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Event


05 March 2019
Ivana Panzeca speaks about Cultural Renaissance in the Safavid Empire: Persian thinkers between science and theology

Ivana Panzeca partecipates in European Academy of Religion Annual Conference 2019, 4th-7th March, 2019, European Academy of Religion, Bologna.

She will speak about "Cultural Renaissance in the Safavid Empire: Persian thinkers between science and theology" within the panel titled "Science and Theology: Relationship and Contexts".

The complete program is available at:
https://www.europeanacademyofreligion.org/program

 

Program of the panel "Science and Theology: Relationship and Contexts"

 

Monday, March 4, 2:30PM to 6:45PM

Giuseppina Ferriello (FSCIRE) 

Alba Fedeli (Hamburg Universität/FSCIRE) Presiding

2:30 - 3:30PM: Mohammad Bagheri (Institute for the History of Science, University of Tehran), Relationship between Astronomy and Theology

3:30 - 4:30PM: Claudio Cecotti (AFAM, Italy), Connection between Astronomy and Religions in the Abrahamic Religions 

4:30 - 4:45PM: BREAK

4:45 - 5:45PM: Romano Gatto (Università della Basilicata), Science and Religion: the dualism mathematical model–real (physical) model down the modern age 

5:45 - 6:45PM: Sybille Clara Fritsch-Oppermann (TU Clausthal), Science and Religion between Dualism and Not-Dualism

 

Tuesday, March 5, 8:30AM to 12:45AM

Giuseppina Ferriello (FSCIRE)

Alba Fedeli (Hamburg Universität/FSCIRE), Presiding

8:30 - 9:30AM: Ivana Panzeca (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa/FSCIRE), Cultural Renaissance in the Safavid Empire: Persian thinkers between science and theology

9:30 - 10:30AM: Amir Mohammad Gamini (Institute for the Philosophy, University of Tehran), An Islamic reception of Darwin’s theory of evolution in 1914

10:30 - 10:45AM: BREAK

10:45 - 11:45AM: Kamran Amir Arjomand (Germany), Scientific innovations versus divine miracles: challenge in 19th century Iran

11:45 - 12:45AM: Mohammad Bagheri, Giuseppina and Alba Fedeli Concluding remarks