Embryology, Cosmology, and Epistemic Ecology
Thinking with, and Beyond, Chinese Daily-Use Handbooks
Online Seminar series organized by Harvard University Asia Center, November 17, 2026.
Seminar by: Joan Judge
The Science and Technology in Asia seminar series, organized by Professor Victor Seow at Harvard University, features talks on critical historical and contemporary issues in science, technology, medicine, and the environment in East, South, and Southeast Asia. It showcases some of the most exciting recent work in the humanities and social sciences that interrogates the place of the scientific and the technological in Asia and the place of Asia in our ideas and practices of science and technology.
Joan Judge’s seminar, titled “Embryology, Cosmology, and Epistemic Ecology: Thinking with, and Beyond, Chinese Daily-Use Handbooks,” will introduce her research on the sources, origin, content, and circulation the section on “Planting Seeds/Gestation” in the Chinese daily-use compendia the 萬寶全書 (Complete compendium of myriad treasures).
Register here to attend the lecture series.
Visit the website of Harvard University – Science and Technology in Asia for more information.