The International Society for the History of East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine (ISHEASTM) serves, represents, and speaks for scholars working in the field of the history of East Asian science, technology, and medicine worldwide. It was founded on 4 August 1990, on the occasion of the Sixth International Conference on the History of Science in China, held in Cambridge, UK. It has the status of a non-profit organisation based in France. It became the East Asia Commission of IUHPS/DHST in 1997. The Society’s activities consist of:

• organizing a plenary conference every four years, beginning in 2011; the next conference (14th ICHSEA) will take place in Paris in 2015;
• seeking support for conferences and other activities from international organisations;
• finding means to aid scholars to enter the field;
• sponsoring publication of refereed research reports and monographs;
• publishing a journal, East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine (currently edited by Professor Hans Ulrich Vogel, University of Tübingen).

For further information, please contact Dr Chen Jeff Jian-Ping at jjchen@stcloudstate.edu.