09:00─09:30

Registration

09:30─10:30

Plenary Session:

Welcoming Remarks: Fan-sen Wang (Director, Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica)

President’s Address : Shizu Sakai (President of the Asian Society for the History of Medicine; Jutendo University)

Taniguchi Medal Award Ceremony: Shizu Sakai

Award Recipient: Mr. DHRUB KUMAR SINGH
(Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Title of Article: Cholera in Two Contrasting Pathies in Nineteenth Century India

ASHM Minute Report: Jen-der Lee (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica)

10:30─12:00

Session One: Keynote Speech

Chairperson: Hon-wai Ho(Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica)

Speaker:

1. Mihály Hoppál (Director, the Institute of Ethnology of Hungarian Academy of Sciences and European Folklore Institute), “Shamanic Healing: Concepts and Practices.”

12:00─13:30

Lunch Break

13:30─15:00

Session Two: Buddhism (I)

Chairperson and Discussant: John H. Kieschnick (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica)

Speakers:

1. Jian-ping Zhu (China Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Literature, China Academy of Traditional Chinese medicine), “Buddhist medical activities in inland China and its motives of practicing in ancient China.” summary
2. Shu-fen Liu (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica), "Between Self-cultivation and the Monastic Code: Tea and Medicinal Soup in the Monastic Life of the T’ang and Sung Dynasties." summary

15:00─15:30

Break

15:30─17:00

Session Three: Buddhism (II)

Chairperson and Discussant: Shu-fen Liu (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica)

Speakers:

1. Ming Chen (Research Central of Eastern Literature, Peking University), "Ayurvedic Medical Knowledge Recorded in Esoteric Sutras of Chinese Tripitaka: A Case of Kumàratantra or øàlàkya." summary

2. Yuan-peng Chen (Department of History, National Taiwan University) & Le Kang (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica), “From ‘Rice-porridge for Bhikkhu & Bhikkhun’ to ‘Rice-porridge for the Cultivation of Life’.”summary

09:30─12:00

Session Four: Shamanism and Divination (I)

Chairperson and Discussant : Jo-shui Chen (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)

Speakers:

1. Fu-shih Lin (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica), “Healers or Patients: The Shamans’ Roles and Images in Taiwan.” summary

2. Zong-kun Li (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica), “The Illness Accounts and Denotations of “Numerical Diagrams”.” summary

3. In-sung Chang (Chungnam National University), “Exorcists in Ancient East Asia.” summary

12:00─13:30

Lunch Break、ASHM Members’ Meeting

13:30─15:00

Session Five: Christianity (I)

Chairperson and Discussant : Wen-Ji WANG (Department of History, National Taipei University)

Speakers:

1. Barbara Wilhelmi (Institut für Kunst und Kirchenbau, Philipps-Universität), “Differentiations: Christian Healing Tradition.” summary

2. Shang-jen Li (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica), “Healing Body, Saving Soul: Medical Missions to Nineteenth-Century China.” summary

15:00─15:30

Break

15:30─17:00

Session Six: Christianity (II)

Chairperson and Discussant : Hsiu-Yun Wang (Kaohsiung Medical University)

Speakers:

1. Cristina Zaccarini (Dept. of History, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York), “Improving the lives of women through evangelism, sympathy and science: Nineteenth and twentieth century women missionary doctors and local Chinese popular beliefs.” summary

2. Jen-der Lee (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica), " From Wife to Missionary: Lillian Dickson’s Medical Missions in Post-War Taiwan." summary

09:00─10:30

Session Seven: East Asia and West Asia

Chairperson and Discussant : Shang-jen Li (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica)

Speakers:

1. Shinji Kajitani (Teikyo University, Tokyo), “Medical Care and Religious Healing in the Clinical Reality.”  summary

2. Erica Couto-Ferreira (Institut Universitari de Historia Jaume Vicens Vives, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain), “The Aetiology of Illness in Ancient Mesopotamia: On Supernatural Causes.” summary

10:30─11:00

Break

11:00─12:30

Session Eight: Judaism and Islam

Chairperson and Discussant : Ku-ming Chang (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica)

Speakers:

1. Carmen Caballero-Navas (Department of Semitic Studies, University of Granada, Spain), “Jews and Healing in the Middle Ages: The Harmonisation of Jewish Beliefs with Theories and Practices of Different Western Medical Traditions.” summary

2. Hormoz Ebrahimnejad (Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, London), “The Development of Galenico-Islamic Medicine: Assimilation of Greek Sciences into Islam.” summary

12:30─13:30

Lunch Break

13:30─15:00

Session Nine: China (I): Exchange and Assimilation

Chairperson and Discussant: Jianmin Li (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica).

Speakers:

1. Che-chia Chang (Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica),  “Predictions of Disease in Astrological Texts at a Cross-Cultural Occasion: A Preliminary Survey of the Translated Disease Names in the Kūšyār ibn Labbān’s Introduction to Astrology.” summary

2. Sheng Jiang (Institute of Religion, Science, and Social Studies, Shandong University), “Daoism and Smallpox Vaccination.” summary

15:00─15:30

Break

15:30─17:00

Session Ten: China (II): The Daoist body and Healing

Chairperson and Discussant : Angela Ki Che Leung (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica)

Speakers:

1. Hung-yi Chuang (Department of Religious Studies, Fu Jen University), “Song Dynasty Taoist Medicine: A Hong Mai “Yijian zhi” Based Research.” summary

2. Sumiyo Umekawa (Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London), “Sex and Immortality: A Tentative Study on How Chinese Sexual Art Impressed upon the Idea to Become Better-Beings in Religious Contexts.” summary

09:00─10:30

Session Eleven: China (III): Body and Spirit.

Chairperson and Discussant : Chung-lin Ch’iu (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica)

Speakers:

 1. Jianmin Li, (Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica), “Dumai (the central vessel) and the Formation of the Conception of the Male Body in Early China.” summary

2. Hsiu-fen Chen (Department of History, National Chengchi University), “What Confucius Didn't Speak of? A Preliminary Survey of Physicians' Attitudes towards ‘Demonic Affliction' in Late Imperial China.”  summary

10:30─11:00

Break

11:00─12:30

Session Twelve: China and East Asia (IV): Contagious Diseases.

Chairperson and Discussant : Ping-yi Chu(Institute of History & Philology, Academia Sinica)

Speakers:

1. Hsien-cheh Chang (China Medical University), “A Study on Religious Therapy and Concepts of Disease from Magic Figures, Incantation and Tortoise Shell Divination in Traditional Chinese Medical Literature.” summary

2.  Ji-chao Wang ( Hubei Provincial Museum), “Hallucinogens and Athanasia-medicine: The religious consciousness turn during Warring States， Qin and Han periods in China.” summary

12:30─14:00

Lunch Break and General Discussion: Religion and Healing

Chair: Paul Katz（Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica）

09:00─12:00

Tour: National Palace Museum

12:00─13:00

Lunch

13:00─17:00

Tour: Oxford College、Mackay Clinic (Kai I-guan)