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‘Moving Crops and the Scales of History’

John B. LOURDUSAMY and Tiago SARAIVA, interviewed by Gonçalo SANTOS and Jun ZHANG

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Sci-Tech Asia Book Forum: Dialogue on "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola"

November 07, 2024

Speakers: Susan Greenhalgh, Ayo Wahlberg,

Loretta Lou, Yichen Rao

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TECHNOVIEWS #18

Moving Crops and the Scales of History

John B. Lourdusamy and Tiago Saraiva

TECNOGRAFIA #4

E quando a limonada antropológica azeda?

Rodrigo TONIOL (UFRJ) e Soraya FLEISCHER (U. de Brasília)

TECHNOVIEWS #17

The Labor of Reinvention

Lin ZHANG (University of New Hampshire)

TECHNOVIEWS #16

An Ecological History of Modern China

Stevan HARRELL (University of Washington)

TECNOGRAFIAS #3

Sons do Império, vozes do Cipale: canções cokwe e memórias do trabalho forçadonas Lundas, Angola

Cristina Sá VALENTIM (ICS-ULisboa)

Tecnografias #2

In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda

António TOMÁS (U. de Joanesburgo)

Tecnografias #1

Working the system: Uma etnografia política da ‘Nova Angola’

Jon SCHUBERT (Univ. de Basileia)

TechnoViews #15

Prototype Nation

Silvia M. Lindtner (U. of Michigan)

TechnoViews #14

Chinese Village Life Today

Gonçalo D. SANTOS (UC)

TechnoViews #13

Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China

Andrew Kipnis (CUHK)

TechnoViews #12

Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change

Lena Kaufmann (U. Zurich)

TechnoViews #11

Animal Disease and Global Health at China’s Pandemic Epicenter

Lyle FEARNLEY (SUTD)

TechnoViews #10

Food Safety After Fukushima

Nicolas STERNSDORFF-CISTERNA (SMU)

TechnoViews #9

Can Science and Technology save China?

Susan GREENHALGH (Harvard University)

TechnoViews #8

Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy

Li ZHANG (UC Davis)

TechnoViews #7

Driving Toward Modernity in China

Jun ZHANG (CityU)

TechnoViews #6

Solar Energy in China

Edwin A. SCHMITT (Oslo)

TechnoViews #5

Genocide / Feminicide, Memory, and Technologies of Violence

Fazil MORADI (LOST)

TechnoViews #4

Doing Anthropological Research on GMOs

Glenn DAVIS STONE (WUSTL)

TechnoViews #3

Environmental Crisis in China

Stevan HARRELL (UW)

TechnoViews #2

The Crafting of the 10,000 Things. Shifting Frameworks of Knowledge and Technology in Imperial China

Dagmar SCHÄFER (MPIWG)

Technoviews #1

The Craft of Anthropology. Doing Fieldwork with Artisans in Thailand and Greece in Times of Change

Michael HERZFELD (Harvard University)

TechnoViews #0

CCGL9051 Technology, Power, and Culture in the Global Age

Gonçalo D. SANTOS (UC)

Webinars

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Sci-Tech Asia Book Forum: Dialogue on “Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola” (Chicago UP, 2024)

Modern science and technology are central to Chinese politics and CCP power, but the concepts now used to study science

Sci-Tech Asia Book Forum: Dialogue on “Moving Crops and the Scales of History” (Yale UP, 2023)

With Richa Kumar, Helen Anne Curry, Du Xinhao, Francesca Bray, Barbara Hahn, John Bosco Lourdusamy, and Tiago Saraiva

Sci-Tech Asia Book Forum: Dialogue on Stevan Harrell’s “An Ecological History of Modern China” (UWP, 2023)

With Francesca Bray, Mette Hansen, Andrea Pia, Gonçalo Santos, and Stevan Harrell

Mao’s Toilet: The Politics of Feeding the People in Socialist China (the 1950s-70s)

Daren LEUNG (Lingnan University)

Infertile Environments: Proliferating Scales of Exposure in Men’s Reproductive Health Research

With Janelle LAMOREAUX (University of Arizona)

Nature in Comparative Perspective: Environmental Perceptions among Hong Kong Residents and Taiwanese Indigenous Peoples

With Hao-Tzu HO (NCCU)

The Buddhist Encounter with Liberal Humanism and Atayal Hunters in Contemporary Taiwan

With Jeffrey NICOLAISEN (NYCU)

