{"id":87392,"date":"2015-01-28T15:26:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T20:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=87392"},"modified":"2015-02-03T15:25:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T20:25:27","slug":"guest-scholar-to-present-two-public-talks-on-history-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/guest-scholar-to-present-two-public-talks-on-history-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest scholar to present two public talks on history, technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Leow-Event-11.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-87472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Leow-Event-1-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"Leow-Event-1-screenshot\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Leow-Event-24.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-87482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Leow-Event-2-screenshot.jpg\" alt=\"screenshot of poster\" width=\"300\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a>Rachel Leow, a lecturer in modern East Asian history at the University of Cambridge, will present talks on the cultural history of electricity in Shanghai, and on history, technology, and the liberal arts.<\/p>\n<p>PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGED DATE AND TIMES OF BOTH TALKS.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">TALK 1<\/span><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Through the letters of a mentally ill Shanghai resident, Leow\u2019s first talk, \u201cMadman in an Electric Age: A Cultural History of Electricity in Shanghai, C. 1880-1940,\u201d will explore the cultural history of the electrification of Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p><strong>TIME, DATE, PLACE:<\/strong>\u00a012 noon, Feb. 4, Rush Rhees Library, Room 362, University of Rochester River Campus. The talk is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">TALK 2<\/span><\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leow\u2019s second talk is titled \u201cBetween Digital and Analogue in the 21st Century: History, Technology, and the Liberal Arts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>TIME, DATE, PLACE: <\/strong>5\u00a0pm, Feb. 4, Rush Rhees Library, Wells Brown Room, University of Rochester River Campus. The talk is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ABOUT:<\/strong> Rachel Leow&#8217;s research is broadly concerned with the social, cultural and intellectual links between China and Chinese communities in maritime Southeast Asia, British imperialism in Asia, and with histories of ideas beyond Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Her work strives to be sensitive to the complex transformations of ideas and identities in motion. Her current research project is an investigation of China&#8217;s intellectual influences in Southeast Asia, c. 1880-1950.<\/p>\n<p>Leow joined the Cambridge faculty in 2014. She completed her PhD in history at St. Catharine&#8217;s College, Cambridge in 2011, and a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University between 2011-2013.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPONSOR:<\/strong> The University of Rochester\u2019s Department of History.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR MORE INFORMATION:<\/strong> Contact the History Department at (585) 354-1434.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Leow, a lecturer in Modern East Asian History at the University of Cambridge, will present talks on the cultural history of electricity in Shanghai, and on history, technology, and the liberal 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