The Kunshan Workshop Agenda

17:30 (meet in hotel lobby for shuttle)

Welcome dinner at DKU (informal meet-and-greet)
location: DKU Executive Dining Hall

8:45–9:00

Welcome and Opening Remarks
Location: Library 2001 (Lecture Hall)

Dr. Xin Li, Associate Vice-Chancellor for Graduate Studies and Research, Duke Kunshan University

Dr. Nicole Barnes, Associate Professor of History, Duke University

moderator: Dr. Jingbo Cui, Co-Director of the Environmental Research Center, Duke Kunshan University

9:00–10:15

10:15–10:30

Break

10:30–11:45

Panels 1 & 2

Panel 1: Green Infrastructure
Location: Library 1113

Moderator: Coraline Goron
Presentations & Panelists:

• The Socio‑Technical Shell: Reconfiguring Labor and Life in China’s EV Infrastructure Complex
  —Yanping Ni, Princeton University
• The Legacy of Cheap Infrastructure and the (Im)Possibility of Green Growth: Energy Transition Trajectories and Barriers in Korea
  —Deokhwa Hong, Chungbuk National University
• From Creating ‘Market’ to Creating ‘Stability’: The Infrastructuralization of Solar Power Stations in Northwest China
  —Yijun Gai, University of Hong Kong

Panel 2: Wind & Hydropower
Location: Library 1115

Moderator: Ting Hui Lau
Presentations & Panelists:

• Wind as a Contested Commons: Critical Analysis of Local Acceptance of Wind Energy in Jeju Island
  —Hyun Choe, Jeju National University
• “This is a Secret Place!”: Scale and the Work of Secrecy in China’s Mega‑Dam Project on the Tibetan Plateau
  — Xiao Schutte Ke & Jay Ke-Schutte, University of Pennsylvania & Zhejiang University
• From Hydropower to Cloud Power: The Making of Green Digital Infrastructure at Qiandao Lake
  — Zhengfang Wang, Paderborn University

11:45–13:00

Lunch

12:15PM: optional tour of DKU campus, including award-winning bird protection project exhibition curated by Prof. Binbin Li.

13:00–14:30

Panels 3 & 4

Panel 3: Political Aesthetics of the Non-Human
Location: Library 1113

Moderator: Shuyi Lynn Shen
Presentations & Panelists:

• The Parana‑Paraguay Hidrovía: Geopolitical, Extractive and Biocultural Infrastructure
  —Robin Rodd, Duke Kunshan University
• From Sin Economies and Carbon Offsets: The Political‑Aesthetics of Environmental Compensation
  —Joseph Giacomelli & Kiran Rao, Duke Kunshan University
• Memories, Performance, Moving Pictures: Remembering Lost Landscapes at the Miao‑Han Borderlands
  —Shuyi Lynn Shen, Duke Kunshan University
• Deserts, Desertification and the Politico‑Aesthetics of the “Green Transition”
  —Renee Richer, Duke Kunshan University

Panel 4: Crises and Eco-Modernity
Location: Library 1115

Moderator: Jimmy Choi
Presentations & Panelists:

• Marine Enclosure: The Eco‑modern Imagination of Undersea Data Center in Lin’gang in Shanghai
  —Wendy Wenxin Zhang, UC Irvine
• Green Transition and the Melting Cryosphere in Asia
  —Cymene Howe, Rice University
• Turbid Unspectacularity: Debating the Geos and Bios of an Imperiled Algal Reef
  —Tim Shao-Hung Teng, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• A Flyway‑Scale Assessment of Cumulative Offshore Wind Farm Exposure Using the Migratory Flight Path of a Threatened Species as an Example
  —Yi-Chien (Emilia) Lai, Tunghai University

14:45–17:30

Optional site visit: Tinglin Park, Kunshan

9:00–10:30

Panels 5 & 6

Panel 5: Spiritual and Community-Based Approaches
Location: Library 1113

Moderator: Ting Hui Lau
Presentations & Panelists:

• Urban Green Transitions: Lessons from University Campuses in China
  —Annemieke van den Dool, Duke Kunshan University
• The Missing Subject of Green Transition: Human Bearing Capacity, Zen Meditation, and the CARE Framework
  —Chia-ju Chang, CUNY–Brooklyn College
• Degrowth and the Commons
  —Suh-Hyun Park, Jeju National University
• Community Garden Practices in Local Communities: Lessons from UACCS (Uncertainty, Ambiguity, Complexity, Changeability, Scarcity)
  —Ying Chang, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Panel 6: Eco-economy in Transition
Location: Library 1115

Moderator: Wumeng He
Presentations & Panelists:

• Eco‑compensation and China’s Pathway to Green Transition
  —Wumeng He, Duke Kunshan University
• Institutional Innovations in AIIB’s Climate Finance: A Case Study of Bangladesh’s Climate Resilient Inclusive Development Program
  — Anqi Zhou & Peixin Yin, Beijing International Studies University
• Green Transitions, Darker Realities? The Paradox of Green Transitions, Sustainable Pathways, and Geo‑economic Realities
  —Tobias Burgers, Fulbright University Vietnam
• Financing Nature: Transforming China’s Energy Transition Landscape through Green Finance
  —Xue Ma, UC Irvine

10:30–10:45

Break

10:45–12:15

Panels 7 & 8

Panel 7: Minerals and Mines
Location: Library 1113

Moderator: Xiao Wang
Presentations & Panelists:

• Latent Conflicts: Conflicts Governance in China’s Coal Transition—A Case Study of Coal Mine Closure in Guizhou Province
  —Lichao Yang, Beijing Normal University
• Can SOEs Help Achieve a Just Transition for Coal Workers in China?
  —Coraline Goron, DKU, & Weijun Rong, Freie Universität Berlin
• The Green Loop: Rare Earths and the Mineral Politics of Growth
  —Xin Zhou, Concordia University Montreal
• From Dams to Minerals: Green Transitions, Extractivism, and Energy Politics in the Philippines
  —Jonel Maria Caba, Mindanao State University

Panel 8: Food, Waste, Forest
Location: Library 1115

Moderator: Nicole Elizabeth Barnes
Presentations & Panelists:

• Cultivating Green Transitions Otherwise: Food Forests, Soil, and Ecological World‑Making in Southwest China
  —Yueke Li, University of Otago
• Recycling Waste and the Limits of Environmentalism in Urban China
  —Adam Liebman, Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Managing Disposability: What Is Left Behind in the Green Transition
  —Victoria Lupaşcu, University of Montréal
• Forestation as Method: Scientific Forestry and a Politics of Green Transition in South Korea
  —Sumin Myung, Te Herenga Waka–Victora University of Wellington

12:15–13:30

Lunch & wrap-up discussion

12:45PM: optional tour of DKU campus, including award-winning bird protection project exhibition curated by Prof. Binbin Li.