热点大瓜

Location: Capen 10 (Buffalo Room), UB North Campus

Nojin Kwak (Vice Provost for International Education and Professor of Communication, University at Buffalo)

Judith Farquhar (Max Palevsky Professor Emerita of Anthropology and of Social Sciences, University of Chicago)
“Magic Hands: Surfaces and Depths, Touching and Knowing Bodies”

Chair: Kristin Stapleton (Professor, History, University at Buffalo)

• Anya King (Associate Professor, History, University of Southern Indiana)
  “Smelling Cures: Medicinal Use of Perfumes according to Islamicate Formulas”
• Yan Liu (Associate Professor, History, University at Buffalo)
  “Fragrant Remedies: Aromatics, Smells, and Healing in Premodern China”
• Nicole Barnes (Associate Professor, History, Duke University)
  “The Many Meanings of Humanure in Mao-era China”

Chair: Yan Liu

• HS Sum Cheuk Shing (PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages & Civilizations, University of Chicago)
  “They Love Me, They Love Me Not: Premodern Chinese Philters as Sensorial Agents”
• Duygu Yildirim (Assistant Professor, History, University of Tennessee, Knoxville) 
  “Sweet Medicine: The Art of Taste and Drug-Making in the Early Modern Ottoman Court”
• Claire Cooper (Visiting Assistant Professor, History, University of the South, Sewanee) 
  “Egypt Oil and Seasoned Flesh: Mummy Medicine in Early Modern Japan”
• Chang Xu (Assistant Professor, Transnational Asian Studies, Rice University) 
  “The Transformable Military Body in Early Modern China” 

Chair: Hani Khafipour (Clinical Assistant Professor, History, University at Buffalo)

• Anurag Advani (Visiting Assistant Professor, Asian Studies, Hamilton College)
  "From Madness to Suicide: Mental Illness and Self-Harm in Mughal India"
• Wayne Tan (Associate Professor, History, Hope College)
  “Processing Emotions: Disability, Health, and Senses in Early Twentieth-Century Japan”
• Saghar Bozorgi (PhD Candidate, Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, Austin) 
  “Separate Bodies, Dependent Healing: Treating Mental Illness in Mid-20th Century Iran”

Chair: Ogechukwu Williams (Associate Professor, History, University at Buffalo)

• Median Mutiara (Independent Scholar)
  “Stigma Healing: Embodied Sensory Rituals among Indonesian Migrant Workers in Japan” [online presentation]
• Atsuko Naono (Teaching & Research Fellow, Oxford Centre for the History of Science, Medicine, and Technology) 
  “Sensory Aspects of Indigenous Medical Practices in Burma” [online presentation]
• Ling Ma (Assistant Professor, History, SUNY Geneseo)
  “Sense and Nonsense of the Birthing Body: Missionary Medicine’s Search of the ‘Chinese Womb’”
• Yang Li (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  “Seeing the Womb Like a State: Ultrasound Technology and China’s One Child Policy (1979-2015)”

Chair: Mark Nathan (Associate Professor, History, University at Buffalo)

• Marielle Harrison (PhD Candidate, History of Religions, University of Chicago)
  “Meat and Addiction in Early Buddhist Vegetarian Texts”
• C. Michele Thompson (Professor, History, Southern Connecticut State University)
  “The Sounds Marking Silence: Buddhist Bells and Medicine in Vietnam”
• Genie Yoo (Postdoctoral Fellow, Plant Humanities, Dumbarton Oaks)
  ​​“Sensing the Spirits and Invoking the Sacred: Reciting, Writing, and Drinking Verses of Healing in Islamicate Southeast Asia”
• Fabienne Jagou (Senior Associate Professor, French School of Asian Studies, École Francaise d’Extreme-Orient, Paris)
  “Exploring the Preservation of Holy Bodies and the Senses”

Chair: Victoria Lupasku (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, University of Montréal)

• Lisa Brooks (Postdoctoral Fellow, History, Classics, and Religion, University of Alberta, Canada)
  “Touch and Gendered Expertise in Early South Asian Medicine”
• Lan Li (Assistant Professor, History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University)
  “Sesame and Sensation: 麻 as Botanical Texture and Material Culture”
• Miryang Kang (PhD candidate, School of Science and Technology Policy, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology)
  “Professional Touch in the Age of Robotics: Expertise, Identity, and the Tactile Reenactment of Normalcy in Korean Physiotherapy”
• Erin McConkey (PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa)
  “Catching with Bare Hands: Venomous Snake Handling as Embodied Intimacy in Thailand”