Mohammed Abattouy
Professor of History & Philosophy of Science
Mohammed V University, Morocco
Mohammed Abattouy is professor of history and philosophy of science at Mohamed Vth University in Rabat, Morocco. He began his career by investigating the history of science in the 17th century and specialized in Galileo's manuscripts of physics for his PhD dissertation from Paris I university (June 1989). Between 1992 and 1995, he worked in the ‘Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique’ (Paris and Nice) and at the ‘Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur’ (Nice) in collaboration with French and Italian colleagues in history of mathematics, on one hand, and on exploring the genesis of modern science in the works of young Galileo, on the other hand. He joined as a scholar the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (1996-2003), where he shifted his academic focus to the investigation of the history of Arabic classical sciences. During this period, he investigated the history of Arabic mechanics and reconstructed the tradition of the Arabic science of weights (ʿilm al-athqāl) which he reconstructed in full from manuscripts. From March 2007 to May 2014, he was senior research fellow at the Foundation of Science, Technology and Civilization (FSTC) in Manchester, UK, where he acted as chief editor of the academic web portal Muslim Heritage.com and participated in major projects of the Foundation, including the content preparation for ‘1001 Inventions,’ an educational touring exhibition.
Mohammed Abattouy is the author of several books and more than 50 articles of history of science. He participated in numerous conferences on history of science and organized several of them himself. His book published in English in London in summer 2014 on Al-Isfizārī’s corpus of mechanics was awarded two prestigious prizes, an international award for translation of science from Arabic to other languages and the prize of the best Moroccan book of social sciences in 2016.
Currently he prepares for publication the corpus of the Arabic science of weights, with English translation and commentary and works on several books on Galileo’s science, including a book-length essay in French on Galileo’s manuscripts of physics, the first Arabic translation of Galileo’s great book of mathematical physics the Discorsi published in 1638, and another book exploring the unique case represented by the ‘Galileo Affair’ as a case study of the complex problem of the relationship between science and religion.
Anne Berthelot
Co-Director of Medieval Studies
Professor of French & Medieval Studies
University of Connecticut, USA
An alumna of the École Normale Supérieure and "agrégée des Lettres" (specialized in Latin and Ancient Greek), Anne Berthelot is Professor of French and Medieval Studies at the University of Connecticut. She specializes in Arthurian Literature with a comparative approach and has published numerous books and articles on this topic, especially on Merlin. She is currently engaged in a multi-volume project on Late Arthurian Texts in Europe (LATE) with Professor Christine Ferlampin-Acher (Université Rennes 2) and working on a literary study of the so-called Roman des fils du roi Constant by Baudouin Butor.
Recently, she has started exploring magical texts from the Middle Ages and the so-called Renaissance period, and has created several courses - at both undergraduate and graduate levels - on the history of magic, and variations of belief in the supernatural area.
Nicola Carpentieri
Assistant Professor and Chair of Arabic & Islamic Studies
University of Connecticut, USA
Andrea Celli
Assistant Professor of Italian & Mediterranean Studies
University of Connecticut, USA
Ahmed Chahlane
Professor Emeritus of Arabic & Judaic Philology
Mohammed V University, Morocco
Susan Einbinder
Professor of Hebrew, Judaic Studies & Comparative Literature
University of Connecticut, USA
Zaid Eyadat
Professor of Political Science & Human Rights
University of Jordan, Jordan
Director of Human Rights Programs in the Middle East
University of Connecticut, USA
Alexander Fidora
Research Professor at the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Mayte Green-Mercado
Assistant Professor of History
Rutgers University, USA
Daniel Hershenzon
Assistant Professor of Spanish
University of Connecticut, USA
Ronald Kiener
Professor of Religious Studies
Trinity College, USA
Seth Kimmel
Assistant Professor of Medieval & Early Modern Cultural Studies
Columbia University, USA
Daniel Lasker
Norbert Blechner Professor of Jewish Values
Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Benjamin Liu
Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies
University of California, Riverside, USA
Brian Long
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Canada
Jeffrey Shoulson
Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Intiatives and the Doris & Simon Konover Chair in Judaic Studies
University of Connecticut, USA
Gregory E. Sterling
Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean of Yale Divinity School &
Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament
Yale University, USA
Jeremy Teitelbaum
Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
University of Connecticut, USA
Pier Tommasino
Assistant Professor of Italian
Columbia University, USA
Daniel Weiner
Vice President for Global Affairs and Professor of Geography
University of Connecticut, USA