Alumni

Martina Siebert

(Oct 2013-Jun 2016)

PhD

Trained in Chinese studies and history of science, Martina Siebert’s research interests centres on intellectual and material aspects of Chinese history and culture with a specialization in the history of science and technology from the 11th to the 19th century. She has published on Chinese monographs on nature studies and material culture (pulu 譜錄), on Chinese narratives of technological inventions (wuyuan 物原), on Chinese classification schemes for animals and on the digitization of Chinese materials.

Martina received her PhD at the Free University of Berlin in 2002 and has worked at the Free University of Berlin, University of Würzburg, Chinese Normal University in Beijing, the Humboldt University, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and as a research fellow and area specialist at the State Library of Berlin.
 

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Cultural Traditions of Technical Knowledge

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Historicized Innovation: Knowledge Tradition and its Encounter with the New

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Making the Qing Palace Machine Work

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Monumentalized or Marginalized, Writings about Technology in Chinese History: A Database

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Planning Plants: Growing and Organizing Lotus in Qing Imperial Spaces

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Selected Publications

Past Events

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East Asian Impacts on the Globalization of Ocean Studies During Cold War

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The Search for Rutie the Horse: Infertility Research and Settlement in Palestine/Israel

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Planning for Persistent Environmental Contamination: Public Health, Indigenous Traditional Knowledge, and the Settler Colonial State

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Managing Health and Household in Early Modern England

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The Cambridge Cockpit and the Berlin Cockpit. Problems in the Study of Flying Fatigue c. 1940

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Counting for Empire: the 1925 National Census and Colonial Korea's Experience of a New Demographic Regime

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Point Zero. The Mean Sea-level in Practice, Science, and Diplomacy

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Early Visions of Geo-engineering

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Bricks and Mortar: The Materials of Nation-building in 1970s Tanzania

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Planning a Colonial Cultural Economy: Arts and Crafts in the Belgian Congo

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Seeing the Forest and the Trees: On the Simultaneous Visualization of Horizontal and Vertical Transmission in Historical Linguistics

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The European Invention of the Manchu Alphabet

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Diplomacy on the Move between Song and Yuan Traditions: The Case of Annam

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Making the Qing Palace Machine Work (Part II)

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Presentations, Talks, & Teaching Activities

Known by their products? Agriculture and nature in local gazetteers of Chinese border regions in the Qing and early Republican period

AAS annual conference 2016, Seattle 31.3.-3.4.2016 (Panel organized by Shellen Wu: Cultivating the Frontiers: Agricultural Knowledge, Modernization, and the State in Western China, 1800-1962)

Chair and co-organizer together with FHSAsia: Roundtable "Translation as Process: Border-Crossing Knowledge, Materialities, and Concepts in the History of Science in Asia (and Beyond)"

HSS 2015, San Francisco 19.-22.2015

Things Outside of the Box: “Science Fiction Objects” in Early Modern Chinese Literature

14th ICHSEA, Paris 6.-10.7.2015 (Panel organized by Qiong ZHANG & Martina Siebert: Strange Nature, Strange Technologies: Exploring the Inexplicable in Early Modern East Asia)

Interlocking Workflows, Overlapping Spaces, Situating Knowledge: Growing and organising lotus in Qing imperial spaces

Workshop: Making the Qing Palace Machine Work, MPIWG, 28/29 May 2015

Animals as Text : Producing and Consuming 'text-animals'

Association for Asian Studies, Annual Meeting, Chicago, 26.-29.3.2015 (Panel organized by Martina Siebert: "Animals as ...")