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Science and Empire Commission Newsletter
November 2025 Issue
SCIEMP NEWS
The Science and Empire Commission (SCIEMP) is a commission of the Division for the History of Science and Technology (DHST/IUHPST) dedicated to promoting, coordinating, and disseminating research on the intersections of science, knowledge production, and imperial formations. Since its formal establishment in Liège in 1997 (SCIEMP history here), SCIEMP has built upon decades of intellectual engagement to foster a critical historiography of Science and Empire through workshops, conferences, newsletters, collaborative projects, and digital tools.
Our mission is to advance rigorous, pluralistic scholarship on the historical entanglements between science, and imperial formations, and thereby to reshape, diversify, and enrich the historiography of science.
With nearly 300 members, SCIEMP is a vivid, transdisciplinary space for critical, comparative, and inclusive histories on how Science and Empire(s) were co-constructed.
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Fellowships and jobs
Smithsonian Institution fellowships, various deadlines
Montevideo Group of Universities (Latin America) mobility fellowships for Professors, Nov 7
Associate Professor in the Material and Public Cultures of Science, Department of Science and Technology Studies of the University College London, Nov 9
Teaching Fellow in Twentieth Century Black British History, University of Leeds, UK, Nov 11
Assistant or Associate Professor in American Indian and Indigenous Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA, Nov 13
Postdoc position, Environmental History, Brno, Czech Republic, Nov 13
Assistant Professor in Medieval European Art and Architectural History in the World, Brown University, USA, Nov 14
Postdoctoral positions in Sociology of Techniques, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France, Nov 14
Postdoctoral and PhD positions, Entangled Histories of the Proximal Senses (1350-1650): A Mediterranean History of (Subjective) Knowledge, details v.vonhoffmann [at] uliege.be, University of Liège, Belgium, Nov 14
History Fellow, American Institute of Physics, Maryland, USA, Nov 15
Max Weber Foundation’s Tandem Scholarships in Entangled East Central European History, Warsaw, Poland, Nov 15
Visegrad Scholarship of the Blinken Open Society Archives at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, Nov 15
Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow in Global Works and Society, New York University, USA, Nov 15
“Academy in Exile” fellowships for scholars who are at risk because of their academic work and/or civic engagement in human rights, democracy, and the pursuit of academic freedom, Technische Universität Dortmund and Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen, Germany, Nov 15
Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Wayne Vucinich Fellowship, California, USA, Nov 15
Harvard University Fellows-in-Residence Program, Massachusetts, USA, Nov 15
4S Digital Website Coordinator, Society for Social Studies of Science, Nov 16
Early Career Researcher Prize on Book Proposals, MDPI Books, Nov 16
Tenure-track assistant professor, Early Medieval History, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Nov 23
Assistant Professor in Diversity and Democracy, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Nov 26
Madrid Institute for Advanced Study fellowships in the Humanities and in Social Sciences, Madrid, Spain, Nov 28
Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences Early Career Award, Bern, Switzerland, Nov 30
Advanced Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in the newly inaugurated Charles Quilter Endowed Chair in the History of Technology, University of California, Irvine, USA, Dec 1
The Joseph Needham Foundation for Science & Civilisation (Hong Kong) awards/research grant, Hong Kong, China, Dec 1
Western Front Association PhD Grant Scheme, London, UK, Dec 1
Grant Writing Visiting Fellow Programme – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Southern Denmark, Dec 1
Dan David Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Fellowships in History and History of Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel, Dec 1
Ernest May Fellowship in History and Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Massachusetts, USA, Dec 1
Funding for postgraduate students, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK, Dec 2
Fully paid Grad Workshop, New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands, Huntington Library, California, USA, Dec 5
Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions, Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, Dec 10
Jewish Literary Legacies of Colonialism after Decolonization PhD position/Research Associate, Leibniz Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Germany, Dec 12
Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia Research Stipend 2026, Stockholm Center for Global Asia, Stockholm University, Sweden, Dec 12
French Institute of Andean Studies fellowships, Lima, Peru, Dec 15
Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine fellowships, USA, Dec 15
Käte Hamburger Kolleg International Center for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Sociology and History of Science and Technology fellowships in Cultural Practices of Reparation, Aachen, Germany, Dec 15
Assistant Professor or Higher in History (History of Science accepted), American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, Dec 21
Visiting period for Doctorate students, Graduate Program on Social History of Culture, Pontifical University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dec 30
