Re-constructing a local genealogy of the scientific modernization in North Africa and the Middle East is still a pending task. Research on modern Arab-Islamic scientists, physicians and engineers will help expand the collective memory of modernization in those countries by adding new, often badly-known or forgotten actors to its ranks. Biographies will also help illuminate the intrinsic connection existing between science and society, showing how science has always been a necessary element in plans for national independence, social change and democratic rule. This conference will focus on the biographies of some late 19^th-early 20^th century scientists from Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria

Argument

Re-constructing a local genealogy of the scientific modernization in North Africa and the Middle East is still a pending task. Research on modern Arab-Islamic scientists, physicians and engineers will help expand the collective memory of modernization in those countries by adding new, often badly-known or forgotten actors to its ranks. Biographies will also help illuminate the intrinsic connection existing between science and society, showing how science has always been a necessary element in plans for national independence, social change and democratic rule. This conference will focus on the biographies of some late 19th-early 20th century scientists from Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria.

Programme

Mercredi 24

9:00 – 9:30 Francisco Javier Martínez, Pascal Crozet, Présentation.

• 9:30 Feza Günergun, (Department of the History of Science, Istanbul University, Turkey), Reconciling novelty and tradition in science : Gazi Ahmed Muhtar Pasha (1839-1919),, Ottoman military officer, envoy and reformist.

10:30 Pause

• 11:00 Pascal Crozet, (CNRS, SPHERE, UMR 7219, France), Entre Paris et Le Caire, la carrière d’un astronome égyptien, Ismail Mustafa (1826-1901).
• 12:00 – 13:00 Méropi Anastassiadou, (INALCO, Paris, France), Des philanthropes nationalistes ? L’engagement des médecins au sein, du Syllogue Littéraire Grec de Constantinople au début du 20e siècle.
• 15:00 Ebubekir Ceylan, (Yunus Emre Institute, Turkey), Jafar al-Askari : The Life of an Ottoman soldier and his role in Modern Iraqi Army.

16:00 Pause café

• 16:30 Francisco Javier Martínez, (MC & SPHERE, UMR 7219, France), Black, rural, rebel, modern : assembling the many lives, of the Moroccan doctor Mahboub ben al-Mahmoud (1888 – circa 1970).
• 17:30 – 18:30 Meltem Kocaman, (Department of the History of Science, Istanbul University, Turkey), Kamuran Sirri (d. 1936) : Biography of a Turkish electrical engineer in the age of modernization.

Jeudi 25

• 9:30 Şeref Etker, (Independent Scholar, Istanbul, Turkey), Political chemistry across the Baghdadbahn : A personal history of Dr. Cevat Mazhar.

10:30 Pause

• 11:00 Pierre Ageron, (Laboratoire de mathématiques Nicolas Oresme
 & IREM, Université de Caen, France), Science, reform and autonomy in Morocco :
, Mawlây Ahmad bin ‘Abdallâh al-Tanânî, known as al-Suwayrî (1811-1902).
• 12:00 – 13:00 Yücel Yanıkdağ, (University of Richmond, USA), Dr. Mazhar Osman : Psychiatry, Social Pathology and Modernization, in the Late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey.
• 15:00 Hossein Masoumi-Hamedani, (Science Department, Center for the Great Encyclopedia, Tehran, Iran), The Two Aspects of Scientific Modernization in Iran : Some Case Studies.
• 16:00 Betty S. Anderson, (Boston University, USA), Science Education at the Syrian Protestant College.

17:00 Pause

17:30 Francisco Javier Martínez, Pascal Crozet, Closing remarks.

Organisation et financement

Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships Programme, European Union (EuroMoroccanScience, FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IEF Grant agreement nº 329548)

Comité scientifique

• Francisco Javier Martínez,
• Pascal Crozet,
• Laboratoire SPHERE, UMR 7219

Adresse

Carte du campus avec les sorties des transports en commun : http://www.univ-paris-diderot.fr/Do...