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The 16th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (16th ICHSEA) took place in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 21st-25th August 2023. It was organised under the auspices of Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, on behalf of the International Society for the History of East Asian Sc...

The research group on philosophical translation at Humboldt University under direction of Prof. Dr. Michael Beaney (UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN AND HUMBOLDT-UNIVERSITÄT ZU BERLIN) has organized a "Workshop on Philosophical Translation" on July 8, 2023. Prof. Andrea Bréard will present a paper with the ti...

A new publication by Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard with the title "Reconstructing Giovanni Vacca’s Collection in the Vatican Library" appeared in The Vatican Library Review (VLR). This article reconstructs an important but specific portion of Giovanni Vacca’s personal library: his books related to math...

For a long time, hermeneutics was confined to the humanities and arts, to legal and religious studies, and to the exegesis primarily of texts. In recent years, however, the hermeneutics of science and technology came into its own, along with questions of „scientific understanding“ or „hermeneutic Te...

Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard will moderate a roundtable discussion on Mapping and modelling behaviours and economies with the participation of two renowned speakers, Prof. Dr. Carlos Alós-Ferrer (NOMIS Professorship, Zurich Center for Neuroeconomics, Universität Zürich) and Prof. Dr. Steven Sloman (Cogni...

The Chair for Sinology with a focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China — Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations — at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) invites applications for a position of a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) with an interest in the g...

A new publication (in French) by Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard with the title “Histoire globale de la quantification – et la Chine ?” appeared on the blog Histoires et Mesures of the journal Histoire & Mesure (EHESS). It is the second in a series of Digital Re-editions, which, drawing on the digita...

Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard and Dr. Catherine Goldstein (CNRS,IMJ-PRG, UMR 7586) will give a workshop on “Comparing traces: combinations in nineteenth-century China and France” in a module on “Inscribing and disciplining combinations” at the RESEARCH SCHOOL - Expressions of Mathematical Activity: Traces...

Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard interviendra dans la deuxième journée d'étude organisée par la revue Histoire & Mesure sur « Liang Qichao (1873-1929), l’introduction de la notion de “statistiques historiques” 歷史統計學 et l’abondance des sources en Chine ». Quantification, sources et administration de la...

A new publication by Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard with the title "Wu Dingliang (1894–1969) and the Statistical Definition of the Chinese Race" appeared in the journal Histoire & Mesure XXXVII-1 (EHESS, 2022). By focusing upon the scientific work and network of Wu Dingliang 吳定良, this article looks at ...