Science, médecine et technologie sur les routes de la soie

Nexus of Knowledge: Science, Medicine, and Technology on the Silk Roads

Conference

 

28-29 April 2023

9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
315 Wheeler Hall


  

* * * * * Friday April 28 * * * * *

9am Welcome Address
Sanjyot Mehendale, Chair of the Tang Center for Silk Road Studies

9:30 – 11:30 Astronomy
Chair: Brian Baumann (UC Berkeley)

Yoichi Isahaya (Hokkaido University)
Converting a Science into Another: Mongols’ Imperial Attitude toward Sciences

Robert Morrison (Bowdoin College)
Merchants of Knowledge in the Eastern Mediterranean

Bill M. Mak (Chinese Research Center, ISF Academy, Hong Kong)
From Zero to Infinity — China’s Encounter with Indian Mathematics

*** Lunch break ***

1:30 – 3:30 Geography and Cartography
Chair: Franck Billé (UC Berkeley)

Hyunhee Park (CUNY)
Mapping India in Medieval Eurasia via the Silk Roads

Kaveh Hemmat (Benedictine University)
The Role of Geographical Knowledge in Islamicate Social and Political Theory

Kenzheakhmet Nurlan (Harvard University)
European-Chinese Imperial Maps Related to Kazakh Khanate in the 16-19 Centuries

3:45 – 5: 45 Cultivation and Textiles
Chair: Sanjyot Mehendale (UC Berkeley)

Chiara Gasparini (University of Oregon)
Chinese baohua Weavings in the Making of 8th Century Buddhist and Islamic Societies

Carol Bier (Graduate Theological Union)
Pattern-Making and Textile Technologies across Asia

Angela Sheng (McMaster)
Some Memory Devices of Early Chinese Textile Technologies and Their Diffusion (or Not)

Robert Spengler (Max Planck)
The Cotton Road: Tracing the Ancient Spread of a Commodity through Inner Asia

* * * * * Saturday April 29 * * * * *

9:30 – 11:30 Pharmacopeia and Materia Medica
Chair: Stacey van Vleet (UC Berkeley)

Yan Liu (SUNY)
Scented Protection: A Transcultural History of Aromatic Medicines in Medieval China

Miranda Brown (University of Michigan)
Milk in Chinese Medicine: A Silk Road Innovation?

Sean Bradley (University of Washington)
Traveling Formulas: Foreign Drugs in Chinese Medicine

*** Lunch break ***

1:30 – 3:30 Medicine and Epidemiology
Chair: Dominic Steavu (UC Santa Barbara)

Christos Lynteris (St. Andrews University, Scotland)
Plague and Human-Animal Relations on the Silk Roads (1871-1911)

Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim (Goldsmiths, University of London)
What Moves and What Does Not Move

Stacey van Vleet (UC Berkeley)
Potency and Purity: Debating Buddhism, Medicine and Governance in Qing Inner Asia

3:45 – 5: 45 Manuscriptology and Codicology
Chair: Amanda Goodman (University of Toronto)

Brandon Dotson (Georgetown University)
Adaptation, Networks, and Dice Divination from India to Central Asia to Africa

Shih-shan Susan Huang (Rice University)
Buddhist Book Roads: From Turfan to Beijing to Hangzhou in the 13th and 14th Centuries

Speaker: Hyunhee Park, CUNY
Speaker: Yan Liu, SUNY
Speaker: Miranda Brown, U Michigan
Speaker: Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Goldsmiths
Speaker: Sean Bradley, U Washington
Speaker: Stacey van Vleet, UC Berkeley
Speaker: Robert Morrison, Bowdoin
Speaker: Bill M. Mak, Chinese Research Center, Hong Kong
Speaker: Yoichi Isahaya, Hokkaido University
Speaker: Brandon Dotson, Georgetown University
Contact Info: 510-642-0333

Access Coordinator:
Franck Bille, fbille@berkeley.edu, 510-642-0333
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