Environment
Qing Yang – A Ready-to-Implement Carbon-Negative Option to Help China Achieve Carbon Neutrality: Biochar with Biofuels
Speaker: Qing Yang, Professor, Department of New Energy Science and Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Qing Yang is a Professor in the Department of New Energy Science and Engineering, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. She is also an Alumna (Visiting Scholar) and […]
Environment in Asia Series featuring Zhang Meng – Timber and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market
Speaker: Zhang Meng, Assistant Professor of History, Vanderbilt University Part of the Environment in Asia lecture series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXEB2NB7vhk&t=109s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/timber-and-forestry-in-qing-china-with-zhang-meng?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank In the Qing period, China's population tripled, and the flurry of […]
Environment in Asia Lecture Series featuring Ruth Mostern – The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OR4Z30g7gA https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/the-yellow-river-a-natural-and-unnatural-history-with-ruth-mostern?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Speaker: Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh This talk showcases Ruth Mostern’s new book: The Yellow River: A Natural and Unnatural History (Yale University Press, 2021). The […]
Environment in Asia Series Featuring Ying Jia Tan – War and the Reconfiguration of China’s Energy Geography
Speaker: Ying Jia Tan, Assistant Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University In Recharging China in War and Revolution, 1882–1955 (Cornell University Press, 2021), Ying Jia Tan argues […]
Environment in Asia Series – Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-Developmental State
Speakers:Ashley Esarey, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of AlbertaJoanna Lewis, Distinguished Associate Professor of Energy and Environment and Director of the Science, Technology and International Affairs Program (STIA),Georgetown […]
Environment in Asia series featuring Michael J. Hathaway – What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake Mushrooms and the Worlds They Make
Speaker: Michael J. Hathaway, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the David Lam Center for Asian Studies, Simon Fraser University This talk introduces the second book in an academic trilogy […]
“Environment in Asia” Reunion with a Tribute to Robert Marks and Peter Perdue
Presented via ZoomRead our blog posts on the event: Exploring How the Environment Shapes China’s History and Conference Examines Planning and China’s Rapidly Growing Cities Organizer: Ling Zhang, Boston College; Convener of the Environment in Asia series Note: Due to the limited capacity of the venue, the symposium will be a closed-door event. The public may view […]
Environment in Asia Series Panel Discussion – Stevan Harrell’s “An Ecological History of Modern China”
Presented via ZoomPanelists: Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington Peter Perdue, Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University Jesse Rodenbiker, Assistant Professor of Geography, Rutgers […]
Environment in Asia Series featuring Scott Moore – The Climate Risk to China’s Rise: Political, Economic, and Ecological Implications of Extreme Weather in China
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Scott Moore, Practice Professor of Political Science and Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania Convener of the Environment in Asia series: Ling Zhang, Associate […]
Environment in Asia Series featuring Yiyun Peng and Brian Spivey – Herbaceous Revolution and Environmental Protection: Introducing New Scholarship in Chinese Environmental History
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers: Yiyun Peng, D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, University of ChicagoBrian Spivey, Mellon Faculty Fellow, History Department, UC IrvineSeries Convener: Ling Zhang, Associate Professor, Boston College Yiyun Peng received her […]
Environment in Asia Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker - Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jesse Rodenbiker, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Discussant: Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington; […]
Environment in Asia Series featuring Timothy Brook - The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Timothy Brook, The University of British Columbia, Professor EmeritusClark Alejandrino, Trinity CollegeYan Gao, University of MemphisIan M. Miller, St John’s University Series Convener:Ling Zhang, Boston College In 1644, after close […]