Over the last two decades, relations between Africa and Asia have been increasing, starting with the
significant increase of trade between the two regions and the investments of Asian countries across the
African continent. Economic relations play an important role. But there are many other factors to these
new African-Asian relations. Social, political and cultural interactions continue to increase between the
two continents, the trend being encouraged by globalization.
The purpose of this workshop is to study the new socio-political, economic and cultural exchanges that
extend across the two continents, based on geopolitical, macro or micro-economic, sociological or
ethnographic approaches. To analyze these new r

The 14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (14th ICHSEA) took place in Paris, 6-10 July 2015. It was organised under the auspices of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), on behalf of the International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine (ISHEASTM).
The
conference was the latest in a series of major international meetings
that have taken place in Europe, East Asia and America since 1990. It
brought together more than 380 researchers from all over the world to
present and discuss their latest research relevant to the history of
science, technology and medicine in East Asia from antiquity up to the
present day.
With 317
papers, about 200 of which were delivered as part of one of the 45
panels, the 14th ICHSEA was the largest internationa