Upcoming Science and Technology Seminars
Supported by the Asia Center and convened by Professor, Victor Seow, Department of the History of Science, the Asia Center Science and Technology Seminar Series focuses on critical historical and contemporary issues in science and technology in East, South, and Southeast Asia.
The seminar series seeks to bring to campus speakers from various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences whose work investigates the place of the scientific and the technological in Asia and the place of Asia in our ideas and practices of science and technology.
Upcoming Seminars
Tuesday, February 16, 12:00 p.m. EST
Madness in the Early-Twentieth Century Japanese Family: Writing Away from Psychiatry
Yumi Kim, Johns Hopkins University
Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwocumoqTksHtJS0NYOsshPka2HG3deofz2
Tuesday, March 2, 12:00 p.m. EST
Mapping Science in a Global Age: the Human Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge
Shellen Wu, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqdeqtrz4rHdZQiLPxo0EtCiPhzNQT3JnQ
Tuesday, March 30, 12:00 p.m. EST
"Practically No Habitation": The Yanadi Community and the Colonial Violence of Spaceflight
Asif Siddiqi, Fordham University
Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrdeuoqjgiH9bNIcpUguJx8PZ_1NwhMUv_
Tuesday, April 6, 12:00 p.m. EST
The Kyūri-bon Boom and the Public Perception of Science in Early-Meiji Japan
Ruselle Meade, Cardiff University
Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkfuqurz4rGdJ5E5VdjYoNxR4nD2fwBvns
Tuesday, April 20, 12:00 p.m. EST
Layer Matters: Medical Authority, Body Conformity, and Intersex Livelihood in Cold War South Korea
Todd Henry, UCSD
Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqc--sqD4sH9T3aIVze8TXts86eQkeF1nd
Tuesday, May 4, 12:00 p.m. EST
The Chinese BIOS Sphere: How East Asian Computing Hacked Modernity
Thomas Mullaney, Stanford University
Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcudeqrpjMrG9L9WyVVDk9_l12UOO5ZGZ-E
Tuesday, May 11, 12:00 p.m. EST
Drugs, Willpower and the Biopolitics of Addiction in Colonial Vietnam
Claire Edington, UCSD
Register here: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArcOqtqTotHd2rT8hSSNf5BXm886JxfjcG