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Subject: Needham Research Institute Text Reading Seminars
NEEDHAM RESEARCH INSTITUTE
TEXT READING SEMINARS
http://www.nri.org.uk/seminars.html
EASTER TERM 2008
April 30: Workshop - ¡°China and Materiality¡±
[Please note that this is being held on a Wednesday, for further details
see
http://www.nri.org.uk/materiality.html]
May 9: ¡°Science News vs Astrological Beliefs: Chinese Records of the
Transit of Venus of 1874.¡±
L¨¹ Lingfeng (China Science and Technology University, Hefei)
May 16: ¡°Wuyue …ÇÔ½ Swords and Swordsmiths: Stories of Ganjiang ¸ÉŒ¢ and
Moye ĪҮ¡±
Dorothy Ko (Columbia University)
May 23: ¡°On Japanese Clocks¡±
Hashimoto Takehiko (Tokyo University)
May 30: "'Too many or too old?': Views about population planning and
population ageing in contemporary Chinese demography".
Anna Boermel (Cambridge University)
June 6: ¡°The juxtaposition of science and (Buddhist) cosmology in Tan
Sitongs's 'Four Poems sent to Liang Zhuoru' (1896): 'nerves' (naoqi jin
ÄXšâ½î), the 'ether' (yitai ÒÔÌ«), and the fallacy of 'relativity'
(duidai Œ¦´ý).¡±
David Edwards (School of Oriental and African Studies)
The seminars are held at 3.30 p.m. at the Needham Research Institute.
ALL WELCOME
The Needham Research Institute, 8 Sylvester Road, Cambridge, is situated
at the corner of Sylvester and Herschel Roads, behind Robinson College.
Any queries about the seminars should be directed to John Moffett
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John P.C. Moffett
Librarian
East Asian History of Science Library
Needham Research Institute
8 Sylvester Road
Cambridge CB3 9AF
UK
Tel: (0)1223-311545 ex.223
www.nri.org.uk
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