How did Korean firms like Hanjin carry containerization from Vietnam’s Cam Ranh & Qui Nhon to Busan, transforming ports & unsettling U.S. contractors like Lusteveco? 🚢
John DiMoia @ Harvard #STinAsia, Tue Oct 14, 10:30 ET
Zoom registration: seow.scholars.harvard.edu/STinAsia
#histstm #histtech 🧪
Kicked off our fall 2025 Harvard #STinAsia online seminar series yesterday w/ Jiraporn Laochaoroenwong. Learned lots about the ways that animal value is reworked at the Myanmar–Thailand border. 🐄 Thanks, Jiraporn!
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#histstm #sts #envhum #envhist
A screenshot of a virtual meeting shows a presentation slide titled "Medical—'true taste' 本味." The slide contains a passage in Chinese and its English translation, which describes how different types of animals have distinct tastes: "Water-dwellers taste fishy, predators taste rank, and grass-eaters taste gamey. Foul or fair, each has its reason." The quote is attributed to Master Lü's Spring and Autumn Annals. The slide also features an illustration of food items, including what appears to be vegetables and a dish with red ingredients. The virtual meeting interface shows multiple participants. Various meeting controls such as "Audio," "Video," "Participants," "Chat," and "Share" are visible at the bottom.
Many thanks to Tom DuBois for his fascinating #STinAsia talk earlier today, which traced convergence between medical and culinary understandings in writings about food across China's imperial past. 🍲
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#histstm #histmed 🧪
Aparajita Majumdar's Harvard #STinAsia talk earlier opened up new ways of thinking about human–plant relations through the fascinating story of the Jri Bamon and the living root bridge. 🌳
Thanks to all who joined us!
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#histstm #envhist #envhum #histsci 🧪
A screenshot of a virtual meeting presentation slide on 'Automated Vehicles (AVs).' The slide displays the SAE J3016™ Levels of Driving Automation, ranging from Level 0 to Level 5. The levels indicate the degree of automation in vehicles, with Levels 0-2 requiring human supervision and intervention, while Levels 3-5 allow for automated driving without human control. The slide includes a table detailing what the human in the driver’s seat must do at each level. The presentation is credited to SAE International (2021) and KAIST.
I learned a ton about automated vehicles 🚗 and related tensions between safety, environmental, and privacy concerns from Dasom Lee's excellent #STinAsia talk earlier this week.
A great start to the series for the term.
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#sts #histstm 🧪
What might the reconstruction of historical climates tell us about the past and present of climate change?
Please join us for the last #STinAsia talk for the fall, by Togo Tsukahara on #envist in transnational networks!
Zoom registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #sts 🧪
Great to hear Sulfikar Amir's #STinAsia talk earlier about the work that he and his collaborators have done on the important issue of urban heat. From Jakarta's kampungs, they found coping strategies that others, including the city's air-conditioned elite, could learn from.
#sts #histstm #envhist 🧪
Reminder 📢
Join us next Tuesday, November 26, 10:30 ET for this #STinAsia talk by Sulfikar Amir!
LIVING IN A HOT CITY: URBAN HEAT MITIGATION IN INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS OF MEGACITY JAKARTA
Zoom registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#sts #histstm #histtech #envist #envhum 🧪
Screenshot of the Science and Technology in Asia seminar series talk by Fei Huang, with a slide on "The stele on bathing schedule for the hundred diseases" (1906).
I learned many interesting things from Fei Huang's 黄菲 #STinAsia talk on hot springs in China earlier today, not least about therapeutic timetables for when it was best to wash.
Thanks again to Fei for sharing your work with us and all who joined the event.
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What might the interplay between humans and the environment look like through a longue durée history of hot springs?
Join us for this next #STinAsia talk by Fei Huang on Tue, Nov 12, 10:30 am ET.
Zoom registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm #histmed #envhist 🧪
Dafna Zur's #STinAsia talk earlier this week on Cold War North and South Korean science fiction got me thinking about how one might talk to Martians (or not!). 👽
Thanks again to Dafna and to all who joined us for this event!
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#sf #histstm #histsci 🧪
Amit Prasad gave an exciting #STinAsia talk earlier today about how recent anti-colonial references and practices have served as sites of fiction for the "stuttering" of certain normative discourses. Many thanks to Amit for sharing his work and to all who came.
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How and why have universities emerged as apparatuses for privileged knowledge? 🎓
Please join us next Tuesday (4/30) for the last #STinAsia talk for the spring term, by Sharon Traweek (@uclagender + @UCLAhistory).
