Science and Technology in Asia seminar series @ Harvard | Fall 2024

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The convenor is pleased to share the fall 2024 line-up of the Science and Technology in Asia seminar series @ Harvard.

Founded in 2018 through the support of the Harvard University Asia Center, we are thrilled to be entering our 7th year of featuring some of the most exciting work in the history and social studies of science, technology, medicine, and the environment in East, South, and Southeast Asia.

This term, we have the honor of hosting the following scholars:

  • September 10 | Alyssa Paredes | “Living Downstream of Yourself on the Mindanao River”
  • September 24 | Annapurna Mamidipurdi | “Three Stories and a Proposition: Innovation Theories from Handloom Weaving in India”
  • October 8 | Karine Chemla | “Historiography and History of Mathematical Symbolism: One Outlook from Chinese Sources”
  • October 15 | Amit Prasad | “Contestations over Stem Cell Ethics and the US-China Tech War: What Should We Do with Their Orientalist and Colonial Framing?”
  • October 29 | Dafna Zur | “How to Talk to Martians: Socialist vs. Capitalist Science in Korean SF”
  • November 12 | Fei Huang | “Bathing through Time and Landscape: A Longue Durée History of Hot Springs in China (1000–1945)”
  • November 26 | Sulfikar Amir | “Living in a Hot City: Urban Heat Mitigation in Informal Settlements in Megacity Jakarta”
  • December 3 | Togo Tsukahara | “Environmental History in Transnational Networks: Climate History Described by Rangaku, Dutch Navy, and Japan’s Colonial Meteorology”

We meet over Zoom, 10:30–11:45 am ET, on the Tuesdays above

Details and registration: https://scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia