Tunisian Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts

Beït al-Hikma- Carthage

 

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Distance Conference

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Call for Papers

 

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As part of its calling and in order to take advantage of the innovative possibilities offered by new information and communication technologies, the Beït al-Hikma Academy is organizing a distance conference open to specialists who wish to take part in our activities.

 

We thank them in advance of their generous contributions and the efforts they will exert to contribute to the success of an original project for which we hold high expectations. It is possible that an efficient, virtual network be set up within the following weeks around the Academy, for other projects.

 

 

Subject: “Tunisia and Scientific Progress”

 

Ø The meeting of several participants around a project: “Serving science in one country, Tunisia”.

 

Ø The meeting of several disciplines.

- General history of sciences and technologies.

- Ushering and progress of a country in the world of modern science.

- Acculturation- meeting of cultures.

- Globalization through modern science.

- Methodology.

- Medicine- Biology- Agronomy- Hydro-geology- Earth Sciences-     Applied sciences- Human sciences.

 

 Axis:

 

Ø The penetration of modern scientific ideas in Tunisia.

 

 Precursors, pioneers, contributors explorers and passing scholars; before the protectorate, under the protectorate and after independence.

- Participation to the universal scientific effort: nature, modalities, tests of strength. Costs and results.

- Tunisian and European scientists from Tunisia: who are they? What have they accomplished?

- Penetration and scientific investigation modes: official institutions, learned societies, specialized magazines, mavericks..

 

 

Practical information:

 

1. All contributions are welcome (biographies, bibliographies, archival documents of any kind, press and magazine articles, in-depth analysis, approaches, analyses..)

 

2. The Academy will select, order and synthesize all the material collected in view of gathering them in a folder and perhaps in a book whose contents shall be defined depending on the nature and number of contributions received and of the material available for processing.

 

3. Participation in the project does not involve any remuneration whatsoever.

 

4. Participants are kindly urged to provide data concerning them and the sources used, as well as their references by filling in the model provided herafter.

 

5. They are kindly urged to take into account the issue of copyrights.

 

6. Participants will be informed in due time of the progress of the project and of the approach to be used subsequently.                                                                                       

 

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