The History of Science and Medicine in Southeast Asia Reading Group welcomes all participants to attend on a regular or drop-in basis. For reading group sessions, we invite participants to read at least two of the three suggested readings. PDFs of the readings will be circulated to the mailing list in advance of each session. Please email either convener (Zhi-Yu Chen and Katherine Enright) with any questions or to be added to our mailing list.
Tuesdays at 2pm in the Board Room
Michaelmas Term 2025
14 October
Introduction session – themes in history of science and medicine in Southeast Asia
28 October
Shaping food labour, programmes, and markets in post-independence Malaysia – talk by Kar Yern Chin (History, University of Cambridge)
11 November
TBD – by Yunting Gu (Fudan University)
25 November
Public health in Singapore – discussion led by Timothy Sim (HPS, University of Cambridge)