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張谷銘

Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang

Associate Research Fellow

Education

Ph.D. with Distinction, University of Chicago, Hisotry

Areas of Research

History of Science in Early Modern Europe, History of the Humanities, Comparative History of Philology, Global Studies of Higher Education

Journal Articles
  1. “From University to Court: The Reversal of Stahl’s Positions on Gold-Making,” Ambix, accepted.
  2. “For the Love of the Truth: The Dissertation as a Genre of Scholarly Publication in Early Modern Europe,” KNOW: A Journal on the Formation of Knowledge, to be published in 2021.
  3. “Henry Sweet (1845-1912): A Philologist Laying the Foundation for Phonetics,” The Making of the Humanities, 4.2 (2019): 287-291. 
  4. “Ceaseless Generation: Republican China’s Rediscovery and Expansion of Domestic Vitalism,” Asia Major, 30 (2017): 101-131.
  5. “Dongfang Xue: European Philology in Republican China,” Geschichte der Germanistik: Historische Zeitschrift für die Philologien, 49/50 (2016): 5-22.
  6. "Philology yu Shiyusuo: Chen Yinke, Fu Simian, yu Zhonguo de dongfangxue"  Philology 與史語所：陳寅恪、傅斯年、與中國的的東方學 (Philology and the Institute of History and Philology at Academia Sinica: Chen Yinke, Fu Sinian, and “Oriental Studies” in Republican China), 中央研究院歷史語言研究所集刊 Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, 87 (2016): 375-460.
  7. “The Task for Future Philology: The Visual Language of Science,” invited submission, Geschichte der Germanistik: Historische Zeitschrift für die Phlologien, 45/46 (2014): 107-127.
  8. “Communications of Chemical Knowledge: Georg Ernst Stahl and the Chemists at the French Academy of Sciences in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century,” Osiris, 29.1 (January 2014): 135-157.
  9. “Politics of Life and Science: The Introduction of Hans Driesch’s Vitalism to Post-WWI China,” Harvard-Yenching Working Paper Series (2011), http://www.harvard-yenching.org/sites/harvard-yenching.org/files/featurefiles/Kevin%20Chang%20Kuming_Politics%20of%20Life%20and%20Science.pdf
  10. “Alchemy as Studies of Life and Matter: Reconsidering the Place of Vitalism in Early Modern Chymistry,” Isis, 102 (2011).
  11. “Collaborative Production and Experimental Labor: Two Models of Dissertation Authorship in the Eighteenth Century,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 41 (2010): 347-355.
  12. Ku‐Ming (Kevin) Chang and Karen Hunger Parshall, “Eloge: Allen George Debus, 16 August 1926-6 March 2009,” Isis, 101 (2010): 159-162.
  13. “Toleration of Alchemists as Political Question: Transmutation, Disputation, and Early Modern Scholarship on Alchemy,” Ambix, 54 (2007): 245-273.
  14. “Georg Ernst Stahl,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th edition (World Wide Web edition), 2007 (http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-261656).
  15. “Kant’s Disputation of 1770: The Dissertation and the Communication of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe,” Endeavour, 31 (2007): 45-49.
  16. “From Oral Disputation to Written Text: The Transformation of the Dissertation in Early Modern Europe,” History of Universities, 19 (2004): 129-87.
  17. “Motus Tonicus: Georg Ernst Stahl's Formulation of Tonic Motion and Early Modern Medical Thought,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 78 (2004): 767-803.
  18. “Fermentation, Phlogiston, and Matter Theory: Chemistry and Natural Philosophy in Georg Ernst Stahl’s Zymotechnia Fundamentalis,” Early Science and Medicine, 7 (2002): 31-64.
  19. “The ‘Artists of Fire’ and the Dennis I. Duveen Collection,” Messenger Magazine, Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries, 36 (1998): 23-24.
Book Chapters
  1. “Introduction,” co-authored with Anthony T. Grafton and Glenn W. Most, in Impagination--Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication: Interdisciplinary Approaches from East and West, co-edited with Anthony T. Grafton and Glenn W. Most (De Gruyter, 2021)
  2. “Beyond the Physical Page: Latest Practice of Scientific Publication,” in Impagination--Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication: Interdisciplinary Approaches from East and West, ed. Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang, Anthony T. Grafton, and Glenn Most (De Gruyter, 2021).
  3. “Introduction,” co-authored with Alan Rocke, Global History of Research Education: Disciplines, Institutions, and Nations, 1840-1950, co-edited with Alan Rocke (Oxford University Press, to be published in 2021)
  4. “Field, Ears, and Laboratory: Training Language Scholars, 1920-1940,” Global History of Research Education: Disciplines, Institutions, and Nations, 1840-1950, co-edited with Alan Rocke, (Oxford University Press, to be published in 2021)  
  5. “Training Historians and Ethnologists in Taiwan: 1928-1949,” co-authored with Wei-Chi Chen and Wan-yao Chou, Global History of Research Education: Disciplines, Institutions, and Nations, 1840-1950, co-edited with Alan Rocke (Oxford University Press, to be published in 2021)
