News and Events http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chinahealth/news/rss Alan W Yabsley 2011-01-26T12:47:34Z Spices and medicine: From Historical Obsession to Research of the Future http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chinahealth/newsx/spices_medicine Friday 24th May 2013, 9:30am – 5:00pm, Maplethorpe Lecture Theatre, UCL School of Pharmacy , 29-39 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AX. A one-day UCL conference sponsored by the British Society for the History of Science and London BioNat, exploring Europe’s fascination with spices as both food and medicine and the role of spices in the advancement of global scientific knowledge and medical practices, from ancient times to today. Vivienne Lo (UCL CCHH) and Di Lu (UCL PhD Cand.) will be presenting on 'Scent and Synaesthesia' in China. Penelope Barrett 2013-05-15T15:56:35Z Martial arts film: The Sword Identity http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chinahealth/newsx/sword_identity Tuesday 14th May, 6.30pm,  Lecture Theatre 1.03 , Malet Place Engineering Building . Part of the UCL Festival of the Arts Free tickets available from: http://the-sword-identity.eventbrite.com/# Penelope Barrett 2013-04-08T17:17:46Z China in Latin America http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chinahealth/newsx/china_in_latin_america 21st  May 2013, 10am-5pm, Room 103 , Institute of the Americas, 51 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PQ. A one-day international conference, jointly convened by UCL China Centre for Health and Humanity and UCL Centre for Transnational History , and kindly supported by UCL Institute of the Americas and UCL Grand Challenges - Intercultural Interaction . Penelope Barrett 2013-04-02T18:09:50Z The Benevolent Dragon? An analysis of China's health diplomacy to Africa (1964 – the present) http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chinahealth/newsx/benevolent_dragon 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. Penelope Barrett 2013-03-06T13:30:13Z Pharmacology in China http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chinahealth/newsx/pharmacology_in_China Thursday 28 February 2013, 9–11am, Wilkins Garden Room. Penelope Barrett 2013-02-26T18:00:06Z Chinese New Year celebrations 2013 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chinahealth/newsx/Chinese_new_year Celebrate the Year of the Snake with us on Tuesday February 12 from 3pm onwards in Wilkins Lower Refectory, UCL. Penelope Barrett 2013-01-24T01:01:49Z Festival of Chinese Film and the Body, Film 4 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chinahealth/newsx/grand_challenges_film_1 Tuesday, 12th February 2013, 7pm, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre. Penelope Barrett 2012-10-25T14:48:29Z Daoist and Other Visualisations in Practice http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chinahealth/newsx/daoist_visualisations 2nd Nov 2012, 8am–1pm, at UCL Officiant: Prof. Catherine Despeux (INALCO, Paris) An international seminar with text readings and practical demonstrations. Penelope Barrett 2012-10-11T13:27:40Z Festival of Chinese Film and the Body http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chinahealth/newsx/grand_challenge_films 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. Penelope Barrett 2012-09-12T14:18:08Z Perfect Bodies http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chinahealth/newsx/10-09-2010 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). Penelope Barrett 2012-09-11T10:41:01Z Potent Substances: On the Boundaries of Food and Medicine http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chinahealth/newsx/potent_substances Lectures from the Potent Substances Conference (13-15 September 2010), convened by Dr Vivienne Lo and Professor Tilli Tansey. are now on YouTube . Helen Matthews 2011-11-03T17:29:23Z Medical Texts in Translation http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chinahealth/newsx/medical_texts_translation We have gathered together speakers who are working on translations of material that has not been available in translation in the past. Helen Matthews 2011-05-16T14:19:33Z History of Medicine in Motion http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chinahealth/newsx/histmedmotion 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. Alan W Yabsley 2011-03-17T15:45:25Z Inaugural Lecture 15 June 2011 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chinahealth/newsx/inaugural Lucy Chen is currently Executive Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Health at Peking University. This is an institute dedicated to research on strategies and plans for China’s role in South-South health development cooperation and works closely with government organisations. She has played a role in establishing China’s Alliance for South-South Health Collaboration Research which will be formally launched in January 2010. Before returning to China, she worked at the Department of Health, and University of Sydney in Australia Alan W Yabsley 2011-01-26T12:53:02Z