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MMEA Lecture Series “Lizards, Metals, Stones, and Sands: Practical Investigations and Vernacular Knowledge Systems in the Premodern World” by Professor Pamela H. Smith
MMEA Lecture Series “Lizards, Metals, Stones, and Sands: Practical Investigations and Vernacular Knowledge Systems in the Premodern World” by Professor Pamela H. Smith
Date: May 3, 2023
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2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series “How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food” by Professor Angela K.C. Leung
2023 Fairbank Center Reischauer Lecture Series “How Soy Sauce Shapes Modern China: The Power of an Everyday Food” by Professor Angela K.C. Leung
Date: March 28 -30, 2023
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MMEA Lecture Series “MMEA Book Talk “Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia” by Dr. Max Hirsh, Dr. Till Mostowlansky, Dr. Dorothy Tang and Professor Hallam Stevens
MMEA Book Talk “Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia” by Dr. Max Hirsh, Dr. Till Mostowlansky, Dr. Dorothy Tang and Professor Hallam Stevens
Date: February 3, 2023
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MMEA Lecture Series “Fairchildren and Factory Girls: Gender, Family, and Space in the Singapore Electronics Industry” by Professor Hallam Stevens
MMEA Lecture Series “Fairchildren and Factory Girls: Gender, Family, and Space in the Singapore Electronics Industry” by Professor Hallam Stevens
Date: February 2, 2023
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「茻友會客廳」: 走進「豆」的前世今生，聊聊那些被遺忘的傳統和歷史
「茻友會客廳」: 走進「豆」的前世今生，聊聊那些被遺忘的傳統和歷史
Date: June 25, 2022
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MMEA Lecture Series “Mass Timber: Engineered Wood and Material Modernity in the People’s Republic of China” by Dr. Jennifer Altehenger
MMMEA Lecture Series “Mass Timber: Engineered Wood and Material Modernity in the People’s Republic of China” by Dr. Jennifer Altehenger
Date: April 28, 2022
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MMEA Lecture Series “U-turn to the Future: Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850” by Professor Ruth Oldenziel
MMEA Lecture Series “U-turn to the Future: Sustainable Urban Mobility since 1850” by Professor Ruth Oldenziel
Date: March 24, 2022
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全球視野下中國醫學史研究：理論方法與史料系列講座 梁其姿教授主講「域外中國醫史研究新方向：食物與藥物的歷史」
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梁其姿教授主講「醬油成為中國日常食物的歷史過程：醬文化與政權的興衰」(“How Soy Sauce Blended into Daily Chinese Food: Soy Sauce Culture in the Ups and Downs of Political Regime”)
Date: December 28, 2021
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MMEA Lecture Series “Before Localization: The Story of the Electric Rice Cooker in South Korea” by Dr. Hyungsub Choi
MMEA Lecture Series “Before Localization: The Story of the Electric Rice Cooker in South Korea” by Dr. Hyungsub Choi
Date: December 2, 2021
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全球視野下中國醫學史研究：理論方法與史料系列講座 梁其姿教授主講「域外中國醫史研究新方向：食物與藥物的歷史」
全球視野下中國醫學史研究：理論方法與史料系列講座
梁其姿教授主講「域外中國醫史研究新方向：食物與藥物的歷史」
Date: October 22, 2021
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Singapore Heritage Festival 2021 “Soy Sauce Across Asia: Tradition, Taste, and Technology”
Singapore Heritage Festival 2021
“Soy Sauce Across Asia: Tradition, Taste, and Technology (Online Dialogue)” by Professor Angela Ki Che Leung, Dr. Izumi Nakayama, Dr. Hallam Stevens, Dr. John D. Wong, and Mr. Daniel Chan
Date: May 27, 2021
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MMEA Lecture Series “Fueling Imperial Anxieties: Energy and Empire in Interwar and Wartime Japan” by Dr. Victor Seow
MMEA Lecture Series “Fueling Imperial Anxieties: Energy and Empire in Interwar and Wartime Japan” by Dr. Victor Seow
Date: May 20, 2021
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MMEA Lecture Series “From Medicine to a Staple Food — How Science and Tradition are Shaping the Milk Production and Consumption in Modern China” by Dr. Veronica Sau-Wa Mak
MMEA Lecture Series “From Medicine to a Staple Food — How Science and Tradition are Shaping the Milk Production and Consumption in Modern China” by Dr. Veronica Sau-Wa Mak
Date: March 8, 2021
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MMEA Lecture Series “Connecting the Dots: A History of Systems Thinking in Chinese Agricultural Science and Politics” by Professor Sigrid Schmalzer
MMEA Lecture Series “Connecting the Dots: A History of Systems Thinking in Chinese Agricultural Science and Politics” by Professor Sigrid Schmalzer
Date: March 3, 2021
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MMEA Lecture Series “Electric China: A History of the Chinese Electrical and Electronics Industries, 1870-1937” by Dr. Ghassan Moazzin
MMEA Lecture Series “Electric China: A History of the Chinese Electrical and Electronics Industries, 1870 – 1937” by Dr. Ghassan Moazzin
Date: February 4, 2021
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MEA Lecture Series “Commodifying Development: The Meaning, Consequences, and Politics of Inclusive Innovation in India” by Professor Shobita Parthasarathy
MMEA Lecture Series “Commodifying Development: The Meaning, Consequences, and Politics of Inclusive Innovation in India” by Professor Shobita Parthasarathy