  6. “Conclusion,” co-authored with Alan Rocke, Global History of Education: Disciplines, Institutions, and Nations, 1840-1950, co-edited with Alan Rocke (Oxford University Press, to be published in 2021)
  7. “Phlogiston,” Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, edited by Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe (Springer, 2019), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_482-1
  8. “Stahl, Georg Ernst,” Encyclopedia of Early Modern Philosophy and the Sciences, edited by Dana Jalobeanu and Charles T. Wolfe (Springer, 2019), https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20791-9_492-1
  9. 〈語文學或語言學：跨洲際的反應〉，收入賈晉華、陳偉、王小林、來國龍編，《新語文學與早期中國研究》（上海：上海人民出版社，2018），頁40-66。（原英文論文中譯）
  10. “Philology or Linguistics? A Conjunction of European and Chinese Schools of Learning around the Founding of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica,” in Sheldon Pollock, Benjamin A. Elman, and Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang, eds., World Philology (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015), 311-331.
  11. “The Great Philosophical Work: Georg Ernst Stahl’s Early Alchemical Teaching,” in Miguel López Pérez, Didier Kahn and Mar Rey-Bueno, eds., Chymia: Science and Nature in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (1450-1750) (Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2010), pp. 386-396.
  12. “Stahl, Georg Ernst,” in Noretta Koertge, ed., New Dictionary of Scientific Biography (Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2007), vol. 6, pp. 504-508.
  13. “Georg Ernst Stahl’s Alchemical Publications: Anachronism, Reading Market, and a Scientific Lineage Redefined,” in Lawrence M. Principe, ed., New Narratives in Eighteenth Century Chemistry (Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Springer, 2007), pp. 23-43.
  14. “From Vitalistic Cosmos to Materialistic World: The Lineage of Johann Joachim Becher and Georg Ernst Stahl and the Shift of Early Modern Chymical Cosmology,” in Lawrence M. Principe, ed., Chymists and Chymistry: Studies in the History of Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry (Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2007), pp. 215-225.
Book Editor
  1. Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang and Alan Rocke, eds., Global History of Research Education: Institutions, Disciplines, and Nations, 1840-1950, History of Universities Series (Oxford University Press, to be published in 2021).
  2. Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang, Anthony T. Grafton and Glenn W. Most, ed., Impagination--Layout and Materiality of Writing and Publication: Interdisciplinary Approaches from East and West (De Gruyter, 2021).
  3. Sheldon Pollock, Benjamin A. Elman, and Ku-ming (Kevin) Chang, eds., World Philology (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015).
Conference Papers
  1. 〈超乎紙上——網路時代與科學界的出版型態〉，發表於中央研究院歷史語言研究所107年度第十五次學術講論會，臺北：中央研究院歷史語言研究所，2018年10月1日。
  2. “Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics,” Classics of the Humanities Workshop, Roskilde University, Denmark, December 1, 2017.
  3. “Academia Sinica and Universities, 1928-Today,” International Commission for the History of Universities 2017 Annual Meeting, Taipei, October 27, 2017.  
  4. “Multiple Paths from Philology to Language Sciences, 1880-1960,” Symposium: Philology and the Sciences of Language, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, June 2, 2017.
  5. “Beyond Physical Page: The Latest Practice of Scientific Publication,” International Conference in Comparative History of Philology: Impignation: Forms, Media, and Circulation of Writing and Publication, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, March 20-22, 2017.
  6. “Materiality and Sensibility: Making Voice Objective,” Pilot meting for Taiwan-Germany Academic Collaboration in the Humanities: Material Culture of Knowledge, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, February 13-14, 2017.
  7. “The Potential Impact and Future Possibilities of the MPIWG Reader Project in the Chinese-Speaking World,” 2016 HSS Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA, November 3-5, 2016.
  8. “From Philology through Phonetics to Linguistics: The Transformation of Language Studies in Britain in the First Half of the Twentieth Century,” Anglo-Taiwanese History Conference, Institute of Historical Research, London, UK, August 31-September 2, 2016.
  9. “Away from Anthropology and Philology: The Training of Linguists in the US, Britain, and France, 1900-1945,” ESHHS (European Society for the History of Human Sciences/CHEIRON (International Society for the History of Behavioural and Social Sciences) Conference 2016, Barcelona, Spain, June 27-July 1, 2016.
  10. “Away from Anthropology and Philology: The Training of Linguists in the US, Britain and France,” Training Research Scholars: Institutions, Disciplines, and National Cultures, 1860- 1945 International Conference, Academia Sinica, Taipei, December 8-9, 2015.