University of Notre Dame’s Cushwa Center funding opportunities, Indiana, USA, Dec 31
Assistant Professor in Medical History of Asia-Pacific, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Dec 22
Hesburgh Libraries at Notre Dame research travel grants relating to the study of Catholics in America, Indiana, USA, Dec 31
American Druze Foundation Fellowship at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., Jan 2
Smith College Special Collections travel to Collections fellowships, Massachusetts, USA, Jan 5
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Global American Studies, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA, Jan 8
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities, University of Rochester, New York, USA, Jan 10
Doctoral positions, International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities”, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science/Freie Universität Berlin/Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin/Technische Universität Berlin, Germany, Jan 15
Taylor-Wei Dissertation Fellowship in the History of Meteorology, University of Oklahoma, USA, Jan 15
Science History Institute Fellowship and Travel Grant Opportunities, Philadelphia, USA, Jan 15
Harry Starr Fellowship in Judica, Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, Massachusetts, USA, Jan 15
Daniel Jeremy Silver Fellowship, Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies, Massachusetts, USA, Jan 15
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Classical Antiquity and/or Medieval Europe, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada, Jan 15
Center for Advanced Genocide Research senior scholars fellowships, University of Southern California, USA, Jan 15
Houghton Library Visiting Fellowships, Massachusetts, USA, Jan 16
Associate or Full Professor in African Diaspora History, Spelman College, Georgia, USA, Jan 16
John C. Slater Predoctoral Fellowship in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, Philadelphia, USA, Jan 16
IEEE Life Members’ Fellowship in Electrical History, New York, USA, Feb 1
Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Feb 1
A. W. Mellon Junior Faculty Fellowship in Medieval Studies, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, Feb 1
American Philosophical Society’s Center for the History of Science/Center for Humanities and the History of Modern Biology at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Undergraduate Summer Internship in the History of Biology, Philadelphia, USA, Feb 2
Partial funding to attend, Material Culture in the History of Physics Conference, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany, Feb 22
Research Scholarships, German Historical Institute Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland, March 31
History of Science Dissertation Fellowship in History of Science and Allied Fields, Stanford University, California, USA, April 20
Center for Jewish History fellowships, New York, USA, various deadlines
British Society of History of Science grants and bursaries, various deadlines
Center for Philosophy of Science of the University of Pittsburgh fellowships, USA, various deadlines
European Commission Calls Research Funding, various deadlines
Scholar in Residence of Iron Library literature on technology and science, continuously open, Klostergut Paradies, Switzerland
Prizes
STAND Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy Early Career Prize, Dec 12
History of Science Society Prize and Award nominations, Dec 15
4S Society for Social Studies of Science Prizes, Dec 15
Bjoring Center Research Awards in the History of Nursing and Health Care, Jan 15
Notes and Records Essay Award, Royal Society, UK, Feb 26
International Groups of Interest/Engagement
Imperial Entanglements Project Seminars, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples, Italy, online
GlobeColloquium: Lecture Series on Transimperial History, Research Centre Global Dynamics (ReCentGlobe), Leipzig University, Germany, online
European Society of History of Science Early Career Scholars Newtork
History of Science, Technology & Medicine Network of Ireland reading group
Society of History of Technology Interest Groups
History of Science Society Groups
STAND Commission on Science, Technology and Diplomacy Early Career Research Seminars 2025-2026
Performing Science and Medicine online working group
Seminar Series “Global Knowledge Production and Academic (Semi-)Peripheries”, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland
Coffee with Scientists seminars, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK
Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine Working Groups
Call for Papers
Treasures of Jewish Material Culture: Living Archives of Memory, Heritage, and Research in the Middle East and North Africa Conference, Ben Zvi Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, Nov 9
International Conference on the History of Cartography Prague, Czech Republic, Nov 14
International Conference Mary’s Grandsons: Marian devotion, colonial politics and native strategies against imperial pressure, Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Madrid, Spain, Nov 15
Rooted knowledges and dialogues for change Conference of the Association for Central, South-Eastern, Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies, Carpathian Mountains, Ukraine, Nov 15
International Conference on Violence and Empire. From the Early 1800s to the End of the Great War, Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples, Italy, Nov 16
Science Gallery Bengaluru invites filmmakers to pitch ideas for short films as part of its Exhibition-Season CALORIE, India, Nov 19
