Technology can be defined as “the systematic, purposeful, human manipulation of the physical world by means of some machine or tool” and involving the exploitation of non-human resources.
Technological development in history was as much a matter of ideas and of science as it was of economic institutions and individual artifacts.
However, as the focus of history of science is usually connected to the early modern and modern eras, the purview of the historians of science was usually narrowed to Western Europe and North America as the geographic loci for the development of technology.
How can we challenge Eurocentric narratives in the history of science? And how eastern scientific and technological development shaped the way we approach nature and resources today in the modern day?
Conversation with: Sheida Ghomashchi, David Gentilcore, Stefano Pello, Shaul Bassi
Venue: Republic of Uzbekistan Pavilion
