Lan Li
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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 
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