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Accepted Panels:        

"Launching Public Health in China, 1898-1983: A Common Problem in a Changing Society"

"Korean Medicine in East Asia"

"The Reception of Chinese Medicine in Europe (17th-20th centuries)"

"Koreanizing Chinese Medicine?: Problems and Possibilities in Representing Korean Medicine in a Global Setting"

"Transformations of nutritional knowledge in East Asian history"

"Ritual in the Chinese Healing Arts"

"Tracing Pharmaceutical Modernity through Japan and its Peripheries"

"The Japanese Imperial University at Home and Abroad"

"‘Origin/Source’: Concepts and Their Uses in the History of Knowledge"

“Making and Experiencing Nuclear and Biological Warfare before and during WWII”

"Science, Protestant Christianity and Darwinism in Meiji Japan"

"Assessing a Legacy and Exploring Beyond: Jeon Sang-woon and the History of Science in Korea"

“'Colonial Sciences in Japan’s Great East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere', in honor of Professor Shigeru Nakayama"

“Technology and Visual Culture”

"New 'Communities of Practitioners' and Emerging Forms of Medical Writing in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Japan"

“Government and Industry in Industrializing Japan”

"Crosscultural exchanges in Religion, Medicine, and Science in China"

"Popular Religion and Artisanal Practice in Late Imperial China"

"China and the World History of 'Revolutions': Viewing from the Angle of Sex and Science"

“Cosmopolitan Science and Medicine in Late Imperial China?”

"East Asian Modernity: the Post-Colonial State, Science, and South Korean Historiography (1948- )"

"Disputed Steps of TCM-Institutionalization: A Historic Debate in China and in Japan"

“Responses to Astronomical Anomalies in Early China—Scientific, Practical, Socio-cultural”

"Science across the borders: History of transmission of scientific expertise in East and South-East Asia"

“Disease, Drugs and the Environment across the Meiji Divide: Negotiating Medical Modernity in 19th-century Japan”

"Buddhists, Dutchmen, and Visionaries: Translators of Science in China and Japan (12th-19th Centuries)"

“Ethics of Sight: the Visual as Mediation in China’s Early Modern Science Education”

"Science, Technology, and Medicine in Transit in East Asia, 1944-1993"


Individual Paper Submissions:

(If you have an individual paper you think might go well with one of the individual papers submitted, please mention this in your email submission.)

"Observations and Research on Epidemic Diseases in Nineteenth Century China: A Case Study on the Customs Medical Report"

"Policing the Colony: Technologies of Discipline and Surveillance in Colonial Korea"
Min Suh SON, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns
Hopkins University

"Western Medical Knowledge Production in Late Imperial China"
Lihong DU, Visiting Scholar from the China Academy of Social Sciences,
Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University

"The Ban on the Private Study of Astrology and the Publication of Books on Astrology in the Ming Dynasty: Ideas and Reality"
SHIN Min Cheol, Seoul National University, South Korea

"The Lysenko Controversy in Postwar Japan"
Kaori Iida, The Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University

"The commodification of electrotherapeutics and its marketing strategies in modern Japan"
Akiko ITO, Postdoctorate Bakken Museum of the History of Electricity,
Independent Scholar

"Fu Ssu-nian and the First Election of Members of Academia Sinica"
GUO Jin-hai, Institute for the History of Natural Science, CAS, Beijing, China

"Imitation, Creation, and Translation: Making Textbooks on Western Mathematics in Nineteenth-Century Japan"
LEE, Chia-Hua, University of Tokyo

"Review on the Development of the History of Metrology in China"
GUAN Zeng-jian, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

"Changing Configurations in Fictional and Medical Publishing"
Ellen Widmer, Department of History, Wellesley College

"Ordering the Inner Landscape: Acupuncture and the Body"
CHAO Yüan-ling, Department of History, Middle Tennessee State University

"Anger, depression and the medical perceptions of the Liver in late imperial China"
CHEN Hsiu-fen, Department of History, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

"Nationalism Versus Colonialism: Eugenics and Biopolitics in China and Hong Kong, 1890s -1990s"
CHUNG Yuehtsen Juliette, Institute of History, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

"Theorizing Chinese Medicine: the Integration of Classical Doctrines into Drug Therapy during the Song dynasty"
Asaf Goldschmidt, Tel Aviv University, Israel

"The Case of the Doctor in late Qing Fictional Narratives"
Andrew Schonebaum, Department of English Literature, State University of New York

"Healing Through Ruqyah (Incantation): The Perception of Malay-Muslim Society in Kelantan and Terengganu on Ruqyah as an Alternative Way of Healing in Malaysia" - Preliminary Findings
DEURASEH Nurdeng, Mansor Abu Talib and Husni M. Harun, Universitu Putra, Malaysia

"The Anthropology of a Plant’s Desire: A Spatial History of Ginkgo biloba"
HUNG Kuang-chi, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University

