Environment, Atmosphere, Feeling Lecture Series

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We invite you to join this year’s Global Asian Studies lecture series on “environment, atmosphere, feeling,” a showcase for new and impactful research on the range of human and more-than-human responses to environmental challenges and conditions. In an age of increased resource extraction, industrialized agriculture, green energy transition and rapid urbanization, it is critical to pay attention to how environments shape us, and how we in turn impact our environments. How does daily life, political life, cultural life, and personal life draw on the environment and the climactic? How do we change our understanding of the boundaries between the human and the non-human, the natural and the human-made, the atmospheric as metaphor and the chemicals that we inhale?

This year’s Global Asian Studies lecture series features an interdisciplinary cohort of speakers who raise questions, offer critical lenses, and gather empirical evidence to synthesize “environment, atmosphere, feeling.” From the polluted air that urbanites in Asian megacities dare to breathe, to the clash between industrialization and Tokyo’s waterways, to the legacies of twentieth century warfare in Southeast Asia, environmental issues are at the forefront of Global Asia and its connected diasporas. This lecture series intends to start conversations on how our environmental pasts and futures are truly entangled.