Publicado el 27-07-10
Barcelona, July 19th - 24th 2010
· Date: THU, 22 / 11.30 am - 1.30 pm
· Institution: University of Barcelona (Spain)
· Organizer: Angel Calvo
· Language: English, Français
· Description: Mediterranean has been a crossroads of the big communication and commercial routes from the Ancient Times and a privileged space for the circulation of men, knowledge and technology. Mediterranean has been cradle of big urban civilizations of the Minoan traders, the commercial civilizations of the Phoenicians, the Greek and Roman cultures and territory of expansion of the Muslim science, mathematics, astronomy, medicine and philosophy; agrarian economies and pottery technology; the galley, the Greek trireme and lighthouse technology, as the development of nautical technology. Economic and social ties throughout the basin have persisted even through such upheavals as the Muslim ascendancy during the early Middle Ages, when they received the naval techniques from Byzance until securing the control of the sea. Mediterranean was vital for the traffic of the great European trade with the India before the discovery of the route for the end of Good Hope. The area assisted to the diaspora of Jews in search of lands and new places for business. Mediterranean was an important center for the diffusion of techniques and uses of silk, cotton and wool, glass-working, sugar, hydraulic technology and water management, as well as innovation in organization. With the role played by the Mediterranean in the diffusion of knowledge and techniques in mind, the Panel tries to attract the attention on the last three centuries, a period of increasing globalization of the world-wide economy. It concentrates especially in Knowledge, Manufacturing, Energy and Telecommunications and public works.
Chair: Angel Calvo (University of Barcelona) http://wocmes.iemed.org/en/preorg-circulation-of |
