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February Conference on Environmental Issues in China

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The University of Puget Sound Program in Asian Studies is pleased to announce an upcoming symposium on environment in China: Resilience, Response, and Reclamation in the Ecology and Environment of Greater China, to be held on February 8 (evening) and February 9 (all day), 2019.

Recent years have seen both extreme environmental degradation and diverse efforts at mitigation and adaptation all over the Sinophone world.  As air pollution dominates headlines, the Chinese government shuts down steel and cement mills and launches huge renewable-energy projects.  In a land that was severely deforested in mid-century, China has doubled its forest cover in the past three decades. Protests and local environmental movements put constant pressure on governments in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Green becomes fashionable among urbanites.

Presentations in the symposium will capture the trajectory of environmental degradation and remediation, and assess just how resilient the varied environments of Greater China are. There will be a particular focus on the theories of Resilience in Social-Ecological systems, founded by C.S. Holling and developed by a large number of researchers, as embodied in the Resilience Alliance and its online journal, Ecology and Society.  How has whirlwind modernization and urbanization affected the ability of ecosystems to respond to disturbances and continue functioning?  What is recoverable and what is irrevocably lost in the land, air, and water of the Sinophone world?

List of presenters and titles can be found on the conference website:

https://www.pugetsound.edu/academics/departments-and-programs/undergraduate/asian-studies/chinasymposium/

There will be an opening reception on the evening of Friday, Feb 8, open to all of the campus community. Saturday, Feb 9 will consist of morning presentations (open to the campus community), as well as afternoon workshops for presenters (and by invitation).

For further information please contact Professor Glover ([email protected])

Conference organizers:

Denise M. Glover, University of Puget Sound
Jack Patrick Hayes, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
Stevan Harrell, University of Washington

Archaeological Opportunity for Students

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Hi all,

For the third year in a row, this program offers students a summer research opportunity at the juncture of archaeology and the environmental sciences. Moreover, this opportunity includes a weekly stipend. If you’re looking for a fascinating summer project, read on and consider this:one arch

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the third year of our summer research opportunity for undergraduates with interests in anthropology, archaeology, biology, ecology, environmental sciences, fisheries sciences, wildlife management, natural resources, paleosciences, and the Anthropocene. Please share this excellent and paid opportunity with students who may be interested.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, this REU site, Exploring Evidence of the Anthropocene: Archaeological and Ecological Interdisciplinary Research Experiences for First Generation Students in the Upper Mississippi River System (NSF Award No.1659633), offers field-based and laboratory research opportunities in archaeology and ecology, and will conclude with students producing an interdisciplinary research poster. We will be accepting 10 students to participate in this 8-week, paid ($500 weekly stipend) research experience for 2019 (June 3-July 26, 2019).

We are looking for enthusiastic students currently in their freshmen, sophomores, and juniors (we are also accepting current seniors who will graduate in the fall of 2019) year. Students will also participate in career development activities. We specifically seek applications from first generation college students (students with neither parent completing a four-year degree upon entering college), although we will fully consider complete applications from all eligible students regardless of status as a first generation student.

Further information, including details on how to apply, is attached and can be found on the REU’s website. If students have any questions, please encourage them to contact the REU site PI, Dr. Carol Colaninno, at [email protected].

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Cannabis, Ethnobiology, and Professor Glover

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Hi all,

cannabisDenise Glover mentioned the new issue of the Journal of Ethnobiology she just edited, and we asked for more information. Here’s her description:

About a year and a half ago, at one of our annual Society of Ethnobiology board meetings, we were brainstorming about topics for special issues or special sections for our flagship journal, the Journal of Ethnobiology. I suggested one on cannabis. The editors liked the idea and a few months later asked if I would like to be guest editor for that special section — I accepted. I learned a lot about journal editing (slightly different than book editing, which I have done before) as well as contemporary research on cannabis. Just a few weeks ago our special section was published in volume 38, issue 4 of the Journal of Ethnobiology. It includes a brief introduction by me, as well as four articles written by scholars in the fields of anthropology, geography, medicine, sociology, and economics.

In my introduction, I review key issues at play in the role of cannabis as companion species, from shifts in legal status, links to global trade and capitalist industry, to effects on lives from the Himalayas to the Congo Basin. Here’s the first paragraph (maybe to entice you to read the rest of the articles):

“Cannabis. Pot. Weed. Marijuana. Ganja. Dope. These are just a handful of terms that are used in North America and beyond for the genus Cannabis. It is a plant with many names and a plant with many lives and accompanying narratives. As cannabis becomes legalized in Canada, the United States, Europe, South America, and elsewhere, interest in knowing more about its social and biological life (or lives) has been growing. A goal of this special section is to bring forth diverse and immersive narratives of cannabis so that this important companion species (Haraway 2003) can be known more fully.”

Have a look:  https://bioone.org/journals/journal-of-ethnobiology/volume-38/issue-4

 

Thanks for the note, Denise! I look forward to reading this.

Andrew