Environment
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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
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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
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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
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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;
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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
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Environment in Asia Series Lecture featuring Huaiyu Chen – Human-Animal Studies and Religions in Medieval Chinese Society
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Huaiyu Chen, Arizona State UniversityDiscussant: Brian Lander, Brown University This study illustrates how Buddhism shaped Chinese knowledge and experience of animals after it gradually took root in Chinese society
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Conference — Designers of Mountains and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate
Piper Auditorium Gund Hall - 42 Quincy St, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesThe Sinographic compound (山水), denoting “mountain and water,” is widely shared across many Asian contexts, with different regional traditions and approaches. As shanshui in China, sansui in Japan, and sansu in Korea, the term has historically