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Fri. 21st February, 3:30-5:00 pm, please join us for the talk by Ian GOW (University of Edinburgh), "A Godly Artisan's Place in the History of Science and Mathematics in 19th century China: The Scottish Missionary-Sinologist Alexander Wylie (1815-1887).” All welcome!
Fri. 14th February, 3:30-5:00pm, text-reading seminar by our Ho Peng Yoke fellow Bill M. Mak (Needham Research Institute/Kyoto University), "The (Non-)Transmission of the Jiuzhi li in China". All welcome!
Friday 7th February, 3:30-5:00pm, text-reading seminar, Wu Huiyi (Needham Research Institute), “How local can Western Learning really go? Clues from Qing Legal Documents.” All welcome!
Happy new year of the Rat! Please join us this Friday 31st January, 3:30-5:00pm, for the talk by Michael Loewe (University of Cambridge), " Kongzi and 'Confucianists' in Han times.” All welcome!
The Lent term NRI seminar programme is out! http://www.nri.cam.ac.uk/seminars.html
Welcome back, and happy new year 2020! Please join us in the first NRI seminar of the Lent term, on Fri. 24th January, 3:30-5:00pm, with a talk by Feng Jing (University of Cambridge), "Methods and Traps of Joining Fragments of Dunhuang Codices: Using Fragments of the Diamond Sutra as Examples". All welcome!
Please join us in the Institute seminar on 29th November, 3:30-5:00pm, with the text-reading seminar by Donald Wagner (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen), "Wang Xiaotong 王孝通 (7th century), Zhang Dunren 張敦仁 (1754–1834) and Nam Pyŏng-Gil 南秉吉 (1820–1869) on a Right-Triangles Problem". All welcome!
Application to the Ho Peng Yoke Fellowship in the History of Science and Technology in China (2020-2021) is now open!
A visiting fellowship in memory of Professor Ho Peng Yoke 何丙郁 (1926-2014) tenable at the Needham Research Institute (NRI) in Cambridge, UK is offered to scholars of any nationality researching the history of science and technology in China. Preference will be given to those working on a subject in line with Professor Ho’s own research interests, such as the h...
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Please join us in the Institute seminar on 22nd November, 3:30-5:00pm, with Zhang Manjun (University of Cambridge), "Deciphering the Obscure (xuan 玄): Challenges in Translation of Early Medieval Chinese Philosophical Treatises". All welcome!
Please join us on Fri. 15th November, 3:30-5:00pm, for the talk by Phra Ponampon (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge), "Buddhist meditative techniques in Dunhuang manuscript S.2585". All welcome!
Please join us on Fri. 15th November, 3:30-5:00pm, for the talk by Phra Ponampon (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge), "Buddhist meditative techniques in Dunhuang manuscript S.2585". All welcome!
Please join us on Fri. 8th November, 3:30-5:00pm, for the talk by Zhang Shanjia (Lanzhou University), "Detecting the Imprint of Prehistoric Human Impact on the Environment in Northwest China from the Sedimentary Archives". All welcome!
Please join us on 1st November, for the text-reading seminar by Yu Jia (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge): "Missionaries, Physics, and Instruments: Reading the transforming world of bowu in mid-nineteenth-century China". Please note that the seminar will exceptionally start at 3:00 and end at 4:30pm. All welcome!
Please join us this Friday, 25th October 2019, 5.00 pm, for the 4th JOSEPH NEEDHAM MEMORIAL LECTURE, by Prof. Dagmar Schäfer (Director, Department III, Max-Planck-Institute fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte), "THE SCIENCE OF SILK OR WHAT CAN CHINA CONTRIBUTE TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE?". The lecture is sponsored by the Jing Brand Co. Ltd, and held by kind permission of the Master and Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge at the Riley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Memorial Court. All welcome!
Please join us on Wednesday 23rd October, 11:30am-12:30, to the lunchtime talk by Prof. Wang Hsien-Chun (National Tsing Hua University, Hsin Chu): "Some preliminary thoughts on the pictorial errors in the Yuanxi qiqi tushuo 遠西奇器圖説 (1672)". All welcome!
Please join us on Fri. 18th October, 3:30-5:00pm, to the talk by Mary Brazelton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge), "Penicillin for China: Transnational pharmaceutical networks and technology transfer in the Second World War", All welcome!
Welcome to the first seminar of the Michaelmas term, on Fri. 11th October, 3:30-5:00pm! Our speaker is Hajni Elias (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge): "Stele for Magistrate Jing Yun 景雲: An Eastern Han Memorial Stele from the Southwest with Reference to the Chuci 楚辭" (text-reading). All welcome!
And please find the programme for the Needham Research Institute Seminars!
http://www.nri.org.uk/seminars.html
MICHAELMAS TERM 2019
... 11 Oct: “Stele for Magistrate Jing Yun 景雲: An Eastern Han Memorial Stele from the Southwest with Reference to the Chuci 楚辭.” Hajni Elias (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) (Text-reading)
18 Oct: “Penicillin for China: Transnational pharmaceutical networks and technology transfer in the Second World War.” Mary Brazelton (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) (Talk)
25 Oct: 2019 Needham Memorial Lecture “The science of silk or what can China contribute to the history of science?” Dagmar Schäfer (Director, Department III, Max-Planck-Institute fur Wissenschaftsgeschichte) Note: The Lecture will be held at 5.00 pm, Riley Auditorium, Memorial Court, Clare College
1 Nov: “Missionaries, Physics, and the Polar Bear: Reading the Transforming World of bowu 博物 in mid-Nineteenth Century China.” Yu Jia (Department of History and Philosophy of Science) (Text-reading: Please note that this seminar starts at 3:00pm and ends at 4:30pm).
8 Nov: “Detecting the Imprint of Prehistoric Human Impact on the Environment in Northwest China from the Sedimentary Archives.” Zhang Shanjia (Lanzhou University) (Talk)
15 Nov: “Buddhist meditative techniques in Dunhuang manuscript S.2585.” Phra K. Ponampon (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) (Talk)
22 Nov: “Deciphering the Obscure (xuan 玄): A Detailed Reading of 3rd Century Chinese Philosophical Treatises.” Zhang Manjun (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies) (Text-reading)
29 Nov: “Wang Xiaotong 王孝通 (7th century), Zhang Dunren 張敦仁 (1754–1834) and Nam Pyŏng-Gil 南秉吉 (1820–1869) on a Right-Triangles Problem.” Donald Wagner (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen) (Text-reading)
The seminars are held on Fridays at 3.30 p.m. unless otherwise indicated
ALL WELCOME
The Needham Research Institute, 8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge, is situated at the corner of Sylvester and Herschel Roads, behind Robinson College. Any queries about the seminars should be directed to Wu Huiyi (Huiyi.Wu@nri.cam.ac.uk)
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