Professor Ci Jiwei has been awarded a HKU Research Output Prize for his latest book, The Two Faces of Justice (Harvard University Press, 2006).
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Dr. Cook – recent activities
September 13, 2007Forthcoming publication:
“The Septième Promenade of the Rêveries: A Peculiar Account of Rousseau’s Botany?” In J. O’Neal, ed., The Nature of Rousseau’s Reveries, special volume of Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (early 2008).
Invited speaker:
“La traduction de Rousseau en tant que réception,” colloquium Equipe Rousseau, Université de Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, 24 May 2008.
Colloquium on botanical gardens and herbaria, Linnean Society, London, 15 May 2008.
“The Herbarium as an instrument of social reform,” Herbarium Workshop, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik, Ernst-Haeckel-Haus, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany, 11 December 2007.
“The disciple critiques the Master: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Linnaean nomenclature,” Les mots et les choses au XVIIIe siècle: la science, “langue bien faite?” Université Lumière-Lyon 2, 22 September 2007.
Recent Conference papers
“Between Praxis and Episteme: the herbarium as boundary object,” International Society for the History, Philosophy, and Social Studies of Biology, Exeter, U.K., 26 July 2007.
“Communicating science at a distance: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s botanical correspondence,” Twelfth International Congress on the Enlightenment, Montpellier, France, 10 July 2007.
“Early-Modern European ‘linguistic imperialism’ in botany: The case of Chinese Plants,” British Society for the History of Science, University of Manchester, U.K., 28 June 2007.
