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Nathan Sivin – Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others

April 18, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Speaker: Nathan Sivin, University of Pennsylvania

In his talk, ‘Why Some Comparisons Make More Difference than Others,’ Professor Sivin will explore motivations for East-West and other comparative studies, as well as the methodological challenges that they involve.

Nathan Sivin, professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, is a generalist who has contributed studies of all the sciences and medicine in every period of Chinese history, and comparative studies of these fields in China and Europe. He has taught a range of courses from the Scientific Revolution in Europe to advanced classical Chinese, as well as the sociology of professionalization (with Renée Fox) and ritual in science, technology, and medicine.

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Date:
April 18, 2018
Time:
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
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Venue

Boylston Hall Room 203
Boylston Hall
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
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Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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