2:00-2:30 - Imagined Islands and Coral Infrastructures, Corey Byrnes, Northwestern University.
2:30-2:50 - Discussion, Shiming Yang, University of Southern California, and Meng Zhang, Loyola Marymount University. Open forum Q/A.
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12:00 - Recap and overview, James Cook, University of Pittsburgh
12:10-12:30 - Segmenting the South: China and India in the HFC Negotiations, Shiming Yang, University of Southern California
12:30-12:50 - "Elegant-Yet-Wild": An Interaction Between Nature and Culture in the Scholar's Studio, Yunshuang Zhang, Wayne State University
12:50-1:10 - Discussion, Christopher Coggins, Bard College at Simon's Rock. Open forum Q/A.
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2:00-2:30 - Cemented River, Forced Migrants, and Rainbow Trout: A Multispecies Tale of the Xin'anjiang Hydropower Plant, Ling Zhang, Boston College.
2:30-2:50 - Discussion, Jesse Rodenbiker, Cornell University, and Weila Gong, Technical University of Munich. Open forum Q/A.
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12:00-12:10 - Recap and overview, Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh
12:10-12:30 - Equality of Life: A Buddhist Teaching for an Ecological Civilization, Jeffrey Nicolaisen, Duke University
12:30-12:50 - Rethinking the Nature-Culture Nexus in the Ethnic Rural Context of Southwest China, Luo Yu, City University of Hong Kong
12:50-1:10 - Discussion, Emily Yeh, University of Colorado, Boulder. Open forum Q/A.
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2:00-2:30 - Geopiety and the Rights of Nature--Unmaking the ChinAmeriComplex, Christopher Coggins, Bard College at Simon's Rock.
2:30-3:00 - Discussion, Jeffrey Nicolaisen, Duke University and Shiming Yang, University of Southern California. Open forum Q/A.
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12:00-12:10 - Welcome, Joseph S. Alter, University of Pittsburgh
12:15-12:35 - Making Ecology Developmental: A Global Geneology of China's Green Modernization, Jesse Rodenbiker, Cornell University and Rutgers University-New Brunswick
12:35-12:55 - Rubber's Reach: How Chinese rubber investments transform landscapes, livelihoods, and state control in China and Laos, Juliet Lu, UC Berkeley
12:55-1:15 - Discussion, Corey Byrnes, Northwestern University. Open forum Q/A.
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Participants, both teachers and students, will learn about the history of Kamishibai, watch videos on the subject, and learn how to make a child's mini-theater. Contact asia@pitt.edu to register and for more information.
Waseem Mardini is a 2008 graduate from the University of Pittsburgh. He then went on to obtain his Masters in International Affairs from Columbia University, studying subjects such as Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Sustainable Development. He has worked in New York City and Washington, DC, working for groups such as the Foundation for Middle East Peace, Equitable Origin, and the Arab American Institute. He was the Policy Advisor at Publish What You Pay, where he focused on the corruption in the oil, gas and mining sectors.
The international breakthrough of BTS is marked by their success in the USA with their albums, Love Yourself: Tear and Love Yourself: Answer, in May and September respectively. Their EP Map of the Soul: Persona, released in April 2019, also topped both the UK Official Chart and the US Billboard 200 Chart. The global, US, and UK reception of BTS in the past few years, has shed a light on how K-pop has been evolving and how Asian pop music genres have been received both the mainstream music industry and consumers in the west.
Dr. William Tsutsui, President of Hendrix College in Arkansas, will come to campus during International Week. He will be giving a public talk on “Godzilla on My Mind” and we will follow with a screening of the original Gojira. Dr. Tsutsui is THE expert on the Godzilla movies. He is a Japanese historian (a Japanese-American ethnically).
