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Asian Environments Shaping the World: Conceptions
of Nature and Environmental Practices
20-21 March 2009
National University of Singapore
University Hall, Vista Level 7
Programme
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20 March 2009 (Friday) |
| 0830 |
REGISTRATION
Level 7, Vista, Lee Kong Chian Wing, University Hall,
National University of Singapore |
| 0900 |
OPENING REMARKS
Professor Prasenjit DUARA (National University of
Singapore, Singapore)
Organiser of the conference |
| 0905 |
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
"The Ecology of State-evasion"
Professor James C SCOTT (Yale University, USA) |
| 1000 |
TEA-BREAK (Venue:
Nexus@Level 6) |
| 1015 |
Session 1: States, settlements and the
environment
"Mountains and Valleys: Multiples Natures and Their
Environmental Consequences in China"
Professor Robert WELLER (Boston University, USA)
"Is Pu-er in Zomia?: Tea Cultivation and the State in China"
Professor Peter C. PERDUE (Yale University, USA)
"What the evolution of a lake tells us about aridity in
central Eurasia"
Professor Masayoshi NAKAWO (National Institute for
the Humanities, Japan) (including 15 min video) |
| 1145 |
DISCUSSION FOR SESSION 1
Discussants:
Professor Kathleen MORRISON (University of
Chicago, USA)
Professor Prasenjit DUARA (NUS,
Singapore) |
| 1315 |
LUNCH (Venue: Nexus@Level 6) |
| 1430 |
Session 2: Transformations of
Indigeneity
"Cosmic Representations and Aterritorial Communities
in Southeast Asia: Implications for Sustainable Livelihoods"
Assoc. Professor Victor SAVAGE (NUS, Singapore)
"Place and agency: Landscape narratives of Singhbhum and the
colonial discourse of tribal protection in Eastern India,
1830-1950"
Dr Vinita DAMODARAN (Sussex University, UK)
"Social Transformation, Environmental Change and the
Decultralization of Oroqen (1858-1945)"
Professor BAO Maohong (Beijing University, China) |
| 1600 |
TEA-BREAK (Venue:
Nexus@Level 6) |
| 1615 |
DISCUSSION FOR SESSION 2
Discussants:
Professor Kathleen MORRISON (University of Chicago, USA)
Professor James C. SCOTT (Yale University, USA) |
| 1730 |
END |
| 1930 |
DINNER
*For invited guests
only |
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21 March 2009 (Saturday) |
| 0930 |
Session 3: Transformations
of Nature and Natural Transformations
"River as Resource and Land to Own: The Great Hydraulic
Transition in Eastern India"
Dr Rohan D’SOUZA (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
Delhi)
"Contact Zones of Eco-tourism: Tales of the Environment
from Western Flores"
Assoc. Professor Maribeth ERB (NUS, Singapore)
Mr Eberhardus AGUS (LSM Primasari Desa, Indonesia)
"No-Man's Land: History and Nature Between States in
the Korean DMZ"
Assoc. Professor Julia A THOMAS (Notre Dame
University, USA) |
| 1100 |
TEA-BREAK (Venue:
Nexus@Level 6) |
| 1115 |
DISCUSSION FOR SESSION 3 (15
min video)
Discussants:
Assoc. Prof Alan TAN Khee Jin (NUS, Singapore)
Assoc. Professor John William PHILLIPS (NUS,
Singapore) |
| 1230 |
LUNCH (Venue: Nexus@Level 6) |
| 1330 |
Session 4: Urban
Reconceptions
"Morphogenesis and Layering of Southeast Asian Coastal
Cities"
Assoc. Professor Johannes WIDODO (NUS, Singapore)
"The Nature of Emergency in Late Imperial Japan"
Assoc. Professor Gregory K CLANCEY & Miss Minami ORIHARA
(NUS, Singapore)
"Greening like a Developmental State: Eco-City Edens
and the Ecological Modernization of China"
Dr Daniel GOH Pei Siong (NUS, Singapore) |
| 1500 |
TEA-BREAK (Venue:
Nexus@Level 6) |
| 1520 |
DISCUSSION FOR SESSION 4
Discussants:
Assoc. Professor John William PHILLIPS (NUS,
Singapore)
Dr John DIMOIA (NUS, Singapore) |
| 1930 |
CLOSING DINNER
*For invited
guests only |
Several publishers will display their relevant publications at
the conference site. |
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