To be held at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 9-11 June.
Information about registration, accommodation, the banquet, and the excursion will be made available asap.
Program
Thursday 8 June
6.00 Reception
Friday 9 June
9.00
KEYNOTE: Doctors Dissenting against the Dictatorship: Medicine, Martial Law, and Marcos in the Philippines, 1972-1986
Francis A. Gealogo, Ateneo de Manila University, Philippines
10.15 – 12.15
Parallel Panel 1: Chinese Medicine in Southeast Asia
From Imperial Tribute to Chinese Traditional Medicine as Practiced in Southeast Asia:the East Asian Tributary System from Han through Qing as the Historical Background to Chinese Medicine in Southeast Asia
C. Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University, USA
Meditation, Miracles and Medicine: The Vicissitudes of the Zhenkongjiao’s Aetiology of Health and Disease in East and Southeast Asia (19th century CE – present)
Esmond Chuah Meng Soh, Independent researcher, Singapore
The Five Phases in Chinese Medicine’s Socialist Adaptation: A Textbook-Based Research
Gao Shanshan, City University of Hong Kong
“To be Seen by the World”: The Unofficial and Everyday Diplomacy of Taiwanese Chinese Medicine in Southeast Asia and Beyond
Karoline Buchner, Freie Universität Berlin and Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Parallel panel 2: Investigating Traditional Medicine
In Search of Medicine: Imperial Japan’s Research on Traditional Remedies in Vietnam
Nara Oda, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Testing the Enchanted Water: Medical-based Experiments on Traditional Pharmaceutical Knowledge
Gani Jaelani, Padjadjaran University, Indonesia
The Emergence of Post-Colonial Traditional Indonesian Medicine for Chickens
Tsung Jen Hung, University of Sydney, Australia
12.15 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 3.30
Local Traditions
Divine Scents and Aromatic Medicines: Ruxiang (Frankincense) from the Red Sea to Maritime Asia
Wee Siang Margaret Ng, College of Wooster, USA
Cancer, Herbal Medicine and the Goddess: Healing and Divine Guidance in Malaysia
Daniel Spigelman, University of Sydney, Australia
Potency and Phitsanu: Healing Efficacy in Southern Lowland Laos
Elizabeth Elliot, Independent scholar
3.00 – 3.30 tea
3.30 – 5.00
Parallel Panel 1: Historiographical Reflections
“Will the Real Traditional Medicine Please Stand Up?”: Reasoning Through the Politics of Medical Legitimacy
Kathryn Muyskens, National University of Singapore
How To Write Biographies of Indonesian Medical Legends
Rudi Pekerti, Independent scholar, Indonesia
Psychiatry and Mental Health
Parallel Panel 2: Mental Health
Therapy for the Psyche: Non-Western Psychotherapy in Post-Colonial Indonesia, 1950s-1960s
Iwan Wahyu Widayat, Airlangga University, Indonesia
The History of Psychiatry in Cambodia
Bora Sovady and Ngin Ratanakromanea, University of Health Sciences, Cambodia
6.00 Dinner
Saturday 10 June
9.00 – 10.30
Parallel Panel 1: Health Challenges in Southeast Asia
Anti-Yaws Campaigns in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia: Forgotten Disease, Incomplete Victories, 1930-1965
Vivek Neelakantan, independent scholar, Mumbai, India
Public Health in the Philippines: the Tuberculosis (TB) epidemic (1950s-1980s)
Arnab Chakraborty, Shanghai University, China
The Bubonic Plague in Central Java
Devi Nur Maharani, State Islamic University Raden Mas Said Surakarta, Indonesia
Parallel Panel 2: Chinese Medicine in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia
Trans-advertising of Western Pharmaceutical Products and Chinese Pharmaceutical Products in the SIN PO Newspaper 1923-1941
Zulfa Saumia, Jambi University, Indonesia
Sin Po, Jang Seng Ie, and the Case of Lead Poisoning in Indonesia in the 1930s
Ravando, University of Melbourne, Australia
The Influence of Traditional Chinese Medicine on Traditional Indonesian Medicine: Challenges in Validating Safety and Efficacy and Preventing Biodiversity Loss
Inggrid Tania, PDPOTJI (Indonesia Medical Association for The Development of Traditional Medicine), Indonesia
11.00-12.30
Parallel Panel 1: Medical Research in Southeast Asia
Disease Ecology in Postwar Malaya
