Description:

Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Southeast Asian Environment.

As a major center of global biodiversity and natural resources, Southeast Asia's environment sustains life but also poses challenges. This symposium explores the Southeast Asian environment from several disciplinary approaches in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Presenters in the first session address Southeast Asian biodiversity through the lenses of conservation biology, literature, and taxonomy. In the second session, presenters address the social corollaries of that biodiversity, commenting on justice in biodiversity governance regimes in Laos, transmigration programs in Indonesia, and the politics of forest fires in Borneo.

Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 9AM to 1PM
Scott Hall 212
601 University Place, Evanston, IL 60208

R.S.V.P. and info: SabinaPuspita2021@u.northwestern.edu

Co-sponsors: Equality Development and Globalization Studies Program,
Program in Plant Biology and Conservation,
Science in Human Culture Program,
Department of Political Science

Keynote Speakers:
Chuck Cannon
Director of Center for Tree Science,
The Morton Arboretum

Kimberly Suiseeya
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University

Panelists:
Elliot Gardner
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
The Morton Arboretum

Bonnie Etherington
Ph.D. Candidate in English Literature, Northwestern University

Perdana Roswaldy
Arryman Fellow (Sociology),
Equality Development and Globalization Studies Program

Sofyan Ansori
Arryman Fellow (Anthropology), Equality Development and Globalization Studies Program