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Location
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Lecture
Title
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Date
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| The
fifth biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium
on Islamic Art |
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“Light
and Dark: The 'Chekered History’ of Early
Optics” |
November 9-11,
2013 |
Centre Alexandre
Koyré, Paris, France,
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Footpaths and Footprints:
Early Optics and Perspective through
Microscopic Lenses |
September 10-11, 2013 |
| International Summer
School, Istanbul, Turkey, Rose Garden (Gülhane) |
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Multimedia
Sources on Early Science: The Case of
Optics, Program Title: History of Science as
Universal Heritage
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August 22-25,
2013 |
| Harvard University, AKPIA Lecture
Series: A Forum for Islamic Art and
Architecture |
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“Geometry and Architecture:
The Telling Lines of Unique Arabic and Persian
Sources” |
March 7, 2013 |
Max Plank
Institute for the History of Science, Berlin,
Germany
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Optics and
Perspective, and their Transmission through
Arabic and Persian Sources
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October
12-13, 2012
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| Istanbul, Iranian Studies Bienniel
Conference |
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“Persian
Sources on Practical Geometry”: Persian
Tradition of Practical Geometry |
August 1-5,
2012 |
International
Summer School, Istanbul, Turkey, Rose Garden
(Gülhane)
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Early
Science Sessions: Sezgin Research Foundation
for the History of Science
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July
29-August 2, 2012
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| Cultural
Season, Kuwait, al-Maidan Cultural Centre (DAI),
Kuwait City, Kuwait |
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Special
Cases in Arabic and Persian Scientific
Traditions:
The Book of Instruction, The Book of
Construction, and The Book of Constellations
|
March
21, 2011
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| Iranian
Studies Conference: Los Angeles, CA |
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Windows into Early
Science: Persian Scientific Traditions on
Exhibit
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May
27-31, 2010 |
| Middle
East Studies Association (MESA): Boston, MA
|
|
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Nov
21-24, 2009 |
| Institute
for Advanced Studies in Basic Sciences (IASBS),
Zanjan, Iran |
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“Astronomy
and Science before and after Galileo” The Historical
Relationship Between Astronomy and Optics
|
January
29-30, 2009 |
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Bibliotheca Alexandrina,
Manuscript Center, Alexandria , Egypt |
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“Lost
and Embedded Manuscript Texts” Revealing
Manuscripts and Embedded Texts: The Case of
Arabic Optics |
May
6-8, 2008 |
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Medieval Science Colloquium, Boston
College, Boston, M
|
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Greco-Arabic
Optics and Early Demonstrative Variations
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May
25-26, 2007 |
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Bridges Conference London,
UK
|
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“Geometry in Early
Geometrical Disciplines: Representation and
Demonstration"
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August 6, 2006
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Iranian Studies Sixth
Biennial Conference, London, UK
|
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“Science and Mithal: Geometrical
Demonstrations in Early Arabic and Persian
Sciences”
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August 4, 2006
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“Entertaining Science”
Cornelia Cafe, New York City
|
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“From Baghdad to Samarqand
and Cordoba”
in: “Science Cabaret” (participated in play:
“Searching for Aristotle”)
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August 7, 2005
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Northeastern University,
Boston,
MA, USA
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“Crossroads of Science:
The Expansion of Knowledge in the Islamic
Middle Ages”: in “Crossroads of Culture: The
Islamic World 750-1400”: Coordinated by
Harvard’s CMES, Northeastern University,
and Primary Source.
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July 25, 2005
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Agha
Khan
University,
London,
UK
|
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Organizing Knowledge: Encyclopaedic
Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century
Muslim World
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November 15, 2003
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New England Medieval
Society, Amherst College, MA, USA
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Annual Conference
(Mediterranean Exchanges)
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October 25, 2003
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Dibner
Institute for the History of Science and
Technology MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
|
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Lecture Series: Dibner Institute
Colloquium Series
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May 14, 2002
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Goethe Institute for the
History of Science(Institut
für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Frankfurt)
|
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Conference: Certainty,
Doubt, Error
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November 18, 2001
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Royal Institute for
Inter-faith Studies Amman, Jordan
|
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Conference: Islam and
Science
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August 28, 2001
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Oklahoma
University,
Norman,
Oklahoma, USA
|
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Workshop: Exchanges of
mathematical knowledge between Islam and Europe
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March 30, 2001
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Center for Middle Eastern
Studies
Harvard
University,
Cambridge,
MA, USA
|
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Lecture Series: Iranian
Studies
|
May 5, 1999
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Dibner
Institute for the History of Science and
Technology MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
|
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Conference: Perspectives
on Science in Medieval Islam
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November 7, 1998
|
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Institute for the History
of Science: In collaboration with Institut Franais de Recherche en Iran
(IFRI). Tehran
University,
Tehran,
IR
|
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Conference: Les Sciences
dans le Monde Iranien (II)
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June 8, 1998
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Dept. of History and
Philosophy of Science
Cambridge
University,
Cambridge,
England
|
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Departmental Lecture
|
June 3, 1998
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Centre d'Histoire des
Sciences et des Techniques, Universite de Liege, Liege,
Belgium
|
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Conference: XX
International Congress of History of Science
Session: Ancient, Medieval, and Premodern (before Newton)
Optics: Problems and Perspectives
|
July 21, 1997
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Dibner
Institute for the History of Science and
Technology MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA
|
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Lecture Series: Dibner Institute
Colloquium Series
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April 8, 1997
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Institute for the History
of Science, Tehran
University
Tehran,
Iran
|
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Conference: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (d. 1274)
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March 1997
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Middle East Studies
Association (MESA)
Providence,
RI, USA
|
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Session: Islamic
Reformulation of the Greek Scientific
Tradition
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November 23, 1996
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Nashr
i Tarikh Institute Tehran: Iran
|
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Lecture Series: Iranian
History
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July 1996
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Library of the Parliament
(Majlis) Tehran,
Iran
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Conference: Majlis Library
Collections
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February 1996
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Institut
Franais de Recherche en Iran
(IFRI) Strasbourg
University,
Strasbourg
|
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Conference: Les Sciences
dans le Monde Iranien (I)
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June 5, 1995
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Department of Mathematics Kerman University, Kerman,
Iran
|
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Conference: History of
Mathematics
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April 1995
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Department of
Mathematics, Sharif
University
Tehran,
Iran
|
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Conference: History of
Mathematics
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March 1995
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Institute for Humanities
Tehran,
Iran
|
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Lecture Series: Division
of History and Philosophy of Science
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November 1994
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Istanbul
University,
Istanbul,
Turkey
|
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Conference: Science and
Technology in the Ottoman World
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June 8, 1994
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Department of
Linguistics, Tehran
University,
Tehran,
Iran
|
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Lecture Series
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April 1994
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Institute for Humanities,
Tehran
University,
Tehran,
Iran
|
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Lecture Series: Academy
of Philosophy
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November 1993
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Tehran
University,
Tehran,
Iran
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Conference: Science and
Technology in the Islamic World
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June 1993
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Oklahoma
University,
Norman,
Oklahoma, USA
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Conference: Science and
Cultural Exchange in the Pre-modern World
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February 26, 1993
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Department of
Mathematics, University
of Fes,
Fes,
Morocco
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Conference: History of
Mathematics
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December 3, 1992
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Department of History of
Science, Harvard University
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Dissertation Colloquium
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May, 1991
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