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 05 Jun

Collaborative Agency and Institutional Recognition: Lu Gwei-djen, Gender Politics, and the Transnational Production of Science and Civilisation in China

Time

3.30-5PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Zhang Zhihui

Friday 12 Jun

The Conception of Immortality through the Configuration of Mortality in the Writings of Ge Hong 葛洪 (283–343)

Time

3.30-5PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Zhongrui Florent Ying 應鐘銳

Friday 19 Jun

Yukawa, Tanabe, and Zhuangzi: Yukawa and East Asian Thought in His Theoretical Physics

Time

3.30-5PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Daisuke Konagaya

Friday 26 Jun

Is it fraud? Jingshen healing and the psychiatric trade in 1930s Beijing

Time

3.30-5PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Fu Ge Yang

What’s in a Botanical Name? Dr. Shiu Ying Hu and Mobilizations of Botany in the 20th Century

A Chemical Muse? Mushrooms in Daoism

Red Lead (Hongqian): Menstrual Blood as Medicine in Late Imperial China

Weaving Nature into Fabrics of Power in Qing Dynasty China: Case Studies of Fish Skin, Peacock Feathers, and Swansdown

Promise and Peril: Hydropower and the Making of Socialist North Korea

Foreign Astral Sciences in China: From the Six Dynasties to the Northern Song

The Structure of the heavenly Dao from the Zhouyi: Newton, Joseph Needham & Roger Ames on Natural Cosmos

‘The Relocation of Psychoanalysis in South Korea ‘.

‘Origins of Ivory in Bronze Age China’.

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

‘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’.