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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Last chance to submit for ICTAM XI! Submissions close tonight Singapore time: iastam.org/ictam-xi/cal...

IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

📢 ICTAM XI 2027 — Theme: Efficacy, Evidence and Safety in the Practice of Asian Medicine 🗓️ Abstract deadline: 30 Sept 2026 📍 NTU Singapore | 12–16 July 2027 📄 Submit your abstract (up to 300 words): 👉 Call for Papers www.conftool.org/ictam-xi-2027/

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Paper and Panel Submission Portal for ICTAM XI is now open... www.conftool.org/ictam-xi-202...

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Call for papers for our next conference in Singapore at Nanyang Technological University from July 12-16, 2027! Please submit proposals via the online portal by September 30, 2026 (link in bio).

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Health: Organisation, Practice & Emerging Strategies 🌏 20–22 Aug 2026 | CHRIST University, Bengaluru Scholars, policymakers & practitioners explored health systems, equity, ageing, care, and Traditional, Complementary & Integrative Health Systems. cspd.in/hopes-confer...

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CSPD | Centre for Studies in Population and Development

Leading interdisciplinary scholarship on population and development with an emphasis on economic, social and climate justice.

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ka Wai FAN 范家偉, Temples of the Three Sovereigns, Physicians and Medicine in the Yuan Dynasty 元代三皇廟、醫者與醫學 (2026). A study of Yuan medicine’s integration of northern and southern traditions—and its lasting impact on Ming medicine.

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Did we undersell ICTAM XI? 🌿 Alongside brilliant scholars of Asian medicines, we're planning a Sui/Yuan dynasty banquet with the historian Vivienne Lo, Chinese opera and gamelan, medicinal garden tours, and maybe even a Humanities disco. 🏮 iastam.org/ictam-xi/

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Big News! The call for papers for ICTAM XI, the Eleventh International Congress on Traditional Asian Medicine is now out. From July12-16, 2027, IASTAM will host the conference at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. iastam.org/ictam-xi/?fb...

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

📍 Taipei | This Saturday I 15:00-16:30 Join Professor Yang Yan's talk on the transformative history of Chinese medicine in Singapore. If you're in Taipei and interested in the history of medicine, this is a great opportunity to hear her latest research.

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Source from China Science www.facebook.com/groups/53349...

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Singapore Health Sciences Authority invites public comment on Complementary Health Product legislation. www.hsa.gov.sg/announcement...

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Stakeholder Consultation on the Proposed Regulation for Complementary Health Products under the Health Products Act

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Very interesting conference bringing medical history and medical humanities together around questions of cross-cultural medical transfer. shh.bjmu.edu.cn/english/news...

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The School of Health Humanities

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Important conference on TCM taking place today at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Excellent papers pointing to problems in producing evidence for traditional medicine, but also for biomedical research as well. event.ntu.edu.sg/the-14th-ann...

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The 14th Annual Meeting of The GP-TCM RA (7 - 9 Jul 2026)

This event has been approved by TCM Practitioners Board with CPE 10 points (TCM20260331-1B-0006) for Singapore Registered TCM Practitioners. Conference Hig...

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Join the Vienna Sowa Rigpa Dialogues on June 30 for an update on Trees of Knowledge, an innovative project transforming Tibetan medical knowledge into a collaborative textile installation through crowd-knitting. Join: [univienna.zoom.us/j/69198850742...]…...)

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Yonsei University & EAMAN host the international conference Medical Humanities in the Era of Artificial Intelligence on June 28 in Seoul. Exploring AI, East Asian medicine, ethics, care, and death.

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A Midsummer TCM Journey 2026 will feature Dr. John McDonald, IASTAM Vice President James Flowers @jimflowers.bsky.social, and IASTAM Past President Volker Scheid. Join to exchange with the global East Asian medicine community. 📅 June 27, 2026 FREE registration via The TCM Community.

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

2026 Theme: Yoga for Healthy Ageing - This year marks the 12th International Day of Yoga with the theme “ Yoga for Healthy Ageing”, which emphasizes the importance of Yoga for all ages. www.un.org/en/observanc...

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International Day of Yoga | United Nations

Yoga is an ancient physical, mental and spiritual practice that originated in India. International Yoga Day aims to raise awareness worldwide of the many benefits of practicing yoga.

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Call for submissions: Charles Leslie Prize Honouring Charles Leslie and the roots he planted in Asian medicine. For young and senior scholars, practitioners, and early-career voices send your original piece. Submit by Sept 1, 2026. iastam.org/awards/

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The TCM Community will host A Midsummer TCM Journey 2026 online on 27 June 2026, bringing together practitioners, students, researchers, and enthusiasts of TCM. At 11:00, IASTAM Vice President James Flowers @jimflowers.bsky.social will join the discussion. www.tcmcommunity.com

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Does Tibetan medicine use animals as medicine? Less and less. Stephan Kloos's new open-access article examines why Sowa Rigpa has been moving away from animal ingredients since the 1980s. Read more: brill.com/view/journal...

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Hybrid Conference on Buddhism & Medicine Buddhism and Medicine: People, Paradigms and Perspectives (21–23 May 2026), hosted by the Centre for Buddhist Studies. buddhiststudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk?page_id=435&...

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Buddhism and Medicine Conference – Centre for Buddhist Studies Bristol

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Charles Leslie Prize Honouring Charles Leslie and the roots he planted in Asian medicine. For young and senior scholars, practitioners, and early-career voices send your original piece. Submit by Sept 1, 2026. iastam.org/awards/

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Dear colleagues! @piercesalguero.bsky.social invites you to contribute to Asian Medicine Zone www.asianmedicinezone.com?fbclid=IwY2x... Short notes, reflections, or video essays on Asian medicine are welcome from scholars at different stages of their careers. Interested? Get in touch!

