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
Admission:
Free
Open to:
General Public