CCHH: CHINA CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND HUMANITY

Thursday, 20 June 2013 from 11:30 to 14:00 · Wilkins Garden Room (Bernard Katz Building).
Find out more about the unique UCL MA in Chinese Health and Humanity. Meet staff and current students. Lunch will be provided.

Friday 24th May 2013, 9:30am – 5:00pm, Maplethorpe Lecture Theatre, UCL School of Pharmacy, 29-39 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AX.
A one-day international conference.

Tuesday 14th May, 6.30pm,  Lecture Theatre 1.03, Malet Place Engineering Building.
Part of the UCL Festival of the Arts

21st  May 2013, 10am-5pm, Room 103, Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PQ.
A one-day international conference.

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 5.30–6.30pm, Bentham SB01 Seminar Room 3.
Transnational history lecture and seminar with Dr Paul Kadetz, Global Health, Arizona School of Health Sciences.

Thursday 28 February 2013, 9–11am, Wilkins Garden Room.

Lecture by Dr Vivienne Lo on pharmacology in early China, followed by a session on the use of history in the construction of clinical trials into traditional medicine, with a case study presented by Dr Lo and Penelope Barrett (CCHH) together with Andrew Flower of the University of Southampton.

Celebrate the Year of the Snake with us on Tuesday February 12 from 3pm onwards in Wilkins Lower Refectory, UCL.

Tuesday, 12th February 2013, 7pm, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre.

2nd Nov 2012, 8am–1pm, at UCL
Officiant: Prof. Catherine Despeux (INALCO, Paris)
An international seminar with text readings and practical demonstrations.

Running up to Chinese New Year 2013, the UCL China Centre for Health and Humanity will be showing four recent Chinese films related to the UCL Grand Challenges themes: 
Global Health, Intercultural Interaction, Sustainable Cities and Human Wellbeing.

Out now: Perfect Bodies: Sports, Medicine and Immortality Ancient and Modern, edited with an introductory essay by CCHH Director Vivienne Lo (London: British Museum Research Publications, 2012).

Lectures from the Potent Substances Conference (13-15 September 2010), convened by Dr Vivienne Lo and Professor Tilli Tansey. are now on YouTube.

We have gathered together speakers who are working on translations of material that has not been available in translation in the past.

With Professor Shigehisa Kuriyama (Harvard University), this event was organised by two graduate students from the Centre, Theresia Hofer and Michael Stanley-Baker. It explored the potential of visual media in academic research, publishing and teaching.

Professor Lucy Chen,  Institute of Global Health, Peking University

 4.30 p.m. Cruciform Lecture Theatre 2, Cruciform Building, UCL Gower Street