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.

PAST SEMINAR

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

Professor Jung Lee and Professor Hyungsub Choi, Thinking with Technology from the History of Korea