studies this text systematically it is not difficult to find that Xu integrated a large part of the content from the Essentials of the agriculture and sericulture. While this treatise was compiled under Mongol rule, that is, three centuries earlier than the work of de Serres, it would be interesting to discover some tracks of transmission between the two extremities of the Eurasian Continent through a comparative analysis of these two texts, The essentials of the agriculture and sericulture and La cueillete de la soye.


[Séance annulée] Vendredi, 9 février 2024, 14h30 - 16h30, lieu : salle 569 (5è étage) bâtiment Olympe de Gouges Université Paris-Cité 8 Rue Albert Einstein Paris 75013

Alexis Trouillot (Université de Texas) 

Frank E. Chapman’s Prison Writings : Science and Africa

One of the first books to make the question of mathematics in Africa available to a large public was Claudia Zaslavsky’s (1917-2006) Africa Counts : Number and Pattern in African Cultures published in 1973. This talk will focus on one of her book’s inspirations, the unpublished Science and Africa : Essays on the Part Which People of Color Have Played in the Development of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics written by the young Frank E. Chapman in 1965 as he was serving a life sentence in a Missouri prison. Based on the original manuscript as well as correspondence, I will discuss Chapman ideas regarding the link between Black liberation in the United State and the history of science.



Jeudi, 15 février 2024 14h00 à 16h00 dans la salle Léon Vandermeersch (481C, 4e étage aile C, 5 rue Thomas Mann, 75013, Paris.

Présentation du livre « Science for Governing Japan’s Population » (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Organisée par by Ken Daimaru

Intervenant :
Homei Aya, University of Manchester
Résumé :
Twenty-first-century Japan is known for the world’s most aged population. Faced with this challenge, Japan has been a pioneer in using science to find ways of managing a declining birth rate. Science for Governing Japan’s Population considers the question of why these population phenomena have been seen as problematic. What roles have population experts played in turning this demographic trend into a government concern ? Aya Homei examines the medico-scientific fields around the notion of population that developed in Japan from the 1860s to the 1960s, analyzing the role of the population experts in the government’s effort to manage its population. She argues that the formation of population sciences in modern Japan had a symbiotic relationship with the development of the neologism, “population” (jinkō), and with the transformation of Japan into a modern sovereign power. Through this history, Homei unpacks assumptions about links between population, sovereignty, and science. This title is also available as Open Access.

Bio : Aya Homei is Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Manchester.

Le livre est disponible en libre accès sur le lien suivant (Cambridge University Press)

Cette session sera précédée d’une autre présentation intitulée " Administrative materials related to forced sterilization in Japan ", qui aura lieu le mercredi 14 de 15h30 à 18h30 dans la même salle.

https://www.crcao.fr/2023/09/26/histoire-de-lasie-orientale-contemporaine-sources-methodes-objets-2/



Vendredi, 8 mars 2024, 14h30 - 17h30, lieu : salle 569 (5è étage) bâtiment Olympe de Gouges Université Paris-Cité 8 Rue Albert Einstein Paris 75013

Feminist approaches to the history of science (org. Catren, Guardans, Keller, Menon,).

Programme :

  • 14h30-16h
    G. Catren : New readings of Donna Harraway
  • 16h-16h15
    pause
  • 16h15-17h30
    E. Sammarchi (ETHZ) On Saloua Chatti’s Women’s Contemporary Readings of Medieval (and Modern) Arabic Philosophy


du 25 au 26 mars 2024 lieu : Salle Léon Vandermeersch (481C, 4è étage, aile C, Grands Moulins Building, 5 rue Thomas Mann, 75013, Paris)

