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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Panel Discussion - Stevan Harrell's "An Ecological History of Modern China" 
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanelists: Stevan Harrell\, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences\, University of Washington \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Perdue\, Professor Emeritus of History at Yale University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJesse Rodenbiker\, Assistant Professor of Geography\, Rutgers University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Weller\, Professor of Anthropology\, Boston University \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganizer: Ling Zhang\, Associate Professor of History\, Boston College \n\n\n\nPresented via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BOeCcyb9RL2LQMD8zQwg9A \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-stevan-herrell-an-ecological-history-of-modern-china/
LOCATION:Presented via Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231030T160000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Scott Moore - The Climate Risk to China’s Rise: Political\, Economic\, and Ecological Implications of Extreme Weather in China
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom webinar\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Scott Moore\, Practice Professor of Political Science and Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania \n\n\n\nConvener of the Environment in Asia series: Ling Zhang\, Associate Professor\, Boston College \n\n\n\nThere is a growing case that of the world’s major economies China’s is most heavily exposed to climate risks. This talk probes the implications of climate risk and extreme weather for China’s future\, including its impact on China’s growth prospects; its role in driving Beijing’s climate policy; and its contrast with China’s real successes in improving flood control and disaster response. \n\n\n\nScott Moore is Practice Professor of Political Science and Director of China Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the University of Pennsylvania. His latest book\, China’s Next Act: How Sustainability and Technology is Reshaping China’s Rise and the World’s Future (Oxford University Press\, 2022)\, probes the ecological and technological dimensions of China’s rise\, and examines how we can make progress in tackling shared global challenges amidst growing geopolitical rivalry between China and other major powers. Moore previously served on the China Desk at the U.S. Department of State\, where he worked extensively on the Paris Agreement on Climate Change; and at the World Bank\, where he was a Young Professional and Water Resources Management Specialist. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-scott-moore-the-climate-risk-to-chinas-rise-political-economic-and-ecological-implications-of-extreme-weather-in-china/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231120T163000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Yiyun Peng and Brian Spivey - Herbaceous Revolution and Environmental Protection: Introducing New Scholarship in Chinese Environmental History
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers: 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 \n\n\n\nYiyun Peng received her PhD in history from Cornell University in August 2023 and is currently the D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. She works on late imperial and modern China and is mainly interested in environmental history\, the history of science and technology\, and economic history. Her first project demonstrates how a few popular cash crops and the handicraft industries processing them into commodities—indigo dye\, bamboo paper\, tobacco\, and ramie (a fiber plant) cloth—led to a herbaceous revolution in upland Southeast China from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century\, which profoundly transformed the region’s environment and society. In its dissertation form\, this project won the 2023 Messenger Chalmers Prize for the best dissertation in the Department of History at Cornell University. Her second project looks into the production and circulation of ramie in East Asia and beyond.  \n\n\n\nBrian Spivey is currently a Mellon Faculty Fellow in the History Department at UC Irvine. His work broadly focuses on the reciprocal relationship between environmental and societal change in modern China. His current research project examines how growing global and local awareness of pollution and other unintended side-effects of industrialization during the late Cultural Revolution (1970-1976) drove the early development of environmental protection efforts (“huanjing baohu”) and discussions about sustainable growth in China. He also researches the history of Xinjiang and the Uyghur people\, especially during the 1980s. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d7H1jxtRTvSw6p179ZSG7w \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-yiyung-peng-and-brian-spivey-herbaceous-revolution-and-environmental-protection-introducing-new-scholarship-in-chinese-environmental-history/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T160000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker - Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Jesse Rodenbiker\, Associate Research Scholar\, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography\, Rutgers University-New Brunswick \n\n\n\nDiscussant: Stevan Harrell\, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences\, University of Washington; author of An Ecological History of Modern China \n\n\n\nEcological States critically examines ecological policies in the People’s Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China’s ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm for global environmental governance\, Jesse Rodenbiker argues that ecological redlining extends the reach of the authoritarian state. \n\n\n\nAlthough Chinese urban sustainability initiatives have driven millions of citizens from their land and housing\, Rodenbiker shows that these migrants are not passive subjects of state policy. Instead\, they creatively navigate resettlement processes in pursuit of their own benefit. However\, their resistance is limited by varied forms of state-backed infrastructural violence. \n\n\n\nThrough extensive fieldwork with scientists\, urban planners\, and everyday citizens in southwestern China\, Ecological States exposes the ways in which the scientific logics and practices fundamental to China’s green urbanization have solidified state power and contributed to dispossession and social inequality. \n\n\n\nJesse Rodenbiker is an associate research scholar at Princeton University with the Center on Contemporary China at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies\, and an assistant teaching professor of geography at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. He is a human-environment geographer and interdisciplinary social scientist focusing on environmental governance\, urbanization\, and social inequality in China and globally. Rodenbiker is the author of the book Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China (2023\, Cornell University Press). His work has been supported by fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies\, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation\,  Fulbright\, Social Science Research Council\, and the Wilson Center\, among others. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlc-CsqjwiEtNUqQ1sEFhmYYHp9hHGJwTX \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-lecture/
