The movement of knowledge about the astral sciences among and between its historical practitioners is a phenomenon driven by resolute adventurism insofar as adventure is understood as the journey of navigating the complex and ever-changing relationship between society, history, philosophy, and science. Through their bold voyages across political borders and historical times, these professional pundits have allowed us to glimpse at the ways in which language, logic, and structure get adopted and adapted to suit the changing paradigms of discourse in scientific societies. It is in their writings, then, that we can look for the mechanisms of transmission, translocation, and transcreation that shape the kinematics of knowledge exchange between cultures that have historically discoursed on the heavens at great length.
As a step in this direction, we have gathered a diverse group of scholars who are experts on various aspects of the history of astral sciences in the second millennium, from the material to the mathematical, in order to (i) describe the sociocultural milieux in which the astral sciences were discussed; (ii) explain the linguistic adaptations, conceptual innovations, and philosophical arguments made in translating the astral sciences in those milieux; and (iii) show how structural changes in the knowledge systems of societies are both conservative and transformative phenomena.
Invited Speakers:
Matthieu HUSSON, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, France
Yoichi ISAHAYA, Slavic-Eurasian Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan
Divna MANOLOVA, Université PSL-Observatoire de Paris, SYRTE, CNRS, France
Eva ORTHMANN, Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Göttingen, Germany
Adrian PIRTEA, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Pouyan REZVANI, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany
Scott TRIGG, Observatoire de Paris, France
Dror WEIL, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Transmission, Translocation, and Transcreation: A cultural kinematics of astral knowledge in Copenhagen (13─15 November 2023 is part of the GHS-funded research project Changing Episteme in Early Modern Sanskrit Astronomy.
The details of the conference can be found at https://ceemsa.hypotheses.org/conference
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