Health and Diseases in Modern and Contemporary East Asia, A Dialogical Perspective - In honor of Susan L. Burns, visiting professor at Université Paris Cité
Programme
Lundi, 25 mars 2024
  • 9:00-9:10
    Introduction
    Part 1 chaired by Pierre-Emmanuel Roux (Université Paris Cité, CCJ)
  • 9:10-9:55
    Marta Hanson (Independant Scholar),
    “Healthscaping as a Conceptual Tool for Public-Health History in Premodern China”
  • 9:55-10:40
    Florence Bretelle-Establet (CNRS, SPHERE),
    “Smallpox and Variolation in 18th Century China : Risk, Ethics, and Innovation Through the Eyes and Words of Chinese Doctors”
  • 10:40-10:55
    Coffee Break
  • 10:55-11:40
    Ken Daimaru (Université Paris Cité, CRCAO),
    “Experts and Language of Endemics in 19th Century Japan”
  • 11:40-12:25
    Hiro Fujimoto (Heidelberg University)
    “Southern Expansion of Japanese Women Doctors, 1920–1940”
    Part 2 chaired by Ken Daimaru
  • 13:30–14:30
    Susan L. Burns (University of Chicago, Université Paris Cité Invited Professsor)
    “The Medical Marketplace and the Making of Modern Tokyo”
  • 14:30-15:15
    Bernard Thomann (Inalco, IFRAE),
    “TheRecognition of Silicosis as an Occupational Disease in 20th Century Japan”
  • 15:15-15:30
    Coffee Break
  • 15:30-16:15
    Antonetta Bruno (Sapienza University of Rome)
    “Metamorphosis of Smallpox in Korea : Narrative on Virulence and Deification”
  • 16:15-17:00
    Anne-Lise Mithout (Université Paris Cité, CRCAO)
    “Rethinking the Japanese Disability Right Movement as Part of the History of Medicine”
  • 17:00–17:45
    Naho Tanimoto (Kansai University),
    “The Reality of Cosmetic Surgery in Japan”
  • 17:45-18:00
    Coffee Break
  • 18:00–18:45
    General discussion

    Mardi, 26 mars 2024
    Part 3 chaired by Anne-Lise Mithout
  • 9:00-9:45
    Marie-Océane Lachaud (Inalco, IFRAE),
    “Chongdu (smallpox vaccine) and its Medical Conceptions. Study Focusing on Korean Medical Treatises Between the 18th and 19th Centuries”
  • 9:45-10:30
    Marina Valente (Université Paris Cité),
    “Rethinking the History of Cholera Epidemics in 19th century Chosŏn Korea”
  • 10:30-10:45
    Coffee break
  • 10:45-11:30
    Anatole Bernet (SciencesPo, Centre d’histoire)
    “Japan’s Health Transition at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
  • 11:30-12:15
    Jean Corbi (SciencesPo, Centre d’histoire)
    “In the Shadow of Doctors. Health Workers in Sichuan, 1900-1950”


Vendredi, 3 mai 2024, 14h30 - 17h30, lieu : salle 569 (5è étage) bâtiment Olympe de Gouges Université Paris-Cité 8 Rue Albert Einstein Paris 75013

Beyond science and empire (organized by Thomas Haddad)

Vendredi,14 juin 2024, 14h30 - 17h30, lieu : salle 569 (5è étage) bâtiment Olympe de Gouges Université Paris-Cité 8 Rue Albert Einstein Paris 75013

Scholars doing new things (organized by Clement Bonvoisin and Florence Bretelle-Establet) + organization of next year

Vendredi, 18 octobre 2024, 14h30-17h30, lieu :

Shadow of modernity on the history of science (organized by Karine Chemla)



Vendredi, 15 novembre 2024, 14h30-17h30, lieu :

Qu’est ce que la philosophie indienne (organized by Agathe Keller)



décembre 2024, 14h30-17h30, lieu :

Alexis Trouillot (Université de Texas)
Frank E. Chapman’s Prison Writings : Science and Africa
Résumé :
One of the first book to make the question of mathematics in Africa available to a large public was Claudia Zaslavsky’s (1917-2006) Africa Counts : Number and Pattern in African Cultures published in 1973. This talk will focus on one of her book’s inspirations, the unpublished Science and Africa : Essays on the Part Which People of Color Have Played in the Development of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics written by the young Frank E. Chapman in 1965 as he was serving a life sentence in a Missouri prison. Based on the original manuscript as well as correspondence, I will discuss Chapman ideas regarding the link between Black liberation in the United State and the history of science.
Répondant : Angel Pellerej (Masterant U-paris)







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