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06/10/2023 - 06/10/2023 | Kiel

“Materialities of Medical culture in/between Europe and East Asia”

International Workshop in the Realm of the Taiwan-German International Research Cooperation Project

A major underlying question of this Research is thematized at the workshop: Why do we think that Germany and Taiwan are good starting points for analyzing the history of knowledge with a focus on materialities, on entangled history and on cultural and historical comparison? In the first place, there are direct and indirect contacts between the cultural histories of the two countries, the most important being the time when Taiwan was colonized by Japan. Hundreds of medical students and physicians spent time at German universities, attempting to absorb Western medicine. Secondly, there is the long history of entanglements in terms of production of medicinal plants. When Taiwan, around 1900 provided on third of the world’s camphor production, this meant to offer the basis for the production of explosives, and of celluloid, it was the first synthetic substance used as plastic material and for films.

Key facts:
subject: Entanglement of the History of knowledge between Taiwan and Germany with a focus on medical studies
participants: scientists, historians and Ph.D students of medicine, historians with focus on global history
language: English / German / Chinese
place: IBZ, Internationales Begegnungszentrum, Kiellinie 5 , 24105 Kiel

Information on participating / attending:

Date:

06/10/2023 09:15 - 06/10/2023 16:00

Event venue:

IBZ, Internationales Begegnungszentrum
Kiellinie 5
24105 Kiel
Schleswig-Holstein
Germany

Target group:

Scientists and scholars

Email address:

Relevance:

transregional, national

Subject areas:

Cultural sciences, Medicine

Types of events:

Seminar / workshop / discussion

Entry:

06/05/2023

Sender/author:

Claudia Eulitz

Department:

Presse, Kommunikation und Marketing

Event is free:

yes

Language of the text:

English

URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event74559


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