We invite applications for participation in the third Dartmouth Summer History Institute (Thursday, June 2–Saturday, June 4). The theme for 2022 is Illnesses in Asia: A Comparative History.
The History Institute aims to bring together the most promising young scholars working on the history of Asian medicine and to read workshop pieces of their historical writing as they embark on the transition from dissertation to book. Five to seven senior historians of Asian medicine will join the workshop as mentors and discussants. We are interested in all aspects of illnesses and healing, including their links to political, social, economic, cultural, and intellectual developments. We welcome scholars researching East Asia, Northeast Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Applicants should be in the process of completing their Ph.D. dissertations or in the early stages of revising their Ph.D.s as book manuscripts. (Students expecting to complete their Ph.D.s in Spring or Summer of 2022 are encouraged to apply.)
Accepted participants will furnish drafts of their work, including an introduction to their monograph project and a working dissertation/book chapter central to or representative of the larger historical intervention to be workshopped. The draft should not exceed 50 pages and must be submitted by April 1, 2022. In addition to workshopping individual pieces of writing, the Institute will include a variety of fora (receptions, dinners, and lectures) to discuss theoretical and methodological issues in the company of invited senior scholars. For information about History Institute workshops held in the past, please visit http://sites.dartmouth.edu/historyinstitute2017/
Participation in the Institute includes travel, board, and lodging. The workshop will be held in person, but the current pandemic will be carefully monitored; adaptation will be made if necessary. To apply, send a CV and two-page abstract describing the project by February 15, 2022, to History.Institute [at] dartmouth.edu. Please contact Professor Soyoung Suh (soyoung.suh [at] dartmouth.edu) with any inquiries.
Organizers
- Soyoung Suh |Associate Professor of History | Korea Foundation Professor | Asian Societies, Cultures, and Languages Program
- Douglas Haynes | Professor of History
- Erqi Cheng | Lecturer of History