Final Programme

Session 1 – The Shifting Values of Prediction – Chair Theodore Arabatzis

Theodore Arabatzis – Opening the Black Box of Prediction

Stylianos Kampouridis – Chemistry with Computers and Quantitative Predictions in the Post-World War II Era

Iraklis Katsaloulis – Epistemic Values and Decision Making: The Case of Earthquake Prediction

Vasiliki Christopoulou – Prediction in Late-Nineteenth Century Physics: The Case of Dynamical Similarity in Rayleigh’s Work

Session 2 – Mathematisation et Changement conceptuel – Chair Efthymios Nicolaidis

Silvia Mancinelli – Unveiling the Origins and Impact of Numerical Systems: From Ancient Civilizations to Fibonacci’s Revolution

Vincent Jullien – Mathématisation et changement conceptuel: le numéro spécial d’Almagest et les autres numéros spéciaux du journal concernant les sciences et les valeurs humaines

Meropi Morfouli – L’horloge précise : une transformation radicale de la société (L’Académie Royale des Sciences, Huygens et le temps.)

14h00-15h30 Lunch break

15h30-17h30 Parallel Sessions

Session 3 – Body Meets Soul: Jesuit Approach and East Asian Response – Chair Kim Seonhee

Kim Seonhee – Connecting Brain and Mind: A Philosophical Approach of Xingxuecushu 性學觕述 and Its Confucian Transformation

Kim Borum – Visual Organs, Vision, and Perception in East and West

Park JiHyun – The First Sense of China: Sound, Communication, and Understanding in East and West

Jeongyeon Choi – Understanding the Sense of Smell and Taste in Europe and China

Session 4 – Mathematisation et Changement conceptuel – Chair Ana Barahona

Kostas Skordoulis, Gianna Katsiampoura, Aristotelis Gkiolmas,

Anastasios Kapodistrias – The Hessen – Grossmann thesis in the context of the Second Quantum Revolution”

Huijuan Zhu – Hans Thirring, the University of Vienna and the theory of relativity

Xiaodong Yin – On the Road to Copenhagen: Science and Technology exchanges between China and Denmark during the 1950s and 1970s

Manolis Simos, Konstantinos Konstantis, Aristotle Tympas – A Critical History of AI Ethics

17h30-18h00 Coffee break

Kostas Tampakis – “The denial of denial”: Science as a weapon in the battle for a Christian Greece (1936-1974)

Sandy Sakorrafou – Fighting Against Atheism in Greece: Science and Technology in the service of Orthodox Christian values (1936-1974)

Evangelia Chordaki – The Greek “progressive intelligentsia” in the conceptualization of science and atheism: The case of Protoporoi

Jaume Navarro – Edmund T. Whittaker, physics and Catholicism. The thoughts of a convert

Elena Schaa – A complementary relationship? Values and Science in Werner Heisenberg’s Popular Communications.

20h00 Welcome reception

Wednesday September 13

9h30-11h30 Parallel Sessions

Session 6 – Values, ethics and politics – Chair Gerasimos Merianos

Antigoni Lymperi, Ismini Lymperi, Kotsifakos Dimitrios – Summary, Evaluation, and Reassessment of Functional Theories of Family Evolution in the Age of Metaverse and Technical Intelligence

Alain Touwaide – Value for Science in Byzantium?

Penelope Voutsina – Virtue ethics and history of Science

Christine Phili – C. Carathéodory, supporter of Eleftherios Venizelos’ policy

Session 7 – The Mathematical Astronomies’ Exchange and Cooperation between Medieval Islam, India, Europe and China on the Silk Road – Chair Lu Dalong

Zhang Xiaoxue – Japanese scholar Tsuruichi Hayashi’s academic exchanges with China

Liu Jinhai – The Dissemination of David Eugene Smith’s Mathematics Education in China

Zhang Lulu – The Radian System and Its Spread in China

Dai Qin – An Examination of the History of Mongolian Mathematical Culture in Multicultural Perspective

Session 8 – Values, texts and instruments – Chair George N. Vlahakis

Luiz Carlos Soares – Newtonians in the Market: Independent and/or Itinerant Lecturers of Natural and Experimental Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century England.

