Subject: China, Japan, and Korea in the Early Modern World: A New Historiography
Speaker: Benjamin A. Elman (Princeton University)
Date and Time: September 25 (Wed.), 2013, 15:00-17:00
Venue: SNU's College of Natural Sciences (Bldg. #500), 1F Mok-am Hall
Language: English (Korean simultaneous interpretation will be provided) About the Speaker
2011-present Gordon Wu '58 Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University
2002-present Professor, Department of East Asian Studies & Department of History, Princeton University
1986-2002 Associate Professor (1986-89) & Professor (1989-2002), Department of History, University of California, LA
1980 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: Ph.D.
1968 Hamilton College, Clinton, NY: B.A.
Speaker's Major Publications
From Philosophy to Philology: Intellectual and Social Aspects of Change in Late Imperial China (Harvard University Press, 1984), A Cultural History of Modern Science in China (Harvard University Press, 2009), A Cultural History of Civil Examinations in Late Imperial China (University of California Press, 2000), On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550-1900 (Harvard University Press, 2005), Civil Examinations and Meritocracy in Late Imperial China (Harvard University Press)
About the Templeton"Science and Religion in East Asia" Project
The Templeton “Science and Religion in East Asia” Project aims to study science and technology in religious and cultural contexts of East Asia. We examine how human understanding of the world and its application to various fields of cultural and social life were shaped under the influence of East Asian religious perspectives―Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. We also pay attention to the interactions of East Asian science with sciences from regions dominated by other religions, Christianity in particular. These various lines of research will illuminate different kinds of relation of science and religion, different kinds of links, interactions and dependencies.
Contact: templetonsreap@snu.ac.kr, http://phps.snu.ac.kr/scrc/templetonsreap
