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- POSITIONS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 2 January - 9 January 2017
- SEMINAR> Dr Michael Stanley-Baker (Max Planck Institute, Berlin), ‘New digital and critical tools for the history of medicine and religion’ (Wellcome Library)
POSITIONS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 2 January - 9 January 2017
by Richard Mahoney
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from 2 January
2017 to 9 January 2017.These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Buddhism. See the H-Net Job Guide website at http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information. To contact the Job Guide, write to jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.
ART AND ART HISTORY
Harvard Art Museums - Cunningham Curatorial Fellow in Japanese Art
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54373
ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Earlham College - Japan Study Program Associate
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54384
DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Chinese University of Hong Kong - Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital
Scholarship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54382
EAST ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES
Earlham College - Japan Study Program Associate
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54384
Harvard Art Museums - Cunningham Curatorial Fellow in Japanese Art
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54373
Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Luise Frieberg Center for East Asian
studies postdoc Fellows
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54372
JAPANESE HISTORY / STUDIES
Harvard Art Museums - Cunningham Curatorial Fellow in Japanese Art
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54373
SEMINAR> Dr Michael Stanley-Baker (Max Planck Institute, Berlin), ‘New digital and critical tools for the history of medicine and religion’ (Wellcome Library)
by Richard Mahoney
Dear colleagues,I thought the following seminar at the Wellcome Library would be of interest to subscribers of H-Buddhism:
Tuesday 17 January:
Dr Michael Stanley-Baker (Max Planck Institute, Berlin), ‘New digital and critical tools for the history of medicine and religion’
Historians of medicine in China have increasingly come to recognise the role of religious actors in providing healthcare, and acknowledge that they were much more accessible and widespread than classically trained doctors, particularly in the early imperial period. As specific hotspots of medical pluralism come into sharper view, it raises the question of how the medico-religious market was structured and what changes emerged over time. I argue in this paper that by studying the ways different communities aggregated sets or repertoires of practices, we can better understand how these repertoires shaped identity, structured relations with other care providers, and served as sites for negotiating difference between the religious and the medical. Furthermore, this focus on repertoires affords more flexibility to explain how practices, materials and terminology circulated across supposedly distinct sectarian and epistemic domains such as Buddhism, Daoism and Confucianism. This analysis underlies a digital project (https://cpianalysis.org/2016/09/27/new-digital-tools-for-the-history-of-medicine-and-relig...) at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science to data-mine early Buddhist, Daoist and medical literature for therapeutic practices, and to model their distribution within textual corpuses and across space and time. This year’s pilot project focusses on materia medica in textual corpora from ca. 300 BCE to 589 CE, but can be used to study any set of practices, materials or terms, and can be scaled to encompass much larger textual sets.
Location: Wellcome Library, 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE.
Doors at 6pm prompt, seminars will start at 6.15pm.
The History of Pre-Modern Medicine seminar series is focused on pre-modern medicine, which we take to cover European and non-European history before the 20th century (antiquity, medieval and early modern history, some elements of 19th-century medicine). The seminars are open to all. The series is organised by a group of historians of medicine based at London universities and hosted by the Wellcome Library.
For more details see:
http://blog.wellcomelibrary.org/2017/01/history-of-pre-modern-medicine-seminar-series-spri...
With best wishes,
Ross MacFarlane
Research Engagement Officer
Wellcome Library
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