Conferences and Talks

34
Presentations & Talks
2009–2025
20
Podium Presentations
2
Posters
12
Invited Talks & Seminars

Conference Presentations

Podium Presentations

  1. Hui-Yuan Yeh. 2025. “Oral Health and Dental Attrition in the Bronze Age Mogou Cemetery.” International Symposium on Archaeology and East-West Cultural Exchange, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
  2. Jenna M. Dittmar, Elizabeth S. Berger, Ruilin Mao, Hui Wang, and Hui-Yuan Yeh. 2025. “Exploring Health in Bronze Age China: Ten Years of the Mogou Bioarchaeology Project.” 94th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA), Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
  3. Hui-Yuan Yeh. 2022. “The Desertification of the Ancient Oases in the Han Dynasty and the Diseases Found in the Region.” 23rd European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Vilnius, Lithuania, 28 August 2022 (virtual). PPA Programme (PDF)
  4. Hui-Yuan Yeh. 2021. Conference on the Mogou Bioarchaeology Project, Lanzhou, Gansu, China, 27–28 May 2021 (online).
  5. Hui-Yuan Yeh, Chieh-fu Jeff Cheng, Ching-Jung Huang, Xiaoya Zhan, Weng Kin Wong, and Piers D. Mitchell. 2019. “Discovery of Eurytrema in a Colonial Period Latrine in Taiwan.” Infectious Diseases: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives, Global Health Histories Seminar 132, WHO, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 11 September 2019. Download PDF
  6. Felicia Beardsley and Hui-Yuan Yeh (conveners). 2019. “Archaeology and Civilization in the Asia-Pacific Realm.” 2019 Conference on Pan-Pacific Anthropocene (ConPPA), 14–17 May 2019. Webpage
  7. Hui-Yuan Yeh. 2018. “The Desertification of the Ancient Oases in the Han Dynasty (202 BC–AD 220) in Northwestern China.” Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 27 October 2018. Webpage · PDF 1 · PDF 2
  8. Hui-Yuan Yeh, Qi Feng Lin, Nadiah Haris Hor Suk Yi, and Piers D. Mitchell. 2018. “The Eradication Campaign Against Oriental Schistosomiasis in China and Neighbouring Regions in the 1940s and 1950s.” ICOPA 2018 (14th International Congress of Parasitology), EXCO, Daegu, Korea, 19–24 August 2018.
  9. Hui-Yuan Yeh, Jiun-Yu Liu, Yi-Chang Liu, Chuan-Chao Wang, and David Emil Reich. 2018. “Ancient DNA (aDNA) Studies of the Hanben People.” Poster, 2017 Annual Conference of Taiwan Archaeologists, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, 6–7 July 2018.
  10. Hui-Yuan Yeh. 2017. “The Different Approaches and Applications of Medical Humanities: Examples from the School of Humanities, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.” QS Subject Focus Summit – Medicine: Universities Innovating for Future Healthcare, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, 16–18 October 2017.
  11. Hui-Yuan Yeh. 2017. “The Expansion of Austronesians and the Challenges.” ICAS 10 (International Convention of Asia Scholars), Chiang Mai, Thailand, 20–23 July 2017.
  12. Hui-Yuan Yeh. 2015. “Detecting Diseases in Past Civilizations: How Ancient Parasites Could Help Us Fight Modern Allergies.” Selected poster presentation (finalist), Biological and Biomedical Science Session, SET for Britain, Houses of Parliament, London, UK.
  13. Hui-Yuan Yeh, Yu-Pei Chen, and Piers D. Mitchell. 2015. “Human Intestinal Parasites from the Wushantou Site in Neolithic Period Taiwan.” 15th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists (EurASEAA15), Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Paris, France, 6–10 July 2015.
  14. Hui-Yuan Yeh, Ruilin Mao, Hui Wang, Wuyun Qi, and Piers D. Mitchell. 2015. “Intestinal Parasites from Personal Hygiene Sticks in a Latrine at Xuanquanzhi, China, 111 BC–AD 109.” 17th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO), University of Sheffield, UK, 18–20 September 2015.
  15. Hui-Yuan Yeh, Piers D. Mitchell, Kay Prag, Christa Clamer, and Jean-Baptiste Humbert. 2014. “Human Intestinal Parasites from a Mamluk Period Cesspool in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem: Evidence for Long Distance Contact in the 15th Century AD.” 16th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO), Durham University, UK, 12–14 September 2014.
  16. Hui-Yuan Yeh, Piers D. Mitchell, Aleks Pluskowski, and Uldis Kalējs. 2014. “Intestinal Parasites in a Mid-14th Century Latrine from Riga, Latvia: Fish Tapeworm and the Consumption of Uncooked Fish in the Medieval Eastern Baltic Region.” 20th European Conference of the Paleopathology Association (PPA), Lund University, Lund, Sweden, 28–30 August 2014.
  17. Hui-Yuan Yeh, Piers D. Mitchell, Aleks Pluskowski, and Uldis Kalējs. 2014. “Intestinal Parasites in a Mid-14th Century Latrine from Riga, Latvia: Fish Tapeworm and the Consumption of Uncooked Fish in the Medieval Eastern Baltic Region.” Terra Sacra: Conference on the Ecology of Crusading, Riga, Latvia, 18–20 September 2014.
  18. Hui-Yuan Yeh, Piers D. Mitchell, Aleks Pluskowski, and Uldis Kalējs. 2013. “Paleoparasitology and Baltic Crusading.” 15th Annual Conference of the British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO), University of York, UK, 13–15 September 2013.
  19. Hui-Yuan Yeh. 2010. “An Osteomorphometric Perspective on Sexual Division of Labour of the Niao-sung Culture in the Shih-Chiao Site, Tainan County.” Conference and Workshop of Sitting and Chatting on Peinan Site: A Cross-Border Thinking and Integration of Fields, National Museum of Prehistory, Taitung, Taiwan, 1–2 December 2010.
  20. Hui-Yuan Yeh. 2009. “Sexual Division of Labour in the Shih-Chiao Site: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton.” Conference of the Society for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA), Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 2–5 July 2009.

