The Environment and East Asia

About the event

This 4-day symposium brings outside experts together with WSU faculty and students to discuss some of the critical environmental issues facing East Asia.

March 2
5 p.m. Introduction: Michael Myers, Interim Director, WSU Asia Program
Lecture and discussion: Emily Andersen, WSU Department of History

Location: CUE 203

March 3
5 p.m. Film: Gongliao, How Are you?
Location: CUE 203

6:30 p.m. Discussants: Christopher Lupke and Kota Inoue, WSU Department of Foreign Languages and Cultures
Light refreshments

March 4
5 p.m. Keynote address: Guobin Yang, University of Pennsylvania: “Friending Nature: Media and the Environmental Movement in China”
Location: CUE 203

6:30 p.m. Light refreshments

March 5
5 p.m. Roundtable Discussion: “Environmentalism and Sustainable Communities in East Asia”
Location: CUE 203

Participants:
Tom Moran (Middlebury College)
Jeffrey Hou (University of Washington)
W. Puck Brecher (WSU)
Xinmin Liu (WSU)
Kota Inoue (WSU)
Christopher Lupke (WSU), Moderator

6:30 p.m. Reception