All conference sessions will be held in Rehm Library and are free and open to the public. The conference will bring together international scholars to explore important issues related to the history of science in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during a critical period of change and modernization. “But this perspective problematically attributes the spread of science in the Middle East to often violent impositions by Europeans. Her book “The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and its Transformations in Early Modern China” (Harvard, 2009) was a study of belief-making in early modern Chinese natural history. Learn more at he Globalization of Science in the Middle East and North Africa, 18th-20th Centuries webpage.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 06, 2017 21:37 UTC