Posters

  1. Xiaoya Zhan, Jing Shao, Yingpei Zhu, and Hui-Yuan Yeh. 2022. “‘It Must Be Painful to Walk’: A Case of Hip Pathology from Central Plains, Western Han Dynasty (3rd Century BCE–1st Century CE), China.” 23rd European Meeting of the Paleopathology Association, Vilnius, Lithuania, 25–29 August 2022 (virtual). Download PDF
  2. Elizabeth S. Berger, Jenna M. Dittmar, Hui-Yuan Yeh, Ruilin Mao, Hui Wang, and Guoke Chen. “History of Health in the Chinese Bronze Age: Results from Five Seasons of the Mogou Bioarchaeology Project.” Webpage

Invited Talks and Seminars

  1. 2018. “Paleoparasitology of China.” Invited talk, International Symposium: Current Trends in Paleoparasitology, Institute of Forensic Science, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea. Invitation (PDF) · Newsletter
  2. 2018. “The Desertification of the Ancient Oases in the Han Dynasty (202 BC–AD 220) in Northwestern China.” Invited talk, Workshop on Understanding the Pan-Pacific Anthropocene, Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Taiwan.
  3. 2018. “Early Evidence of Infectious Diseases and Early Diets along the Silk Road during the Han Dynasty.” Invited talk, Merlion Workshop: Food Processing in Becoming Modern Humans, School of Art, Design and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  4. 2017. “Reinventing the Academic Medical Career.” Invited talk, Office of Global Affairs, Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan, 16–18 October 2017. Webpage
  5. 2017. “The Osteological Examination of the Human Sacrificial Practices and Cranial Surgery Prior to the Early State of Ancient China.” Invited talk, NTU–KCL Joint Workshop, London, UK.
  6. 2016. “History of Diseases in China.” Seminar talk, Division of Chinese, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  7. 2016. “Early Evidence for Travel with Infectious Diseases along the Silk Road and the Osteological Examination of the Human Sacrificial Practices Prior to the Early State of Ancient China.” Seminar talk, Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
  8. 2016. “Infectious Diseases in the Early Populations in the Middle East and East Asia.” Invited talk, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan.
  9. 2016. “Archaeology and Anthropology Research in Northwest China.” Invited talk, Needham Research Institute, University of Cambridge, UK.
  10. 2015. “Progress Report of the Archaeological Examination of the Mogou Site.” Organised talk, Gansu Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Lanzhou, China.
  11. 2013. “Introduction to Ancient Parasite Studies.” Invited talk, Department of Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
  12. 2009. “How to Excavate an Archaeological Site.” Talk, Anthropology Camp (Summer School for Senior High School Students), National Taiwan University, Taiwan.