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Traditional histories of Chinese science, technology, and medicine have often been based on an assumed science-and-civilization framework, namely the idea that one can speak of civilizations as distinct, competing entities and then use science to measure their progress toward modernity. Recent studies, however, have begun to challenge the asserted continuities in language, philosophy, and culture on which such claims of the unity of civilizations were based; at the same time, science itself is increasingly understood not as a unified system but as local practices inseparable from cultural context. This conference hopes to consider the implications of these studies and to integrate a variety of disciplines in order to inquire into the directions that future studies of Chinese science, technology, and medicine might take.
Date: May 10-12, 2002
Place: Seminar Room, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, 1110 E. 57th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
PARTICIPANTS:
- Karine Chemla (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)
- Juliette Chung (Hofstra University)
- Christopher Cullen (University of London, UK)
- Benjamin Elman (University of California, Los Angeles)
- Fa-ti Fan (SUNY, Binghamton)
- Marta Hanson (University of California, San Diego)
- Donald Harper (University of Chicago)
- Roger Hart (University of Texas, Austin)
- Florence Hsia (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Tong Lam (University of Chicago)
- Sean Lei (National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan)
- Haun Saussy (Stanford University)
- Edward Shaughnessy (University of Chicago)
- Nathan Sivin (University of Pennsylvania)
- Yi-Li Wu (Albion College)
Organizers: Roger Hart (UT Austin) and Robert J. Richards (University of Chicago)
Sponsored by the Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Division of the Social Sciences, and Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago.
For a detailed description along with a schedule including paper titles, abstracts, times, and directions, please see the conference web site below.
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