  11. “A Comparative Study of Today's Practices of the Dissertation and its Oral Defense in Elite Universities Worldwide,” International Commission for the History of Universities, Copenhagen, October 2, 2015.
  12. “Western Vitalism in China: The Significance of Life for Chinese Conservatism, 1910-1945,” The 14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia, Paris, France, July 6-10, 2015.
  13. “Rudolf Eucken, Henri Bergson, Ernst Haeckel and Hans Driesch in China,” Reading the Signs: Languages of Prognostication in Chinese History, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, May 30-31, 2013.
  14. “Historical and Ahistorical Sciences of Language: The Separation of Philology and Linguistics,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, San Diego, November 17, 2012.
  15. “Philology, Anthropology, and the Science of Language-William Dwight Whitney and the Emergence of Linguistic Science,” Forum on Asia in the Early Modern World: Intellectual History in India, China, Japan, Korea and Europe, 復旦大學文史研究院, November 2, 2010.
  16. “Alchemy as Studies of Life and Matter: Reconsidering the Place of Vitalism in Early Modern Chymistry,” 16th-Century Studies Conference, Montreal, October 16, 2010.
  17. “A Global History of the Academic Degrees: The Importance of the Outsider in the Acceptance of the Ph.D. in England and Japan,” Society for the Social Studies of Science meeting, Tokyo, August 26, 2010.
  18. “Credit for Idea, Credit for Experiments: the Authorship of the Doctoral Dissertation in Laboratory Sciences in the Eighteenth Century,” International Congress for the History of Science, Budapest, Hungary, August 27-28, 2009.
  19. “Audience, Translation, and Credit for Published Knowledge: Laboratory and Models of Authorship of the Early Modern Dissertation,” History of Science Society Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, USA, November 6-9, 2008.
  20. “Philology or Linguistics: Intersection of European and Chinese Schools of Learning around the Founding of the Institute of History and Philology,” Conference on The Global History of Philology, The Institute of History and Philology, Taipei, October 28-29, 2008.
  21. “The Great Philosophical Work: Georg Ernst Stahl’s Early Alchemical Teaching,” International Conference on Chymia: Science and Nature in Early Modern Europe (1450-1750), Escorial, Madrid, Spain, September 7-12, 2008.
  22. “Languages and Translation of Knowledge: The Introduction of Medical Dissertations to the Popular Book Market in Early Modern Germany,” History of Science Society Meeting, Arlington, VA, November 2, 2007.
  23. “The Role of the Dissertation in the Scientific Communication of Early Modern Europe,” Department of the History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University, April 16, 2007.
  24. “The Role of the Dissertation in the Scientific Communication in Early Modern Europe,” Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, March 30, 2007.
  25. “The Chinese Influence on the Western Examination System: a Historical Thesis,” East Asian Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, February 26, 2007.
  26. “The Role of the Dissertation in the Communication of Knowledge of Early Modern Europe,” History and Philosophy of Science Workshop, University of Chicago, February 23, 2007.
  27. “The Role of the Dissertation in the Scientific Communication of Early Modern Europe,” Department of the History of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, February 16, 2007.
  28. “Academic Publication, Scientific Communication and the Early Modern University,” American Historical Association Meeting, Atlanta, January 7, 2007.
  29. “The Role of the Dissertation in the Communication of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe,” Early Modern Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, November 15, 2006.
  30. “The Place of the Dissertation in the Scientific Communication of Early Modern Europe,” Princeton University, Center for the Study of Books and Media, November 28, 2006.
  31. “From Vitalistic Cosmos to Materialistic Globe: Reconsidering the Chymical Lineage of J. J. Becher and G. E. Stahl,” History of Science Seminar, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, November 8, 2006.
  32. “Balsamic Pills: The Alchemical Background and Commercial Value of the Stahlian Equivalent of Universal Medicine,” History or Science Society Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, November 3, 2006.
  33. “From Vitalistic Cosmos to Materialistic Globe: Reconsidering the Chymical Lineage of J. J. Becher and G. E. Stahl,” International Conference on Alchemy and Chymistry, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, July 22, 2006.
  34. “From Vitalistic Earth to Materialistic Globe: Johann Joachim Becher and Georg Ernst Stahl on Subterranean Physics and Chemistry of Minerals,” British Society for the History of Philosophy, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, April 4, 2006.
