JAS-EASTM 2020 Program (updated February 7th, 2020)
April 17th, Friday (Mergenthaler 111)
1pm – Opening Remarks – Yulia Frumer, Johns Hopkins University
1:30-3:00 Cosmologies in Context
- Chair: Yulia Frumer, Johns Hopkins University
- Lars Christensen, University of Minnesota: “Nine, the Stitch in Time That Saved the Bell: Tuning, Measurement, and Numerology in Post-Classical China”
- Dong Han, University of Warwick: “From Cartography to Christian Iconography: Giulio Aleni’s Cosmological Images and Jesuit Scientific Imagery in Seventeenth-Century China”
- Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh: University of Cambridge: “Writers of the Lost Ark: Reconstructing the Fight for Primacy in the Jesuit China Mission from the Acta Pekinensia, 1658-1707”
- Inho Choi, Johns Hopkins University: “Early Modern Cosmological Translations and Transformation of East Asian Order”
30m Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 Wars and Post-Wars in East Asia
- Chair: Juyoung Lee, Johns Hopkins University
- Seohyun Park, Virginia Tech: “Reassembling Colonial Infrastructure in Cold War Korea: The Han River Basin Joint Survey Team (1966-71)”
- Youjung Shin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: “The Ramifications of the History and Philosophy of Science (HPS) in Shaping Cognitive Science in South Korea: Jung-Mo Lee and ‘Soft Science’ in the Information Society”
- Yoehan Oh, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: “South Korean and Czech Republic’s Search Engines: Platforms’ Internet Software at Large and Googolonization”
5:15-6:30 Keynote — Roundtable by Marta Hanson and Sasha White: Epidemics as Lens on Asia
6:30 Reception
April 18th, Saturday (Mergenthaler 111)
8:30 – 9 Breakfast
9 – 10:30 Medicines in the Religio-medical Marketplace
- Chair: Sarah Zanolini, Johns Hopkins University
- Hsiao-wen Cheng, University of Pennsylvania: “Drug Market, Environment, and Healing Culture in Song China: A Case Study of Cangzhu (Black Atractylodes Rhizome)”
- Alessandro Poletto, Columbia University: “On the Understanding of i 医 in Ancient and Medieval Japan”
- William McGrath, Manhattan College: “Recovering a Lost Medical Tradition: The Zhang School and the Tibetan Assimilation of Indian Medicine”
30m Coffee Break
11 – 12:30 Public Health
- Chair: James Flowers, Johns Hopkins University
- Tianyuan Huang, Columbia University: “Treating Syphilis in the Urban Space of Tokyo: An HGIS-based Narrative, 1875-1905”
- Yang Li, Princeton University: “Barefoot Doctor’s Magic Bullet: Mass Production of Antibiotics and Expertise Politics in Cold War China”
- Xiaoping Fang, Nanyang Technological University/National Humanities Center: “Global Pandemic, Local Politics: Disease and Social Restructuring in Mao’s China”
12:30-2 Lunch
2-3:30 Genetics
- Chair: Ayah Nurridin, Johns Hopkins University
- Matthew Pak Hei Foreman Wong, Northwestern University: “Becoming Racist: Race Science and the Formation of Modern Chinese Subjectivity, 1900-1945”
- Christopher Tong, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: “Evolutionary Cosmologies: Science, Race, and State-building in Early 20th-Century China”
- Sumiko Hatakeyama, University of Pennsylvania: “Beyond Radiation: The “Rogue” Cell Research and Hibakusha Chromosomes”
30m Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 National Citizens, National Resources
- Chair: Yize Hu, Johns Hopkins University
- Noa Nahmias, York University: “Science as common knowledge: popular science exhibitions in 1930s China.”
- Xinfang Yan, University of Pennsylvania/Tsinghua University: “Moving Knowledge and Transforming Language: The Vernacular Movement in the Flows of Western Science in China”
- Yuk Lum Jennifer Yip, University of Pennsylvania: “The Mind Is a Weapon: The Development of Military Psychology in Wartime China, 1937–1945”
5:15 Keynote — Eugenia Lean, Columbia University: Vernacular Industrialism in China: Local Innovation and Translated Technologies in the Making of a Cosmetics Empire, 1900-1940
6:30 Dinner