Report on the First Conference of East Asian Environmental H
By Marlon Zhu (Ph.D. Candidate, BinghamtonUniversity, SUNY; Assistant, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica) The First Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH 2011) was held on October 24-26 at Academia Sinica, Taipei. It was hosted by the Association for East Asian Environmental History (AEAEH) and the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica. About 120 scholars, including 89 members of the Association, came from China, Europe, Hong Kong, India, Japan, New Zealand, North America, Philippines, and Taiwan, attended the Conference. Three keynote speeches were delivered by Professors Mark Elvin, Susan Flader and Ranjan Chakrabarti. There were 49 papers presented at six parallel sessions with 15 themes, such as environmental thought, landscape, political ecology, environmental policy, environment and ethnicity, climate history, war and environment, disaster and prevention, marine life conservation, pollution, land use, water resources, ethics and justice, health and diseases, as well as forest. There were also two Ph.D. roundtables with 5 papers and a plenary poster session with 7 presentations. In addition, a special film session presented Green Fire: Aldo Leopold’s legacy, with Asian commentary.
At the end of the Conference, there was a roundtable to discuss themes for the next conference and about 20 themes were suggested. Finally, the draft of the AEAEH bylaws was discussed at the General Meeting of the AEAEH members, and Professor Ts’ui-jung Liu was elected as the first President of the Association. A journal proposal prepared by Professor Andrea Janku was also discussed at the meeting, but a decision was made to postpone the issue which needed further considerations. The President elected announced that the next conference scheduled two years later would be organized by Academia Sinica in cooperation with a university in Taiwan.
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