"Diagnosing the Crying Child: Pediatrics and Its Breakthrough during the Jin-Tang Period (265-907)"
CHANG Chia-Feng, Department of History, National Taiwan University

"C-section, Magic mirror, and Charlatans in the Dianshizhai Pictorial: Western medicine and Chinese medicine in late 19th century China"
ZENG Yuan Yuan, Department of Anthropology, Catholic University of America

"To Eat or Not to Eat: the placenta as food medicine in Chinese history"
 LAW Yuen-mei Vicky, City University of Hong Kong

"An Intellectual Pilgrimage after the Second Keikoku: Japanese Scientists in the U.S. Federal Laboratories"
Buhm Soon Park, KAIST, Korea

"Drivers and Passengers Disciplined: Anneyang and Jayul Bus in Seoul, Korea, 1961-1983"
Jongmin Lee, Virginia Tech, Virginia

"The Ban on the Private Study of Astrology and the Publication of Books on Astrology in the Ming Dynasty: Ideas and Reality"
SHIN Min Cheol, Seoul National University, South Korea

"Introduction and Modification of a Foreign Research System: The Contract Research System of KIST in the 1970s Korea"
Moon, Manyong, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

“Working, Thinking and Writing in the Medical Field in the Margins of the Empire: Physicians in Yunnan, Guangxi and Guangdong in Late Imperial China”
Florence Bretelle-Establet, REHSEIS, CNRS & Université Paris Diderot

"Technologies and their Environmental Impact: Mining and Smelting of Copper in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Yunnan"
Hans Ulrich Vogel, Seminar für Sinologie und Koreanistik, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen

"Vital spots and mortal wounds: Finding cause of death in Qing forensics"
Daniel Asen, Columbia University

"Contexts and the Re-Invention of Traditional Medicine as National and Superior in Colonial Korea"
Ohmin Kwon, Institutional affiliation: Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine, Republic of Korea

"Measuring Gravity in Loci: Gravitational Expeditions in Japan, 1880-1884"
Boumsoung KIM, The University of Tokyo

"Imitationism or Innovationism???Disputes and fights between the two technical routes in the history of Chinese large aircraft development"
Zhenghong Chen, OHST, U.C. Berkeley

"Gunpowder in Asia"
Peter Lorge, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

"The Controversy over the Theory of Precession in the Late Ming and Early Qing China"
Wang Guangchao, Institute for the History of Natural Science, Beijing CAS.

"Empirical and Metaphysical Reasoning in China: Needham's Question Revisited"
Geoffrey Redmond, Center for Health Research, New York, NY

"The Experience and Change of the Nursing Profession in Korea during the Japanese Colonial Wartime Mobilization"
YI Ggodme, College of Health Science, Sangji University, Korea

"Popularizing Science and Technology in Late Imperial China"
Iwo Amelung, Frankfurt University, Frankfurt, Germany

"Song Yingxing’s Ideas about the Role of Heaven in the Production Techniques: the Tiangong kaiwu"
 KIM Yung Sik, Seoul National University, South Korea

"Ideological Reaction for the Introducing Sarton’s New Humanism into China in the Middle of the 20th Century: The Case of Qian Baocong"
LIU Bing, Tsinghua University, China

"Confucian Thoughts on Technology in the Spring-Autumn and Warring-State Periods"
HU Huakai, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei


"Records on Creators of Strange Machines"
Martin Hofmann, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany

"What the Northern Song Government's Special Organizations did for the Innovation and Development of Astronomy"
DONG Yuyu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

"Constructed Architectural Knowledge as Professionals and Literati’s Ideal: The Case of the Tenth-Century Classic of Timberwork (Mujing)"
FENG Jiren, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

"Taiji as a tool to counter the medical ideas of Zhu Zhenheng in late Ming dynasty China"
Leslie de Vries, Ghent University

"Zhang Qiujian’s Fowls and Fibonaci’s Birds: Some Reflections on the Complexities of the Mathematics Transmission"
JI Zhigang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

"The Pancreas and its Assimilation into Traditional Chinese Medicine in Late Qing China"
CHAN Man Sing, University of Hong Kong

"Transitions of the Relationship between Ecological Scientists and Conservation of Nature in Japan to 1970" SUMIDA, Tomohisa, University of Tokyo

"On the Meaning and Practice of Step/Pace (bu) in Ancient China"
CHIN Shih-ch'i, Dept of History, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

"A 5,200-Year- Old Binary Information System: Archaeological Evidences Support Leibniz"
DENG Honghai, University of Alberta and Research Center for World Natural Medicine, Canada

"Yangzhou Scholars' Eyes on Jesuit Science: Reflections on the Chouren zhuan"
SHIH Ling-Hsuan, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

"Writing and teaching about numbers in early imperial China: constructing a prosopography"
Christopher Cullen, Needham Research Institute and Darwin College, Cambridge, England

"The Longer the Stay, The Better the Result?: Yoshio Nishina's Overseas Study and the Japanese Physics Community in the Early Twentieth Century"
Dong-Won KIM, Visiting Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland


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