Peace in the Age of Forever Wars, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, Nov 21
Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science Annual Meeting, Arkansas, USA, Nov 21
Social (In)justice, Indigeneity and Colonialingualism: Recognition, Resistance and Re-Existence, Aarhus University, Denmark, Nov 21
Alternate Histories of the Body Conference, British Society for Literature and Science, UK, Nov 21
In/ter/dependence? Transitions of Power, Frictions of Freedom – Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America Annual Conference, Regensburg, Germany, Nov 23
International Conference: The Empire that Made India: 500 Years of the Mughals, Paris, France, Nov 25
History of Health in the Maghreb. Colonial Biopolitics, Postcolonial Challenges and International Healthcare (1830-1980) Workshop, University of Maryland, USA, Nov 25
Latin American Association for Social Studies of Science and Technology XVI Annual Meeting, Bogota, Colombia, Nov 30
Transnational approaches to the long 19th century history in East-Central Europe, Vilnius, Lithuania, Nov 30
Food Matters: Knowledge, Ecologies, Circulation and Health in the European World, 1500–1900, special issue of Physis, International Journal for the History of Science, Nov 30
Histories, Territorialities, and Indigenous Knowledge, VI International Congress on Indigenous Worlds – America, Bahia State University, Brazil, Nov 31
Joint ESHS & HSS Meeting 2026, History of Science Society/European Society for the History of Science, with support from the British Society for the History of Science, Edinburgh, Scotland, Dec 1
Colonial Communities in the Mediterranean between Italian Unification and the Occupation of Libya, University of Turin, Italy, Dec 1
Osiris full-volume calls for proposals, History of Science Society, Dec 1
World History Association 35th Annual Meeting – Closed Borders and Global Connections: Being Global after Globalization, George Mason University Korea, Incheon, South Korea, Dec 1
8th International Conference on the History of Occupational and Environmental Health, Leuven, Belgium, Dec 9
Oslo Student Conference on Medieval Europe, University of Oslo, Norway, Dec 12
The Committed Neutrality. A Transnational History of Spanish Humanitarianism in a Global Context from the First World War to the 1920s Conference, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid, Spain, Dec 15
International Conference Women as Cultural Producers: Transatlantic Artistic Connections and Exchanges in the 20th-Century, Ciencias Humanas y Sociales del Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid, Spain, Dec 15
Student Journal of Asian Studies at University of Southern California, USA, Dec 15
Philosophy of Social Science Roundtable, Virginia Tech University, USA, Dec 15
Failure as governance in the post-socialist contexts, Uppsala University, Sweden, Dec 19
Lines that Cross: Migration and the Making of a European Space Conference, University of East Anglia, Giessen, Germany, Dec 20
Call for chapters, Handbook of Laboratory Studies and the Ethnography of Laboratory Practices, Switzerland, Dec 31
Conference Of Those Who Stand in the Shadows: Family, Friends, Organisations and Their Significance in the Biographies of Scholars, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland, Dec 31
Black Visual Culture, Memory and History, special issue of Revista Estudos Históricos, Getúlio Vargas Foundation, Brazil, Jan 1
Histories of Ideas in Geography for Peace, Commission on History of Geography of the International Geographical Union, Istanbul, Turkey, Jan 9
Tartu Conference on East European and Eurasian Studies, Centre for East European and Eurasian Studies, Tartu, Estonia, Jan 25
Governing Just Agrifood Transitions: Politics of Justice, Responsibility, and Resilience in Sustainable Food Transitions, special issue of Food Ethics, Jan 31
2nd International Conference Women and Slavery: Violence, Resistance and Diasporas, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Jan 31
Seeing the Other Empire: British Travel Writing and Imperial Rivalry in Europe and the Near East, 1783-1914, University of Strasbourg, France, Feb 10
Italian Meeting on History of Science, Italian Society of History of Science, Università dell’Aquila, Italy, Feb 27
Cold altitudes: knowledge, imagination, and experiences of mountain ice Conference, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, May 1
50 years of Women in Technological History, Society of History of Technology, Special Issue of Technology and Culture, details: bethanyjohnson [at] charotte.edu, WITH50andgrants [at] gmail.com
Upcoming Meetings
Workshop on Alliances: Gender-Inclusive Language, History, and the Struggle against Colonialism, Latin American Studies Association, online, 2025
Narratives and Counter-Narratives: Decolonizing Science & Medicine, University of Houston, 2025
History of Science Society Annual Meeting, New Orleans, US, 2025
Conference Women in Science: historical perspectives from the 17th century to the present day, Royal Society, London, UK, 2025
IX Meeting of the IberoAmerican Network on the History of Psychiatry, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2025
L’histoire des sciences et des techniques face à la crise, Sorbonne Université, France, 2025
IV International Colloquium of History and Philosophy of Mathematics, National University of Trujillo, Peru, 2025
Medical Education in Europe (1350-1750), Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance, Pisa, Italy, 2025
Seminar on International History, Colégio de México, Mexico City, Mexico, 2025
Trans-hemispheric Seminar on Race and the History of Technology, Bahia, Brazil, 2025
