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Science, Technology, and Medicine Seminars – Emergency Ecology: Birds, Blood, War, and the Figuring of Malaya as Australian-Siberian Borderland, 1947-1974

CPD LG.62

Emergency Ecology: Birds, Blood, War, and the Figuring of Malaya as Australian-Siberian Borderland, 1947-1974   Jack Greatrex Nanyang Technological University, Singapore   Abstract A metal band from the leg of a shot heron was sent to US epidemiologist Elliott McClure in 1964. The bird had been killed in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, on the east coast […]

History in the Making – Mapping History: The Confluence of Archaeology and Cartography in Southwest Asia (Elvan COBB, Hong Kong Baptist University)

Faculty Lounge (Run Run Shaw Tower 4.30)

The emergence of archaeology as a scientific pursuit in the nineteenth century significantly altered perceptions of the Ottoman Empire within foreign imaginaries. Cartography, like archaeology, provided a seemingly objective epistemological engagement for foreigners to make sense of Southwest Asia as a place, while also underpinning imperial and colonial ambitions. The epigraphic journeys of American classicist […]