Recipes for Exchange: Translating Bodies in Early Modern China

Dr. Carla Nappi, Assistant Professor of History at the University of British Columbia will speak at University of Pennsylvania on the topic of translating bodies in Early Modern China.

Dr. Carla Nappi  works in the history of China, of science and medicine, and of translation and knowledge exchange.  Broadly speaking, I’m interested in the relationships between and translation among words, things, and bodies. Most recently she has been studying contexts in which multilingualism has shaped knowledge-making in pre-modern contexts. She tend to worry about epistemic and textual architecture and the objects that emerge from it. She sees academic life as a kind of performance art. This virtual space is intended to map the ways in which these concerns move through my research, teaching, and occasional writing.