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Seminars
The following seminars will be held at the Centre (George Street)
during Trinity Term 2009, on Wednesdays at 5pm.
Islam and Science
in association with the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement
of Science
| 29 April |
Professor Emilie Savage-Smith
(University of Oxford) |
Cartography and Islam: The Book
of Curiosities |
| 6 May |
Dr Peter E Pormann
(University of Warwick)
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Medicine and Islam: Between Tradition
and Innovation |
| 13 May |
Dr Rim Turkmani, FRS
(Imperial College, London) |
17th-Century England and Arabic
Science |
| 20 May |
Professor Peregrine Horden
(Royal Holloway, London)
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Early Islamic Hospitals: New Evidence,
Old Questions |
| 27 May |
Professor Roshdi Rasheed
(CNRS, Paris) |
Al-Khwarizmi and the Beginnings
of Algebra |
| 3 June |
Dr Guy Attewell
(Wellcome Trust, London) |
Science and the Rhetoric of Revivalism:
20th-Century Yunani Medicine in the Making |
| 10 June |
Professor Charles Burnett
(Warburg Institute, London) |
Astrology as Science: al-Kindi,
Abu Ma'shar and al-Qabisi |
| 17 June |
Professor Len Berggren
(Simon Fraser University) |
The Mathematical Legacy of Islam |
Previous Seminars
Hilary Term 2009: Ottomans, Safavids
and Mughals: Strategies of Central Power
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