Year 2015-2016

The complete SAW programme  from November 2015 to October 2016

Calendars Sept-Oct 2016, 2015-2016 , 2014-2015 (pdf)

Conference Writing histories of ancient mathematics – Reflecting on past practices and opening the future, 18th – 21st centuries, October 2016
Workshop Writing histories of ancient mathematics, September 2016

Conference Rituals, Mathematics and the Astral sciences, June 2016
Conference Mistakes and the study of manuscripts, May 2016

Seminar History of Science, History of Text – 2011-2016
November 25, 2015 – Workshop on Zhangjiashan tomb 247
December 10, 2015 – Theoretical and Linguistic approaches to scientific texts of the past
January 7, 2016 – Working on ancient mathematical sources: Textual environment and historiographic operations
February 11, 2016 – Discussing how language shapes thought
February 12, 2016 – A lecture by Tuska Benes
March 10, 2016 – Parts of texts and writing by compilation
April 14, 2016 – Genres of writing in the history of ancient science
May 2 and 3, 2016 – Conference with the Center for the study of manuscript cultures of Hamburg University, on “Mistakes and the study of manuscripts”
May 12, 2016 – Printing scholarship
June 9, 2016 – Perspectives on the constitution of collections containing scientific documents of the past

Seminar History and Philosophy of Mathematics –  2011-2016
December 14, 2015 – Publishing complete works of mathematicians in 19th-century Europe
January 11, 2016 – History of the historiography of algebra
March 7, 2016 – History of the historiography of indeterminate analysis
April 4, 2016 – Measurement units in the history of mathematics and beyond

Seminar Exploring 19th and 20th centuries historiographies of mathematics in the ancient world – 2015-2016
November 13, 2015 –Historical approaches to ancient mathematics and astral sciences in the early modern period
December 18, 2015 – History of mathematics and the astral sciences in the ancient world in a context of professionalisation. The case of Mesopotamia
January 8, 2016 – Historiography of ancient mathematics and astral sciences in India before its professionalisation
January 22, 2016 – Historiography of ancient mathematics and astral sciences in China before its professionalisation
February 19, 2016 –Historiography of ancient mathematics and astral sciences, with a focus of China, and the Indian subcontinent: The beginnings of professionalisation
March 18, 2016 – Historiography of calculation and computation in the ancient world
April 15, 2016 – Historiography of measurement units
May 20, 2016 – Historiography of comparison & Historiography of circulation, with a particular reference to the ancient mathematical sciences
June 17, 2016 – Historiography of science, ideologies and identities (culture, civilisation, communities)

Seminar Rethinking Practices and Cultures in the History of Science – 2011-2016
December 3, 2015 – Session 1
February 3, 2016 – Session 2
March 2, 2016 – Session 3
May 4, 2016 – Session 4
June 20, 2016 – Session 5

Seminar Reading Mathematical Texts –  2011-2016
January 13th, 2016 – Session 1 – Astronomical and mathematical tablets from Uruk
June 3rd, 2016 – Session 2 – Archimedes’ Method by Reviel Netz