• 9:30am
    Welcoming Remarks by Marwa Elsharkry
  • 9:45am 11:15am
    Oblivion and Progress
    • “Post-Diluvian Oblivion”

      Tamara Griggs

      Harvard University

    • “'The Golden Age is Before Us': Saint-Simon and the Natural History of Science”

      John Tresch

      University of Pennsylvania

    • Discussant

      Pamela H. Smith

      Columbia University

  • 11:30am 1:00pm
    Invention and Industry
    • “Pastoral Productivity: Images of Industry and the Dutch Golden Age”

      Lissa Roberts

      University of Twente

    • "Invention, Mere Imitation and Virtuous Emulation in the Eighteenth Century”

      Matthew L. Jones

      Columbia University

    • Discussant

      Harold Cook

      Brown University

  • 1:00pm
    Lunch
  • 2:00pm 3:45pm
    The Problem of Decline
    • “Beyond the Golden Age of Arabic Science”

      George Saliba

      Columbia University

    • “On the Global Loop of Scientific Golden Age (and Decline) Narrative for Muslim Societies”

      Cemil Aydin

      University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

    • “Architecture, Modernity, and Sacrality in India”

      Michael S. Dodson

      Indiana University, Bloomington

    • Discussant

      Projit Mukharji

      University of Pennsylvania

  • 4:00pm 5:30pm
    Knowledge in China
    • “Changing Orientations: Perceptions of the Nexus between Knowledge and Antiquity in China, 1670-1930”

      Ori Sela

      Tel Aviv University

    • “Buddhist Promotion of Science-as-Revolution in post May Fourth China”

      Erik Hammerstrom

      Pacific Lutheran University

    • Discussant

      Eugenia Lean

      Columbia University