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Spices and medicine: From Historical Obsession to Research of the Future
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. More...
Published: May 15, 2013 4:56:34 PM
Martial arts film: The 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/# More...
Published: Apr 8, 2013 6:17:45 PM
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.
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Published: Apr 2, 2013 7:09:49 PM
The Benevolent Dragon? An analysis of China's health diplomacy to Africa (1964 – the present)
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. More...
Published: Mar 6, 2013 1:30:04 PM
Pharmacology in China
Thursday 28 February 2013, 9–11am, Wilkins Garden Room.
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Published: Feb 26, 2013 6:00:06 PM
People
- Dr Vivienne Lo 羅維前
Centre Director; Senior Lecturer, Department of History, UCL - Prof. Therese Hesketh
Professor in Global Health, UCL Centre for International Health and Development - Prof. CJ Lim 林純正
Professor of Architecture and Cultural Design, and Vice-Dean of International Development at the Bartlett, UCL - Prof. Z Xiao Guo 郭正曉
UCL Pro-Provost for China
Associates
- Penelope Barrett
- Dr Paul Kadetz
- Prof. Ma Kanwen 馬堪溫
- Dr Lars Laamann
- Patrizia Liberati
- Dr Michael Stanley-Baker
- Dr Wang Tao 汪濤
- Dr Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Lecturers
- The Lecturers for the MA in China: Health and Humanity are all highly regarded experts in their fields. Read more about them here.
Research students
- David Dear
Self-cultivation and the formation of identity in Early Modern China - Nancy Holroyde-Downing
Mysteries of the Tongue: the Invention of a Diagnostic Tradition in Chinese Medicine - Dolly Yang 楊德秀
An exploration of the significance of the Daoyin [therapeutic, 'leading and guiding'] exercises in Zhubing Yuanhou Lun 諸病源候論 - Takaki Nishiyama
The International Leviathan: The British Imperial Institution and the East Asian Ab-intra States System, 1842-1943 - Di Lu (beginning 2013)
The construction of knowledge of fungi in Chinese medicine
Visiting scholars
- Yan Liu 刘焱, Harvard University
- Dr Becky Chou 周珮琪, China Medical University, Taiwan
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