Science and Technology Seminar Series
Science and Technology Seminar Series
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, March 2, 2021, 12:00pm - 1:15pm; Shellen Wu-Mapping Science in a Global Age: the Human Dynamics of Scientific Knowledge
Tuesday, March 30, 12:00pm - 1:15pm; Asif Siddiqui; “Practically No Habitation": Tribal Rights, Displaced Populations, and the Birth of India’s Rocket Program
Tuesday, April 6, 12:00 p.m. -1:15 p.m.; Russelle Meade-The Kyūri-bon Boom and the Public Perception of Science in Early-Meiji Japan
Tuesday, April 20, 12:00 p.m. -1:15 p.m.; Todd Henry-Layer Matters: Medical Authority, Body Conformity, and Intersex Livelihood in Cold War South Korea
Tuesday, May 4, 12:00 p.m. -1:15 p.m.; Thomas Mullaney-The Chinese BIOS Sphere: How East Asian Computing Hacked Modernity
Tuesday, May 11, 12:00 p.m. -1:15 p.m.; Claire Edington-Drugs, Willpower and the Biopolitics of Addiction in Colonial Vietnam
Past Seminars
Yumi Kim-Madness in the Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Family: Writing Away from Psychiatry
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
Suzanne Moon-Reporting Indonesia's Green Revolution
Soyoung Suh-Breast, Cancer, and Women in Korea, 1800–1930s
Jayita Sarkar-The First Battlefield of Western Nuclear Competition: India and Light Water Reactors, 1955-1963