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Historians studying the production and dissemination of knowledge in East Asia face two challenges: one, how to overcome the influence of the epistemic categories and values imposed by their position as modern actors; and two, how to best understand the creation and validation of knowledge in its historical context. By exploring epistemic breakdowns and crises, defined as occasions in which knowledge "fails" its users, scholars can not only examine the plurality of expectations and values held by different historical actors and groups, but also better determine the practices that have legitimized them. This workshop's participants will explore epistemic breakdowns and crises across multiple periods of East Asian history in order to both problematize the boundaries and criteria that have been assumed in the historical study of knowledge and illuminate the complexity of its production and dissemination.
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Session I 2:00-2:15 Welcome and Introduction 2:15-3:30 Annika A. Culver, FSU Pheasants Over Raptors: New Paradigms for Japanese Zoologists in Postwar Japan Miriam Kingsburg Kadia, CU Boulder The End of Objectivity: Japanese Human Scientists in the Student Movement of 1968 |
Session III 10:45-12:00 Emily Baum, UC Irvine Mind Over Matter: Neuropsychiatry, Chinese Medicine, and Mental Illness in Republican China Susan L. Burns, UChicago Fox Possession and Psychiatric Discourse: An Epistemic Crisis in Japan’s Medical Modernization Lunch 12:00-1:00 |
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Session II 9:30-10:15 Constance A. Cook, Lehigh Death of a Patient as Failure in the 4th c BCE Joan Judge York University, Toronto Epistemic Breakdown in the Age of Cholera: Cures, Prevention, and Medical Knowledge in Republican Chinese Daily-Use Texts 10:15-10:45 Tea and Coffee |
Session IV 1:00-2:15 Carla Nappi UBC Translating Failure Federico Marcon, Princeton Concepts vs. Practices: Overcoming a Misconceived Dialectic in the Historiography of Science 2:15-2:30 Tea and Coffee 2:30-3:30 Discussion and Closing Remarks |
Conference sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program, Digital Humanities, History of Science Department, PIIRS, University Center for Human Values.