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Post-doctoral Fellowship
Marion Cousin
will receive a D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral
Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year. Her
project will show that Japan’s modernization during
the Meiji era (1868-1912) was based on a profound
educational reform including the introduction of
modern mathematics from Europe and the United
States. It will provide a deeper understanding of
this process. She will focus on mathematical
language and logical reasoning in geometry, and also
explain how this language was stabilized during the
twentieth century.
G. Clinton
Godart will receive a D. Kim Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic
year. His project aims to broaden the
parameters of the debate on evolution theory and
religion through the study of modern Japan, where a
complex religious and ideological ecology has
existed. He will focus on the religious
factors in the transmission of evolutionary thought
in the 1870’s, the roles of religion in transmission
and understanding of evolutionary biology, and the
reactions of Buddhists, Christians, Shinto
ideologues, and Confucian thinkers towards evolution
theory. He will travel to Osaka University in
Japan to conduct his research.
Masanori Wada
will receive a D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral
Fellowship for the 2014-2015 academic year.
His project is on the Kogakkai (current Japan
Federation of Engineering Societies) that was
established in 1879 and became the mother society of
many engineering societies thereafter. He will
investigate how the nineteenth century engineering
community in Japan introduced various activities,
such as holding meetings, publishing journals,
qualifying members, or answering inquiries for the
government. In particular, he will analyze the
process of how the Japanese engineering community
became research-oriented and self-sufficient in the
academic world.
Traveling and Research
Grant
Claire
Edington will receive a D. Kim Foundation
research/travel grant in 2014. She will travel
to Vietnam in the summer of 2014 to conduct research
on the social history of psychiatry and mental
illness in French Indochina. She will visit
the National Library and National Archives Center
NO. 1 located in Hanoi. Her research will
examine the attitudes towards mental illness in the
early twentieth century, which will answer the
questions of what kinds of behavior were tolerated
and what required more urgent intervention.
SeungJoon Lee
will receive a D. Kim Foundation research/travel
grant in 2014. His research project is on the
wartime food politics in China in the
1920s-1950s. He aims to suggest an alternative
narrative for the better understanding of modern
China’s wartime experience and its political
consequences leading not only up to the year 1949
when the Chinese Communist Party seized power but
also up to the early decade of the People’s Republic
of China. He is planning to visit several archives
in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Florin-Stefan
Morar will receive a D. Kim Foundation
research/travel grant in 2014. He will travel
to Taiwan in the summer of 2014 to conduct research
for his dissertation “Opium beyond the wars.
Science, medicine and the global history of opium
from the East Indies trade to the International
Conferences on Narcotics.” His research will
offer a comprehensive narrative of the opium trade
in the context of medical theory and practice in
China and the West. In addition, he will analyze
this history by looking at its political,
commercial, and cultural context, incorporating
perspectives from global history.
Group Grants
A group grant is awarded to help support the
workshop participants organized by Howard Chiang.
The workshop “Subimperial Formations of Medicine:
Taiwan and Korea” will be held in July 2014 at
Warwick Center in Venice, Italy. The workshop
invites theoretically robust approaches to the
comparison and relation of medical cultures between
Taiwan and Korea, both of which experienced the
Japanese colonization in the early twentieth
century. This workshop aims to address the cultural
transformations of medicine and healthcare in light
of such trajectories of political affinity and
potential divergences.
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