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Oct. 18th ’18 Green Legacy Fall Talk: Stories of Peace
On October 18, 2018, a sunny and crisp fall day in Oberlin, LIASE put on its first Green Legacy event of the year, “Green Legacy Fall Talk: Stories of Peace.” Green Legacy is a non-profit organization in Japan whose mission it is to spread the message of peace through sharing the seeds of the survivor…
Oct. 16th ’18 A Story of Alienation: Rivers, People & Water
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 16 4:30pm Description: Global Issues Symposium 2018 ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS AND POLICY PERSPECTIVES FROM SOUTH ASIA Speaker: Dr. A. K. Enamul Haque “A Story of Alienation – Rivers, People & Water” Dr. Haque is a Professor of Economics at East West University (Dhaka, Bangladesh), Director of Economic Research Group, Executive Director…
Sep. 28th ’18 Resources, Ecology, and Environment in Modern China
On September 28th, 2018, Peter Perdue gave a lecture titled Resources, Ecology, and Environment in Modern China. A professor of History at Yale University in Chinese and Environmental Studies, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as an author and co-author of many books and textbooks, Oberlin was delighted to…
Asia and the Environment Lecture Series Fall 2018
LIASE WT19 China & Hong Kong Study Trips Information Session
Sept 13 Thursday 12:15-1:10 LIASE WT19 China & Hong Kong Study Trips Information Session. Pizza provided! Severance # 108 Please review the descriptions and apply for each Winter Term Trip here. http://languages.oberlin.edu/blogs/liase/winter-term/f/ http://languages.oberlin.edu/blogs/liase/winter-term/wt-2019-parks-and-the-environment-in-sichuan-china/
Mar. 29th ’18 Environment as Method: Postwar Japanese Activism and East Asia
Simon Avenell, Professor of History, Australia National University 4:30, Thursday, March 29,2018 Hallock Auditorium, AJ Lewis Center *Spanning the era of Japanese industrial pollution in the 1960s and the more recent rise of movements addressing global environmental problems, Avenell’s work explores how Japanese activists influenced approaches to environmentalism and industrial pollution in the Asia-Pacific region,…
Oct. 31st ’17 Pursuing Peace and Life in the Korean DMZ
Pursuing Peace and Life in the Korean DMZ Eleana Kim, Professor of Anthropology, University of California Irvine Tuesday, October 31, 4:30 pm Hallock Auditorium, AJ Lewis Center *Professor Kim explores the Demilitarized Zone on the Korean peninsula as a haven for biodiversity and a site of militarized ecologies. Her publications include “The Flight of Cranes:…
Oct. 30th ’17 Seminar on Korean Peninsula, Environment & Sustainability
Albert Park, Professor of History, Claremont McKenna College Professor Park will lead a workshop about environmental issues on the Korean peninsula, and current research on Korea & sustainability. Park is co-director of the LIASE EnviroLab Asia at the Claremont Colleges, which aims at “training active practitioners of change who develop sustainable and socially just policy-relevant…
Oct. 24-25 ’17 Indigeneity, Resilience, and Winds from Ainu Mosir (OKI with Nate Renner)
Tuesday, October 24, 7:30 p.m. Fairchild Chapel (50 W. Lorain Street) Tuesday, October 24, 7:30 p.m. Fairchild Chapel (50 W. Lorain Street) Environmental activist and performer OKI Kano plays the tonkori, a stringed instrument, mixing songs of resilience from the indigenous Ainu peoples in Japan with reggae & other musical genres. Wednesday, October 25, 4:30 p.m….