Rethinking the Eco-Media Event in Pandemic Times

With Ralph LITZINGER (Duke U.) & Fan YANG (UMBC)

Environmental Politics Webinar Series

With Gonçalo D. Santos, Loretta Lou, Yichen Rao, James Wright and Jun Zhang

Hacking (for Creating and Severing) Ties

With Luis Felipe Murillo (University of Notre Dame)

Shared Bicycles as a Sustainable Solution? The Encounter of the Platform Economy and Mobility in the Urbanizing China

With ZHANG Jun (City University of Hong Kong)

Industrial Automation and Workers’ Reaction in South China

With HUANG Yu (Minzu University of China)

Population Ageing and Medical Robotics: An Exploration of Robot-assisted Rehabilitation in South Korea

With Seonsam Na (Yonsei University College of Medicine)

Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation

With Silvia Lindtner (University of Michigan)

Innovation, Automation, and the Digital Economy Webinar Series

With Gonçalo D. Santos, Loretta Lou, Yichen Rao, James Wright and Jun Zhang

住院分娩何以可能？——阿卡生育实践的国家化过程

王瑞静 Wang Ruijing (重庆大学, Congqing University)

Capturando o Espírito: Máquinas, Dispositivos e Exames de Produção da Espiritualidade como Objeto da Medicina

Rodrigo Toniol (UFRJ)

Nothing to Lose but their (Block)Chains: Biometrics, Techno-imaginaries, and Transformations in Rohingya Lives

Elliott Prasse-Freeman (NUS)

“Inhale Deeply”: Exploring Breath and the Contemporary Yoga Body

Tuhina Ganguly (SNU)

Sci-Tech Asia Book Forum: Dialogue on Gonçalo Santos’ “Chinese Village Life Today” (UWP, 2021)

With Stevan Harrell, Susan McKinnon, Ellen Oxfeld, Gonçalo Santos, James L. Watson, and Jun Zhang

Haunting Pain: Forced Sterilization and Endurance among the Lisu on the China- Myanmar Border

Ting Hui Lau (NUS)

Terranean Coasts: Extractive Economies and Near-shore Worlds in Mumbai

V. Chitra (NUS)

Are robots the solution to Japan’s care crisis?

Dr James Wright (Alan Turing Inst.)

Intimacy, Techno-Intimacy, and Food Safety after the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster

Nicolas STERNSDORFF-CISTERNA (SMU)

The Egg Freezing Revolution? Gender, Technology and Reproductive Waithood

Marcia C. Inhorn (Yale University)

Mitigating Air Pollution in the Anthropocene: A Perspective from India

Vasundhara Bhojvaid (SNU)

Top-Up with Driver: Digital Money, Transactional Aspirations, and Peerhood in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Sunniva SANDBUKT (IT-Univ. of Copenhagen)

Science for Governing Japan’s Population

Aya Homei (UM)

A Bypass is Cheating!: Community, Expert Knowledge, and the Secret Politics of Water Pollution in Contemporary Japan

Takehiro WATANABE (Sophia University, Tokyo)

Toward Knowing: Engaging Chinese Medical Worlds

Lili LAI (PU)

Accounting for the Local in Heat Action Planning

Aalok Khandekar (IIT Hyderabad)

“Baby Miles”: Reproductive Rights, Labor, and Ethics in the Transnational Korean Reproductive Technology Industry

Sunhye Kim (EWHA)

The Agriculture-Migration Nexus in China: A View from the Field

Lena KAUFMANN (UZH)

Side Effect: Notes on Bodily Violence and Medical Mistrust from Japan

S. Y. CHEUNG (HKU)

Money in the Anthropocene: An STS Perspective from Taiwan

Paul JOBIN (AS)

Histories of Childbirth Medicalization in East Asia: An Intercultural Conversation

Gonçalo Santos (UC), Chiaki Shirai (SU), Suzanne Gottschang (SC)

Debt at a Distance: China’s Debt Collection Callers during Covid-19

Tom MCDONALD (HKU)

Japan’s New Law on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART). Why Did it Take Almost 20 years for Japan to Approve its First Law Regarding ART?

Azumi TSUGE (MGU)

Dreaming Like a Market: Beneath the Rise and Fall of China's P2P Lending Platforms

From Conquest of Nature to Ecological Civilization: Development, Revolution, and Science in Chinese Communist Party Ideology

Stevan HARRELL (UW)

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