Unruly Minds
An International Workshop at NTU, Singapore
speakers
Howard CHIANG
is Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese History at the University of Warwick. He is the editor of the journal Cultural History and the book series “Studies for the International Society for Cultural History” (published by Pickering and Chatto). With Hsiu-fen Chen, he currently co-directs a two-year international research networking project, “China and the Human Sciences: 1600 to the Present,” funded by the British Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is the editor of Transgender China (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Queer Sinophone Cultures (with Ari Larissa Heinrich; Routledge, 2013), Psychiatry and Chinese History (2014), and Historical Epistemology and the Making of Modern Chinese Medicine (2015). He is currently completing a monograph tentatively titled, “After Eunuchs: Science and the Transformations of Sex in Modern China.”.
Wen-Ji WANG
After doctoral work in history of psychoanalysis at the University of Cambridge, Wen-Ji Wang published articles on early history of psychoanalysis in Europe, leprosy and colonial medicine in Taiwan, and mental health movement in the first half of the 20th century China. He is now working on the book tracing the history of neurotic disorders with their relationship to the rise of psy disciplines—psychiatry, clinical psychology and psychoanalysis in particular—in Republican China. Currently Wen-Ji Wang is Associate Professor in the Institute of Science, Technology and Society at National Yang Ming University, Taiwan.
LI Yungeng Yogo
is currently a PhD student in Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a Hong Kong PhD fellowship awardee and received his bachelor’s and master’s degree respectively in Journalism and Philosophy at Nanjing University, China. In addition, he has also studied for a Graduate Certificate in Chinese and American Studies at Johns Hopkins-Nanjing Center. Li specializes his research in health communication, and cultural and critical studies in communication. He has become part of the research team to investigate the cultural history of “madness” in Hong Kong and Guangzhou since summer 2014. This investigation is supported by The School of Journalism and Communication of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Castle Peak Hospital. His proposed topic for his PhD thesis is “The transformation of medical discourse on mental illness: An ethnography of communication in Guangzhou Huiai mental hospital”.
Hsiu-Fen CHEN
is Associate Professor of History at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. She has published several articles on the topics of madness, emotions and regimen in late imperial China. They can be found in the English journals of Late Imperial China, Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity, and Medical History, etc. Her first book Nourishing Life and Cultivating the Body: Writing the Literati’s Body and Techniques for Preserving Health in the Late Ming (2009) won a National Science Council (Taiwan) publication grant for books of humanities in 2010. She is writing her second book entitled Empire of the Mind: Emotions, Madness and Mental Healings in Ming-Qing China. In addition to the history of body and mind, Chen is also interested in medical images and visual representation in Ming-Qing China.
Hsuan-Ying HUANG
received his MD and psychiatric residency training from National Taiwan University and his PhD in medical anthropology from Harvard University. His research, mainly based in Beijing and Shanghai, examines urban China’s recent “psycho-boom,” with an emphasis on its broadly conceived psychoanalytic branch. He is particularly interested in how this psycho-boom may reveal or shape the subjectivity in urban China and how a new mental health profession may emerge from it.
LAM Yan Yan Cherry
is currently an Mphil student in Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She will start her PhD studies there after the completion of her Mphil programme. She has become part of the research team to investigate the cultural history of “madness” in Hong Kong and Guangzhou since summer 2014. This investigation is supported by The School of Journalism and Communication of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Castle Peak Hospital. She is drawing data for her Mphil and PhD theses from the participatory ethnography of a philanthropic photography teaching project organized for recovering psychotic patients at Castle Peak Hospital.
Harry Yi-Jui WU
is assistant professor of medical humanities at the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He obtained DPhil in history from the University of Oxford in 2012. Besides history, he studied medicine in Taiwan with further training experiences in psychiatry and psychoanalytic studies. Currently, his work deals with the humanitarian intervention of psychiatric sciences regarding the aftermaths of the Second World War and the anxiety surrounding the indeterminable time of postwar worldwide rehabilitation. Apart from preparing his first monograph on the social history of international classification of psychiatric diagnoses, he is conducting a project on 'manufactured mental disorders in China.'
LOH Kah Seng
is assistant professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies, Sogang University, in South Korea. His research investigates the transnational and social history of Southeast Asia after the Second World War. Loh is author or editor of six books, Squatters into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore (NUS Press & ASAA 2013); Oral History in Southeast Asia: Memories and Fragments (co-edited, Palgrave Macmillan 2013); Controversial History Education in Asian Contexts (co-edited, Routledge 2013); The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya: Tangled Strands of Modernity (co-authored, Amsterdam University Press & NUS Press 2012); The Makers and Keepers of Singapore History (co-edited, Ethos Books & Singapore Heritage Society 2010); and Making and Unmaking the Asylum: Leprosy and Modernity in Singapore and Malaysia (SIRD 2009). He was previously a school teacher and continues to speak to students, teachers and the public about the joys and challenges of studying the past.
© 2015 by Harry Wu. Proudly created with Wix.com