10th Norwegian Conference on the History of Science, Bergen, Norway, 2025
Asia-Europa 1500-1800 Seminar, Lisbon, Portugal, 2025
1st Brazilian Workshop on Science and Literature, DHST/IUHPST Commission on Science and Literature, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2025
Revisiting European Maritime Exploration in the Pacific Ocean (c. 1750–1850), Estonian Maritime Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, 2025
5th International Conference of Anarchist Geographers and Geographies, University of São Paulo, Brazil, 2025
XIX Meeting of the Society of Studies on Agrarian History, Zaragoza, Spain, 2026
Sixteenth Biennial Congress of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, Ohio, USA, 2026
XIII Meeting of the Chilean Network on Science and Technology Studies, University of Concepción, Chile, 2026
DHST/IUHPST Commission on Science and Literature 6th Biennial Conference, University of Ghent, Belgium, 2026
History of Digital History between East and West, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg, 2026
A History Forum for Ocean Science, Strategy, and Environment Seminar series, Sevilla, Spain, 2026
New historical sources/resources
Victims of Biomedical Research under National Socialism in Germany, Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Germany
New Catalogs about Brazilian and Portuguese Colonial Sources about Brazil, National Library of Brazil
New images, Brasiliana Iconográfica collection, National Library of Brazil
MICROBLOG – OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
All members are warmly invited to send microblogs to be included in our Newsletter (microblog: 1-2 paragraphs text, with your personal impressions included, about one self-authored work on Science and Empire, broadly understood). Please do send yours to the SCIEMP Newsletter Editor, Professor Leticia Galluzzi (galluzzi at acd.ufrj.br).
We thank the authors who contributed to the present Issue.
Postcolonial and Decolonial Historiography of Science
By Silvia Figueirôa, Professor at State University of Campinas, Brazil, 1st Vice-President of the Division of History of Science and Technology (DHST/IUHPST), and former SCIEMP President
In this text, I review the different historiographical perspectives present in the international literature that addresses, in a general and comprehensive manner, the relationship between science and empires/imperialism. I wrote it as an entry for the Handbook for the Historiography of Science, Historiographies of Science, edited by Mauro L. Condé and Marlon Salomon, and published by Springer in 2023. This handbook is a comprehensive reference work on the history, philosophy, and sociology of science. In my opinion, the text’s central relevance lies in its broad review, which begins with George Basalla’s famous article in Science (1967) and continues through more recent years, incorporating a body of work often overlooked by those dedicated to so-called global history. For me, the topic interacts profoundly with science and empires, since it is impossible to consider the two concepts separately, particularly when analyzing modern science. The entry can be found here.
Picturing the Atom: How Images Expose the Myth of a Global Visual Nuclear History
By Maria Rentetzi, Professor, Chair of Science, Technology & Gender Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
While preparing my recent exhibition on the history of radiation protection, entitled Living with Radiation, I became aware of an astonishingly rich paper and digital trail of photographs documenting the development of nuclear science and industry. (For a visual history of radiation protection, see https://cleio-press.de/). Yet, these images overwhelmingly represent the history of the nuclear age from the perspective of the Global North, perpetuating a particular historiographical lens on regions long described as the “developing world.” For decades, historians have used images as sources of historical knowledge—often as supplements or correctives to textual records. Photographs have been mobilized to substantiate historical claims, to enrich biographical and autobiographical accounts, and to complement oral histories. For “text-heavy” historians, images have traditionally held value only insofar as they reinforced established narratives. However, the recent visual turn in historical scholarship has elevated images to a different epistemological and historiographical status. Images can function as a distinct language, one that allows historians to move beyond the naturalized canon produced by texts, oral accounts, and artifacts. In this sense, photographs are not mere pictorial representations of reality; they participate in a broader dialogue involving nuclear history, ethics, and the relational accountability of photographers, as well as the institutions—museums, archives, and research centers—that preserve and interpret them. These institutions, along with researchers themselves, become part of the photographs’ biography. In short, I argue, constructing a global history of the nuclear age requires expanding the visual geography of nuclear history beyond its dominant Euro-American frame. For example, although the International Atomic Energy Agency has recently published a finding aid https://archives-catalogue.iaea.org/Search6/search/simple to its vast archives, including a large selection of images, these photographs still primarily reflect a Global North perspective on nuclear activities in the so-called developing world, rather than documenting how these processes were experienced, represented, and negotiated locally. What we need instead is new narratives shaped by diverse local experiences, aesthetics, and power relations.