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Asian Medicine Zone | Pierce Salguero | Substack

AMZ is a publication of IASTM.org. A blog featuring insightful scholarly work on Asian traditions of health, medicine, and the body. Authors include scholars, researchers, and practitioners of Asian m...

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

3rd National Sorig Conference with the theme “Research, Innovation and Evidence-Based Practice in Sowa Rigpa” ཞིབ་འཚོལ་དང་གསར་གཏོད་ཀྱི་ཐོག་ལས་སྒྲུབ་བྱེད་ལྡན་པའི་གསོ་བ་རིག་པའི་ལག་ལེན། Date: 15th and 16th of May, 2026 Organized by: Faculty of Traditional Medicine, KGUMSB www.facebook.com/NangpaiSorig...

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The HCCA Lecture Series rolls out something special — a live online launch for Crafting Potency A journey through Sowa Rigpa medicine-making across the Himalayas 🗓 Apr 29, 2026 ⏰ 6–8pm CET 💻 Live on Zoom hu-berlin.zoom.us/j/6935571797... hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/catalog/book...

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Please register for and attend Choi Sung-woons' talk on the Royal Medical System in Choson Dynasty Korea-including a comparison with Qing China medical literature. Please click on the link for details including registration. www.chosonhistorysociety.org/events?fbcli...

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Events — Chosŏn History Society

Events hosted by the Chosŏn History Society, including zoom talks, webinars, and in-person events

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Visit the Li-Fu Museum of Chinese Medicine (立夫中醫藥博物館) in Taichung, where the current exhibition Beauty & Cosmetics in Chinese Medicine (中醫美容與化妝展覽) explores how traditional herbs and practices connect beauty, skincare, and health across time. lifumuseum.cmu.edu.tw/web/en/exhib...

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Beauty and Cosmetics in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Exploring the Ancient Wisdom of TCM for Health and Beauty - Special exhibition - Lifu Museum of Chinese Medicine

What exactly is TCM beauty? Is it a mysterious palace secret, or the ancient wisdom of daily life? W

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Next week, IASTAM council member Lan A. LI will give a talk at Nanyang Technological University. Register here: www.ntu.edu.sg/soh/news-eve...

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Dr Gao Shanshan (高珊珊)'s thesis: Forging a Basic Theory of Chinese Medicine in the Early People’s Republic of China: An Examination of Wuxing 新中國中醫基礎理論的構建：以五行為中心 The link may load slowly, but it is functional: lbms03.cityu.edu.hk/theses/c_ftt...

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Introducing the latest issue of Asian Medicine: brill.com/view/journal...

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Dr Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira is at NTU for the seminar: The Power Within: Trance States and Mental Healing in 20th-Century East Asia 26 March 2026, 1:30-3 PM For online participants: Join us via Microsoft Teams by scanning the QR code.

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Invitation to the 2nd Vienna Sowa Rigpa Dialogues event of 2026: A project presentation and discussion with Dr. Katharina Sabernig on Trees of Knowledge Date: March 19, 2026 Time: 3:30 – 5:00 pm CET Join via Zoom: ID 640 3102 1911, Code 765836 stb.univie.ac.at/news-events/...

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Trees of Knowledge: Artistic Visualisation of the Explanatory Tantra

Katharina Sabernig | Vienna Sowa Rigpa Dialogue (Online Meeting)

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Chinese medicine is having a moment “When Americans don’t trust their own institutions, media or political class, they become more willing to look for alternative reference points.” Read the full article here: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Gen Z flocks to Chinese medicine as trust in US health system plummets: ‘It’s so personalized to being human’

As Americans embrace ‘alternative’ remedies, people online joke that they’re ‘Chinamaxxing’ their wellness routines

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

"From a health-systems perspective, integration is not a single decision or event." — Holger Cramer, JICM Editorial journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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When Global Consensus Meets Health Systems Reality: Implementing Traditional, Complementary, and Integrative Medicine - Holger Cramer, 2026

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

A visual summary of the latest issue of Asian Medicine! Click below to read it online. brill.com/view/journal...

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Nine months after the sudden passing of the talented historian of Chinese medicine, Hao Chen 陳昊 (1983–2025), his posthumous work: The Return of Longing: Knowledge, Emotion, and the “Yuan-Bai Moment” in Chinese Medical History, was published by Shanghai Guji Publishing House.

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Forthcoming in-person lecture

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

For decades, Singapore’s Chinese community has turned to acupuncture treatments, barley water and herbal remedies not only to boost healing and wellness, but also to cope with the hot weather. www.straitstimes.com/singapore/en...

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TCM can be part of a country’s toolkit against rising heat: NUS study

TCM methods can be used to help people build long-term resilience against rising temperatures. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

China launches new wave of research into TCM herbal injections. The research initiative looks to transform the practice away from compounds to simpler formulas: www-nature-com.remotexs.ntu.edu.sg/articles/s41...

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Chinese, Ghanaian experts promote traditional medicine in women's healthcare Empowering Women, Sharing Health: english.news.cn/20260109/7cb...

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Chinese, Ghanaian experts promote traditional medicine in women's healthcare

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IASTAM @iastam.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

An exchange program brings together Italian and Chinese physicians to explore TCM and deepen international cooperation. This aims at building stronger global connections and enriching medical knowledge and practices across borders. youtu.be/UmTZWkuDUmA?...

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Exchange program teams up Italian doctors with traditional Chinese medicines

YouTube video by CGTN Europe

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