- Announcing the keynote speaker for the Kunshan workshop
We are excited to announce Professor Dominic Boyer (Anthropology, Rice University) will be the keynote speaker at the 2026 Kunshan Workshop. His talk, scheduled for Friday, June 19, will be open to all registered attendees. Dominic Boyer is an anthropologist, media maker and co-founder of the field of Energy Humanities. His current research foci include (1) the… Read more: Announcing the keynote speaker for the Kunshan workshop - Call for Papers: “Green Transitions”—The Kunshan Workshop
The Asian/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University invites graduate students, scholars, artists, and activists to submit abstracts for the third Environmental Futures in Asia Network (EFAN) conference, scheduled to take place at Duke Kunshan University from June 18–20, 2026. This two-day workshop will feature a keynote address, thematically organized panels, and a local field excursion. This… Read more: Call for Papers: “Green Transitions”—The Kunshan Workshop - Reflections on the Durham Workshop
by Jieun Cho, postdoctoral associate The second meeting of the Environmental Futures in Asia Network (EFAN) took place on May 15–16, 2025, at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. Building on the success of the inaugural workshop held in Jeju, South Korea, in 2024, this year’s symposium furthered EFAN’s threefold mission: supporting emerging scholars in… Read more: Reflections on the Durham Workshop - Announcing the keynote speaker for the Durham workshop
We are excited to announce Professor Kim Fortun (Anthropology, University of California—Irvine) will be the keynote speaker at the 2025 Durham Workshop. Her talk, scheduled for Thursday, May 15, will be open to the public. Professor Fortun is an interdisciplinary, mixed methods ethnographer specializing in comparative studies of environmental knowledge, injustice and governance. At UC… Read more: Announcing the keynote speaker for the Durham workshop - Call for Papers: Student Panel and Poster Presentations at the Durham workshop
We are delighted to announce a call for a students’ panel and poster presentations for the second iteration of the Environmental Futures in Asia Network Workshop, which will be held May 15–17, 2025, at Duke University. Our workshop theme this year is PEDAGOGY—broadly defined as how we might teach, learn, and collaborate, in and beyond classrooms and communities, while highlighting the substantive… Read more: Call for Papers: Student Panel and Poster Presentations at the Durham workshop - Get ready for the Durham workshop
The second meeting of the APSI Environmental Futures in Asia Network (EFAN) will take place May 15–17, 2025, hosted by Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. The insights gained and relationships formed at the inaugural 2024 workshop in Jeju will serve as the foundation for this second event which aims to broaden participants’ understanding and… Read more: Get ready for the Durham workshop - Reflections on the Jeju Workshop
by Jieun Cho, postdoctoral associate The inaugural meeting of the APSI Environmental Futures in Asia Network (EFAN) was held on July 4-6, 2024, on Jeju Island, South Korea. EFAN was established with three objectives: supporting emerging scholars in advancing their research agendas, facilitating interdisciplinary conversations on methods and theories related to environmental topics in Asia,… Read more: Reflections on the Jeju Workshop
