Events & Publications

Upcoming events

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)

Past events

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