12/13火 カピル・ラジ氏講演会

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駒場科学史講演会（Raj教授講演）

12月13日（火）に開催するカピル・ラジ先生の講演会についてお知らせします。

日時　12月13日（火）　17:15〜
場所　東京大学駒場キャンパス　14号館3階308室
（http://www.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/info/about/visitors/maps-directions/campus_map_2015.07.pdf　をご参照ください。）

講演者：Kapil Raj教授（フランス高等社会科学院）
タイトル：Bringing the world into the history of science: Circulation and the construction of knowledge
（講演、質疑応答は英語になります）

ラジ先生の2007年の著作が最近邦訳され、『近代科学のリロケーション―南アジアとヨーロッパにおける知の循環と構築』（名古屋大学出版会）として出版されております。
以下、ラジ先生がご用意頂いた講演の内容と、ラジ先生の自己紹介です。ペーストしておきます。

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Bringing the world into the history of science: Circulation and the construction of knowledge

The history of the sciences on a global scale is often told in terms of the contribution of individual civilisations, in particular Mesopotamia, Greece, ancient Egypt, China, India and the Islamic world as precursors to modern science, which is commonly acknowledged as being European in its origins. Encounters between the knowledge systems of these regions, and others, such as Africa or Polynesia, is often recounted in terms of occasional debates between travellersand indigenous grandees who expressed their curiosity about each other. Based on examples from four centuries of encounter and interaction between European and Indian knowledge practices, this talk will demonstrate how the circulation of skilled practitioners from both cultures, far from being a mere conversation between the protagonists, has been the site for the production of significant parts of modern science. It will argue for a generalisation of this model of circulation and interaction.

Kapil Raj teaches at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he is a Research Professor attached to the Alexandre Koyré Centre for the history of science. He has published extensively on the construction of scientific knowledge through intercultural encounter, in particular between Europeans and South Asians from the 17th to the 20th centuries and on the role of intermediaries who made these encounters possible. Among his publications are The Brokered World: Go-Betweens and Global Intelligence, which he edited with Simon Schaffer and other historians of science (2009), and Histoire des sciences et des savoirs: Modernité et globalisation, 1760-1914 (2015) with Otto Sibum. His Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900 (2007) has recently been published in Japanese by the University of Nagoya Press.

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ラジ先生は、翌日12月14日にも日仏会館で、またその後関西で講演をなさることになっています。
日仏会館での講演はフランス語による講演になります。
（http://www.mfjtokyo.or.jp/mfjtokyo2/ja/events/details/743--.html　をご参照ください。）

近代科学のリロケーション―南アジアとヨーロッパにおける知の循環と構築―