Coordination : Silvia Di Donato (CNRS, SPHere)
Joint seminar bringing together researchers from the CHSPAM center, consisting of study days, round tables or symposiums. It provides an opportunity for work and debate on texts, themes, doctrinal and methodological issues relating to medieval Greek-Arabic, Hebrew and Latin philosophical and scientific traditions. It highlights the richness of our fields of research, and how they fit together.
PROGRAM 2023-2024
6th - 8th September 2023
SIHSPAI International symposium (International Society for the History of Arab and Islamic Science and Philosophy)
Ludwig Maximilians Universität – Prof. Huber Platz 2 - Munich
Reason and Nature: Science, Philosophy and Theology in Classical and Post-Classical Islam
[CANCELLED] 25th January 2024
Silvia Di Donato
Jewish thought and the kalām.
29th February 2024 - Room Mondrian 646A Condorcet building Université Paris-Cité 4 rue Elsa Morante Paris 75013.
The seminar is organized in hybrid mode. If you would like to join the seminar online, we invite you to write to Cristina Cerami
Crisitina Cerami and Damien Janos
Avicenna and the kalām II. Atomism and Natural Philosophy
Program
Chair : Marwan Rashed (Sorbonne Université/CNRS-Centre Léon Robin)
- 9h30-10h30
Burak Şaman (University İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi)
« The question of the Throne (’Arsh) in the kalām and Avicenna’s epistle on the extent » - 10h30-11h30
István Lánczky (Avicenna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, Budapest)
« Avicenna and the Bahshamites on Spatial Extension » - Coffee break
- 11h45-12h45
Paul Hullmeine (LMU, Munich)
« The kalām Background of the Debate between al-Bīrūnī and Ibn Sīnā » - Lunch break
Chair : Olga Lucia Lizzini (Université d’Aix-Marseille/CNRS-Iremam) - 14h30-15h30
Ruizhi Ma (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
« Avicenna and the Kalām on Light and Darkness » - 15h30-16h30
Fouad Mlih (Université de Lorraine)
« Philosophical dialectic and theological dialectic in Ibn Sīnā’s Kitāb al-Ğadal: a vigorous focus » - 16h30-17h00
Final discussion
21st March 2024 9.30 am to 12.30 pm - Room Mondrian 646A Condorcet building Université Paris-Cité 4 rue Elsa Morante Paris 75013.
Silvia Di Donato
Jewish thought and the kalām.
Kindly contact Silvia Di Donato to obtain Zoom link.
Program :
- 9.30 am - 10.30 am
Sarah Stroumsa (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
How Much Kalām, and Which Kind? Jewish Philosophical Trends in the Early Abbasid Period - 10.30 am
Coffee break - 11.00 am - 12.00 pm
Aviram Ravitzky (Ariel University)
Muʿtazilite Notions in the Debate Over the Antiquity of the Laws: A Chapter in 10th Century Karaite Thought - 12.00 pm - 12.30 pm
Round table
4th April 2024 - Room 830 (8th floor) Olympe de Gouges building Université Paris Cité 8 Rue Albert Einstein Paris 75013
The methodological challenges of editing translations
Organization : Valérie Cordonier, Lisa Devriesé
Program :
- 09:40-10:00
Welcoming participants - 10:00-11:00
Frédérique Woerther
The Arabic-Latin edition of Aristotle’s Rhetoric (Aristoteles Semitico-Latinus), to be published in 2024: problems and methods - 11:00-12:00
Silvia Di Donato
Specific difficulties and methodological issues in editing Arabic-Hebrew translations. The case of Ibn Bāğğa’s work - 12:15-13:45
Lunch - 14:00-15:00
Nena Bobovnik
Making (Sense of) a Critical Edition of the Latin Magna Moralia - 15:00-15:30
Round table (with Gerhard Endress & Carlos Steel)
16th May 2024 9.30 am to 5.30 pm - Room Luc Valentin 454A Scientific knowledge in the Mediterranean
