This interdisciplinary Symposium follows three prior ones beginning in 2006, and is part of an exciting new Asian Environmental Studies Initiative at HWS, generously supported by The Henry Luce Foundation. Scholars (including graduate students) whose work examines any aspects of human-environment interactions in East Asia (including Southeast and Northeast Asia) are invited to present and/or attend.
We are excited to announce that all papers presented at the 2012 Symposium will be considered for publication in a special Spring 2012 issue of ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts, the peer-reviewed journal of ASIANetwork, focusing on Asian environments. HWS Asian Environmental Studies Professor Darrin Magee, in collaboration with ASIANetwork Exchange editors Lisa Trivedi and Erin McCarthy, will edit the special issue.
Presenters at the 2012 Symposium include the following individuals (clicking presenter names will redirect to their webpages). Schedule for the symposium coming soon!
Schedule and Venue
All events will take place in the Sanford Room in the Warren Hunting Smith Library Building. Click here for a map of campus. Driving directions and parking information can be found here, on our admissions page.
Friday, March 2
1:30-2:00 Welcome
Darrin Magee (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
2:00-3:00 Keynote Address
Judith Shapiro (American University)
China's Environmental Challenges: Environmental Justice and the Displacement of Environmental Harm
3:00-4:30 Session 1: Globalization and the Business of Sustainability
Randy Kritkausky (ECOLOGIA)
Getting to Environmental Sustainability in China One Supply Chain at a Time
Jacob Park (Green Mountain College)
Sustainable Planet Column
OurWorld 2.0
Japan’s Changing Corporate Environmental and Social Responsibility Practices: Prospects for Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship in a Post-Fukushima Energy Era
HU Tao (Policy Research Center for Environment and Economy, China)
China's Emissions in a Globalized World: Trade Deficit or Surplus?
4:30-4:45 Break
4:45-5:45 Session 2: (Re)conceptualizing Food and Energy Discourses
Takeshi Ito (Colorado College)
Power to naturalize land dispossession: a policy discourse analysis of the Merauke Integrated Food and Energy Estate (MIFEE), Papua, Indonesia
Bellette Lee (University of Chicago)
Water Power: The Emergent “Hydropower Discourse” in China
5:45-6:15 Wrap-up of Day 1
8:00-9:30 Screening of documentary "Waking the Green Tiger" on the environmentalism in China, followed by Q&A with Judith Shapiro, who consultedon the project.
Saturday, March 3
9:00-9:15 Introduction
Darrin Magee (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
9:15-10:45 Session 3: Reading the Landscapes of Asia
Astrid Cerny (Ramapo College of New Jersey)
Deeper than a salt bed: The benefits of teaching about Uzbekistan
Bahar Davary (University of San Diego)
Islam and Ecology: South East Asian Adat and the Essence of Keramat
Michael Tangeman (Denison University)
Takahashi Gen’ichirō and Miyazawa Kenji: De(con)struction of a Tōhoku Paradise
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Session 4: Democracy, Social Movements, and the Environment
Nicole Freiner (Bryant University)
Mobilizing Mothers: The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Catastrophe and Environmental Activism in Japan
Danke Li (Fairfield University)
Ecofeminism in China: A Discourse Connecting the Academic Global and Local
Setsuko Matsuzawa (College of Wooster)
Environmental Activism in China: Citizen Engagement and its Dynamics
12:30-1:30 Break for Lunch
1:30-3:00 Session 5: Conservation Discourses
Chris Coggins (Bard College at Simon’s Rock)
Village Fengshui Forests of Southern China – Culture History and Conservation Status
Neal Keating (SUNY Brockport)
From Spirit Forest to Rubber Plantation: The Accelerating Disaster of “Development” in Cambodia
Robin Lewis (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
Chaos in the Forest? Negotiated Meaning, Fluid Expertise and the Ad Hoc Performance of Forest Management Certification in Malaysia
3:00-3:15 Break
3:15-4:15 Session 6: Globalization and Ecology
Pat Glibert (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences)
Nutrient Pollution and Toxic Algal Blooms: One of many environmental issues with human health and economic consequences resulting from China’s rapid development
Chingling Wo (Sonoma State University)
In What Form Does Global Capital Flow Leave Behind Memories: The Story of Apple Snails caught between Green Revolution and Organic Food Movement
4:15-5:15 Wrap-up and Closing Remarks
Darrin Magee and Robin Lewis (Hobart and William Smith Colleges)
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