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Modern China Lecture: Sigrid Schmalzer
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies presents a lecture by Associate Professor Sigrid Schmalzer of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
When:
November 17, 2015 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Where
Sigrid Schmalzer is Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Professor Schmalzer's research focuses on social, cultural, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China. Her first book, The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008 and won the Sharlin Memorial Award from the Social Science History Association. Her work has been published in numerous edited volumes and scholarly journals, including Isis, Journal of American-East Asian Relations, Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, East Asian History, andGeographical Review. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled "Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Encounters with 'Scientific Farming' in Socialist China," which has begun to spin off articles and book chapters on U.S.-Chinese agricultural-scientific exchange, youth involvement in the Mao-era "great revolutionary movement of scientific experiment," and the political significance of Mao-era science in China and abroad. She is also the lead organizer for a conference to be held at UMass 11-13 April 2014, "Science for the People: The 1970s and Today," which will bring together students, scholars in Science and Technology Studies, and former members of the 1970s-1980s group Science for the People. Her research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, Fulbright, the Social Science Research Council, the American Philosophical Society, and the D. Kim Foundation.
Cost:
Free and Open to the Public
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Phone Number:
(617) 495-4046
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