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LOTUS & THE CROSS: EAST-WEST CULTURAL EXCHANGE
ALONG THE SILK ROAD  Exhibition (Can be viewed ONLINE)September 20 to October 5, 2007 Del Santo Reading Room, Lone Mountain Campus University of San Francisco Lecture (  A VIDEO of this talk) by Dr. Ken Parry Thursday, September 20, 2007 5:45 p.m., Room LM100 Symposium (See details below) Friday, September 21, 2007 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m., Room LM100 This is an exhibition of large-format photographs of stone tombstones from Fujian province in South China and stone crosses from Kerala state in South India, presenting some of the surviving archaeological evidence for early Eastern Christian presence in India and China. Written records and inscriptions show that between the fourth and seventh centuries Christians from the Middle East undertook trade and missionary work using the overland routes to China and the maritime spice route to India. The tombstones from Fujian belong to so-called “Nestorian” Christians who settled in South China during the Mongol Period (1272-1368), while the stone crosses from Kerala belong to various Syrian Christian communities, the earliest dated to the eighth century. A common iconographic motif to be seen on these remains from both continents is the mounting of the cross on the lotus flower. The photographer and curator of the exhibition is Dr. Ken Parry. The photos were the result of an Australian Research Council-funded project based in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University. The exhibition has already been seen in Sydney (2003), Salzburg (2003), Kerala (2003), London (2004) and Ankara (2005). Lecture and Exhibition are free and open to the public. Reservations recommended for Lecture. For information, call 415-422-6401 or Email ricci@usfca.edu Co-sponsored by the USF Center for the Pacific Rim and EDS-Stewart Chair at the USF Ricci Institute.
CHRISTIANITY & CULTURES: JAPAN & CHINA IN COMPARISON (1543-1644)  Thursday, September 13, 20075:45 p.m., Room LM100 Lone Mountain Campus University of San Francisco A lecture and presentation exploring the Jesuit missions in the 16th and 17th centuries. Fr. M. Antoni J. Üçerler is a lecturer in East Asian studies and comparative history at Campion Hall, University of Oxford and a corresponding member of the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome. He is also a visiting fellow of the EDS-Stewart Chair at the Ricci Institute at the USF Center for the Pacific Rim.Free and open to the public. Reservations recommended. For information, call 415-422-6401 or Email ricci@usfca.edu Co-sponsors: USF President’s Office, USF Jesuit Community, Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought, The Japan Society of Northern California, USF Center for the Pacific Rim, EDS-Stewart Chair at the USF Ricci Institute
 MEDICINE & CULTURE:
CHINESE-WESTERN MEDICAL EXCHANGE (1644 - CA.1950) Friday, March 9, 2007 University of San Francisco The symposium will be an examination of the interaction between China and the West through medicine and pharmacology from the Qing dynasty through the early 1950s. The aim of the symposium is to provide a forum for the examination of themes related to this interaction, such as: social and cultural roles, social reform, education, cultural exchange, encounters with Christianity, relations of power, modernity, and issues of race and gender.
JESUITS & MEDICINE IN CHINA AT THE QING IMPERIAL COURT Medicine & Culture: Chinese-Western Medical Exchange (1644 -ca. 1950)  Keynote Public Lecture (for March 9 Symposium) Thursday, March 8, 2007 5:45 PM - 7:00 PM University of San Francisco What kind of healing took place in the Qing imperial court during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor (r.1662-1722)? Chinese physicians offered acupuncture, moxibustion, massage, and medicinal tonics. Yet, the Emperor disliked Chinese acupuncture, loathed the smell of mugwort, would never get a massage, scoffed at Taoist longevity practices, and expressed skepticism of southern tonics and restoratives. He was curious about 'Western medicine' and the scientific knowledge of Jesuits in his court. From the Jesuits would come 'Jesuit’s bark', tonic wines, brandy, the surgeon’s scalpel, and an anatomical view of the human body. According to the 1698 account of the French Jesuit Joachim Bouvet, the Emperor had become interested in Western medicine only after a member of their group had successfully used 'Jesuit's bark/Cinchona' (modern-day quinine) to cure the Emperor of a malignant fever he had contracted during one of his southern tours in 1692. In response to this quinine-healing episode, Kangxi ordered a Manchu translation of Western medicinal substances and even had a Jesuit botanist and pharmacist travel with him on some of his tours. The result of this initial interest in Western medicine would reach fruition about a quarter century later in the early 1720s with several copies of illustrated Western anatomy texts in Manchu. Reading the writings of the Jesuits and the Kangxi Emperor on medicine together provides a unique window on the medical pluralism, the Chinese-Western exchange of therapies, concepts, and images of the body, and the range of therapies practiced within the Manchu court of the early Qing dynasty. Keynote Speaker: Marta Hanson, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in the History and Sociology of Science. She has written numerous articles on medical regionalism, gender and medicine, and Manchu medical sources in late imperial China. Her book manuscript is titled Speaking of Epidemics: New Genres and Currents of Learning in Qing Medicine.  We
gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the Lifemark Group in support of
this public lecture & symposium.The Lifemark Group operates a family
of cemeteries, funeral homes, and crematories that offers the most comprehensive
end-of-life services of any company operating exclusively in Northern California.
Lifemark serves client families with many different beliefs and traditions.
So Lifemark can help you create comfortable rituals that meet whatever cultural,
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