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SUMMARY:Between universalism and regionalism: Nakai Takenoshin's research 
 on colonial Korean plants and Japanese universal systematics - Lee Jung (N
 eedham Research Institute)
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CONTACT:Natalie Lawrence
DESCRIPTION:This paper traces the scientific career of Nakai Takenoshin (1
 882-1952)\, a professor at Tokyo Imperial University\, who\, in 1926\, bec
 ame the sole non-Western member appointed to the International Committee o
 n Botanical Nomenclature. With two aims\, this paper delves into Nakai's r
 esearch on Korean plants\, the base of his botanical career\, in compariso
 n with those of his European and non-European counterparts in botany. Firs
 tly\, it demonstrates how the contested \nbotanizing in colonial Korea sha
 ped Nakai's systematics\, characterized by attention to small morphologica
 l detail and his various claims to \nuniversal validity of his systematics
 . Secondly\, through an analysis of these claims of universality\, it seek
 s to broaden the ongoing discussion on the universality and regionality of
  science by shifting focus away from the European origin to this non-Europ
 ean end. To understand how the universality of European science seemed int
 act in the increasing \nemergence of regionally variant sciences\, it disc
 loses what this universality meant for non-European scientists like Nakai.
  For him\, universalism and regionalism were not contradictory ideologies 
 about scientific practice but were very useful tools to maintain his scien
 tific career as the representative Japanese systematist. Nakai fought to s
 trengthen the universality of international botanical nomenclature while c
 laiming a uniquely 'East Asian' systematics as his Japanese universal syst
 ematics.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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