Maria Terdimou – Greek publications during the 18th century

Panagiotis Lazos – The role of collections of scientific instruments in attracting students. The case of Greek schools in Istanbul

Steven M. Oberhelman – Oneirocritical and Iatrosophic Texts as Coping Strategies in Premodern Greece

Session 9 – The Mathematical Astronomies’ Exchange and Cooperation between Medieval Islam, India, Europe and China on the Silk Road – Chair Efthimios Nicolaidis

Han Dongyang – The Chinese Calendar and Knowledge in the Sanjufīni Zīj

Lu Dalong – Preliminary Studies on the Chinese Planetary Theories in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties

Zhang Lu – Kepler’s astronomical laws in China

Deng Kehui – Evolution From Jiudao Shu to Algorism of Jiudao Shu

Session 10 – Cultures and epistemology – Chair Gianna Katsiampoura

Session 12 – Institutions and human values – Chair Kostas Skordoulis

Gianna Katsiampoura – Science, politics and religion in the 11th century Byzantine era: the case of Ioannis Italos’ trials

Mao Dan – How “Mathematics” Was Turned into Compulsory Courses: Analysis on Institutionalisation around the Middle of the 16th Century

Mu Kaixuan – The Influence of Modern Western Medical Revolution on Medical Education

Ana Barahona, Erica Torrens, Alicia Villela & Marco Ornelas-Cruces – Evolution and secularism in Mexico

Session 13 – Science in Cultural Context – Chair Jean Christianidis

Alain Touwaide – Taxonomical Collapse in Renaissance Botany

Wang Guangchao – A study on the Star Chart made by Yi Xing

Jean Michel Delire – The Rekhāgaṇita, Sanskrit Translation of Euclid’s Elements : Book I

Yelluru Nagakiran – Bhujāntara correction in Indian Astronomy

Session 14 – International scientific collaboration and the emergence of National Communities Between the 19th and Early 20th Centuries – Chair Christine Phili

Maria Teresa Borgato – Charles Hermite and Francesco Brioschi: scientific and academic relationships in the light of their correspondence

Luciano Erika – Foreign influences and national tradition: the Göttingen-speaking mathematicians in Turin

Evelyne Barbin – The role of non-professional mathematicians in France: the cases of Gabriel Arnoux and Gabriel Tarry

François Plantade – Houel’s scientific relationship with Darboux and Mittag Leffler

Session 15 – The Mathematical Astronomies’ Exchange and Cooperation between Medieval Islam, India, Europe and China on the Silk Road – Chair Mihalis Sialaros

Flora Vafea – The armillary sphere “”Meteoroskopion””, as preserved in Arabic redaction of a lost Theon’s treatise

Zhao Shuanlin – The Formation of the Academic Circle of Early Qing Dynasty’s Mathematical Astronomy: A Focus on the Analysis and Interpretation of Correspondence Historical Materials

11h30-12h00 Coffee break

12h00-14h00 Parallel Sessions

Session 16 – Mathematisation et Changement conceptuel – Chair Vincent Jullien

Milada Sekyrková – Misused invention: people linked to the production of Zyklon B in Bohemia (Czech Republic) during WWII

Henk Kubbinga – Optics between industrial secrecy and mathematical formalism

Po-Hsun Chen – New Medicine in Cold War: Innovating Chinese Medical Theory in cultural policies for Nation-Building in Taiwan

Alexandra L. Rizhinashvili – Rethinking some roots of the ecosystem approach in aquatic ecology: between the food cycle and lake metabolism

Session 17 – International scientific collaboration and the emergence of National Communities Between the 19th and Early 20th Centuries – Chair Maria Teresa Borgato 

Erwin Neuenschwander – Striking Parallels: Nation Building and Renewal of Mathematics in Risorgimento Italy and its Effects on Germany

George N. Vlahakis – George Papanicolaou as an oceanographer. The early years of the most famous Greek medical doctor

14h00-15h30 Lunch break

15h30-17h30 Parallel Sessions

Session 18 – Mathematisation et Changement conceptuel – Chair Vangelis Koutalis

Peeter Müürsepp – Bernhard Schmidt and the Reflector

Wang Jichen – Instruments-making taking the laws from the heaven: the history of Chinese astronomical instruments among civilians from the 10th to 16th century

Vangelis Koutalis – Conceptions of chrysopoeia among the Phanariot circles in the Danubian Principalities: The deceitful and the undeceitful types of chemistry in the writings of Nikolaos Mavrokordatos (1670-1730) and Konstantinos Kaisarios Dapontes (1713/1714-1784)

Session 19 – Science in Cultural Context – Chair Erwin Neuenschwander

Johanna Garzon – The sky’s a stage: the influence of Euripides’ Andromeda in Aratus’ Phaenomena

Xudong Gao – When George Sarton Encountered Oriental Science:  History Studies of Shinjo Shinzo and Transnational Contexts of Scientific Japan

Ioanna Skoura – The contestation of Ptolemy’s value for the precession of the equinoxes in 14th-century Byzantium

Dimitrios Kotsifakos, Nikol Vrysouli, Maria Polychronaki, Michael Dossis, Christos Douligeris – The Throne of Xerxes: An Interdisciplinary Museum Education Project for Vocational Education and Training

Session 20 – Panel Soundscapes of Trauma: Technologies of War, Terror, and Detention – Chair Anna Papaeti

