Po-Hsun Chen, PhD candidate, Centre for the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, University of Manchester
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| David Rittenhouse Lab 2C6| 209 S 33rd Street
The concept of Hygienic Modernity has been proposed for about 20 years. This talk takes the Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) poisoning event in Taiwan in the Cold War period as an example to revisit this well-known…
Distinguished East Asia Lecture, Co-sponser with Asian American Studies
Christine Yano, Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawaii
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| Claudia Cohen Hall 402| 249 South 36th Street
In this talk, I suggest ways in which Global Asias as a framework pushes us out of historical practices of Asian Studies, and into conversation with Asian American studies, Asian diasporic studies, and more.…
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| Annenberg School for Communication 111| 3620 Walnut Street
The bulk of existing scholarship on Japanese communities in Brazil has been written through the lens of ethnography and generally falls into the domain of ethnic studies in Latin America. My research, on the other…
Co-sponsor with Kim Center, Cinema and Media Studies, and EALC
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| Fisher-Bennett Hall 401
Offering a rare, years-long look at two supportive mothers alongside their queer kids, Coming to You celebrates the strength of each family's supportive bonds even amid an often hostile cultural climate. As…
