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SUMMARY:Geographies of knowledge in Assyria and Babylonia\, c.800–200 BC
  - Eleanor Robson (Department of History and Philosophy of Science)
DTSTART:20121018T153000Z
DTEND:20121018T170000Z
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CONTACT:Helen Curry
DESCRIPTION:Over the past decade or so\, geographical questions have becom
 e increasingly prominent in the history and sociology of recent science: h
 ow and why do ideas\, techniques\, theories\, and methods propagate around
  the scientific world (or fail to do so)\, and how do they acquire meaning
  and value as they do so? How do changing socio-political contexts affect 
 those movements and interpretations? For the past five years\, I've been l
 eading an AHRC-funded research project here in the Department that poses (
 and attempts to answer) similar questions about how scholarly knowledge tr
 avelled in the ancient Middle East. In this seminar I will describe what w
 e've been doing and some of the conclusions we've reached. I will focus es
 pecially on Babylonia (southern Iraq) in the first millennium BC\, when su
 ccessive conquests and occupations by the Assyrians\, Persians and Greek M
 acedonians each had a major impact on where scholarly work took place\, fo
 r whom\, and what it meant to its practitioners and patrons.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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