Events & Publications

Upcoming events

Friday 30 October 2026, 10:15-12:00 (hybrid form)

Florence Somer (Karabakh University - Observatoire de Paris-PSL): Mathematics and the Stars in 9th-Century Baghdad

Tuesday 29 October 2026, 16:15-17:45 (hybrid form)

Florence Somer (Karabakh University - Observatoire de Paris-PSL): Quantifying the Heavens: Mathematical Techniques in Astral Sciences and the Transmission of Abū Maʿšar’s (Albumasar’s) Methods to the Latin Medieval West

Past events

Fall Semester 2026

Monday 19 October 2026, 16:15-18:00 (hybrid form)

Corina Liebi (Institute of History, University of Bern): From Arithmetic Knowledge to Accounting Practice: Currency Conversions and Exchange Rates in Late Medieval Franconia

Spring Semester 2026

19 june 2026

Nouveaux projets et perspectives de recherche sur les mathématiques médiévales arabes et latines / New projects and research perspectives on medieval mathematics in Arabic and Latin 19 june 2026

Conférence Institut Henri Poincaré - Bâtiment Borel - Amphithéâtre Gaston Darboux, Paris. See the section Conferences for the detailed programme and abstracts of the conference. visio link : https://visio.numerique.gouv.fr/ufv-rtzv-mqq

Fall Semester 2025

17-18 December 2025 (hybrid form)

MediMath conference: "Using and Thinking Numbers in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean World"

Room: 033, Main Building, Hochschulstrasse 4, 3012, Bern. See the section Conferences for the detailed programme and abstracts of the conference. To attend the event online, please write an email to medimath.momug@unibe.ch

Flyer (PDF, 3.2 MB)

Wednesday 12 November 2025, 16:15-17:45 (hybrid form)

Emanuele Rovati (University of Zürich and Abbey Library of Saint Gall): Pseudo-Ptolemy's Centiloquium: The Rise of an Astrological Bestseller

Room: F 021, Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36, 3012, Bern. If you wish to attend the meeting online, please write an email to medimath.momug@unibe.ch

Flyer (PDF, 408KB)

Spring Semester 2025

Thursday 5 June 2025, 10:00-16:00 (hybrid form)

Conference. Cross-cultural trajectories in early modern mathematics

Alex Garnick (Harvard University), Damian Moosbrugger (ETH-Zürich), Arilès Remaki (JGU Mainz), Eleonora Sammarchi (MediMath, University of Bern), Roy Wagner (ETH-Zürich) Room: F -105 Lerchenweg 36, 3012, Bern. If you wish to attend the conference online, please write an email to medimath.momug@unibe.ch

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:15-17:45 (hybrid form)

Research Talk. Julia Tomasson (Columbia University), Polygons and Polyphony: Geometry after the so-called Islamic Golden Age

Room: F -105 Lerchenweg 36, 3012, Bern. If you wish to attend the meeting online, please write an email to medimath.momug@unibe.ch

Wednesday 5 March 2025, 16:00-18:00 (hybrid form)

Research Talk. Zehra Bilgin (Istanbul Medeniyet University/Institute of the History of Science), Risāla dar ʻIlm-i Hisāb: Alī Qūshjī’s First Work on Mathematics