Join us in our conversation with Lan Li, PhD – a scholar of global East Asian medicine, acupuncture, sensation, and histories of science – in which we discuss how to take your work seriously without taking yourself too seriously, as well as thinking about situated, embodied practices. Using Lan’s varied career as a historian, media producer, and research director, we think through different methods for disseminating research, medical knowledge, and medical histories. 

SOURCES AND SCHOLARS MENTIONED 

Interactive article that touches on topics covered in Lan’s forthcoming book: Lan A. Li, “Sunk from Sight: Mapping the Fluid Body” (2020) 

Christine J. Walley and Chris Boebel (MIT / Exit Zero film) 

Shigehisa Kuriyama 

Lan A. Li, “Emotional Spleens: Death by Overthinking in Classical Chinese Texts” (2022) 

Alexander Wragge-Morley and Metaphors of the Mind 

Pierce Salguero, The Jivaka Project 

Medicine, Science, and the Humanities (MSH) program at Johns Hopkins 

Walter Rodney  

Center for Black Brown and Queer Studies 

Achille Mbembe, Necropolitics (2019) 

Ahmed Ragab 

Jeremy Greene 

Elizabeth O’Brien 

Alexandre (Sasha) White 

Graham Mooney 

Nathaniel Comfort 

Mary Fissell