Date: April 17 (Tuesday), 2018 14：45～16：45
Venue: Room AA447, Research Bldg No.2, Yoshida Main Campus, Kyoto University
http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/access/yoshida/main.html
(Building no.34 on the map)
Speaker: Prof. Christopher Coggins (Professor of Geography and Asian Studies, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, MA, USA)
Title: God Mountains and Fengshui Forests: Dialectics and Dialogics in the Sacred/Secular Spaces of Tibetan and Han Villages Under China’s Ecological Civilization
Language: English
On the speaker：
Dr. Coggins’s research focuses on rural China, political ecology, biodiversity, sacred landscapes, protected area management, globalization, and property/possession. He has led students and faculty on eight trips to China since 1999, six of which have involved intensive field research. He is the co-editor (with Emily Yeh) of Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes of the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (University of Washington, 2014), and the author of The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China (University of Hawaii Press, 2003) (runner-up for the 2003 Julian Steward Award for best book in environmental/ecological anthropology and nominated for the Kiriyama Prize in non-fiction). He is also the co-author of The Primates of China: Biogeography and Conservation Status – Past, Present, and Future (China Forestry Publishing House, 2002). He has published refereed articles in many geography, environment, and Asia-related books and periodicals. Since 2011, he has led teams engaged in a multi-year, mixed methods, field and archival research project on the fengshui forests of southern and central China. His work on the history of humans and tigers in China has been featured on BBC 4’s Natural Histories. Dr. Coggins has been teaching at Simon’s Rock since 1998.
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