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DESCRIPTION:2026寰宇漢學講座\n\n講者：蘇文彬（Benjamin Sinvany，美國哥倫比亞大學歷史系博士候選人）\n講題：療疾、
 懲罰與報應：宋代社會中「食穢」的多重意涵（Putting Filth to Work as Medicine\, Punishment\, and 
 Retribution: What it meant to “Eat Shit” in the Song Dynasty (960-1279)）\n
 主持人：陳秀芬（國立政治大學歷史學系教授兼文學院院長）\n時間：2026年6月16日（週二）14:00-15:30\n地點：國家圖書館藝文中心3樓3
 01室（臺北市中山南路20號）\n備註：本場演講以中文進行\n※以上會議時間如有變動，本中心將依報名資料另行通知\n\n演講摘要：\nThis ta
 lk is about the consumption of filth in the Song dynasty. Sometimes referr
 ed to as “eating shit” (食糞) or “eating filth” (食穢) this talk presents acco
 unts of people literally eating feces. It uses a wide selection of Song so
 urces including biji\, records of the strange 志怪\, medical prescription te
 xts\, as well as historical anecdotes preserved in leishu 類書. Taken togeth
 er\, these excerpts form a diverse mosaic of extreme behaviors. In some ca
 ses\, people demand to eat feces\, in others they are forced to consume it
  against their will\, and in others it is administered as a known antidote
  to poisoning. There appear to be at least three different reasons people 
 consumed human excrement in Song China: coercion\, divine retribution\, an
 d medicine. The cases presented here reveal a logic of purity in the Song 
 that allowed eating filth to function as a method for healing (an antidote
  to poison)\, a coercive punishment\, and a symptom of divine retribution.
 \n\n主講人簡介：\nBenjamin is a History-East Asia Ph.D. candidate at Columbia Un
 iversity researching the social history of Song (960-1279) China. Broadly 
 defined\, his interests include technology\, knowledge transmission\, and 
 social constructions of waste and disgust. Benjamin uses non-traditional s
 ources like collections of ghost tales and other strange stories alongside
  technical manuals to investigate historical social change. In earlier wor
 k\, Benjamin argues that access to key resources like nitrogen salts (salt
 peter) and sulfur by multiple states in twelfth- and thirteenth-century Ea
 st Asia was a primary driver of the invention of explosives (e.g.\, gunpow
 der). His current dissertation project\, tentatively titled “Putting Waste
  to Work: Feces and Knowledge in Song (960-1279) China” broadens tradition
 al comparative questions in the history of science (e.g.\, was saltpeter w
 as made from human and animal excrement and urine in East Asia as it was i
 n Europe?) to historicize human feces as something both useful and repugna
 nt\, powerful and dangerous. Documenting the uses and views of human feces
  in China from 900-1300 AD – a moment of unprecedented population growth\,
  and abundance of new technologies\, and a highly commodified society – pr
 ovides a unique perspective on the accumulation and transmission of practi
 cal knowledge about the natural world. Benajmin’s dissertation project ref
 lects his interest in mobilizing social and cultural historical methods to
  answer questions at the intersection of Chinese studies and histories of 
 knowledge. \n\nBefore arriving at Columbia\, Benjamin completed a BA at Em
 ory University (Atlanta\, '15) and an MA (International Studies) at Johns 
 Hopkins University and Nanjing University (Nanjing\, '20). He was born in 
 Columbus\, Ohio. He regularly joins Contact Improvisation workshops and ja
 ms. Occasionally\, he competes in Waterski and Wakeboard competitions.
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SUMMARY:6月16日寰宇漢學講座：療疾、懲罰與報應：宋代社會中「食穢」的多重意涵
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