Environment
China’s Evolving Vulnerability to Climate Change Impacts: A Spatial Analysis of its Infrastructure System
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Xi (Sisi) HU, Ph.D. Candidate, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford; Visiting Fellow, China Project Sponsored by the China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. To learn more about our seminar series, visit our website: https://chinaproject.harvard.edu/seminars You can also subscribe to our mailing list by emailing tiffanychan@seas.harvard.edu
Traces: Dark Clouds – Special One-Day Photography Exhibition
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker/Photographer: Ian Teh Asia Centers Lounge • First Floor • CGIS South Building This event is part of the Environment in Asia series at the Fairbank Center. Ian Teh is an award-winning […]
Environment in Asia Series: “On the Rare Earth Frontier: How and Where We Acquire the Elements of our Possible Futures”
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Julie Klinger, Asst. Professor of International Relations, Boston University Julie Michelle Klinger specializes in development, environment, and security politics in Latin America and China in comparative and global perspective. As a geographer, Dr. Klinger’s research emphasizes in-depth fieldwork to examine the processes through which resource frontiers are produced at local and global scales. She has […]
Ancestral Halls: Their Life After Death
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFrom the late fifteenth century to the mid-twentieth century over 6,000 ancestral halls (祠堂) were constructed in Huizhou 徽州, a prefecture at the southern end of Anhui province. Usually understood to represent the growing attachment of families to the establishment of lineage authority in their villages, Huizhou’s ancestral halls soon acquired a variety of functions […]
Environment in Asia Seminar: “Layer upon Layer: Experience, Ecology, Engineering, Heritage, and (most of all) History in the Making of China’s Agricultural Terraces”
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Sigrid Schmalzer, University of Massachusetts Amherst Professor Schmalzer's research focuses on social, cultural, and political aspects of the history of science in modern China. Her first book, The People's Peking Man: Popular Science and Human Identity in Twentieth-Century China, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008 and won the Sharlin Memorial Award from […]
“Behemoth”: Film Screening and Discussion with Director Zhao Liang
Brattle Theater 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesBeginning with a mining explosion in Mongolia and ending in a ghost city west of Beijing, documentarian Zhao Liang’s new film Behemoth details, in one breathtaking sequence after another, the social and environmental devastation driven by the totality of humankind’s desire and greed. After the screening, Director Liang will attend via Skype for a discussion with […]
Ecologies of Enclosure: Reconfiguring the Black Soldier Fly for Urban Waste Management in Guangzhou
HUCE Seminar Room 440 26 Oxford St. - Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Amy Zhang, Fairbank Center An Wang Post-Doctoral Fellow
Thomas DuBois: China’s Dairy Century – Making, Drinking and Dreaming of Milk
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Thomas DuBois, Modern China Historian China’s dairy industry has of late become big news. A country that few would have instinctively associated with milk has emerged as the world’s third largest producer (following India and the United States), and second largest consumer of dairy. But the significance of dairy in China is not merely […]
Tyler Harlan – Small Hydropower and the Low-Carbon Frontier in China
Pierce Hall 100F 29 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Tyler Harlan, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles Since the 1950s, the Chinese government has used small hydropower (SHP) to drive rural electrification and local economic […]