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Plenary Session: What can Humanities and Interpretive Social Sciences do for Environmental Studies?
Moderator: Prasenjit Duara, Director, Global Asia Initiative, Duke University
Fanren Zeng Former President, Shandong University
“Cross-cultural Eco-aesthetics: Deconstructing the Traditional Chinese Aesthetic Category of ‘Sheng-sheng’ (or Flourishing of Life)
Shuyuan Lu
Professor and Director of Research Center for Eco-Cultural Institute of Science, Huanghe Science & Technology College
“Ecology, Religion and Modernization–Starting from the Nature and Culture of Fanjing Mountain.”
Yih-Ren Lin
Professor, Taipei Medical University
Traditional Territory Mapping as a Way of Revealing Ecological Citizenship
Dan Guttman
Clinical Professor of Environmental Studies and Law, New York University – Shanghai
The Global Vernacular of Governance: Translating Between China and US Environmental OS: A Core Task for Humanities
Urbanization and Ecological Citizenship
Moderator: Ralph Litzinger
Michael Douglass
Professor of Public Policy and Professor at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
The Anthropocene and Planetary Urbanization – Migration and Climate Change Justice in Asia
Ka-ming Wu
Assistant Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Infrastructure and Ruins: the Case of Waste Treatment in China
Amita Baviskar
Professor, Indian Institute for Economic Growth
Contested Spaces: Cities, Citizenship and Sustainability in India
Environmental Justice and Political Ecology
Moderator: Carlos Rojas
Ralph Litzinger
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
The Slow Violence of Black Lung
Mukul Sharma
Professor, Indian Institute of Mass Communication
Eco-Casteism, Dalits and New Commons in India
Chia-ju Chang
Associate Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, Brooklyn College
Capitalism’s Corporate/Corporeal Waste: Documentary Redemption and Hope
Meena Khandelwal
Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology, University of Iowa
The Natural and Social Life of Wood
Re-wilding the Desert – A Visual Story
Pradip Krishen
Filmmaker and Environmentalist
Massey Sahib (1985), In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones (1989), Electric Moon (1991)
Trees of Delhi: A Field Guide (2006), Jungle Trees of Central India (2014)
The Asian Water Crisis (I)
Moderator: Erika Weinthal
Arupjyoti Saikia
Professor of History, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
A River and Its Many Lives: Rethinking the Environmental Past of the Brahmaputra
Chris Courtney
Postdoctoral Fellow, Asia Research Institute, Singapore
The Advance of the Crayfish: The Declining Biocultural Diversity of Chinese Wetlands
Rohan D’Souza
Research Fellowship at the Graduate School of Asian & African Area Studies, Kyoto University
Sustainability against ‘Safe Operating Space’ India’s Cusec-Megawatt Rivers and Writing Environmental History in the Anthropocene
The Asian Water Crisis (II)
Moderator: Junjie Zhang
Lili Song
Professor, Tsinghua University
Water Systems, Water Keepers and Consciousness of Citizenship – A Case Study Based on Beijing River System
Pichamon Yeophantong
Assistant Professor of International Relations and Development, University of New South Wales
The Role of Science and Religion in Water Activism in Southeast Asia: Cases from Cambodia and Myanmar
Spiritual Ecologies
Moderator: Prasenjit Duara
Robert Weller
Professor of Anthropology, Boston University
Religious Change and Disturbed Religious Ecosystems in Jiangsu, China
Chris Coggins
Professor of Geography and Asian Studies, Bard’s College at Simon’s Rock
Wind-Water Polities: Village Fengshui Forests and Sustainable Citizenship in China
Jianhua Ayoe Wang
Researcher at the Yunnan Provincial Institute for Ethnic Studies, Yunnan Minzu University
Sacred Landscape and Sustainable Citizenship of Mengsong Akha Community in Xishuangbanna, Southwest China
Meng Yue
Associate Professor Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
When Anarchists Met Buddhists: Once a Future to Alternative Anthropocene
Animals and Humans
Moderator: Erika Weinthal
Haiyan Lee
Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Through Thick and Thin: The Romance of the Species in the Anthropocene
Yuan-chih Lung
Tsinghua University
Beyond Boundaries: the Giant Pandas and Their Natural Habitat
Jeffrey Nicolaisen
PhD Candidate of Religious Studies, Duke University
Monkey-Human Relations in the Galluscene
Representing Degradation –Photography and Literature
Moderator: Ralph Litzinger
William Schaefer
Assistant Professor of Chinese, University of Rochester
Circulatory Environments, Circulatory Cultures, and Photographic Ecologies
Carlos Rojas
Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies; Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; and Arts of the Moving Image, Duke University
Of Mice and Men: Examining Parasitical Logics of Protest and Community through Jia Pingwa’s Fiction
Kathinka Fürst
Research Fellow, Netherlands China Law Centre, University of Amsterdam
Smog Art in China: Ten Shades of Grey
Representing Degradation –Citizen Science
Moderator: Ralph Litzinger
Erika Weinthal
Professor of Environmental Sciences and Policy and Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University
Citizen Scientists as Agents of Environmental Advocacy: Lessons from India with implications for China and Russia
Sam Geall
Research Fellow at the Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex
Journalism and citizen science in a changing climate