  35. “From Believer to Disbeliever: Georg Ernst Stahl’s Visions of Alchemy in Transition and the Context of Their Publications,” Department of the History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 11, 2005.
  36. “The Formation of the Modern Dissertation: Media of Knowledge Publication, Norm of Academic Writings, and Qualification of the Modern Scholar,” History of the Human Sciences Workshop, University of Chicago, April 29, 2005.
  37. Invited paper, “Alchemy in the Works of Georg Ernst Stahl: Views of Alchemy in Transition and the Context of Their Publications,” Workshop on Eighteenth-Century Chemistry, Francis Bacon Award Conference, California Institute of Technology, April 21, 2005.
  38. “The Active and the Passive: Soul, Matter, and the Transformation of the Vital Principle in Eighteenth-Century Vitalism,” American Association for the History of Medicine meeting, Madison, Wisconsin, April 30, 2004.
  39. “Legitimacy and Social Order: Johann Franz Buddeus’ Dissertation on Toleration and Alchemy,” History or Science Society Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 22, 2003.
  40. “Student Life in Early Modern Europe: Culture and Identities,” Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, October 15, 2003.
  41. “The History of the Dissertation: Academic Writings, Knowledge Publications, and Academic Culture in Early Modern Europe,” Department of History, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, May 15, 2003.
  42. “Medicine for Ladies: The Introduction of Georg Ernst Stahl’s Gynecological Work to the Popular Book Market,” History of Science Society Meeting, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 8, 2002.
  43. “Piety and Life: Theories of Life in Pietist Halle,” (position paper), Midwest German History Workshop Madison, Wisconsin, November 11, 2000.
Book Reviews
  1. Book Review: “Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn, Archives of Origins: Sanskrit, Philology, Anthropology in 19th Century Germany. Translated from French by Dominique Bach and Richard Willet. - Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2013. - 336 S.,” Isis, 106 (2015): 461-462.
  2. Book Review: “Sebastian Normandin and Charles T. Wolfe ed., Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010, Dordrecht: Springer, 2013, VI + 377, 5 illus.,” Early Science and Medicine, 19 (2014): 376-378.
Lectures
  1. 「世界的學術史：敦煌的發現、『東方學』、與Philology」，交通大學105學年度上學期經典通識教育講座，新竹：交通大學，2016年11月23日。
  2. Keynote Speaker, “Today’s Doctoral Dissertation and Oral Defense: A Comparative Study of Academic Culture,” Roskilde University, Denmark, September 30, 2015.
  3. Keynote Speaker, “Symposium: Dissertations in the Baltic Sea Region 1600-1850 II,” Uppsala University, Stockholm, Sweden, November 7-8, 2013.
  4. Talk, “Disputation and Dissertation at Harvard: Learning and Media of Academic Writing and Publication,” Early Modern History and Book History Joint Seminar, Harvard University, April 25, 2012.
  5. Talk, “Politics of Life and Science: The Introduction of Hans Driesch’s to Post-WWI China,” East Asian Studies Program, Princeton University, December 14, 2011.
  6. Talk, “Politics of Life and Science: The Introduction of Hans Driesch’s to Post-WWI China,” Harvard-Yenching Institute, November 9, 2011.
  7. Talk, “The Dissertation as a Genre of Early Modern Publication,” Yale University Libraries, USA, November 16, 2009.
  8. Talk，「天地之際、生命與物質之分：鍊金術、宇宙觀、與近代化學的思想系譜」，中壢：中央大學化學系，2008年5月23日。
  9. Talk，「Dissertation 和近代歐洲的知識傳播」，花蓮：東華大學歷史系，2008年5月5日。
  10. Talk，「The Dissertation and the Communication of Knowledge in the Early Modern Republic of Letters」，臺北：臺灣大學臺灣世界史討論會，2008年3月28日。
  11. Talk，「Metropolis and Peripheries: Travels and Orientalism in Early Modern Literature」，臺北：國科會外文學門學術研習營，2007年11月10日。

Education：
Ph.D. with Distinction, University of Chicago, Hisotry (2002)

Current and Previous Positions：
2008.9- , Associate Professor/Research Fellow, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2015.10-2019.2, Chairperson of History Department, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
2002.2-2008.9, Assistant Professor/Research Fellow, Institute of Hisotry and Philology, Academia Sinica

2014.8-2017.7, 科技部人文行遠專書寫作計畫：「現代語言學獨立於Philology的歷史，1910-1945：學科的認同、成型、與實作」
2013-2014, 德國洪堡基金會 (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation) 資深學者研究獎助
2012.1-2016.12, Career Development Award, Academia Sinica
2011.8-2014.7, 國科會專題計畫：「科學、哲學、與生命的跨國史：十九世紀、二十世紀初Vitalism洲際討論與傳佈」，獲遴選為優秀年輕學者研究計畫獎助
2011.8.1-2012.7.15, Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholarship
2007, Young Investigator's Award, Academia Sinica
2006-2007, Fulbright Scholarship
2006, Wu Ta-yu Prize, National Science Ciuncil, Taiwan
2006, Membership, Institute of Advanced Study (School of Historical Studies), Princeton, Fall term
2003, Li Foundation of New York Heritage Prize for the Junior Faculty at Academia Sinica

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