Online and open to all: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm #sts 🧪
How might the context of scientific discovery relate to assessments of "new species discovery?"
Find out in Christine Luk's #STinAsia talk next Tue, April 23, 10:30 am ET:
DISCOVERING FRESHWATER JELLYFISH IN MODERN CHINA 🪼
Zoom registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci 🧪
What makes a disaster slow?
Please join us next Tue, April 16, 10:30 am ET over Zoom for this #STinAsia talk by Yeonsil Kang:
MINERAL TIME, BODILY TIME:
ASBESTOS, SLOW DISASTER, AND TOXIC POLITICS IN SOUTH KOREA
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#histstm #histsci #envhist #envhum
Reminder 📣
Please join us tomorrow (Tue, 4/9, 10:30 am ET) over Zoom for Aaron William Moore's #STinAsia talk, "Dreams from China's Past."
Register here: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm #scifi
How did science fiction feature in the making of a 'China dream?'
Come join the #STinAsia online seminar series @ Harvard next Tue, Apr 9, 10:30 am ET for this talk on "Dreams of China's Past" by Aaron William Moore.
Registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #scifi
Reminder 📣
Come join the #STinAsia seminar series @ Harvard tomorrow, Tuesday, March 26, 10:30 ET over Zoom for Nicole Barnes's talk, "Racing to Be a Better Race: A Longue Durée History of China's Toilet Revolution" 🚽
Register here: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm #envhist
How has the lowly loo served as both a signifier of civilization and a potential tool of soft power? 🚽
Join us on Tue (3/26), 10:30 ET over Zoom for Nicole Elizabeth Barnes's #STinAsia talk, "Racing to Be a Better Race!"
Registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm #envhist
Reminder 📣
Please join the Harvard #STinAsia seminar series over Zoom this Tuesday, March 12, 10:30 am ET for @AmranRinni's talk, "Reading Bruneian Petrofiction: How We Became Addicted to Oil" 📚⛽
Registration: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#envhum #envhist #energy
How did South Asian Muslim artisans negotiate the radical industrial and technological shifts in their trades in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
Find out in Amanda Lanzillo's #STinAsia talk on Tue (2/27) @ 10:30 ET!
Virtual, free, and open to all!
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📢 Reminder
Please join the #Harvard #STinAsia seminar series tomorrow (Tue, Feb 13, 10:30 ET) for Anto Mohsin's talk, UNPACKING INDONESIA'S ELECTRIFICATION POLITICS!
Register here: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm #histtech #sts 🧪
Poster featuring the eight speakers for the spring 2024 session of the Science and Technology in Asia online seminar series @ Harvard.
I am pleased to share the spring 2024 lineup for the #Harvard #STinAsia online seminar series!
These talks are virtual, free, and open to all.
More details and Zoom registration links here: scholar.harvard.edu/seow/STinAsia
#histstm #histsci #histtech #envhist #envhum 🧪
Reminder 📢
Join us tomorrow (12/5) for Junko Kitanaka's #STinAsia talk, "Against New Healthism: The Rise of the Tokisha Movement and Debates around the Prevention of Dementia in Japan"
Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#sts #medanthro #histmed #histstm 🧪
Please join us over Zoom next Tuesday (12/5) for the last #STinAsia event of fall 2023, featuring Junko Kitanaka on "Against New Healthism: The Rise of the Tojisha Movement and Debates around the Prevention of Dementia in Japan!"
Registration: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
🧪 #sts #histstm
📢 In an hour! Join us for Eunjeong Ma's #STinAsia talk on "Walking with Robots" 🤖
Registration: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
What does it mean to be a 'person' as more technologies enter the fields of care and rehabilitation?
Join us for Eunjeong Ma's #STinAsia talk next Tue, Nov 28, 10:30 am ET:
WALKING WITH ROBOTS: REHABILITATION ROBOTICS IN SOUTH KOREA
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#sts #histstm 🧪
Reminder 📢
Please join us tomorrow (Tue, Nov 21, 10:30 am ET) for Mary Brazelton's #STinAsia talk!
Registration: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#histstm #histsci 🧪
𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝘄𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁-𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮?
Please join us next Tue, Nov 7, 10:30 am ET, for Jahnavi Phalkey's #STinAsia talk:
FROM CIRCUMSPECT TECHNOCRAT TO COMMITTED RADICAL
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#histstm 🧪
