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 09 Oct

Crime and Punishment in the Astronomical Bureau: texts in the case of Wu Mingxuan, 1657

Time

3.30-5PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Christopher Cullen

Wednesday 14 Oct

Science and Art in the Illustrations of Johann Adam Schall von Bell’s Explanation of the Telescope 遠鏡說 (preface 1626)

Time

11AM-12.30PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Kristina Kleutghen

Time

3.30-5PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Fan Lei

Time

3.30-5PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Jessey Choo

Friday 30 Oct

Shen 神 and Psychē: Chinese and Greek Accounts of Embodied Spirits

Time

3.30-5PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Lisa Raphals

Time

3.30-5PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Tianxin Cai

Time

3.30-5PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Han Han

Friday 27 Nov

Imaginaries of Flight: Avian Knowledge, Materiality, and Mobility in Early Modern Southeast Asia

Time

3.30-5PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Zhiyu Chen

Friday 04 Dec

From Gnomon Readings to Latitude and Longitude: The Generation and Updating of Latitude and Longitude Data in the Qing Dynasty

Time

3.30-5PM
Location

8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge CB3 9AF
Speaker

Jiajing Zhang

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

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

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

Deliberate Choice or Historical Contingency: A Re-examination of Joseph Needham’s 1952 Bacteriological Warfare Investigation and Its Impact on His Academic Transformation

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’.