Registration now open: Reproducing China, CRASSH Cambridge, 13-14 July 2012
Reproducing China: Childbirth, One Child, and Beyond
Friday 13 July 2012 to Saturday 14 July 2012
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
University of Cambridge
Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT
Invitation to register for the conference, "Reproducing China: Childbirth, One Child, and Beyond"
This conference brings together established scholars and junior researchers to present their cutting-edge work on the different facets of reproductive science and medicine in modern China. Taking up the continual critical interest in appropriations and disseminations of scientific theories and medical expertise, we investigate the movement and circulation of expertise, personnel, and material culture related to sexuality, reproduction, fertility, childbirth and population between China and different parts of the world. We want to understand how European and American scientific discourses interacted with Chinese discourses, and how so-called "indigenous" ideas concerning sex and reproduction became defined, incorporated or excluded. We analyse some of the long-range networks of historical and contemporary actors engaged in projects of translation and popularisation. In sum, the conference aims to produce not only new scholarship on China, but simultaneously new ideas on the mechanisms and dynamics of transmissions of reproductive knowledges around the world. Themes covered include: sexology and history of the body in China; conceptualisations of fertility and Chinese medicine; childbirth and reproductive technologies; population policies and demographic studies.
Conference website: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1715/
Programme: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1715/programme/
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Speakers and chairs:
Bridie Andrews (Bentley University)
Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh)
Mary Brazelton (Yale University)
Lily Chang (University of Cambridge)
Howard Chiang (Princeton University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Arunabh Ghosh (Columbia University)
Elisabeth Hsu (University of Oxford)
Tina Phillips Johnson (Saint Vincent College)
Vivienne Lo (University College London)
David Luesink (Indiana University -- Purdue University Indianapolis)
Leon Rocha (University of Cambridge)
Volker Scheid (University of Westminster)
Liying Sun (University of Heidelberg)
Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge)
Malcolm Thompson (University of Toronto)
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For any queries about the conference please email Leon Rocha (University of Cambridge, lar29@cam.ac.uk).
The conference is supported by: The Cambridge Humanities Research Grant; Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH); Needham Research Institute, Cambridge; Department of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge; and the "Generation to Reproduction" programme through a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award in the history of medicine to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.
Convened by Leon Rocha and Lily Chang (University of Cambridge) and Howard Chiang (Princeton University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
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Dr Leon Antonio Rocha
Research Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
International Research Fellow, Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universitaet Berlin
LAR29@cam.ac.uk
Friday 13 July 2012 to Saturday 14 July 2012
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH)
University of Cambridge
Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DT
Invitation to register for the conference, "Reproducing China: Childbirth, One Child, and Beyond"
This conference brings together established scholars and junior researchers to present their cutting-edge work on the different facets of reproductive science and medicine in modern China. Taking up the continual critical interest in appropriations and disseminations of scientific theories and medical expertise, we investigate the movement and circulation of expertise, personnel, and material culture related to sexuality, reproduction, fertility, childbirth and population between China and different parts of the world. We want to understand how European and American scientific discourses interacted with Chinese discourses, and how so-called "indigenous" ideas concerning sex and reproduction became defined, incorporated or excluded. We analyse some of the long-range networks of historical and contemporary actors engaged in projects of translation and popularisation. In sum, the conference aims to produce not only new scholarship on China, but simultaneously new ideas on the mechanisms and dynamics of transmissions of reproductive knowledges around the world. Themes covered include: sexology and history of the body in China; conceptualisations of fertility and Chinese medicine; childbirth and reproductive technologies; population policies and demographic studies.
Conference website: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1715/
Programme: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1715/programme/
* * *
Speakers and chairs:
Bridie Andrews (Bentley University)
Francesca Bray (University of Edinburgh)
Mary Brazelton (Yale University)
Lily Chang (University of Cambridge)
Howard Chiang (Princeton University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Arunabh Ghosh (Columbia University)
Elisabeth Hsu (University of Oxford)
Tina Phillips Johnson (Saint Vincent College)
Vivienne Lo (University College London)
David Luesink (Indiana University -- Purdue University Indianapolis)
Leon Rocha (University of Cambridge)
Volker Scheid (University of Westminster)
Liying Sun (University of Heidelberg)
Simon Szreter (University of Cambridge)
Malcolm Thompson (University of Toronto)
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For any queries about the conference please email Leon Rocha (University of Cambridge, lar29@cam.ac.uk).
The conference is supported by: The Cambridge Humanities Research Grant; Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH); Needham Research Institute, Cambridge; Department of East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge; and the "Generation to Reproduction" programme through a Wellcome Trust Strategic Award in the history of medicine to the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.
Convened by Leon Rocha and Lily Chang (University of Cambridge) and Howard Chiang (Princeton University and Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
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Dr Leon Antonio Rocha
Research Fellow, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
International Research Fellow, Dahlem Humanities Center, Freie Universitaet Berlin
LAR29@cam.ac.uk