"Science and Eastern Othodoxy: Some Historical Perspectives
Efthymios Nicolaidis
Director of Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens
October 31, 4:00 pm
Efthymios Nicolaidis is Director of the Science Museum of the Observatory
of Athens. He is also General Secretary of the International Union of the
History and Philosophy of Science, and Corresponding member of the Académie
Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences (2002). His recent publications
include Multicultural Science in the Ottoman Empire, co-edited
with 8) E. Ihsanoglu and K. Chatzis; Science, Technology and the 19th-Century
State: The Role of the Army, co-edited with K. Chatzis, and Byzantium-Venice-Modern
Hellenism. A travel in the world of Modern Greek scientific thought,
co-edited with G. Vlahakis.
Sponsored by The Department of History of Science, The Lubar Institute for
the Study of the Abrahamic Religions, The Isthmus Society for the Dialogue among
Religions and Sciences
Cookies and coffee will be available in Social Sciences building room 7130 at 3:45
For more information contact the Department of Medical History and Bioethics, 262-1460
"A Science and Religion Symposium: Neuroscience of the Spirit"
Nancey Murphy and Richard Davidson
December 11, 2007
Co-Sponsored by
* The Metanexus Institute, Local Societies Initiative
* The Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions
* New College Madison
"Politics
and Astrology in the Galileo Affair"
Michael Shank
Professor, History of Science and Integrated Liberal Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Grainger Hall
975 University Avenue
Co-Sponsored by
* The Metanexus Institute, Local Societies Initiative
* The Lubar Institute for the Study of the Abrahamic Religions
* New College Madison
* UW-Madison Department of Astronomy
* UW-Madison Department of the History of Science