The University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies is pleased to announce its fall 2015 conference, “Bodies, Healing and Culture: A Social History of Medicine in East Asia.”
Registration is now open and we hope you will join us. Leading scholars from the U.S., Asia, and Europe have been invited to USF to examine the history of medicine in China, Japan, and Korea from the 16th – mid 20th centuries.
When: Thursday and Friday, Nov. 5 & 6, 2015
Where: University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St., McLaren Conference Center, Room 252
Keynote Address: Thurs. Nov. 5, 5:00 p.m.
China’s Smoking Epidemic in Historical Perspective
Presented by Carol A. Benedict (Professor, School of Foreign Service & Department of History; Chair, Department of History, Georgetown University)
Keynote address is free and open to the public.
Registration for keynote: http://bit.ly/1MiNuk7
Panels will focus on themes such as:
-the circulation and transmission of medical concepts
-medical practitioners & their patients in China and Japan from the 16th - early 19th c
-understandings of the mind and the social history of psychiatry in East Asia
-medicine in colonial Asia and occupied Japan
-prioritizing care and public health campaigns in since the 1960s
Individual papers will address a variety of topics including:
-the bodily arts of memory
-Chinese-Western medical exchange
-physicians and their practices in late 16th c. Japan and 19th c. China
-Chinese eunuchs
-psychiatry and emotion related disease
-treatment of the urban poor in colonial Korea
-the intersections of medicine and the environment in occupied Japan
-Medicine during the Mao years
-international medical assistance in the ROK
-the history of breast cancer in South Korea since the 1960s
For complete conference schedule: http://bit.ly/1GeqpCO
Registration Required for Conference: The conference is open to the public. Free for USF faculty, staff, and students. $25 for 2-day general admission, $15 for 1-day general admission. $15 for 2-Day USF Alumni/Non-USF Students, $5 for 1-day USF Alumni/Non-USF Students.To register, please visit: http://bit.ly/1Xf7Cva
Sponsor: University of San Francisco Center for Asia Pacific Studies. As San Francisco’s academic gateway to the Asia Pacific, the Center’s mission is to foster and promote innovative research, teaching and public programs on the peoples and cultures of the region.
To learn more, visit https://www.usfca.edu/asia-pacific
Melissa S. Dale, Ph.D.
Executive Director & Assistant Professor
Center for Asia Pacific Studies
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St., KA-180A
San Francisco, CA 94117-1080
(415) 422-2590