Exchange of Knowledge Between Literate Cultures presentations
Presentations from the Conference on Exchange of Knowledge Between Literate Cultures, 19 July - 21 July 2021.
Presentations from the conference are listed below in order of appearance.
Keynote address: Exchange of Knowledge between literate cultures seen from the perspective of ancient mathematics
Karine Chemla, SPHere (CNRS &Université de Paris)
Collective literacy, knowledge systems and memory: blurring the lines between orality and literacy in ancient Egypt
Katharina Zinn, University of Wales Trinity Saint Davids, Lampeter UK
Representational modes and their effects of written signs
Karenleigh A. Overmann, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, and University of Pittsburgh, US
The Parvadvayasādhana of Mallāri: A Sanskrit table text to compute eclipses
Clemency Montelle, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, NZ.
The surveyor’s controversy: a condensed view of a changing knowledge economy
Robert Middeke-Conlin, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
On different cultures of computations with geometrical entities in Sanskrit mathematical and astral sources
Agathe Keller, SPHere (CNRS &Université de Paris)
Religious polemics and natural philosophy in Islamic literate cultures from Christian Spain
Mònica Colominas Aparicio, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Germany
Wisdom is out there! Roger Bacon and the epistemic reconstruction of lost books and missed knowledge
Nicola Polloni, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
The ill-starred kisimā: an astrological technique lost in translation
Martin Gansten, LundUniversity, Sweden
Thinking of language and the language of thought: exchanges in early modern Sanskrit astronomy
Anuj Misra, University of Copenhagen, Denmark