Jack Greatrex, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Therapeutic Trial of Prophylactic Alkaloids in British Malaya
Jiun Shen Fong, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
To be an Epicenter of Malaria Drug Resistance and Malaria Elimination
Jenna Grant, University of Washington, USA
Parallel Panel 2: Islamic Medicine
Bekam in the Twist of Time: Decolonizing Islamic Medical Knowledge in the Indonesian Colonial Period
Martina Safitri, UIN Raden Mas Said, Surakarta, Indonesia
Rumah Terapi: Acculturation of Chinese and Islamic Medicine in Indonesia in the 2000s
Fathia Lestari, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati, Indonesia
The Interactions of Arab-Muslim Medicine with Chinese Medicine in the History of the Health of the Peoples of Southeast Asia
Hachelafi, University of Oran, Algeria
12.30 – 1.30 lunch
1.30 – 3.00
Parallel Panel 1: Western Medicine Goes East
Pioneers of Women’s Health in the Archipelago: Exploring the Life and Role of Dr Marie Thomas, Dr Sulianti Saroso and Dr Nafsiah Mboi
Sudirman Nasir, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia
When the Traditional Midwive is a Man: Intertwined Traditional and Biomedial Knowledge and Practices around Childbirth in Laos
Pascale Hancart Petitet, Université de Montpellier, France
Filipino Tutelage and Communicating Medicine: Tagalog Articles in Print Media during the American Regime, 1927-1940
Nikko Jay B. Ramos, Ateneo de Manila, Philippines
Parallel Panel 2: Health and Health Care in the Dutch East Indies and Indonesia: Local Histories
The Ethical Policy and Health Services in Plantations, 1900-1930
Wasino, Semarang National University, Indonesia
Health in Jombang: From Disease to the Hygiene Centrum in 1905-1942
Alfian Widi Santoso, Airlangga University, Indonesia
Health Conditions of the North Coast of Java’s Population: Public Health Policy in Afdeeling Demak and Grobogan, Semarang Residency during the Dutch Colonial Period, 1900-1942
Endah Sri Hartatik (Diponegoro University), Fortuna Devi Putri Sina, Wasino
3.00 Excursion to Medicinal Garden
7.00 Banquet
Sunday 11 June
9-10.30
Parallel Panel 1: Traditional Medicine in Indonesia
Jamu in Mevrouw Jans’ Perspective
Dennys Pradita, Jambu University; Adi Putra Surya Wardhana, Indonesian Art Institute, Solo, Indonesia
Obat Asli: Indonesian Doctors, the Jamu Commission and Alternative Medicines for Malaria from Local Indonesian Materials during World War II
Brad Horton, Akita University, Japan
Healthy Life with Traditional Medicine and Treatment: Local Ingenuity and Continuity in Aceh and West Sumatra
Fakhriati, BRIN, Indonesia
Parallel Panel 2: Medical Traditions Crossing Borders
Japanese Medicine Business in Dutch East Indies: Supporter of Indonesian Nationalism or Glocalization Strategy?
Meta Sekar Astuti, Hasanuddin University, Indonesia
Foreign Traditional Medicine: The Thai State and Chinese Medicine Regulations, 1960-1975
Wattana Keeratichandecha
Pampered patricians and Unprivileged Plebs: Quacks in Colonial and Post–Colonial India
Kaushalya Bajpayee, Ministry of Health, Thailand
11.00-12.30
Medicine, War, and Social Upheaval
Health Issues during the Indonesian Revolution: Women’s Perspectives
Galuh Ambar Sasi, Satya Wacana Christian University, Indonesia
Battles and Condoms: Fighting Venereal Disease in Mid- 20th Century Asia
Mayumi Yamamoto, Miyagi University, Japan
The New Zealand Surgical Team in Vietnam: a Colombo Plan Civilian Aid Project in a Military Environment
Susan Heydon, University of Otago, New Zealand
Ways of Medicine at Plantungan Internment Camp, 1971-1979
Amurwani Dwi Lestariningsih, University of Indonesia
12.30- 1.30 lunch
1.30-3.00
Health, Medicine, and Food
Betel Chewing in Prehistoric Indonesia
Dismas Rienthar and Ashwin Prayudi, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia
Sex and Marriage in Batavia in the VOC Era, 1619 – 1799
Linda Robertus, Griffith University, Australia
The Making and Unmaking of Makan (Eating): The Boundaries of Foods in Colonial Encounters in the Indian Ocean
Kathleen Burke, National University of Singapore
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