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<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Liebe Listenmitglieder,</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">gerne weise ich auf eine Onlinekonferenz hin, die meine Kollegin Sarah Qidwai gemeinsam mit Bernard Lightman veranstaltet. Alle wichtigen Informationen finden Sie im Folgenden.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Online Conference </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Thursday October 2<sup>nd</sup> to Friday October 3<sup>rd</sup>, 2025</span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETIES AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE</span></strong></p>
<p style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">How did Imperialism shape science, and how did science, in turn, shape Empire(s)? This conference invites scholars of Asian Studies, the history of science, and the history of the British Empire to explore these questions through the lens of the Royal Asiatic Societies.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Rather than focusing on cultural go-betweens or the circulation of texts, we turn attention to the institutions that structured imperial knowledge. From the late eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth century, nine scholarly societies dedicated to the study of Asian science, literature, and the arts were founded: Calcutta (1784), London (1823), Ceylon (1845), Hong Kong (1847), Shanghai (1857), Japan (1872), Malaysia (1877), North Borneo (1893), and Korea (1900). Linked to the Royal Asiatic Society in London, these institutions offer a vital lens for understanding the intersections of nineteenth-century imperialism, Orientalism, Asian cultural exchange, and scientific development.</span></p>
<p style="text-indent: 0.5in; line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Co-Organized by: Bernard Lightman and Sarah Qidwai</span></p>
<p><u><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Speakers and Paper Titles</span></u></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Sarah Qidwai, University of York, “Oriental Knowledge and Imperial Authority: The Asiatic Society of Bengal and its Intellectual Networks”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Jessica Ratcliff, Cornell University, “The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland within Local and Imperial Politics, 1827-70”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">John McAleer, University of Southampton, “A Colonial Institution: The Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Christine Luk, Tsinghua University, and Bernard Lightman, York University, “Science and Sinology at the Colonial Frontier: The Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society” </span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Qian Yibing, <span style="color: rgb(33,33,33);">Zhejiang Normal University</span>, “A Scientific Hub in 19<sup>th</sup>- and 20<sup>th</sup>-Century China: The NCBRAS and Its Museum”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Annabel Storr, Durham University, “Facilitation, Exploration and Exchange: The Asiatic Society of Japan in late Nineteenth-Century British Scientific Networks”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Chen Che-Wei, National Chi Nan University, “Malayan Natural History and the Straits/Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (1877-1928)”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Manyong Moon, Jeonbuk National University, “<em>Transactions </em>and the History of Science in Korea: Korean Studies and Research on Korean Nature”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Timothy P. Barnard, National University of Singapore, “The Anomaly of North Borneo”</span></p>
<p><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">For conference schedule and zoom information please go to the following website:</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="color: rgb(33,33,33);"> </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> </span><span lang="EN-CA"><a title="https://sites.google.com/view/rasconference" href="https://sites.google.com/view/rasconference" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">https://sites.google.com/view/rasconference</span></a></span></p>
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<p><br>---------------------------<br>Dr. Christian Reiß</p>
<div>Professur für Wissenschaftsgeschichte/ Professorship for History of Science</div>
<p>Universität Regensburg<br>D-93040 Regensburg<br><br></p>
<div>phone: 0049 941 943 3642</div>
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