Speaker series on Chinese medicine and gender to begin February 23

The East Asian Studies Center and Department of History will co-sponsor a speaker series, "Roots, Herbs, & History: A Speakers Series on Chinese Medicine and Gender," in Spring 2023:

Thursday, February 23, 11:00 a.m.
"ReOrienting Histories of Medicine: Encounters along the Silk Roads"
Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim, Goldsmiths, University of London

Tuesday, March 21, 11:00 a.m.
"Aromatic Medicine and Divine Scents in Women's Medicine in Middle Period China"
NG Wee-Siang Margaret, College of Wooster

Tuesday, March 28, 11:00 a.m.
"The Clinical Encounter: A Practitioner Perspective"
Jennifer Drews Pankey, L.Ac., MSOM

Tuesday, April 11, 10:45 a.m.
"Knowing (and) the Bencao gangmu"
Carla Nappi, University of Pittsburgh

Thursday, April 20, 11:00 a.m.
“Hot drugs for cold women? Debates over post-partum medicines in late imperial China”
Yi-Li Wu, University of Michigan

All lectures will be held via Zoom.

Darren Byler to present on Muslim "reeducation camps" on February 24

The Asian Futures Initiative and the Humanities Institute will present a lecture by Darren Byler, Simon Fraser University, on Friday, February 24 from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Ohio Union Hays Cape Room. Prof. Byler will present "Capitalist Frontier-Making in Northwest China: Technologies of Muslim Enclosure, Dispossession and Subtraction."

Abstract: Anthropologist Darren Byler shows that the mass detention of over one million Muslims in “reeducation camps” is part of resource extraction in Uyghur and Kazakh lands that have led to what he calls terror capitalism. This talk will show how digital infrastructures (built in Seattle, Beijing and Xinjiang) combine with state-corporate counterterrorism to produce new forms of Muslim enclosure, dispossession and, ultimately, a subtraction of their life itself. He particularly attends to the experiences of youth who were made the primary target of state violence and how they cope with novel forms of unfreedom. By tracing the political and economic stakes of this emergent internal colonial project, Darren Byler demonstrates that state-directed capitalist dispossession is co-constructed with relations of domination that are truly global.