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