Leandros Kyriakopoulos – Sonic Warfare, Technology and the State of Perception

Nelli Kambouri – Technologies of Testimony – Practices of Witnessing

Anna Papaeti – On Barbarism: Science and the Practice of Torture

Session 21 – Mathematisation et Changement conceptuel – Chair Panagiotis Lazos

Jan Vandersmissen – Jean-André Peyssonnel and the cartography of the regencies of Tunis and Algiers: the enigma surrounding the collaboration with Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville

Isabella Fascitiello – Fascitiello I., Biasco L., Millán Gasca A. – The Soviet scholar Andrej N. Kolmogorov from youth to maturity: some reflections on his scientific/human trajectory in troubled times, arising from his celebrated 1954 theorem

Lili Zeng – Edison Quadrant: Science and Technology in the History of Video Games

Maija Kallinen – Keeping up appearances. Pehr Kalm and the self-fashioning of an

18th-century travelling naturalist

Session 22 – Mathematisation et Changement conceptuel – Chair Milada Sekyrkova

Nadia Ambrosetti – Amedeo de Landis & co: mathematics at the court of the Visconti

Enrique Wulff – A forgotten French physicist: Georges Matisse (1874-1961)

Effie Dorovitsa – Building bridges with its thalassographic past: Greek hydrographic operations c.1900-1940

Dimitris Skordos – The Presence of Science in the publications of the Left in Greece during the interwar period

Session 23 – International scientific collaboration and the emergence of National Communities Between the 19th and Early 20th Centuries – Chair Maria Teresa Borgato

Sergey Demidov – On the problem concerning the structure of the continuum as the organizing element of N.N. Luzin’s creativity

Christine Phili – Thomas Archer Hirst: the English mentor of Cyparissos Stephanos

Danuta Ciesielska – On the letters to Felix Klein, David Hilbert and Karl Schwarzschild sent to Göttingen by Polish scientists

Stanislaw Domoradzki, Mykhailo Zarichnyi, Margaret Stawiska-Friedland – Mentoring among the Lwow mathematicians in the years 1918-1939 and during World War II

11h30-12h00 Coffee break

Session 24 – The Mathematical Astronomies’ Exchange and Cooperation between Medieval Islam, India, Europe and China on the Silk Road – Chair Lu Dalong

Wang Ruifang – The Sacredness of Proportion in the Renaissance — Centered on the Pacioli’s lecture

Ta Mier – A Summary of Mongolian ” Jurihai “

Weidong Li – White Pottery of Gaomiao Culture Provides Evidence for the Origin of Civilization in China

Session 25 – International scientific collaboration and the emergence of National Communities Between the 19th and Early 20th Centuries – Chair Christine Phili 

Martina Bečvářová, Jindřich Bečvář – How professors and students created Czech

Mahmoud Al-Hamza – About the study of Arabic Sciences in Russia

Galina Smirnova – The correspondence between F. Hausdorff and P.S. Aleksandrov (1923–1935) as an outstanding example of scientific cooperation

Stefanos J. Geroulanos – The Ancestors Impact on the Development of C. Caratheodory’s Personality

Konstantinos Konstantopoulos – Spyros Kyropoulos, A Greek bridging Europe and USA through Chemistry

14h00-15h30 Lunch break

Session 26 – La science dans ses contextes culturels – Chair Sandy Sakorrafou

Sreeram Gopinath, Dr. Aditya Kolachana – The saṃyoga-meru: A combinatorial tool in the Saṅgīta-ratnākara

Alexandr Gorokhovskiy – Waving at the Grand Prince: orthodox clergymen and distillation technology transfer into muscovy

Parisa Kharazmi – Abu al-Wafa’s Legacy in the Work of Albrecht Dürer

Rui Zhang – Primary research on the Aristotelian paradigm of “saving the phenomena” in Geminos’s Introduction to the Phenomena

Session 27 – La science dans ses contextes culturels – Chair Aristotle Tympas

Mandadi Varuneshwar Reddy, K Ramasubramanian – An empirical study of the Kṣayamāsa periodicity in the Indian calendrical system

Kausiki Chebiyyam, Varuneshwar Reddy Mandadi – Connecting Two “Lost” Calendrical Traditions

John Steele – A Newly Identified Neo-Assyrian Text Concerning Eclipses

18h00 -19h00 Coffee break

19h00 Departure for the National Film Archives of Greece Theatre (Transport by buses organized by the Conference)

20h00 Screening of the documentary film “In the Image of Human” produced by SOW project of the Institute of Historical Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation.

Producer: Nicole Alexandropoulos, 2023.

The film explores the latest developments of Artificial Intelligence and the discussions about these developments by the Orthodox Christianity.

21h00 Farewell reception on the roof of the National Film Archives of Greece Theatre.