1st International Colloquium John of Seville and Limia

Ex Oriente lux.
Transmission of Scientific Knowledge from the Near East to Europe

Faculty of Humanities
Cordoba, Spain | 26th-27th May 2015

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Tuesday 26th

10:00 – 10:30 Opening Session
Chair: Eulalio Fernández Sánchez (Dean of the Faculty of Humanities)

Greetings:

Charles Burnett (The Warburg Institute, London)
Pedro Mantas-España (University of Córdoba – CNERU)
José Meirinhos (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)
Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala (University of Córdoba - CNERU)

10-30 – 11:30 Opening key note
Charles Burnett (The Warburg Institute, London), John of Seville and Limia

11:30 – 12:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 11:30
Pedro Mantas España (UCO - CNERU), Divinatory Arts and their projection into Western Science

11:30 - 12:00
Juan Pedro Monferrer Sala (UCO - CNERU), Destroying the Syriac manuscript heritage. Lost leaf of an Arabic herbarium in karshūnī tore out from a codex

12:00 – 13:00 Discussion

13:30 – 15:30 Lunch

17:00 - 17:30
Iolanda Ventura (CNRS-IRHT, Paris), Gerard of Cremona and the ʻLiber Albenguesim medicinarum simplicium et ciborumʼ

17:30 - 18:00
José Meirinhos (Universidade do Porto), The Internal Senses of the Soul: the Arab Philosophers Read by the Scholastics

18:00 – 18:30 Coffee break

18:30 19:00
Ann Giletti (Rome), Accused of Heresy: Moorish Natural Philosophy in the Dock

19:00 – 20:00 Discussion

20:00 – 22:00 Dinner

Wednesday 27th

10:00 - 10:30
Dag Nikolaus Hasse (Universität Würzburg), On the Identity of Anonymous Arabic-Latin Translators in Twelfth-Century Spain

10:30 - 11:00
Thomas E. Burman (University of Tennessee), Mark of Toledo’s Translation of Ibn Tūmart, Tathlīth al-Waḥdānīyah, and Almohad ‘Fundamentalism’

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:00
Francisco Caramelo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Myth, Divination and Science in Ancient Mesopotamia

12:00 – 13:00 Discussion

13:30 – 15:30 Lunch
 

17:00 - 17:30
Alexander Fidora (ICREA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona), The Latin Talmud and its Christian Translators

17:30 - 18:00
Maurizio Massaiu (CNERU, Córdoba), Some Remarks on the Transmission of Building Techniques from the Near East to the West: the Case of Muqarnas

18:00 – 18:30 Coffee break|
18:30 – 19:30 Discussion
19-30 – 20:30 Closing key note
Federico Corriente (Saragossa University), Transmission of knowledge and acknowledgement by the West of the sources and merits of Near Eastern sciences

20:30 – 22:30 Farewell dinner

Scientific Committee
Charles Burnett (London)
Pedro Mantas España (Córdova)
José Meirinhos (Porto)
Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala (Córdova)
Henrique Leitão (Lisboa)

Organization
Pedro Mantas España (Presidente) - Cordoba Near Eastern Research Unit - CNERU (Córdoba)
José Meirinhos - Gabinete de Filosofia Medieval / Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto (Porto)
Charles Burnett - The Warburg Institute (London)

Financiamento, avaliação e auditoria do Instituto de Filosofia:
FCT / COMPETE / QREN / UE