Friday Seminars

All welcome! The seminars are held at 3.30 - 5 p.m. unless otherwise indicated at the Needham Research Institute. The Needham Research Institute is situated at the corner of Sylvester and Herschel Roads, behind Robinson College. For any questions relating to the seminars, please contact John Donegan-Cross at jd956@cam.ac.uk

Friday 27 Feb

‘Chinese Maritime Customs Meteorological Network Special Station: The Development of Meteorological Work at Yatung Customs in Tibet’.

Time

3.30-5PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Qian Chen (NRI/Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine)

Time

3.30-5PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Tang Zihua (NRI/Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Friday 20 Mar

‘Trance States and Social Revolution in Early 20th-Century China’.

Time

3.30-5PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira (University of Cambridge)

‘Liturgical Technologies and Porous Things: Daoist Responses to Illness and Disease in the Southern Song’.

‘The British Origins of Dairoku Kikuchi’s Geometry Textbook and Its Influence on Japan’.

‘A Western Gift for the Emperor: The Earliest Extant Chinese Globe (1623) in the British Library’.

‘Theoretical Establishment and Clinical Application of Regulating Spirit in Cancer Treatment’.