Dr Dror Weil is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of History, and a fellow at King’s College, University of Cambridge. His teaching and research interests focus on scientific, intellectual, and other textual exchanges between the Islamicate world and China during the late medieval and early modern periods. He has published articles and book chapters on China's participation in the early modern Islamicate book culture, China's reception of Arabo-Persian astronomy, the role of Chinese-Muslims as agents of scientific knowledge, the concepts of Time and Temporalities in early modern Chinese Islam, and the study of Arabic and Persian texts in late imperial China. He received his PhD from Princeton University and has held fellowships at the Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and EHESS in Paris and Marseille.

This seminar will begin at 5pm in the Centre's Jerusalem Room. Prior booking is not required. All welcome.