East Asia - Afternoon

Course Programme

14:00 Session 1 The Realm, The Road, and The City - an introduction to Early Modern Japanese cartography - Dr Joshua Batts

What is worth mapping? What makes a map useful? This lecture introduces these questions within the context of  Tokugawa Japan (1600-1868), a society that proved very apt at mapping itself in a variety of ways. We’ll explore this colourful, engaging cartographic heritage with a particular focus on travel, literal and figurative alike. 

15:15 Tea

15:30 Session 2 Traditional Mongolian medicine - Inky Gibbens

Traditional Mongolian Medicine (TMM) is around 5000 years old and is one of the most valuable intangible cultural heritages of Mongolia and its people. It has also been recognised as an important part of the healthcare system. This talk will highlight various aspects of TMM.

17.00 Finish

Dr Joshua Batts is a Research Associate at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (FAMES). He received his PhD in Japanese history from Columbia University in 2017. Prior to his arrival in Cambridge in fall 2019, he served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Historiographical Institute at Tokyo University. His current book project focuses on the diplomatic and commercial encounter between Tokugawa Japan and Habsburg Spain in the early seventeenth century. He is also developing a research project on mining and minting in the Japanese archipelago from the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries.

Originally from Mongolia, Inky Gibbens grew up in a Ger (yurt). She studied languages, language endangerment and Anthropology at Leeds, Glasgow, Aberdeen universities & taught Mongolian and Russian at SOAS, University of London for many years. After a spell at a few London based EdTech startups, she took the inevitable plunge and founded Tribalingual to tackle the big social issue that motivates her - that of language and cultural loss around the world.

Lunch

A selection of sandwiches will be available to purchase in the Terrace Bar.

Additional requirements

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This course takes place at Madingley Hall, home to the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.

About Madingley Hall

Madingley Hall itself is an impressive manor house dating back to the mid-16th century. The decoration of the Saloon and the formal Stair Hall was carried out 200 years later, and the whole fabric was renovated with great care around 1900. About four miles from the centre of Cambridge, the Hall stands in several acres of beautifully-maintained gardens and overlooks a landscape which has changed relatively little since it was laid out by Capability Brown. It is just four miles from the centre of Cambridge, and only 60 minutes from London, with excellent links to London airports.

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