TBA
The Working Group on the Science Beyond the West discusses theoretical and empirical scholarship, both works-in-progress and published, on:
- Non-Western scientific traditions;
- Interactions between entrenched and mobile elements of knowledge;
- Western sciences in non-Western contexts.
Meetings are usually held at the Consortium office in Philadelphia from 3:30 to 5:00 on second Fridays. Scholars located anywhere can also participate online.
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Past Meetings
TBA
Participants joined remotely a special workshop on new approaches to STEM in South Asia.
The group discussed three articles about global health and vaccination:
"Intimidation, Coercion and Resistance in the Final Stages of the South Asian Smallpox Eradication Campaign, 1973-1975"
by Paul Greenough
Soc. Sci. Med. Vol.41, No. 5, pp. 633-645,1995
"Chimeric globalism: Global health in the shadow of the dengue vaccine"
by Alex M. Nading
American Ethnologist, Vol. 42, No. 2, pp. 356-370, 2015
"'He is now like a brother, I can even give him some blood' -- Relational ethics and material exchanges in a malaria vaccine 'trial community' in The Gambia"
by P. Wenzel Geissler, Ann Kelly, Babatunde Imoukhuede and Robert Pool
Social Science & Medicine 67 (2008) 696-707
Meeting postponed - replacement date TBA. Professor Nükhet Varlık (Rutgers) will present her article in progress, "Epidemiological Orientalism." Professor Marta Hanson (Johns Hopkins) will be joining the discussion as respondent.
Dong-Won Kim introduced his paper, "Science Fiction in South and North Korea."
Fa-ti Fan from Binghamton University introduced a chapter, "The People's War against Earthquakes: Cultures of Mass Science in Mao's China'" from his forthcoming book on earthquakes in China, and Debjani Bhattacharya of Drexel provided comments to start the discussion.
No regular session this month, but some members attended a 2-day lecture and workshop on "The Local and the Global in History of Science," Dec. 3rd - Dec. 4th in Philadelphia, PA, featuring guest speaker and participant Kapil Raj (EHESS, Paris). The lecture and workshop were organized by Projit Mukharji and co-sponsored by the South Asia Center at UPenn, as well as the Consortium for HSTM. Read more here.
The group welcomed Dimitri Gutas of Yale University and Floris Cohen of Utrecht University as guest participants. Gutas commented on Cohen's How Modern Science Came Into the World: Four Civilizations, One 17th-Century Breakthrough (Amsterdam University Press, 2011), Cohen replied, and the group discussed.
The group discussed Nathan Sivin’s “Copernicus in China, or, Good Intentions Gone Astray,” Ekmeleddin İhsanŏglu’s “Introduction of Western Science to the Ottoman World: A Case Study of Modern Astronomy (1660-1860),” and Simon Schaffer’s “The Asiatic Enlightenments of British Astronomy”
Harun Küçük of UPenn introduced his draft paper, “New Medicine and the Ḥikmet-i Ṭabīʾiyye Problematic in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul.”
The theme for this month was Maps & Mapping. The group discussed: 1. Thongchai Winichakul, Siam Mapped Chs. 1 & 2. 2. Chandra Mukerji, "The Territorial State as a Figured World" 3. Jeremy Johns & Emily Savage-Smith, "The Book of Curiosities" Optional Reading: JB Harley, "Deconstructing Maps".
Harun Küçük and Projit Mukharji introduced three papers: Warwick Anderson, "Making Global Health History: The Postcolonial Worldliness of Biomedicine," Social History of Medicine, 27(2), [2014], pp.372-384; Fa-ti Fan, "The Global Turn in the History of Science," East Asian Science, Technology and Society, 6/2, 2012: 249-258; Kapil Raj, "Beyond Postcolonialism... and Postpositivism: Circulation and the Global History of Science," Isis, 104/2, 2013: 337-347.
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