Timothy Yang (Harvard), Global Capitalism, Medicine, and Empire: Hoshi Pharmaceuticals in the Interwar Years
Date and Time
October 1, 2013
12:30PM - 02:00PM EDT
Location
Bowie-Vernon Room (K262), CGIS Knafel, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge MA
Timothy Yang
Postdoctoral Fellow, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Harvard University
Moderator: Andrew Gordon
Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University
Dr. Yang will be an Assistant Professor of History at Pacific University in fall 2014. He received his A.B. in History and Japanese (summa cum laude) from Dartmouth College, and Ph.D. in History from Columbia University. His dissertation, “Market, Medicine, and Empire: Hoshi Pharmaceuticals in the Interwar Years,” examined the connections between global capitalism, empire, and medicine in modern Japan. Dr. Yang’s article has appeared in East Asian Science, Technology, and Society. While at Harvard, Dr. Yang plans to complete a book manuscript based on his dissertation.
(Co-sponsored by the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies)