Faculty Positions in History of Science, Technology and Medicine Department of History of Science...

The Department of History of Science, Technology and Medicine at Peking University invites applications for two faculty positions at open rank. Established in 2018 within the Academy for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies, the Department is devoted to the historical study of science, technology, and medicine in modern and contemporary China. Main research fields include core areas such as the h...

Faculty Recruitment

We seek to appoint two faculty members at open rank.

Siminar to Reflect the Scientific Data Held at Peking University

Seminar to Reflect the Scientific Data Held at Peking UniversityAcademic seminar "Science and Diplomacy: A History of Scientific Data Flows" was held at the Peking University Overseas Exchange Center, on March 25-26, 2024, bringing together scholars in the history of science diplomacy from various research institutions in China and the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, and it aime...

“Reshaping the Dialogue: Histories of Science, Technology and Medicine and the Contemporary Worl...

From November 3rd to 5th, the Beijing Forum (2023) on “Reshaping the Dialogue: Histories of Science, Technology and Medicine and the Contemporary World”, hosted by the Department of History of Science Technology and Medicine，Peking University, was successfully held in the second conference room of the Yingjie Exchange Centre of Peking University. During the three-day conference, more than 20...

Program - Beijing Forum (2023)

Reshaping the Dialogue: Histories of Science, Technology and Medicine and the Contemporary WorldA Sub-forum of Beijing ForumPeking University, November 3rd-5th, 2023Hosted and Sponsored by Department of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Peking UniversityAlthough our world is recuperating from the Covid-19 pandemic, it is facing various political and economic uncertainties. This is a ...

Notice |Celio Calcagnini’s Defence of Terrestrial Motion in Fifteenth-century Europe

 主讲人：Alberto Bardi  清华大学科学史系助理教授 主持人：Daniele Macuglia  北京大学科学技术与医学史系助理教授 时  间： 2023年5月12日 15:10-17:00 地  点：静园一院201 演讲摘要：The humanist Celio Calcagnini (1479-1541), an Italian contemporary of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), wrote around 1518 a discussion about the motion of the Earth, Quod caelum stet, terra moveatur vel de perenni motu terr...

Notice |Mathematical cultures seen from the perspective of the history of numbers

题目：Mathematical cultures seen from the perspective of the history of numbers题目：数字史视角下的数学文化主讲人：Karine Chemla，SPHERE (CNRS—Université Paris Cité)主讲人：Karine Chemla，法国国家科学研究中心（CNRS）科学史与科学哲学研究所（SPHERE）(法国国家科学研究中心——巴黎城市大学)高级研究员主持人：Daniele Macuglia，北京大学科学技术与医学史系助理教授 时间：2023年4月27日 15:10-17:00 地点：....

Notice |A Blind Botanist and a Subtle Tongue: Plants, Medicine, and Cross-Cultural Knowledge-Maki...

主讲人：Genie Yoo Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Hebrew University of Jerusalem耶路撒冷希伯来大学博士后主持人：John N. Alekna，Department of History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Peking University 北京大学科学技术与医学史系助理教授 时间地点：2023/04/1315:10-17:00北大理教 419 题目：A Blind Botanist and a Subtle Tongue: Plants, Medicine, and Cross-Cultural Knowledge-Making in Colonial Ind...

Notice |The Sphere. Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe

本讲摘要 Scientific knowledge as well as all kinds knowledge is in continuous transformation. One of the dominant aspects of this transformation in recent centuries can be defined as a process of homogenization. In this presentation the historical roots of this peculiar evolutionary aspect o knowledge will be shown with reference to European scientific knowledge. Therefore, late medieval and ea...

Notice |Similarities and differences in historical and sociological research methods of oral hist...