2023 Peter L. Lee Endowed Lecture in East Asian Culture and Civilization

Posted: May 1, 2023

By: Asian Studies and College of Arts and Sciences


Professor HsaiMonday, May 8, 4–6 p.m.
Casey Commons (5th floor of Casey)

You are cordially invited to attend the 2023 Peter L. Lee Endowed Lecture in East Asian Culture and Civilization, titled “Heavenly Learning: Jesuit Science in Imperial China.”

Florence Hsia, PhD, professor of history of science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will deliver this year's lecture. Professor Hsia (right) has focused on the history of Jesuit science during the Society of Jesus' global missions in the early modern period and is the author of Sojourners in a Strange Land: Jesuits and Their Scientific Missions in Late Imperial China (Chicago, 2009).

The event will begin with a reception at 4 p.m., followed by the lecture between 4:30 and 6 p.m.

The event is open to the public and there is no admission fee.

View the Peter L. Lee Lecture Program 2023.