Wednesday, October 16 , 2024, 7 pm Palestine time
Prof. Marwan Rashed (Paris-Sorbonne University)
Title: Universalism vs. Orientalism. Some Thoughts about, and in the wake of, Edward Said
Bio: Marwan Rashed, born in 1971, is an alumnus of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. After completing a PhD in classical philology at the University of Hamburg, he returned to France, where he was successively research fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, ordinary professor of classical philology at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, and finally, since 2013, professor of the history of Greek and Arabic philosophy at the Sorbonne. He has published extensively on all periods of Greek philosophy, from the Presocratics to Byzantium, via Plato, Aristotle and the Hellenistic philosophers, many of whose texts he has rediscovered in the original Greek or in Arabic translation, as well as on many philosophers of classical Islam. His research has also shed light on certain little-known aspects of the transfer of Byzantine and Arab knowledge to the Latin West in the Middle Ages and during early modernity. He is currently working on a new critical edition of the Greek text of Aristotle’s Metaphysics.