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A Book on al-Khazini’s Book on the Balance of Wisdom
This project studies the book ’Abd al-Rahman al-Khazini’s Kitab Mizan al-hikma (The Book of the Balance of Wisdom). This project aims to produce a tra
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A draft English translation of Khazini’s book has been prepared. It is superior to the complete Russian and partial English, French, and German transl
Experience in Translation: Making Sense of Nature in the Premodern World
This working group presents a global palette of historical and philosophical studies on the ways in which experience—as a tool and object of science—t
The Scholarly Experience: Wisdom in the Syriac World (Fourth–Twelfth Century)
In Syriac scholarship, knowledge was intimately tied to the scholar as a person who possessed it. It was firmly embedded in the web of customs, morals
Thinking in Many Tongues
This working group and reading seminar, running over two years in 2016–17, brought together around a dozen historians and philologists with diverse ki
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Reading Seminar, 5 October 2016 Etymology , Participants, Wolfgang Behr
Lorraine Daston in an interview in Die Zeit on rules and gender in language
Go To Article (German, Paywall)Lorraine Daston im Interview in der Zeitung Die Zeit über gendergerechte Sprache
Zum Artikel (deutsch, paywall)Kaitlin Sager
Kaitlin Sager studies medieval literature at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is...
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Chinese Ideas of Africa in an Age of Global Expansion
The study of Africa and of Afro-Asian connections was, since its appearance in Chinese academia in the 1960s, heavily influenced by foreign policy tow
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The rapidly growing field of African Studies in China thus presented itself as an ideal arena for thinking through tensions between politics, economic
Scientific Questions Then and Now
This group examines questions related to experience that seem to recur in the history of science and philosophy. We invite practicing scientists, hist
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Rethinking Linguistics from an African Perspective
The project explores epistemic, theoretical, and methodological ways of recalibrating African linguistics. The main hypothesis of the research is that