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  • 2024 Apr 03

    Yasheng Huang (MIT)

    4:00pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    WJH 1550

    Reframing the Needham Question: A Book Project

    China was once the most technologically advanced civilization in the world. Ancient Chinese achievements in technology are simply staggering. China led Europe in metallurgy, ship construction, navigation techniques, and many other fields, often by several centuries. Chinese also invented gunpowder, paper, water clock, moveable printing press, and other consequential technologies way ahead of the West. For example, Chinese invented seismograph 1,700 years before the French.

    But China’s technological...

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  • 2024 Apr 17

    Felipe Dias (Tufts University)

    4:00pm to 5:30pm

    Location: 

    WJH 1550
    The (In)Flexibility of Racial Discrimination: Labor Market Context and the Racial Wage Gap in the United States, 2000 to 2021