LOCATION:CGIS South Room S250\, 1730 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240416T160000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series featuring Timothy Brook - The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
DESCRIPTION:Register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers:Timothy Brook\, The University of British Columbia\, Professor EmeritusClark Alejandrino\, Trinity CollegeYan Gao\, University of MemphisIan M. Miller\, St John’s University \n\n\n\nSeries Convener:Ling Zhang\, Boston College \n\n\n\nIn 1644\, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity\, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China\, but the truth is far more profound. The Price of Collapse provides an entirely new approach to the economic and social history of China\, exploring how global climate crisis spelled the end of Ming rule. \n\n\n\nThe mid-seventeenth century witnessed the deadliest phase of the Little Ice Age\, when temperatures and rainfall plunged and world economies buckled. Timothy Brook draws on the history of grain prices to paint a gripping portrait of the final tumultuous years of a once-great dynasty. He explores how global trade networks that increasingly moved silver into China may have affected prices and describes the daily struggle to survive amid grain shortages and famine. By the early 1640s\, as the subjects of the Ming found themselves caught in a deadly combination of cold and drought that defied all attempts to stave off disaster\, the Ming price regime collapsed\, and with it the Ming political regime. \n\n\n\nA masterful work of scholarship\, The Price of Collapse reconstructs the experience of ordinary people under the immense pressure of unaffordable prices as their country slid from prosperity to calamity and shows how the market mediated the relationship between an empire and the climate that turned against it. \n\n\n\nTimothy Brook is professor emeritus of history at the University of British Columbia and a fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Great State\, Mr. Selden’s Map of China\, and Vermeer’s Hat. \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom.Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qjb4CtrvRQSr5k5Tj6owiA \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-featuring-timothy-brook/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240429T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240429T173000
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SUMMARY:Environment in Asia Series Lecture featuring Huaiyu Chen - Human-Animal Studies and Religions in Medieval Chinese Society
DESCRIPTION:register for hybrid zoom attendance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Huaiyu Chen\, Arizona State UniversityDiscussant: Brian Lander\, Brown University \n\n\n\nThis study illustrates how Buddhism shaped Chinese knowledge and experience of animals after it gradually took root in Chinese society in the medieval periods\, and vice versa\, how Chinese state ideology\, Daoism\, and local cultic practices reshaped Buddhism in understanding and engaging with animals. Taking approaches from history\, religious studies\, animal studies\, and environmental studies\, this study explores the entangled power relations among animals\, religions\, the state\, and the local community in medieval China. With the drastic increase of population in the medieval periods\, local community and religious practitioners expanded their activities and were often confronted with various wild animals. While competing with the dominant power of the state and negotiating with the local community\, Buddhism\, Confucianism\, and Daoism mobilized their intellectual\, spiritual\, and material resources of knowing\, categorizing\, pacifying\, petting\, and accompanying animals and developed their doctrines\, rituals\, discourses\, and practices to deal with complicated power relations between animals and humans. Drawing upon a wide range of sources\, such as traditional texts\, stone inscriptions\, and manuscripts\, as well as visual materials\, this study invites readers to embark on a journey to the unchartered territory of felines\, reptiles\, and birds that surrounded the medieval Chinese religious world\, represented by the tiger\, snake\, and parrot especially. Wisdoms\, virtues\, colors\, sounds\, and powers from both human and animal realms piece together for making a fascinating chapter of human history. \n\n\n\nHuaiyu Chen (Ph.D.\, Princeton University) is Professor of Buddhism and Chinese Religions at Arizona State University. He has many publications on Chinese Buddhism\, Religions on the Silk Road\, animals in Chinese religions\, and the history of modern Chinese humanities. His recent publications include In the Land of Tigers and Snakes: Living with Animals in Medieval Chinese Religions (2023) and Animals and Plants in Chinese Religions and Science (2023). He has received a membership from Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2011-2012)\, Spalding Visiting Fellowship from Clare Hall of Cambridge University (2014-2015)\, and a visiting scholarship from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin (2018).  \n\n\n\nAlso via Zoom. Register at: https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qcuygqjsiGNbg0qfZTS1ZdCxjnoKg9zx9 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/environment-in-asia-series-lecture-2/
LOCATION:CGIS Knafel K262\, 1737 Cambridge Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environment,Environment
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260205T183000
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SUMMARY:Conference — Designers of Mountains and Water: Alternative Landscapes for a Changing Climate
DESCRIPTION:Register now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe 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 referred to creative artistic and philosophical visions of the natural world\, combining the vital elements of a fully dynamic landscape. With climate change underway\, what contemporary elements and dimensions of nature are necessary for designing and building sustainable spaces for human habitation and flourishing? Contemporary landscape architects from Northeast and Southeast Asia are trying to answer this question by rethinking the relation between social and natural forms. Their aim is to design habitable futures at the intersection of the two. \n\n\n\nThis conference will feature leading landscape architects and scholars from China\, Japan\, Korea\, Malaysia\, Singapore\, and Thailand\, as well as Australia and the US\, to discuss the perspectives\, histories\, politics\, and the most compelling projects of sustainable design in the Asian context. \n\n\n\nThis conference accompanies the exhibition Designers of Mountain and Water\, which will be on display in the Druker Design Gallery from January 20 to April 4\, 2026. Curated by Jungyoon Kim\, Associate Professor in Practice of Landscape Architecture at the GSD\, the exhibition features more than 45 works of landscape architecture by 23 practices in Asia.For more information\, including a detailed agenda\, please visit the conference’s web page.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/conference-designers-of-mountains-and-water-alternative-landscapes-for-a-changing-climate/
LOCATION:Piper Auditorium\, Gund Hall - 42 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02138\, United States
CATEGORIES:Co-Sponsored Lectures,Environment,Events of Interest
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