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Friday, September 23, 2011

Drugs and drink in Asia: New perspectives from History



Event type:
Conference
Date:
22 June 2012 - 24 June 2012
URL:
www.strath.ac.uk/cshhh
Organiser(s):
Professor James Mills, Dr Yong-an Zhang, Dr. Joseph F. Spillane
Event Location:
Shanghai University, ChinaShanghai
China
Call for Papers details
Call for papers deadline:
15 December 2011

The centenary of the Hague Opium Convention in 1912 marks a hundred years of the development of international controls on commercial flows in psycho-active substances. This conference seeks to bring together those conducting new research on the origins and trajectory of that system in order to exchange recent conclusions and to address emerging questions. The focus will be on Asian contexts given that these were at the heart of the controversies that drove the emergence of the international drugs regulatory system. Among the questions to be considered are:

1. What has recent research revealed about historic markets for psycho-active substances in Asia?

2. How far were Asian consumers of psycho-active substances driving these markets or being led by them?

3. What were the chief concerns of governments and administrations in Asia when seeking to control these markets and consumers?

4. How significant was the place of psycho-active substances in both Asian and imperial commercial networks?

5. Were representations of Asian consumers of psycho-active substances more varied than previously thought, and if so what does this tell us? > > > > Read More

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