International Workshop on
Environmental Humanities in Asia:
Ecological Crisis and Cultural Responses

Tuesday to Thursday, 10 – 12 April 2018
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Climate change and climate catastrophes, exacerbated by capitalist growth, are creating new forms of politics, different socio-cultural engagements and new philosophical thinking. Multispecies feminist theorist Donna Haraway has recently asked us to engage the concept of the Anthropocene critically, link it to the Capitalocene, and make kin with non-human species in order to have a future that more can co-exist. What is the role of the humanities in the theorization of global environmental crisis and damage? How do social cultural theories respond to the age of Anthropocene in which human activities have radically changed the meanings of the earth, human and non-human existences? How do we advance postcolonial critiques in Asia where limited natural resource and massive cheap labor is mobilized to manufacture for consumers all over the world? How do humanities scholars respond to the post-Fukushima era when climate refugees are protagonists, animals and plants interact with new technologies, while waste and pollution are fact of everyday lives? This workshop invites young and excellent researchers from the emerging field of environmental humanities to respond to entanglements among capital, ecology, human and non-human, waste, and cultural productions.

Keynote Speaker (via Skype)
Prasenjit Duara (Duke University)

Speakers
Chan Ka Ming (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Chang Chia-ju (Brooklyn College)
Chu Hueichu (National Chung Hsing University)
Rohan D’Souza (Kyoto University)
Adam Liebman (University of California, Davis)
Lo Kwai Cheung (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Anna Lora-Wainwright (University of Oxford)
Pang Laikwan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Tam Man Kei (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Wang Bo (University of Lausanne)
Wang Jiuliang (Film Director)
Wu Ka-ming (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Emily T. Yeh (University of Colorado Boulder)
Wenyi Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University)

***ATTENDENCE BY INVITATION ONLY***

The workshop booklet can be downloaded here.

Bibliography on environmental humanities can be downloaded here.

Organized by
MA in Intercultural Studies and the Centre for Cultural Studies, the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sponsored by
Research Summit Series, Faculty of Arts and Wu Yee Sun College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong