Hosted by the Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History

University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim

The Ricci Institute at the University of San Francisco Center for the Pacific Rim is pleased to announce the call for papers for “Medicine & Culture: Chinese-Western Medical Exchange from the Late Imperial to Modern Periods,” a one-day symposium to be held at the University of San Francisco on Friday, March 9, 2007. The Ricci Institute welcomes proposals for individual papers from faculty, independent scholars, and doctoral candidates from the disciplines of history (especially social history), history of medicine, history of science, and art history. The symposium will be an examination of the interaction between China and the West through medicine and pharmacology from the Qing dynasty through the early 1950s. The aim of the symposium is to provide a forum for the examination of themes related to this interaction, such as: social and cultural roles, social reform, education, cultural exchange, encounters with Christianity, relations of power, modernity, and issues of race and gender. Papers which focus on cultural and medical exchange flowing out of China to the West during the late imperial and modern periods are particularly encouraged.

Deadline: Monday, September 18, 2006

Paper Proposal Guidelines:

Please submit a 250 word (maximum) abstract to:

Melissa Dale, Ph.D.

Assistant Director for Research

The Ricci Institute

University of San Francisco

Center for the Pacific Rim

2130 Fulton Street, LM 280

San Francisco, CA 94117-1080

Fax: (415) 422-2591

e-mail: mdhuang@usfca.edu

The Ricci Institute at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim is an interdisciplinary research center that promotes the study of historical cross-cultural encounters and dialogues between China and the West. The Institute facilitates and engages in research on the history of Chinese-Western cultural exchange and the history of Christianity in China through scholarly research, programs, publications, conferences, and public events. For more information on the Ricci Institute, please visit our website at: www.usfca.edu/ricci