Here Comes the Environmental Affairs Symposium!
Open gallery
The 2012 Environmental Affairs Symposium, “Environmental
Entanglements Across the Pacific,” will take place Oct. 15-18, 2012. Over the summer, student co-chairs Sarah Clement (ENVS ‘14), Laura Nash (East Asian Studies ‘13), Amanda Wickramasekera (ENVS ‘13), and Micah Leinbach (ENVS ‘14) have been working hard on developing a provocative program focusing on the ways that environmental considerations in East/Southeast Asia and North America intertwine, in both convergent and divergent ways. Keynote speakers will be Zhao Zhong of Green Camel Bell in China, and Brett Walker, a professor at Montana State University specializing in the environmental history of
Japan.
Zhao Zhong is a Chinese grassroots activist who was a Time Magazine Hero of the Environment in 2009 for starting the first environmental NGO in the Gansu province of China. Zhao will share his experiences
cooperating with U.S.-based organizations around environmental protection on the Pacific Rim, and Walker will talk about “Japan’s Toxic Archipelago: Understanding the Environment in a Human-Fashioned World.”
Check out the symposium website for more program details, and contact Sarah (sclement@lclark.edu), Laura (lnash@lclark.edu), or Amanda (amandaw@lclark.edu) if you want to help put on this exciting show. Volunteer opportunities abound!
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Environmental Studies is located in room 343A of John R. Howard Hall on the Undergraduate Campus.
MSC: 62
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Symposium Advisor Jessica Kleiss
Environmental Studies
Lewis & Clark
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Portland OR 97219