Our research network aims to focus on the constitutive presence of medical modernity in Asia through a variety of perspectives, both historical and contemporary. Our inter-disciplinary projects are informed by anthropology, psychology, psychoanalysis, history, literary studies and food studies. Date: Thursday-Friday, June 27-28, 2024 Time: 9:00 AM Onwards Venue: Room 201, University Centre, Central Campus, Ahmedabad University Culture in Medical Modernity Tejaswini Niranjana, Director, Centre for Inter-Asian Research, Ahmedabad University, India Re-Orienting Taste: Eating and Healing in Indian and Chinese Medicine Anumitra Ghosh Dastidar and Shalini Krishan, Edible Archives, India Revisiting socialism, medicine/care and the Chinese cultural revolution LIN, Chien-Ting, Associate Professor, National Central University, Taiwan ….繼續閱讀

Date: Tuesday, 05 Oct 2021 Time: 10:00 – 12:00 Venue: Room A-302, Liberal Arts Building 1, NCU ZOOM LINK ：https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85339453171?pwd=eU42bmp5akZHTjZYMDZFbTNuRFVvdz09 (Password：j8QfL8) Moderator： Naifei Ding Chair of International Master’s Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies(UST), NCU Professor, English Department, NCU ＊Lecture in English＊   Reconsidering homophobia globally: A perspective from Hong Kong This paper reconsiders existing frameworks of homophobia in queer Asian studies by highlighting how they are complicated by globalising processes. Specifically, it formulates a class critique that fosters productive tensions between global queering discourses and a Chinese homophobic order affecting Hong Kong and other ethnic Chinese societies. Based on field research on ….繼續閱讀