Date: January 18, 2021
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MMEA Lecture Series “Lager, or The Doublet of History: Ten Centuries of Asian Influence in Europe” by Dr. Jenny L. Smith
MMEA Lecture Series “Lager, or The Doublet of History: Ten Centuries of Asian Influence in Europe” by Dr. Jenny L. Smith
Date: November 26, 2020
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Eat Good, Be Healthy (好好吃飯): Film Screening and a Dialogue with Director Jian Yi (簡藝)
Eat Good, Be Healthy (好好吃飯): Film Screening and a Dialogue with Director Jian Yi (簡藝)
Date: November 4, 2019
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MMEA Lecture Series “Written in the Stars: Digitising an Astrological Archive” by Professor Lauren Kassell
MMEA Lecture Series “Written in the Stars: Digitising an Astrological Archive” by Professor Lauren Kassell
Date: September 19, 2019
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MMEA Sub-Project Workshop “Reproductive Labor and Gynocentric Technologies in East Asia, 1800s-2000s”
MMEA Sub-Project Workshop “Reproductive Labor and Gynocentric Technologies in East Asia, 1800s – 2000s”
Date: June 7 – 9, 2019
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MMEA Lecture Series “Popularizing Potatoes: Technology and Tradition in the Creation of a National Chinese Staple” by Dr. Jakob Klein
MMEA Lecture Series “Popularizing Potatoes: Technology and Tradition in the Creation of a National Chinese Staple” by Dr. Jakob Klein
Date: May 30, 2019
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MMEA Sub-Project Workshop “Making East Asian Foods: Technologies and Values, 19th to 21st Centuries”
MMEA Sub-Project Workshop “Making East Asian Foods: Technologies and Values, 19th to 21st Centuries”
Date: May 30 – 31, 2019
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MMEA Sub-Project Workshop “Weather, Climate, and Everyday Life: Environmental Technologies in Modern East Asia”
MMEA Sub-Project Workshop “Weather, Climate, and Everyday Life: Environmental Technologies in Modern East Asia”
Date: May 16 – 18, 2019
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MMEA Lecture Series “The Birth of the Modern Global Script Regime: From the Typewriter to Unicode ” by Dr. Raja Adal
MMEA Lecture Series “The Birth of the Modern Global Script Regime: From the Typewriter to Unicode ” by Dr. Raja Adal
Date: April 1, 2019
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MMEA Sub-Project Workshop “Transport Infrastructure & The Making of Modern East Asia”
MMEA Sub-Project Workshop “Transport Infrastructure & The Making of Modern East Asia”
Date: December 12 – 14, 2018
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MMEA Lecture Series “Hormones, Hospitals, and the Green Revolution: Thinking about Scientific Innovation and Health Care Models Using Mexico as the Pivot” by Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga
MMEA Lecture Series “Hormones, Hospitals, and the Green Revolution: Thinking about Scientific Innovation and Health Care Models Using Mexico as the Pivot” by Professor Gabriela Soto Laveaga
Date: December 10, 2018
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Second Plenary Conference
Second Plenary Conference
Date: December 10 – 11, 2018
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MMEA Lecture Series “Culinary Colonialism and the Frontiers of Russian Food Cultures” by Professor Melissa L. Caldwell
MMEA Lecture Series “Culinary Colonialism and the Frontiers of Russian Food Cultures” by Professor Melissa L. Caldwell
Date: September 5, 2018
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MMEA Sub-project Workshop “Instruments, Meteorological Forecasting and Everyday Technology in China, Hong Kong and Japan, 1870 – 1950”
MMEA Sub-project Workshop “Instruments, Meteorological Forecasting and Everyday Technology in China, Hong Kong and Japan, 1870 – 1950”
Date: August 27 – 28, 2018
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MMEA Sub-project Workshop “Sociotechnical Systems of Pharmacotherapy in Modern East Asia, 1800 – 2020”
MMEA Sub-project Workshop “Sociotechnical Systems of Pharmacotherapy in Modern East Asia, 1800 – 2020”
Date: June 23 – 24, 2018
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MMEA Sub-project Workshop “Phones, Drones, and Disease: Epidemic Intelligence and the Future of Communication in East Asia”
MMEA Sub-project Workshop “Phones, Drones, and Disease: Epidemic Intelligence and the Future of Communication in East Asia”
Date: May 17 – 18, 2018
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MMEA Sub-project Workshop “Technological Innovations and Social Change: The History of Automation and the Future of Work in East Asia, 1960s – 2010s” (at HKUST)
MMEA Sub-project Workshop “Technological Innovations and Social Change: The History of Automation and the Future of Work in East Asia, 1960s – 2010s” (at HKUST)
Date: May 11, 2018
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MMEA Sub-project Workshop “Food Technology” (Hong Kong), Fieldwork and Meeting (Taiwan)
MMEA Sub-project Workshop and Fieldwork “Food Technology” (Hong Kong and Taiwan)
Date: May 7 – 11, 2018
