Dear Colleagues, 

For those of you in Paris, a conference that will be held next week, to which all are welcome:

Monday, April 15^th, 2019
9:30 – 9:45 – Introduction by the organizers
9:45 -11:15 – Rosane Rocher (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Science in Colebrooke’s universe
Commentator: Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn (UMR 8547 CNRS, Paris)
11:15 -11:30  – Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 – Eric Gurevitch (University of Chicago, USA)
The Whig Interpretation of the Hindu Constitution
Commentator: Claude-0livier Doron (Université Paris Diderot, France)
13:00 -14:00  – Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 – Minakshi Menon (MPWIG, Berlin, Germany)
Henry Thomas Colebrooke, the Amarakośa, and Botanical Knowledge Making in Colonial India,
c. 1800
Commentator: Florence Bretelle-Establet (SPHERE, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, France)
15:30 -16:00  – Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 – Nalini Balbir (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France)
An instance of Colebrooke approach to religious science: the Jain tradition
Commentator: Rosane Rocher (University of Pennsylvania)

Tuesday, April 16^th, 2019
9:30 –11:00 – Sho HIROSE (ETH, Zürich, Switzerland)
Origin and Observation: Colebrooke on Indian Astronomy
Commentator: Victor Gysembergh (CNRS, France)
11:00-11:30 – Coffee break
11:30 –13:00 – Agathe Keller (SPHERE, CNRS et Université Paris Diderot, France)
Colebrooke, Commentaries and Proofs
Commentator: Vincenzo de Risi (SPHERE, Université Paris Diderot, France)
13:00 -14:00  – Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 – Satyanad Kichenassamy (Université de Reims, France)
Henry Thomas Colebrooke and the nature of Brahmagupta’s mathematical discourse
Commentator: Karine Chemla (SPHERE, CNRS et Université Paris Diderot, France)
15:30 -16:00  – Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 – Ivahn Smadja (Université de Nantes, France)
Some aspects of Colebrooke’s mathematical reception in 19th century Germany : from ancient sources to new questions
Commentator: AJ Misra (MPWIG, Berlin, Germany)

Abstracts and soon a program booklet can be found online:

http://www.sphere.univ-paris-diderot.fr/spip.php?article2191

https://sawerc.hypotheses.org/conferences/colebrooke

best

Agathe