Science and Technology in Asia Seminar Series
This seminar series features talks on critical historical and contemporary issues in science and technology in East, South, and Southeast Asia. It showcases some of the most exciting recent work in the humanities and social sciences that interrogates the place of the scientific and the technological in Asia and the place of Asia in our ideas and practices of science and technology.
The Science and Technology in Asia seminar series is convened by Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, and is sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center. For updates about this seminar series and short synopses of the talks, check out: https://twitter.com/eastasiascitech.
PAST TALKS
Spring 2022
Charu Singh | Disposition, Merit, and Morality: Images of the Scientist in India, 1915-1920
Raja Adal | The Print Sublime: Global Scripts in the Age of Mechanical Writing
Faizah Zakaria | Camphor, Celluloid, and Creating the Indigenous in the Dutch East Indies
Albert Park | The Ecology of Authority: Agricultural Science and Destruction in Modern Korea
Yuko Fujigaki | Lessons from Fukushima: Japanese Case Studies on Science, Technology, and Society
Howard Chiang | Transcultural Freud: A History of Psychoanalysis in the Sinophone Pacific
Iwo Amelung | The Localization of Meteorology and Climate Science during the Chinese Republican Period
Florence Hsia | From Illiterate to Sinologists: Indexing Chinese
Fall 2021
Carla Nappi | How to Come Apart: Decomposing a History of Translation in China
Jisoo Kim | Suspicious Deaths: Forensic Medicine, Dead Bodies, and Criminal Justice in 18th-Century Korea
Elizabeth Chatterjee | The Sun's Two Faces: Solar Power in India, 1877-2021
Yangyang Cheng | "Those Who Fall Behind Get Beaten Up": Can Science Build a Strong China?
Debjani Bhattacharya | Insuring Weather: Climate Futures Past in the Indian Ocean World
Victoria Lee | The Arts of the Microbial World: Fermentation Science in 20th-Century Japan
Juno Salazar Parreñas | Pronouns for an Apocalyptic Future
Honghong Tinn | Manufacturing Electronics in Taiwan, 1966-1975: Emulation, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
Spring 2021
Claire Edington | Drugs, Willpower and the Biopolitics of Addiction in Colonial Vietnam
Thomas Mullaney | The Chinese BIOS Sphere: How East Asian Computing Hacked Modernity
Todd Henry | Layer Matters: Medical Authority, Body Conformity, and Intersex Livelihood in Cold War South Korea
Ruselle Meade | The Kyūri-bon Boom and the Public Perception of Science in Early-Meiji Japan
Asif Siddiqi | "Practically No Habitation": The Yanadi Community and the Colonial Violence of Spaceflight
Shellen Wu | Mapping Science in a Global Age: the Human Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge
Yumi Kim | Madness in the Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Family: Writing Away from Psychiatry
Fall 2019
Projit Bihari Mukharji | Between the Yogi and the Commissar: Imagining Decolonial Science in Postcolonial India, C. 1952-1977
Jung Lee and Hyungsub Choi | Thinking with Technology from the History of Korea
Susan Burns | Sexual Assault and the Evidential Body: Forensic Medicine, Gender, and the Courts in Modern Japan
Spring 2019
Jennifer Robertson | Digital Hormones: Emotional Humanoids and Spiritual Humans
Dagmar Schäfer | Lists, Local Gazetteers, and the True Lies of Premodern China's Patterns of Social Mobility
Jayita Sarkar | The First Battlefield of Western Nuclear Competition: India and Light Water Reactors, 1955-1963
Fall 2018
Marta Hanson | Heaven and Earth Are Within One's Grasp (Qian Kun zai wo 乾坤在握): The Handy Mind in Late Imperial Chinese Medicine
Soyoung Suh | Breast, Cancer, and Women in Korea, 1800–1930s
Suzanne Moon | Reporting Indonesia's Green Revolution