Templeton's Biweekly Seminars, Fall 2013

The “Science and Religion in East Asia” Project is pleased to announce the following biweekly international seminars scheduled in the fall semester in 2013. The Seminars will be held in Room 431-3, Building No. 5, Seoul National University.

Thursday, 5 September, 2013, 16:00-18:00
Mathematics in Ancient China in Its Cultural Contexts
Karine Chemla (CNRS)

Thursday, 26 September, 2013, 16:00-18:00
A Society in Motion: The Unexpected Consequences of Meritocracy in Late Imperial China, 14:00-19:00
Benjamin A. Elman (Princeton University)

Thursday, 17 October, 2013, 16:00-18:00
Asking For 'Modern' Science In East Asia?: Conflicts between Scientific and Religious Views of Nature in Korea and Japan during the Nineteenth Century
김성근 (Chonnam National University)

Thursday, 31 October, 2013, 16:00-18:00
'Understanding is Within One's Grasp (liaoran zaiwo 瞭然在握)': Medicine, Astrology, and Arts of Memory in Ming China
Marta E. Hanson (Johns Hopkins University, Templeton Fellow)

Thursday, 14 November, 2013, 16:00-18:00
Collapse of Sinocentric World Order in East Asia and Historical Characteristic of Countermeasure by Joseon Dynasty
허태용 (KAIST)

Thursday, 28 November, 2013, 16:00-18:00
Moving Medicine through the Song's Migrating Margins
TJ Hinrichs TJ (Cornell University, Templeton Fellow)

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: TEL 82-2-880-6511 | FAX 82-2-878-6544 | templetonsreap@snu.ac.kr
http://phps.snu.ac.kr/scrc/templetonsreap/events/