Event time:
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 - 3:00pm
Location:
Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) 134
320 York Street
New Haven, CT
06511
Event description:
Spring 2025 Environmental Humanities Symposium
Wednesday, April 16
HQ 134
3:00–3:50 PM
Opening Remarks
Panel 1: Environmental Policy: Land Use and Agriculture
- Al Lim (Anthropology/School of the Environment): Experimenting Through Sen: The Lived Networks of Thailand’s Cannabis Boom”
- Joshua Amponsah (African Studies): “The Human and Environmental Costs of Conservation Conflicts in Africa”
- Alfonse Chiu (School of Architecture): “ ‘A Happy Place and A Productive Centre’: Agrarian Transformation and Agro-Capital Consolidation on a Malaysian Frontier”
3:50–4:00 PM
Coffee Break
4:00–4:50 PM
Panel 2: Material Management: Nuclear Waste, Water, and Haze
- Mays Smithwick (American Studies): “This is Not a Place of Honor: The Secular Coloniality of Nuclear Semiotics”
- Jiaqi Wang (School of Architecture): “ ‘Development Is the Hard Truth’: Systems Theory and the Three Gorges Dam, 1986–1992”
- Layna Chen (School of Architecture): “The Science of Haze”
4:50–5:15 PM
Panel 3: Lightning Talks
- Estella Dieci (School of Architecture): “Technologizing the Desert: Libya’s Great Manmade River”
- Maggie Wang (Yale Law School): “Animal Collectives”
- Jingyuan Wu (Fox International Fellow): “Transnational Environmental Awareness and Mutual References: ‘Kōgai’-Related Experiences Between Japan and China in the 1970s–80s”
5:15–6:00 PM
Catered Reception
Yale Environmental Humanities gratefuly acknowledges the financial support of The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund and the Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration.
Admission:
Free
Open to:
General Public