CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY STUDIES

Indian Instiute of Science, Bangalore

Invites you to a Seminar on


Colonialism and Indigenous Knowledge Systems:

The Case of Chinese Medicine



Choksi Hall, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Tuesday, November 7, 2006

PROGRAM

03: 30 p.m.-03:45 p.m.

Welcome
Raghavendra Gadagkar

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

03: 45 p.m.-04:00 p.m

Introduction
Indira Chowdhury
TIFR, Mumbai

04:00 p.m– 04:45 p.m

Miraculous Medicine in a Heathen Land: medicial Missions to 19th Century China
Shang-Jen Li

Academica Sinica, Taiwan

04:45 p.m –05:30 p.m

Food, Environment and the Body: The Medical Reasoning of Chinese Tea-Rhubard export policy towards foreign countries
Prof. Chang Che-Chia
Department of Modern History
Academica Sinica, Taiwan

05:30 p.m – 06:00 p.m

General Discussion

 

Tea/Coffee will be served at 3:00 p.m

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