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Day 1
Session Chair: Elise Burton, University of Toronto
7:00-8:00 AM EST
John McAleer, University of Southampton, “A Colonial Institution: The Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society”
8:00-9:00 AM EST
Sarah Qidwai, University of York, “Oriental Knowledge and Imperial Authority: The Asiatic Society of Bengal and its Intellectual Networks”
9:15-10:15 AM EST
Annabel Storr, Durham University, “Facilitation, Exploration and Exchange: The Asiatic Society of Japan in late Nineteenth-Century British Scientific Networks”
10:15-11:15 AM EST
Jessica Ratcliffe, Cornell University, “The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland within Local and Imperial Politics, 1827-70”
Day 2
Session Chair: Adrien Zakar, University of Toronto
7:00-8:00 AM EST
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”
8:00-9:00 AM EST
Chen Che-Wei, National Chi Nan University, “Malayan Natural History and the Straits/Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (1877-1928)”
9:15-10:15 AM EST
Qian Yibing, Zhejiang Normal University, “How to Operate a Chinese Natural History Hub in Nineteenth-Century China: The NCBRAS’s Establishment and Institutionalization (1857–1900)”
10:15 AM-11:15 PM EST
Timothy Barnard, University of Singapore, “The Anomaly of North Borneo”
11:15 AM-12:15 PM EST
Manyong Moon, Chonbuk National University, “Transactions and the Birth of the History of Science in Korea: The Study of Korea and Science”