Overview
The Project “Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th – 21st Centuries” (MMEA) has started since June 2017. Prof. Angela Ki Che Leung (HKU), together with a team of fifteen scholars in the humanities and social sciences, aims to establish a new, disciplinary way of understanding East Asian modernity through lens of everyday technology. Click here for more about MMEA.
Plenary Conference 2018
December 10 Closed-door Panel Meeting at Room 201, 2/F, May Hall, HKU
| 9:00 – 10:30 am | Session One Chair: Mei Jianjun Angela Ki Che Leung CRF Progress Report Max Hirsh Transport Infrastructure and the Making of Modern East Asia Gonçalo Santos Reproductive Labor and Gyno-Technologies in East Asia, 1800s-2000s Discussions |
| 10:30 – 12:15 pm |
Session Two Chair: Dagmar Schäfer Robert Peckham Phones, Drones, and Disease: Epidemic Intelligence and the Future of Communications in East Asia Naubahar Sharif Indigenous Innovation and Everyday Technologies: The History of Automation and Future of Work in East Asia Daniel Trambaiolo Sociotechnical Systems of Pharmacotherapy in Modern East Asia, 1800-2020 Discussions |
| 1:15 – 2:30 pm |
Session Three Chair: Barbara Mittler Izumi Nakayama Food Technology Fung Kam Wing (in absentia) Instruments, Meteorological Forecasting and Everyday Technology in China, Hong Kong and Japan, 1870-1950 Fan Fa-ti Weather Forecasting and Citizen Science Discussions |
| 3:00 – 4:00 pm |
Session Four: Plenary Discussion Chair: Gregory K. Clancey |
| 4:30 - 6:00 pm | Public Keynote at Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, HKU “Hormones, Hospitals, and the Green Revolution: Thinking about Scientific Innovation and Health Care Models Using Mexico as the Pivot” By Gabriela Soto Laveaga, Harvard University Click here to view details |
December 11, 2018
9:30 am -1:00 pm Second Meeting with Advisory Board and International Partners at Room 201, 2/F, May Hall, HKU
Contact Us
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Tel: (852) 3917 5007
Fax: (852) 2559 6143
Email: mmea@hku.hk
Address: May Hall, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
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