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Schedule

FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2018 


2:00 Welcome

2:30 Opening Remarks – James Scott (Yale University)

3-4:45 Panel 1 – Land and Landscape

Chair: Peter Perdue (Yale University )
Discussant: Tony Andersson (Yale University) 

“The Geography of Timber Scarcity in Early China”
Brian Lander (Brown University)

“Woody Vegetation and Human Use of the Land in Southern Asia”
Sumit Guha (
University of Texas at Austin)

“Fighting over Nature: Resource Disputes in Central Japan During an Age of Instability, 1475-1638”
John Elijah Bender (Concordia College)

4:45 – 5:00 Coffee Break

5:00 – 6:45 Panel 2 – States and Forests

Chair: Ling Zhang (Boston College)
Discussant: Joanna Linzer (Yale University) 

“Pines for Cardamom: Environmental Management and Ethnicity in Imperial Vietnam”
Bradley Camp Davis (Eastern Connecticut State University)

“Making Forests: Biotic and Institutional Transformations in South China, 1100-1600”
Ian Matthew Miller (St. John’s University)

“Categorization of Property Right Regimes on Forest Lands in Late Imperial China: ‘public mountain,’ ‘state mountain,’ ‘lineage mountain,’ and beyond”
Meng Zhang (Loyola Marymount University )

 

SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER

 

8:30 Breakfast

 

9:00 – 10:45 Panel 3 –Knowledge and Ritual

Chair: Mitch Aso (SUNY-Albany)
Discussant: Yuan Chen (Yale University)

“Cultivating the Paper Mulberry, Cultivating Transformative Hands: The New Politics of Paper Artisans in Late Chosŏn Korea”
Jung Lee (Ehwa Womans University)

“Trees by the Water are Like Your Mother’s Brother: Nuosu Yi Traditional Knowledge and Ecosystem Sustainability”
Amanda Schmidt (Oberlin College)
Stevan Harrell, Brian D. Collins, R. Keala Hagman, and Thomas Hinckley (University of Washington)

“Spirit Mediums and the Harvesting of Camphor in North Sumatra, c. 1700 to 1920”
Faizah Zakaria (Nanyang Technological University)

10:45 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:45 Panel 4 – Colony and Nation

Chair: Daniel Botsman (Yale University) 
Discussant: Caterina Scaramelli (Yale University)

“Scientific Forestry and Ecologies of War in Taiwan during Japanese Colonial Rule”
Kuang-chi Hung (National Taiwan University)

“Seeing Sun Yat-sen in the Trees: Making Forestry Nationalist in GMD China, 1927-1937”
Larissa Pitts (Austin College)

“Cinchona Plantations in Colonial Taiwan”
Timothy Yang (University of Georgia)

12:45-2:15 Lunch Break

2:15 – 4:00 Panel 5 – Wooded Borderlands

Chair: Ben Kiernan (Yale University) 
Discussant: John Buchanan (Yale University) 

“Woodlands, Rituals and Identity in Qing Zhili’s Forest-Steppe Ecotone”
David Bello (Washington and Lee University)

“’How could we receive logs by the thousand?’: Timber, Borders, and the Spatial Praxes of the State in Chosŏn-Qing Relations”
Joshua Van Lieu (LaGrange College)

“Borgos, Bridges and Pot Plants: a study of the things that outlived the nineteenth century rubber frontier of British India”
Aparajita Majumdar (Cornell University)

4:00-4:30 Coffee Break

4:30-6:00 Keynote Session


Presentations by:

Graeme Barker (Cambridge University)

Nancy Peluso (University of California-Berkeley)

 

 

SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER

 

8:30 Breakfast

 

9:00 – 10:45 Panel 6 – States and Species

Chair: Fabian Drixler (Yale University)
Discussant: Michael Thornton (Yale University)

“Wood Procurement and Architectural Aesthetics in Ming and Qing China”
Aurelia Campbell (Boston College)

“The Politics of Pine in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1684-1876”
John S. Lee (University of Manchester)

“Sal, Teak and a British Imperial Project: Redesigning an Ancient Landscape in India’s North East”
Arupjyoti Saikia (Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)

10:45 – Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30 Roundtable Discussion

Chair: K. Sivaramakrishnan (Yale University)

Faisal Husain (Pennsylvania State University)

Kate de Luna (Georgetown University)

Karl Appuhn (New York University)

Ian J. Miller (Harvard University)

Pamela McElwee (Rutgers University)

12:30 Working Lunch & General Discussion
2:00 Closing Remarks

 

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