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Program
Day 1 June 9, 2014
| 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM |
Registration |
| 9:00 AM |
Opening Remarks
Angela Leung, HKIHSS, The University of Hong Kong and Helen Siu, Anthropology, Yale University & HKIHSS |
| 9:15 AM |
Welcome Remarks and Framing
Anne Rademacher, Environmental Studies & Anthropology, New York University and K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anthropology and Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University |
| 9:30 AM – 9:50 AM |
Discussion on format and goals |
| 10:00 AM – 12:45 PM |
Session 1 : The Cultivated City
Jiangnan Now: Cultivation and the Nature of Cities
Anna Greenspan, Urban Studies, New York University (Shanghai) and Francesca Tarocco, History, New York University (Shanghai)
Bourgeois urban political ecologies? Parks and politics in Navsari, India
Anna Zimmer, Geography, University of Lausanne
Selling and buying fresh vegetables in Beijing: Food markets and ecological sustainability in an Asian megacity
Anna Boermel, Anthropology, King's College London
Discussant: Andrew Toland, Architecture, The University of Hong Kong
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| 1:00PM – 1:50 PM | Lunch |
| 2:00PM – 5:00 PM |
Session 2 : Conservation in the City
The urban leopards are good cartographers. Human-nonhuman and spatial conflicts in and around the national park of Mumbai
Frédéric Landy, Geography, University of Paris Ouest-Nanterre
Discrepant ecologies in Jahazpur: Protected trees, degraded river
Ann Gold, Anthropology, Syracuse University
Tales from the Concrete Cave: Delhi’s Birla Temple and the Genealogies of Urban Nature in India
Kajri Jain, Art History, University of Toronto
Discussant: Nikhil Anand, Anthropology, Environmental Studies, University of Minnesota
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| 6:30 PM |
Dinner* (By invitation only)
One Stop Ristorante & Bar
G/F, 52 High Street, Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong
*timing may be subject to change; an update will be given on the actual day.
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Day 2 June 10, 2014
| 9:00 AM – 11:45 AM |
Session 3 : Building and Dwelling in the City
Land dedicated to Allah – Arab community and Waqf land in Singapore, 1860s -2010
Stephanie Chung, History, Hong Kong Baptist University
Grounded Urbanism: Participation and the Networked Ecologies of Social Justice in Bhuj, India
Himanshu Burte, Architecture, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
Housing Crisis and Immigration Debates during the 1920s and 1930s Rangoon, Burma
Rajashree Mazumder, History, Yale University
Discussant: Shubhra Gururani, Anthropology, York University
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| 12:00 PM – 12:50 PM | Lunch |
| 1:00 PM – 3:50 PM |
Session 4 : The Work of Water in the City
Water, Land, Livelihoods: A Political Ecology of Water in Manila
Deborah Cheng, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA
Making an Urban Wilderness: Water and the Technological Imaginary in Hong Kong, 1860-1918
Robert Peckham, History, The University of Hong Kong
Socialist Urban Ecologies and Infrastructure Breakdown in Postwar Vietnam
Christina Schwenkel, Anthropology, University of California, Riverside
Discussant: Billy So, Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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| 4:00 PM – 5:45 PM |
Session 5 : City and Technology
Gender and Social Space in the Age of the Metro
Rashmi Sadana, Anthropology, George Mason University
Contortions of the Unconsolidated: Hong Kong, Landslides and the Production of Territory
Adam Bobbette, Architecture, The University of Hong Kong
Discussant: R. Benedito Ferrão, English, La Trobe University, Melbourne
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*Dinner on your own. Please note that due to budgetary constraints we are unable to provide reimbursement for this meal.
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Day 3 June 11, 2014
| 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM |
Closing Plenary Discussion
Discussion will be led by conference organizers and the five session discussants all of whom will take five minutes each to talk about their own research in light of the conference themes, followed by another two hours for general discussion, wrap up, and vote of thanks.
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| 12:00 PM | Lunch
Room 201, May Hall |
| 1:45 PM | Participants to gather at Robert Black College Dining Hall |
| 2:00 PM | Departure for starting point of field trip |
| 2:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Field trip in Hong Kong
Tour of historical Hong Kong, including sites of colonial as well as local cultural interest.
Flagstaff House (Museum of Tea Ware) - St John's Cathedral - Botanical Garden - St Paul's Church - Wo On Lane in Wellington Street - Man Mo Temple - Tai Ping Shan Street
Guided by guest trip leader, Wing Kin Puk, History Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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*Dinner on your own. Please note that due to budgetary constraints we are unable to provide reimbursement for this meal.
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Day 4 June 12, 2014
| 8:30 AM |
Participants to gather at Robert Black College Dining Hall
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| 8:45 AM | Departure for the Hong Kong – Macau Ferry Terminal |
| 9:45 AM | Day Trip to Macau
Visit to historical and cultural sites that signify Macau’s past as an outpost of European settlement and a confluence of East and West (e.g. churches, temples, residences, plazas, etc.)
Guided by guest trip leader, Sui Wai Cheung, History Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 10:45 AM | Arrival in Macau |
| 11:30 AM | Camoes Garden and Grotto - Casa Garden - Protestant Cemetery - Leal Senado Building |
| 1:00 PM | LUNCH
Metropole Hotel
439-501 Avenida da Praia Grande |
| 2:00 PM | Sir Robert Ho Tung Library - Tung Sin Tong - St. Dominic's Church - Na Tcha Temple - Ruins of St. Paul's & The Museum of Sacred Art and Crypt - St. Joseph’s Seminary and Church - A-Ma Temple - Mandarin House (if time permits) |
| 6:15 PM | Return to Hong Kong |
| 7:15 PM | Arrival in Hong Kong |
| 7:30 PM | Bus to Robert Black College, HKU |
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*Dinner on your own. Please note that due to budgetary constraints we are unable to provide reimbursement for this meal.
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