预告 科技史前沿讲座48 Sketching Out the Normal Child

本讲座围绕科学史研究这一中心，以跨学科研究视角与研究方法为组织方式，选择近年来新兴的研究领域与专题，安排相关学者以其具创新性的研究案例作为示范，帮助同学们迅速了解科技史研究的动态与最新进展，掌握阅读文献和评鉴文献的能力，为硕士生和博士生寻找学位论文研究方向、探索新的学术问题提供启发，激励同学们敢于站在前人学术思想与研究成果的高峰上独立思考问题。

讲座信息

2024年6月6日15:10-17:00

北京大学静园一院201

腾讯会议：526-548-117

本讲摘要

The talk explores how the young Chinese scholars, who embodied both the child’s body and the learner’s body, inevitably became the center of emerging body surveillance technologies in pre-war Hong Kong. By examining the colonial government’s initiation of the school health program and the early implementation of physical education, facilitated by medical officials and YMCA, it demonstrates how bodies of Chinese students became quantifiable and vulnerable entities under the scrutiny of Western medical and statistical gaze. The talk aims to illustrate that the establishment of such repeated measurement practices and remedies in colonial educational spaces served as powerful discursive instruments in taming Chinese children’s resistance to future body surveillance and Western medical interventions. In charting the implementation of body measurement technology in Hong Kong schools, the talk wishes to fill the gap in the history of preventive medicine and health governance in pre-war Hong Kong.

主讲人：Alison So 香港大学人文学院历史学系讲师

主持人：雷震 北京大学科技医史系助理教授

主讲人介绍

Dr. Alison So is an interdisciplinary Gender Studies scholar in the fields of Cultural Studies, History and Sociology. She holds an MPhil and PhD in Gender Studies (Educational Administration and Policy) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.Her current research project investigates the medicalizing discourses of ice-cream and its relation to the governance of children’s bodies in pre-war Hong Kong.