HOMSEA 4: Solo, Indonesia, 2012

4th International Conference on the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA 2012), in associaton with IAHA 2012 (the International Association of Historians of Asia)

2-5 July 2012, Solo, Indonesia

Meeting report

HOMSEA 4 group photo

Program

Monday 2 July

1.30 – 2.00 pm	Opening Rethy Chhem, president HOMSEA and Kartono Mohamad, president PERSEKIN
2.00 – 3.30 pm	Disease and Political (In)stability Promoters of Health, Preachers of Consciousness: The Philippine Islands Anti-Tuberculosis Society and its Crusade Against Spitting in the American Philippines, 1910-1946 Aaron Rom O. Moralina, Ateneo de Manila University A Pox on the House of Nguyen: The Social and Political Effects of Smallpox on the Last Royal Dynasty of Vietnam Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University Komiks and Public Health Policies during the Japanese Occupation Period in the Philippines Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua, Ateneo de Manila University
3.30 – 4.00 pm	Break
4.00 – 5.00 pm	Medical Professionalization and Nation-Building Healers in the Medical Marketplace: Traditional Medical Practitioners, Medicosand Licensed Physicians in Nineteenth Century Philippines Mercedes Planta Reflections on Medicine’s Modernist Project in Indonesia Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, Harvard University
5.00 – 6.00 pm	HOMSEA Plenary Address The Unending Dialogue of Past and the Present in Medicine Firman Lubis, University of Indonesia
7.00 – 9.30 pm	Opening Ceremony

Tuesday 3 July

8.00 – 10.15 am	Plenary Session IAHA
10.15 –10.30 am	Break
10.30 –12.30 am	Medical Education in Indonesia Indonesian Medical Education: The Role of the SEARO, International Aid, and the Implementation of Public Health during the 1950s Vivek Neelakantan, University of Sydney Midwifery Education in the Dutch East Indies, 1850-1915 Liesbeth Hesselink, Independent Scholar The Oldest Medical School in Indonesia S. Somadikarta, University of Indonesia Commentator: John Harley Warner, Yale University
12.30 – 1.15 pm	Lunch
1.15 – 3.15 pm	Traditional Medicines in Southeast Asia, I Continuity and Change: The Evolution of Burmese Traditional Medicine Céline Coderey, IRSEA, Marseille Making Medicine, Materializing a Cure: The Therapeutic Efficacy of Shamanic Based Healing Among the Orang Sakai of Riau (Sumatra) Nathan Porath, Pechabun Rajhabat University Indigenous Medical Traditions in a Frontier Society Sebastianus Nawiyanto, University of Tabib as Curer and Converter: History of Islamic Medicine in Early Indonesia Jennifer W. Nourse, University of Virginia
3.15 – 3.45 pm	Break
3.45-4.45 pm	Traditional Medicines in Southeast Asia, II The Undeclared War: Combating Malaria and Dysentery and Reviving Indigenous Medicine in the Philippines during the Japanese Occupation Period Arnel E. Joven, University of Asia and the Pacific Commentator: C. Michele Thompson, Southern Connecticut State University
4.45 – 5.45 pm	HOMSEA Plenary Address Exile and Healing: The Boven Digoel camp in the Dutch East Indies, 1927-1943 Rudolf Mrázek, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
7.00 – 9.00 pm	HOMSEA Dinner

Wednesday July 4

8.00 – 9.00 am	Institutions for Health, from Public to Private Endeavours Revisiting Bilbid and Iwahig: Prison Hospitals in the American Occupied Philippines Francis Gealogo, Ateneo de Manila University Non-State Hospitals in Indonesia: The Evolutive Change since the Colonial Period Laksono Trisnantoro and Baha’uddin, Universitas Gadjah Mada
9.00 – 10.00 am	HOMSEA Plenary Address ‘Cholera’ Before and After 1817 in Indonesia Peter Boomgaard, KITLV
10.00 – 10.30 am	Break
10.30 am – 12.30 pm	Leprosy in Southeast Asia United States Policy on Leper Segregation in the Philippines,1906-1935 Antonio C. Galang, Jr., University of the Philippines Comparing Leprosy in Two Dutch Colonial Contexts Frank Huisman, Utrecht University Leprosy in the Dutch East Indies: The Medical Debate on Hereditarianism and Contagionism Leo Van Bergen, KITLV
12.30 – 1.15 pm	Lunch
1.15 – 2.15 pm	Mobility, Morbidity and Urban Settings Public Health Organization in Modern Bangkok: Rulers’ Thinking, External Pressures and Habitants’ Reaction Nipaporn Ratchatapattanakul, Thammasat University Two Birds with One Stone: Health Concerns in the Process of Urban Transport “Modernization” in American-Occupied Manila Michael D. Pante, Ateneo de Manila University
2.15 – 3.45 pm	Workshop on the History of Psychiatry in Indonesia Byron Good, Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, Hans Pols, Pandu Setiawan, and Rusdi Maslim
3.15 – 3.45 pm	Break
3.45 – 6.00 pm	Solo Batik Festival
7.00 – 9.00 pm	Dinner hosted by the Mayor of Solo

Thursday 5 July

8.00 – 10.00 am	Circulation and Construction of Medical Knowledge in Southeast Asia Southeast Asian Medicine in the 18th Century: Notes from Linnaean Travel Accounts David Dunér, Lund University Visualizing the Geography of Diseases in East Asia, 1870s-1930s Marta Hanson, Johns Hopkins University Social Institutions as Moderators of Cross-Cultural Knowledge Transfer: The Dutch East India Company in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia Matthew Sargent, University of California, Berkeley Exploiting Quinine: From the Tropical Forests of the Andes to the Government Plantations of the Dutch East Indies, 1850-1900 Arjo Roersch van der Hoogte and Toine Pieters, Utrecht University
10.00 – 10.30 am	Break
10.30 am – 12.30 pm	Doctors, Migrations and Medical Practice Dr. Tung goes to China: Revisiting Ton That Tung’s Travels in the Socialist World, 1951-75 Michitake Aso, National University of Singapore The Career of Dr. Willem Bosch in the Dutch East Indies Derek Bosch, Calgary Czech Physicians in the Dutch East Indies Jan Mrázek, National University of Singapore
12.30 – 1.15 pm	Lunch
1.15 – 3.15 pm	Global Movements, Local Concerns Cattle for the Colonizers: Veterinary Medicine in French Indochina Annick Guénel and Sylvia Klingberg, CASE (Centre Asie du Sud-Est), CNRS-EHESS Approaches to Women’s Health in Laos, 1969-2000 Kathryn Sweet, National University of Singapore The Tropical Persists?: The ROK (Republic of Korea) Military and its Public Health in the Vietnam Context, 1965-1973 John Di Moia, National University of Singapore Of Ethics and Profit: Opium Addiction as Health Issue in the Late Colonial Indonesia, 1910s-1940 Abdul Wahid, Utrecht University/UGM Yogyakarta
3.15 – 3.45 pm	Concluding remarks
4.00 – 5.30 pm	Trip to Prambanan Temple
6.00 – 7.00 pm	Dinner
7.00 – 9.00 pm	Prambanan Ballet Dance

Solo 2012 — Hans Pols and Rushdy Hoesein, about the enter the Sunan’s carriage

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