Science and Technology in Asia @ Harvard, Online Seminar Series, Spring 2024 Schedule

The Science and Technology in Asia seminar series features talks on critical historical and contemporary issues in science, technology, medicine, and the environment 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.

This seminar series was founded in fall 2018 through the generous sponsorship of the Harvard University Asia Center. We now meet over Zoom roughly every other Tuesday, 10:30–11:45 am ET, during both fall and spring terms.

Spring 2024 Talks

February 13, 2024 | Anto Mohsin | “Unpacking Indonesia’s Electrification Politics” | Register here

February 27, 2024 | Amanda Lanzillo | “Muslim Artisanal Knowledge: Embodied and Textual Approaches to Technologies and Trades in Colonial India” | Register here

March 12, 2024 | Rinni Marliyana Haji Amran | “Reading Bruneian Petrofiction: How We Became Addicted to Oil” | Register here

March 26, 2024 | Nicole Barnes | “Racing to Be a Better Race: A Longue Durée History of China’s Toilet Revolution” | Register here

April 9, 2024 | Aaron William Moore | “Dreams from China’s Past: Visions of the Future in Popular Science and Literature Magazines, 1927–1949” | Register here

April 16, 2024 | Yeonsil Kang | “Mineral Time, Bodily Time: Asbestos, Slow Disaster, and Toxic Politics in South Korea” | Register here

April 23, 2024 | Christine Luk | “Discovering Freshwater Jellyfish in Modern China: Arthur de Carle Soweby and Craspedacusta sowerbii, 1880–1941″ | Register here

April 30, 2024 | Sharon Traweek | TBD | Register here