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MMEA Lecture Series “The Invention and Reinvention of Local Food in Japan” by Prof. Eric C. Rath
MMEA Lecture Series “The Invention and Reinvention of Local Food in Japan” by Professor Eric C. Rath
Date: May 7, 2018
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MMEA Lecture Series “Politics and Scientific Change in Dynastic China” by Professor Dagmar Schäfer
MMEA Lecture Series “Politics and Scientific Change in Dynastic China” by Professor Dagmar Schäfer
Date: March 20, 2018
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MMEA Lecture Series “The Ethics of Mastery in Global Perspective: Skill and Trust among Artisans in Bangkok” by Professor Michael Herzfeld
MMEA Lecture Series “The Ethics of Mastery in Global Perspective: Skill and Trust among Artisans in Bangkok” by Professor Michael Herzfeld
Date: February 28, 2018
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MMEA Sub-project Workshop “Pharmacotherapeutic Technologies in Modern East Asia”
MMEA Sub-project Workshop “Pharmacotherapeutic Technologies in Modern East Asia”
Date: December 11, 2017
MMEA Sub-project Workshop “Reproductive Labor and Gynocentric Technologies in East Asia, 1800s – 2000s”
MMEA Sub-project Workshop “Reproductive Labor and Gynocentric Technologies in East Asia, 1800s – 2000s”
Date: December 9 – 10, 2017
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Exhibition Preview of “Infrastructure Imagination: Hong Kong City Futures, 1972 – 1988”, an associated event of the MMEA First Plenary Conference
Exhibition Preview of “Infrastructure Imagination: Hong Kong City Futures, 1972 – 1988”, an associated event of the MMEA First Plenary Conference
Date: December 7, 2017
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MMEA Lecture Series “How History of Technology Can Point to New Forms of Innovation Policy — Two Indian Cases” by Professor Wiebe E. Bijker
MMEA Lecture Series “How History of Technology Can Point to New Forms of Innovation Policy — Two Indian Cases” by Professor Wiebe E. Bijker
Date: December 7, 2017
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MMEA Plenary Conference
MMEA Plenary Conference
Date: December 7, 2017
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MMEA Lecture Series “How Indigenous Industrialization Began in Postwar Taiwan” by Professor Wan-wen Chu
MMEA Lecture Series “How Indigenous Industrialization Began in Postwar Taiwan” by Professor Wan-wen Chu
Date: November 23, 2017
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Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meet the Director “Death by Design”《科技代價》 by Director Sue Williams
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meet the Director “Death by Design”《科技代價》 by Director Sue Williams
Date: November 8, 2017
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MMEA Lecture Series “Learning to Labor: “Student-laborers” in the Age of Digital Capitalism” by Professor Ngai Pun
MMEA Lecture Series “Learning to Labor: “Student-laborers” in the Age of Digital Capitalism” by Professor Ngai Pun
Date: November 2, 2017
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Science, Technology, and Medicine in Society (STMS) Colloquium Series “Living and Dying in Shanghai: James Henderson (1830 – 1865), Medical Missionary to China” by Dr. Shang-Jen Li
Science, Technology, and Medicine in Society (STMS) Colloquium Series “Living and Dying in Shanghai: James Henderson (1830 – 1865), Medical Missionary to China” by Dr. Shang-Jen Li
Date: October 24, 2017
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Science, Technology, and Medicine in Society (STMS) Colloquium Series “Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition: Science, Business, and Foreign Intelligence” by Dr. Lukas Rieppel
Science, Technology, and Medicine in Society (STMS) Colloquium Series “Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition: Science, Business, and Foreign Intelligence” by Dr. Lukas Rieppel
Date: May 31, 2017
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Science, Technology, and Medicine in Society (STMS) Colloquium Series “Revisiting Overpopulation in India: Demography, Research and the Population Problem in the Twentieth Century” by Dr. Cathryn Anne Johnston
Science, Technology, and Medicine in Society (STMS) Colloquium Series “Revisiting Overpopulation in India: Demography, Research and the Population Problem in the Twentieth Century” by Dr. Cathryn Anne Johnston
Date: April 18, 2017
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Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meet the Director “Death by Design”《科技代價》 by Director Sue Williams
Contemporary Chinese Documentary Series: Meet the Director “Death by Design”《科技代價》 by Director Sue Williams
Date: March 22, 2017
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HKIHSS-SOKENDAI Symposium on “The Past, Present, and Future of Radiation and Everyday Technology in Japan and US in the 20th and 21st Centuries” by Dr. Kenji Ito, Dr. Kaori Iida and Dr. Nozomi Mizushima
HKIHSS-SOKENDAI Symposium on “The Past, Present, and Future of Radiation and Everyday Technology in Japan and US in the 20th and 21st Centuries” by Dr. Kenji Ito, Dr. Kaori Iida and Dr. Nozomi Mizushima
Date: March 22, 2017
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