US-Africa Workshop on the Identification and Analysis of Arabic Astronomy Documents Found in Africa

美非非洲发现的阿拉伯天文学文献鉴定与分析研讨会

• 批准号: 0941871
• 负责人: Jarita Holbrook
• 金额: $ 2.32万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-11-15 至 2012-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0941871&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Africa; Workshop; Identification; Analysis

This award is to support a US-Africa meeting of the African Cultural Astronomy Network in conjunction with the European Society for Astronomy and Culture (SEAC) annual meeting in Alexandria, Egypt in October, 2009. The meeting is being organized by Dr. Jarita Holbrook, University of Arizona, in coordination with Dr. Juan Antonio Belmonte, President of SEAC. Support for the African Cultural Astronomy Network meeting will allow American scientists to collaborate with the world?s top experts in the analysis of historical documents from the period of 1000 ? 1400 C.E., which is part of the Medieval period as defined in European history. For the workshop, a group of experts on Islamic Astronomy in Africa will assemble to create a new collaborative project focused on identifying and analyzing Arabic documents written during the height of ancient Islamic culture and containing astronomy content.Intellectual merit. There are several repositories of Arabic documents throughout Africa to be considered by the group. The goals of the workshop are to design the collaborative project for the scientific study of the astronomy content of Arabic documents located in Africa; to create a working draft of a proposal for funding the project; to review the secondary goals of the African Cultural Astronomy Network; to bring additional SEAC members into the Network; and to highlight the work of students. The workshop will bring together scientists and students from the United States and Sub-Saharan Africa to develop an international collaborative project. The African Cultural Astronomy Network was founded in 2006 in Ghana. Members of the Network conduct social, historic, or humanistic research on the astronomy of Africa and include astronomers, archaeologists, anthropologists, and a philosopher of science.Broader impacts. The workshop includes junior faculty and students from the USA, which include women and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields. The workshop will allow members of the African Cultural Astronomy Network to engage with the larger cultural astronomy community.

该奖项旨在支持非洲文化天文学网络与欧洲天文学与文化学会 (SEAC) 年会于 2009 年 10 月在埃及亚历山大举行的美国-非洲会议。该会议由亚利桑那大学 Jarita Holbrook 博士与 SEAC 主席 Juan Antonio Belmonte 博士协调组织。 对非洲文化天文学网络会议的支持将使美国科学家能够与世界顶级专家合作分析 1000 年以来的历史文献。公元1400年，这是欧洲历史上定义的中世纪时期的一部分。 在研讨会上，一群非洲伊斯兰天文学专家将聚集在一起创建一个新的合作项目，重点是识别和分析古代伊斯兰文化鼎盛时期撰写的包含天文学内容的阿拉伯文献。智力价值。 整个非洲有几个阿拉伯文献储存库可供该小组考虑。研讨会的目标是设计一个合作项目，对非洲阿拉伯文献的天文学内容进行科学研究；制定项目资助提案的工作草案；审查非洲文化天文学网络的次要目标；将更多 SEAC 成员纳入网络；并突出学生的工作。 该研讨会将汇集来自美国和撒哈拉以南非洲地区的科学家和学生，共同开发一个国际合作项目。非洲文化天文学网络于 2006 年在加纳成立。该网络的成员对非洲天文学进行社会、历史或人文研究，包括天文学家、考古学家、人类学家和科学哲学家。影响更广泛。 该研讨会包括来自美国的初级教师和学生，其中包括 STEM 领域的女性和代表性不足的少数族裔。 该研讨会将使非洲文化天文学网络的成员能够参与更大的文化天文学界。