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Gufran Beig – Anatomy of Extreme Pollution Event in a Megacity: Delhi

Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Gufran Beig, Project Director, System of Air Quality Forecasting and Research, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Ministry of Earth Sciences, Government of India; Fellow, Indian Academy of Sciences; World Meteorological Organization Norbert Gerbier-Mumm International Award A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar Megacities are engines of growing pollution. Delhi is cursed by its geography to be […]

Rob Efird – Nature for Nurture: Environmental Education, Nature Experience, and the Healthy Chinese Child

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Robert Efird, Professor of Anthropology and Asian studies, Seattle University For the past 15 years, the Chinese Ministry of Education’s attempt to promote environmental education in public schools has faced nearly insurmountable structural obstacles. By contrast, there is a growing popular embrace of the value of nature exposure for children’s health and well-being. Drawing […]

Ruth Mostern – The Natural and Unnatural History of the Yellow River

Speaker: Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh The geographer Jamie Linton has observed that under conditions of human entanglement, there is no such thing as a hydrological cycle, and that we should seek to understand the dynamics of hydrosocial cycles instead.  Under anthropogenic conditions, water still precipitates and evaporates. Rivers are still fluvial systems in which […]

Christopher Atwood: Environmental Geographies of the Mongol Empire

Speaker: Christopher Atwood, Professor, Mongolian and Chinese Frontier & Ethnic History, University of Pennsylvania The European conquest of the Americas, the consequent ecological exchange, massive mortality, and rise of plantation economies have been one of the prime topics of environmental history. Less widely understood have been the similar ecological impacts and imperatives of the thirteenth century […]

Alex Wang – Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

Speaker: Alex Wang, UCLA At the heart of debates over Chinese rule of law is the question of state legitimacy. Critics argue that legitimacy requires liberal democratic rule of law. Chinese leaders have long relied on performance legitimacy – economic development and maintenance of social stability – as the core basis of their rule. Western […]

Yu Zhou – Technological Innovation: Exploring Chinese Models

CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States

Read the event summary here Speaker: Yu Zhou, Vassar College China’s technological ambition and trajectory have become a central concern for the US-China Trade War and will likely to define US-China relations for a long time to come.  This talk traces the evolution of Chinese policies on technological innovation.  Based on case studies on ten […]

***POSTPONED*** Environment in Asia Reunion Workshop – With a Special Tribute to Profs. Robert B. Marks and Peter C. Perdue

CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

THIS EVENT IS POSTPONED DUE TO THE COVID-19 SITUATION. WE HOPE TO RESCHEDULE IT FOR APRIL 2021. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE Organizer: Ling Zhang, Boston College Featuring roundtable conversations on: Multispecies Entanglement Imaginaries and Representations Land, Water, Fire, Air Energy and Resource Food, Body, Health Environmental Politics and Policies of Contemporary China Building a […]

The River Dragon Has Indeed Come! –– Chinese Floods and Flood Management in 2020 and in the Past

Harvard Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies · The River Dragon has indeed come! Chinese Floods and Flood Management in 2020 and in the past Speakers: Clark ALEJANDRINO, Trinity College Chris COURTNEY, Durham University Xiangli DING, Rhode Island School of Design Yan GAO, University of Memphis Moderator: Ling Zhang, Boston College About the Speakers: Clark Alejandrino […]

Environment in Asia Lecture Series Featuring David Fedman and Ian M. Miller – East Asian Forestry and Empires

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucMs2rz71b8&t=2s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/east-asian-forestry-and-empires-with-david-fedman-and-ian-m-miller-moderated-by-ling-zhang Read the transcript of the event here. Speakers: David Fedman, Assistant Professor of History,University of California, Irvine Ian M. Miller, Assistant Professor of History, St. John's University Moderator: Ling Zhang, Boston College   David Fedman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Seeds of […]

Environment in Asia Series Featuring Judith Shapiro and Yifei Li – Authoritarian Environmentalism and Chinese Ecological Civilization

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sdJJU2JhZ0&t=2177s https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/authoritarian-environmentalism-and-chinese-ecological-civilization-with-judith-shapiro-and-yifei-li Read the transcript of the event here. Speakers: Judith Shapiro, Director of the Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development for the School of International Service, American University Yifei Li, Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU Shanghai,Global Network Assistant Professor, New York University; Residential Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment […]

Environment in Asia Lecture Series – Infectious Diseases and Public Health Management in China: From Historical and Anthropological Perspectives

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQx3sgioXuI https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/infectious-diseases-and-public-health-management-in-china?in=fairbank-center/sets/public-lecture-series-fairbank Read the transcript of the event here. Speakers: Nicole Elizabeth Barnes, Duke University Mary Augusta Brazelton, The University of Cambridge Miriam Gross, The University of Oklahoma Elanah Uretsky, Brandeis University Moderator: Ling Zhang, Boston College Nicole Elizabeth Barnes is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of History and Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies […]