Part of the Science, Technology, Medicine & Society Speaker Series, and co-sponsored by the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
Fa-ti Fan
State University of New York, Binghamton
Monday, 27 October 2014 | 4:00–5:30 pm
1014 Tisch Hall, Department of History
Abstract: In the 1960s and 1970s, Chinese scientists and ordinary people—or, in the parlance of the time, experts and masses—examined the possibility that animals could be used to predict earthquakes.
In this talk, Professor Fan offers a historical investigation of the theories and practices behind the study of animals as earthquake detectors in Cultural Revolution China, and explores how Chinese seismology affected American studies of earthquakes and animal behavior.
This comparative study will conclude with reflections on the intersection of science, politics, animals, and disaster response in the two societies.
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