Becoming Data: Bodies, Technology and the Making of Personal Information in Modern Peru
By Jose Ragas, Professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
If “data is the new oil,” as the saying goes, where does it come from? How does it fuel our current economic system and society? My current book manuscript investigates how this “new oil” emerged in the early nineteenth century as a commodity extracted neither from underground deposits nor wells but from people’s subaltern bodies. Peruvian postcolonial policy makers created a complex mechanism to convert biological parts of the human bodies into legible information that could be stored, processed, and analyzed with predictive purposes. I study this process over a century (1820s-1930s), examining how our current personal data that is the basis for platform capitalism and Artificial Intelligence began in modest analog sites of surveillance and oppression such as prisons, police stations, and households. This manuscript builds upon the work of scholars such as Cathy O’Neil, Anita Say Chan, Virginia Eubanks, Safiya Noble and Mateo Pasquinelli, who study the pervasive effects of modern algorithms and digital databases in reproducing and normalizing unequal structures previously designed by the nineteenth-century policymakers and experts examined in Becoming Data. By dissecting how personal data was extracted and further reassembled as a cohesive trove of information, I aim to illustrate that this system was not inevitable at all and that in more than one opportunity, individuals were committed to reclaim the right to own their personal information. A preliminary analysis of facial recognition authentication from a long-term perspective, from mugshots to Apple ID, can be found here.
Uncommon connections: my encounters with invisible lives in colonial Taiwan
By Wen-Hua Kuo, Professor at the National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, and President of the 4S – Society for Social Studies of Science
Not trained as a scholar of colonial or postcolonial studies, I nonetheless wrote my longest piece to date—nearly eighty pages—about a group of people labeled as “lepers” under Japanese colonial rule. While it is no longer appropriate to call them that, as they are now recognized as survivors or victims of Hansen’s disease—an infectious disease caused by a pathogen under the same category as that of tuberculosis—the question of how to represent their lives in history remains difficult. This challenge concerns not only historians but also scholars in science, technology, and society studies (STS) who seek to understand their complex circumstances and to give them a voice. When I first engaged in this work, I collaborated with social activists and legal scholars to uncover a “dark” history of human experimentation at Rakuseiin, Taiwan’s only official leprosarium during the colonial period. As I delved into the discourses of those who sought to draw government attention to these patients—colonial and missionary physicians, social welfare officers, local leaders, and ultimately the Governor-General and hygiene bureaucrats—the lives of these patients became increasingly blurred, and in some sense distorted, for the sake of making them “visible.” We now know what these discourses produced: the establishment of a 100-bed leprosarium in 1930. Yet it became a site that justified the colonial government’s policy of confining leprosy patients, reducing their lives to mere numbers for surveillance and management—leaving their human stories still obscured. For me, this has been a surprising and demanding journey, one that has forced me to recover some of my forgotten skills as a historian of public health. I also feel deeply grateful for the opportunity to spend time with these survivors, whose testimonies remind me that good history must begin as good ethnography. For those who are interested in knowing more about this piece (sorry, in Chinese), here is an English abstract of it:
Governing Through Calculations: Viewing Leprosy in Colonial Gazes
Wen-Hua Kuo
This study examined the colonial governance of leprosy patients in Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contrary to conventional approaches in colonial public health that featured thorough investigation and immediate control, treatment of leprosy cases revealed complicated relationships between practical concerns of the colonial government in preventing the spread of leprosy through isolation and appeals of the public health experts and missionaries for the timely establishment of leprosaria. It is in this sense that the estimated number of leprosy patients was crucial to understanding leprosy in Taiwan. On one hand, the number constituted a prominent component in the discourses on the orientation and severity of the leprosy problem. On the other hand, the ways to count these patients or what this paper termed “colonial gazes” also determined how they would be treated in terms of public health governance or colonial control. Major findings of this study included the following. First, before the establishment of the Rakusei Leprosarium, the colonial government had not conducted thorough studies on leprosy patients; therefore, speculations on the number of these patients were inevitable and plausible. Second, leprosy experts tended to portray leprosy as a prevalent disease or an “urban problem”; thus calling for immediate government intervention and collaboration with local leaders. Third, although missionary physician Dr. George Gushue-Taylor had his own concerns in setting up the Happy Mount Colony, he did not exaggerate the prevalence of leprosy and did not openly contradict the official accounts of the disease. Fourth, with total isolation of leprosy patients as a national policy, the police and public health officials further moderated the number of leprosy patients in order to portray them as serious yet controllable subjects, for whom a leprosarium should be established.
Here is the link to information about the edited volume where my chapter is included:
日本殖民統治下的底層社會：臺灣與朝鮮（已絕版, out of print）
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Editor: Leticia Galluzzi, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