Conference in honor of Pascal Crozet
Organizers : Eleonora Sammarchi et Cristina Cerami
Program
- 9.30am–10.00am
Introduction
Aurélien Robert (Director of SPHERE), Cristina Cerami (Director of CHSPAM), Eleonora Sammarchi (ETHZ-SPHERE) - 10.00am–10.30am
Roshdi Rashed (SPHERE-CNRS)
in absentia Al-Sijzī, why ? Geometries in the X century
1. Circulation of scientific knowledge in the Mediterranean
President : Ahmad Hasnaoui (SPHERE-CNRS) - 10.30am–11.15am
Francisco Javier Martinez (Université de Zaragoza)
Medical circulation in the Mediterranean: the case of Morocco in the 19th and 20th centuries
Respondent : Mehrnaz Katouzian-Safadi (SPHERE-CNRS) - 11.15am-11.30am
Break - 11.30am–12.15pm
Eleonora Sammarchi (ETHZ-SPHERE) and Nacera Bensaou (USTHB / FI (LRIA), Alger)
Mathematical circulations in the Mediterranean: the case of arithmetic-algebraic practices in the Middle Ages and the 19th century
Respondent : Pierre Ageron (Université de Caen) - 12.15am–1.00pm
Zeinab Karimian (Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation-SPHERE)
Mathematical circulations in the Mediterranean: the case of Apollonius’ Conics between the Arab and Latin worlds
Respondent : Pierre Ageron (Université de Caen) - 1.00pm–2.30pm
Lunch
2. Geometry in the Mediterranean region
President : Erwan Penchèvre CAPHÉS - UAR 3610 (CNRS-ENS) - 2.30pm–3.15pm
Hossein Masoumi Hamedani (Iranian Institute of Philosophy)
Geometry for astronomers: a reading of the geometric part of Ibn Sīnā’s al-Najāt - 3.15pm-4.00pm
David Rabouin (SPHERE-CNRS)
Reflections on the role of motion in Proclus’ geometry - 4.00pm–4.15pm
Break - 4.15pm–5.30
Round table : Geometric approaches in Arab and medieval mathematical texts
Presented by : Bijan Vahabzadeh (CHSPAM, SPHERE), Marc Moyon (XLIM, Université de Limoges), Sabine Rommevaux-Tani (AUSONIUS, Université de Bordeaux-CNRS), Marouane Ben Miled (Université de Tunis El Manar), Sylvie Nony (CHSPAM, SPHERE)
4th to 6th June 2024 - room 628 Olympe de Gouges building (6è étage) Place Paul Ricœur Paris 75013
Principles of Demonstration in Late Antiquity
Organized by : Vincenzo De Risi et Ulysse Chaintreuil
You can follow the session via Zoom, for the link please write to sphere-communication@cnrs.fr (objet:AX2024)
Program
- 9:00
Welcoming participants - 9:30-10:45
Orna Harari (Tel Aviv University)
Epistemologizing Aristotle’s Theory of Demonstration: The Ancient Commentators on the Principles of Demonstration - Break
- 11:00-12:15
Maria Fiorella Privitera (Université de Genève)
Philoponus on the hoti esti. In APo. 1. 1, 2, 10 - Lunch break
- 13:45-15:00
Alvise Lagnerini (Université de Genève)
Exploring Aristotelian Induction through the Lens of Alexander of Aphrodisias - Break
- 15:15-16:30
Maddalena Bonelli (Università di Bergamo)
Alexandre d’Aphrodise et les axiomes de la philosophie
13rd - 14th June 2024 Room 127 and room 105 at the 1st floor of Olympe de Gouges building Université Paris Cité 8 Rue Albert 75013
Aurélien Robert and Ana Maria Mora Marquez
Sciences in Context: Challenges to Aristotelian Methods in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
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VENUE
* Université Paris Cité, Building Condorcet, 10 rue Alice Domon et Léonie Duquet, 75013 Paris. Campus Map.
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Metro : Line 14 and RER C, stop : Bibliothèque François Mitterrand or line 6, stop : Quai de la gare. Buses: 62 and 89 (stop: Bibliothèque rue Mann), 325 (stop: Watt), 64 (stop: Tolbiac-Bibliothèque François Mitterrand)
