East Asian Science

International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine.

[The Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) @SocHistTech]

Technology & Culture Volume 60, Number 4, October 2019 is out now and available online! It's a special issue—"New Histories of Technology in South Asia."

#histtech #histSTM #STS @hssonline @4sWeb @STSeasst @ISHEASTM

[Ben Gross @bhgross144]

#ICYMI: @Jason_W_Dean continues to catalog a trove of East Asian scientific texts in @LindaHall_org's History of Science Collection.

Want to get to know this #astronomy manuscript better? Apply for a @LindaHall_org fellowship!

https://t.co/nYpNYlTz52

#histSTM (cc: @ISHEASTM)

[History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences @HPLSjournal]

@ISHEASTM @lisaonaga @marta_hanson @DukePress @SpringerPhil @takuzi0119 @BrillPublishing @STHistorian Also wanted to tag @cjeon23, Catherine Jami, Leem Soyong, Wen-Hua Kuo, & Zhang Baichun. Cheers also to a great audience -- Please send us your pitches, ideas, and questions! We will in the meanwhile write a summary of the roundtable discussion.

[History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences @HPLSjournal]

@HPLSjournal sends a Big Thank You to local organizer Tae-Ho Kim who enabled the Meet the Editors roundtable @ISHEASTM #ICHSEA 2019 w journals EASTM, EASTS, Asian Medicine, Historia Scientiarum, Korean J for the HoS, Korean J of STS, Chinese Annals of HoST. 감사합니다! #Jeonju

[East Asian Science @ISHEASTM]

10 post-doctoral fellowships at EHESS are advertised (1 October 2019 to 30 September 2019). Among them:

Environment in North and East Asia

Healthcare: social and Political Issues

Technology, objects, materialities

Application due date July 26, 2019

https://t.co/1KbXxP9yJ9

[Lijing Jiang @LijingJiang]

Fascinating talk by @HolmesMatthew99, Anne McLaren’s research on plant hybridization, referencing work done in Czech and correspondence from China. @ISHPSSB2019

[Lijing Jiang @LijingJiang]

Had such a wonderfully rich panel at #AAS2019, "Landscapes in Motion: Coastal and Mountain Dynamics in China and Indonesia," with excellent organization by @XiaofeiGao1 and super helpful commentaries by @AsoMitch. Thank you!

[East Asian Science @ISHEASTM]

ICHSEA 2019, panel submission due December 21.
https://t.co/aR4lC2GunU

[Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga]

Thoroughly enjoyed brushing up on oral history research methods and discussing how oral history interviews can bring forth fresh perspectives in histories of science and technology. Thank you Indira Chowdhury @SrishtiArtDes for the incredibly thought-pro… https://t.co/AoqkodxQI0

[HistMedJHU @ihmjhu]

We're hiring! @ihmjhu seeks applicants for the position of Assistant or Associate Professor (tenure-track) in the History of Medicine, with expertise in the history of disease, medicine, and/or public health extending beyond Europe and North America
https://t.co/DoobApAl3q

[Moyas @moyastwit]

This article is written by a former student of mine who took my course in Energy, Environment, and Society in Fall 2016. Proud of her.
https://t.co/wKhCEJXOSC

[Moyas @moyastwit]

Attending the annual meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) in St. Louis, MO.

[Ben Gross @bhgross144]

Volvelle from a 19th century Japanese manuscript discussing geocentric #astronomy, intended to illustrate the changing positions of the planets. Nearly three years after I arrived @LindaHall_org, the treasures in our rare book collection continue to astonish me. #histSTM #sciart

[Yige Dong @yige_dong]

It's again Apple's annual release of its ever fancier iPhone models. Feel very tempted to...post a fieldwork photo I took inside one of the biggest iPhone factories in China. It's the 250,000 workers there who made our Xs and XSs by "rolling up their sleeves and working hard"

[JHB @JHistoryBiology]

JHB's latest issue 51(3) now available online, filled with great articles and many reviews: https://t.co/huYv3H3UuC @SpringerNature @SpringerPhil @mlrichmond @RaderKaren @LijingJiang

[Lisa Onaga @lisaonaga]

At a panel discussion on sericultural practice at NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, I brought history of science into conversation with silkworm artist Liang Shaoji and media &… https://t.co/WblM3KSDGe

[Journal of Chinese History @JChineseHistory]

Read this fabulous piece in our latest special issue on environmental history of China by Brian Lander and Katherine Brunson (Institute at Brown for Environment and Society @Brown_EnvSoc ): "WILD MAMMALS OF ANCIENT NORTH CHINA." https://t.co/vRcWYbzN84 @oxford_envhist @ISHEASTM

[Ayo Wahlberg @ayo_wahlberg]

Fantastic start to a week of #STS in #4S2018 Sydney at the 2-day #BiolegalityPopUp workshop organized by Sonja van Wichelen & folks at @USyd_BoS. Stellar line up discussing personhood, exposure, liability, plasticity and more.

[JHB @JHistoryBiology]

Just some @JHistoryBiology editors hanging out at @MBLScience for “Engineering Life” @MBLHistory

[Ayo Wahlberg @ayo_wahlberg]

New special issue of S,T & S on "Cultures of Medicine and Health in East and Southeast Asia" guest edited by Liz Chee & Greg Clancey:
Cultures of Medicine and Health in East and Southeast Asia https://t.co/I04f7YMlKD