JAS-EASTM 2021
PROGRAM
All times are listed in U.S. Eastern Time
Friday, April 16
Introductory Remarks — Yulia Frumer (Johns Hopkins University) | 2:30–2:40pm
Plenary and Q&A — Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins University) | 2:45-3:45pm
Break | 3:45-4:15pm
Public Health | 4:15-5:30pm
Moderator: Yumi Kim (Johns Hopkins University)
Shenglan Li (Wheaton College)
“Like the Native Trumpeter on a Tiger Hunt”: Nurses and Public Health in Republican China
Yang Li (Princeton University)
Barefoot Doctor’s Magic Bullet: Mass Production of Antibiotics and Expertise Politics in the Cold War China
Loretta Lou (University of Macau/London School of Economics)
From Hygienic Modernity to Green Modernity: Two Modes of Modern Living in Hong Kong Since the 1970s
Wayne Soon (Vassar College)
Biomedical Promises and Health Insurance Realities in the Republic of China, 1960-1995
Yier Xu (Newcastle University)
Constructing Nursing: A Modern Profession for Women
Hideki Yui (Yamanashi University)
A Study of Donor Protection in Donor Conception: The History of Sperm Donation in Japan
Wes Sampias (Johns Hopkins University)
Shaping Public Health: Dogs, Society, and the Kyoto Rabies Outbreak of 1915
Break | 5:30-6pm
Gather Town Reception | 6-7pm
Saturday, April 17
Infrastructure | 9:00-10:00am
Moderator: Juyoung Lee (Johns Hopkins University)
Xiangli Ding (Rhode Island School of Design)
A New Man-Made Disaster: Hydropower Infrastructure in Wartime Southwest China
Yuting Dong (Harvard University)
Concrete Ontologies: Writing a “Concrete” History of the Dam Building in Japan’s Empire in Colonial Northeast China (1905–45)
Yue Liang (SUNY-Binghamton)
Environmental Technologies and Waterscape Infrastructure in Early Communist China
Subodhana Wijeyeratne (Tokyo Women’s Christian University)
Between the Rockets and the Deep Blue Sea: Space Infrastructure and the ‘Fishing Problem’ in Southern Japan, 1960-1990
Seohyun Park (Virginia Tech/Johns Hopkins University)
“Carving Nature Like a Piece of Artwork”: Institutionalization of Hydrological Engineering in Modern South Korea
Break | 10-10:30am
Systems of Knowledge—Technological | 10:30-11:30am
Moderator: Hyeok Hweon Kang (Johns Hopkins University)
Kyoungjin Bae (Kenyon College)
Export Furniture and Artisanal Translation in Eighteenth-Century Canton
John Hayashi (Harvard University)
Climate and Calamity: Scale and the Science of Cycles in Twentieth-Century Japan
Yoehan Oh (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Object-Oriented and Object-Relational Database Management Systems: A translocal history of information system software, 1980-2008
Graeme R. Reynolds (Harvard University)
A Typographic Sublime: Discourse on Movable Type in Chosŏn Korea (1392–1910)
Spencer Stewart (University of Chicago)
Learning from China: Chinese Local Knowledge and U.S. Agriculture, 1910s-1940s
Yingchuan Yang (Columbia University)
Study Radio for Revolution: The Making of Amateur Technologists in Socialist China
Yize Hu (Johns Hopkins University)
Systems, not Universal Science: Systems Engineers’ Approaches to Interdisciplinarity in Postwar Japan
Systems of Knowledge—Medical | 4-5pm
Moderator: 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)
Jingya Guo (Cornell University)
Divinity, (Super)natural Production, and Efficacy: The Medical Imaginary of Pearls in Lu Zhiyi’s (1598-1664) Half Chant of Quadruple Elegance in Materia Medica
Tianyuan Huang (Columbia University)
Navigating the “way of blood”: Interactions of Western medicine and kanpō in imperial Japan and the reconceptualization of a “women’s illness”
Bernhard Leitner (University of Vienna)
The Dissemination of Critical Brains – Comparative Anatomy between Habsburg Austria and the Japanese Empire in the early 20th Century
Alessandro Poletto (Kyoto University)
Court physicians and the taxonomy of healing in premodern Japan: What is ijutsu 医術?
Sarah Yu (University of Pennsylvania)
A Tale of Three Diseases: Kitchen Hygiene in Republican China, 1911—1945