AES Workshop Invited Speaker 01: Brett Walker, "Toxic Archipelago"

Today's invited speaker for the Asian Environmental Studies Curriculum Development Workshop was Brett L. Walker, professor of History at Montana State University. Walker is a specialist in Japanese environmental and medical history, with a focus on early modern Japan. His lecture, "Toxic Archipelago: Subverting Narratives and Interdisciplinary Research in Japanese Environmental History," was centered on themes covered in his most recent text, Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2010).