Illnesses in Asia: A Comparative History
June 2-4, 2022
For three days, new scholars work-shopped chapter and article drafts, and discussed their plans for completing their book projects. They were joined in discussion by senior historians and editors at major university presses.
Directors:
The 2022 Institute was directed by Professors Soyoung Suh, Douglas Haynes, and Erqi Cheng.
Participants:
Thomas Chan (University of California, San Diego)
Erqi Cheng (Syracuse University/Dartmouth College)
Sabrina Datoo (University of Chicago/Hamilton College)
Baihui Duan (University Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain)
Mobeen Hussain (University of Cambridge/Trinity College Dublin, Ireland )
Inga Kim Diederich (University of California, San Diego/Colby College)
Abhimanyu Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Peiting Li (University of California Berkeley, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
Christine Peralta (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign/Amherst College)
Akihito Suzuki (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Alec Wang (University of Chicago/Tsinghua University, China)
Senior guests:
Bee Andrews, Bentley University
Nandini Bhattacharya, University of Houston
TJ Hinrichs, Cornell University
Ruth Rogaski, Vanderbilt University
Akihito Suzuki, The University of Tokyo
Yi-Li Wu, University of Michigan
Program:
The Third Dartmouth History Institute
Illnesses in Asia: A Comparative History
Hanover Inn, Dartmouth College, June 2-4, 2022
Program
June 2 (Thursday) Hayward Room, Hanover Inn
8:15 Breakfast and coffee service, in Hayward Room
9:00-9:15 Welcome Speeches
Professor Cecilia Gaposchkin, Chair, Department of History
Professor Jason Barabas, Director, Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences
9:15-9:55 Keynote Speech
Pamela Crossley (Charles and Elfriede Collis Professor of History, Dartmouth College) “Problematizing Asia in a Global Perspective”
Panel One Remedies and Culture
Moderator: Soyoung Suh (Dartmouth College)
10:00-11:30 am
Erqi Cheng (Syracuse University/Dartmouth College)
“The Limits of the Control of Medical Knowledge: An Interpretative Study of the Illustrations of Renyao in the Late Ming”
Discussant: Ruth Rogaski (Vanderbilt University)
11:40-1:10 pm
Abhimanyu Kumar (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
“Disease and Remedies in Early Indian Buddhist Literature”
Discussant: Nandini Bhattacharya (University of Houston)
1:15-2:15 pm
Lunch Break
Panel Two Health, State, and Imperialism
Moderator: Sujin Eom (Dartmouth College)
2:15-3:45 pm
Christine Peralta (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign/Amherst College) “Insurgent Care: Reimagining the Health Work of Filipina Women, 1870-1948” Discussant: Nicole Barnes (Duke University) Zoom
4:00-5:30 pm
Inga Kim Diederich (University of California, San Diego/Colby College) Zoom “Pure Blood Nation: The Scientific Creation of Korean Bio-Nationalism”
Discussant: Bridie Andrews (Bentley University) Zoom
6:30 pm Dinner at the Hanover Inn.
June 3 (Friday) Ford Sayre, Hanover Inn
8:15 Breakfast and coffee service, in conference room
Panel Three Possibilities and Limitations of Medical Cures
Moderator: Douglas Haynes (Dartmouth College)
9:00-10:15 am
Baihui Duan (University Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain) Zoom
“Relieving the Infected: Environment, Diseases, Medicine, and Power in Post-Imjin Korea” Discussant: Soyoung Suh
10:30 am-noon
Peiting C. Li (University of California, Berkeley/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center)
“The Alchemy of Medicine: Making Doctors, Knowledge, and Drugs in Modern China” Discussant: Ruth Rogaski
Noon-1:00 Lunch Break
Panel Four Patients, Violence, and Narratives of Medicine
Moderator: Tiraana Bains (Dartmouth College)
1:00-2:30
Sabrina Datoo (University of Chicago/Hamilton College)
“Avicenna’s Avatars: Self, Medicine and Society in Colonial South Asia”
Discussant: Douglas Haynes
2:45-4:15
Thomas Chan (University of California, San Diego)
“From Users to Criminals: Creating, Pathologizing, and Killing ‘Drug Criminals’ in Twentieth-Century China”
Discussant: Bridie Andrews Zoom
6:00 pm Reception and Dinner at the Dartmouth Outing Club
June 4 (Saturday) Hayward, Hanover Inn
8:15 am Breakfast and coffee service, in conference room
Panel Five The (Dis)able Body and Racialized Beauty
Moderator: Erqi Cheng
9:00-10:15 am
Alec Wang (University of Chicago/Tsinghua University, China) Zoom
“Disabled but Useful: Blindness and the Making of Modern China, 1900-1945”
Discussants: Wayne Tan (Hope College) Zoom
10:30-noon
Mobeen Hussain (University of Cambridge/Trinity College Dublin, Ireland )
“Domestic Health Manuals: Promoting Fairness, Health, and Beauty”
Discussant: Nandini Bhattacharya
12:15-1:15 pm Roundtable Discussion
Ruth Rogaski
Bridie Andrews Zoom
Nandini Bhattacharya
1:15-2:00 pm Lunch
Dartmouth Participants
Douglas Haynes (Professor, History)
Soyoung Suh (Associate Professor, History/ Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program) Tiraana Bains (Postdoctoral Fellow, Modern Intellectual History)
Erqi Cheng (Lecturer, History)
Sujin Eom (Lecturer, Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program)
Miriam Rich (Postdoctoral Fellow, Society of Fellows)
This event is made possible through the generous support of the following Dartmouth College entities: Department of History, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and the Social Sciences, the Office of the Associate Dean for the Social Sciences, and the Office of the Associate Dean for International and Interdisciplinary Programs.