Prof. Philippe Forêt, Dean [email protected] +880 2984 4051 School of Humanities and Social Sciences Brac University, 66 Mohakhali 1212, www.bracu.ac.bd

CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL INFORMATION Name Philippe Claude FORÊT

Citizenships Swiss, French, and European Union citizen

Titles Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Brac University Professor, Department of English and Humanities, BracU Senior Research Fellow, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development, BracU Co-Director, Environmental Humanities Research Group, SAGUF, University of Basel

Interests In university management: Shared governance, academic integrity, innovation, accountability, inclu- sion, and diversity In teaching and research: Human, social, and environmental geography, modern and contemporary his- tory, history of science and technology, the Anthropocene, sustainability studies, China and Central Asia

Addresses Prof. Philippe Forêt, Dean, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Brac University, 66 Mohakhali, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh: [email protected] Prof. Philippe Forêt, Department of Social Sciences, University of Basel, Rheinsprung 21, 4051 Basel, Switzerland: [email protected] Prof. Philippe Forêt, Feuerweg 16, 8046 Zurich, Switzerland: [email protected]

Links www.bracu.ac.bd https://www.bracu.ac.bd/academics/institutes-and-schools/school-humanities-and-social-sciences https://bigd.bracu.ac.bd/ https://www.bracu.ac.bd/about/people/philippe-foret-phd https://naturalsciences.ch/organisations/saguf http://philippeforet.academia.edu/

EDUCATION Degrees: Ph.D. in geography, Division of Social Sciences, University of Chicago. Dissertation on development and environmental policy in late imperial China. Committee: Michael Conzen (Chair), Paul Wheatley, and Marvin Mikesell Certificate of Advanced Studies in higher education, Swiss Federal of Lausanne (EPFL). Thesis on tenure in American public research universities Research Diploma in and civilization (summa cum laude), National Institute of Ori- ental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO), Paris. Thesis on nationality law in PR China Advanced Diploma and Diploma in Chinese language and civilization, INALCO, Paris B.A. in Chinese literature, The New Sorbonne University, Paris III Reserve officer commission, Military Academy of Bourges (EMB), French Army

Training: Postdoctoral research: Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley (one year) Postdoctoral research: Chair of Modern China, Collège de , Paris (one year) Doctoral studies: Institute of Social Science, Tokyo University (two years) Graduate studies: School of International Studies, Peking University (two years)

Languages: English (C2), French (native), German (C1), and Chinese (PhD qualification exam passed in classical Chinese)

POSITIONS Current: Bangladesh: 1. Dean (inaugural) of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2. Professor (full) of environmental humanities, Department of English and Humanities; 3. Senior Research Fellow, BRAC Institute of Governance and Development, Brac University Switzerland: Co-Director, Environmental Humanities Research Group, Swiss Academic Society for En- vironmental Research and Ecology, University of Basel, Switzerland

Former: 2016-18: Research Advisor at the Office of the Provost & Professor (full) of environmental history, Naz- arbayev University (NU), Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan 2015-16: Department Chair (inaugural) of the Department of History, Philosophy and Religious Studies & Vice-Dean of research (acting) of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, NU 2012-14: Researcher in Chinese studies (permanent position), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland 2011-12: Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, Nantes, France 2009-12: Visiting Professor in Central Asian studies, Stockholm University, Sweden 2008-09: Associate Professor in Chinese studies (with tenure), Nottingham University, United King- dom 2007-08: Fellow, Swedish Collegium, Uppsala, Sweden 2002-07: Researcher in cartography, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (ETH Zurich), Switzerland 1997-2002: Assistant Professor of geography (tenure-track), University of Oklahoma, Norman (OK), USA 1995-97: Assistant Professor in Chinese studies (tenure-track), University of Texas (UT), Austin, USA 1994-95: Postdoc in geography, University of California (UC), Berkeley, USA 1993-94: Postdoc in Chinese studies, Collège de France, Paris, France

HONORS AND AWARDS (selection) Recent distinctions: 2020: Seal of Excellence Certificate, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon 2020 Research and In- novation Program, European Commission (proposal score: 89%) 2019: Expert, High Council for the Evaluation of Research and Higher Education, France 2019: Member, Selection Committee for Sinology, 唐獎 Tang Prize Foundation, Academia Sinica, China () 2018: School nominee, University Research Award, Nazarbayev University, Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan 2017: Member, Selection Committee for Sinology, Tang Prize Foundation 2017: Member, Humanities Council, National Scientific Council, Kazakhstan 2017: Member, Society of Fellows, Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC), Ludwig- Maximilians University (LMU), Munich, Germany 2017: Carson Fellow, RCC, LMU and Deutsches Museum

2 Grants personally awarded (approximate figures): 2021: Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program, European Commission (under review): CHF 120,000 2018: Fellowship, Institute of Advanced Studies, Bristol University: CHF 8,000 2018: Research grant, Ministry of Education and Sciences, Kazakhstan (PI: Philippe Forêt): CHF 25,000 2017: Fellowship, Rachel Carson Center, LMU: CHF 36,000 2016: Faculty research grant, NU: CHF 9,000 2015: Conference grant, SNF (PI: Jean-François Staszak), Universities of Geneva, Paris I Panthéon-Sor- bonne, and UC Berkeley: CHF 23,000 2014: Fellowship, Translation House Looren, Zurich 2013: Conference grant, SNF (PI: Zhuang Yue) University of Zurich: CHF 8,000 2011: Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Nantes, France: CHF 50,000 2009: Fellowship, Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Educa- tion, Institute of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University: CHF 10,000 2008: Publication grant, Gerda Henkel Foundation 2007: Fellowship, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, Uppsala, Sweden: CHF 50,000 2006: Research grant, Gerda Henkel Foundation and Institute of Cartography and Geo-information, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich (ETH Zurich): CHF 36,000 2004: Travel grant, Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences 2004: Conference grants, Gerda Henkel and Cogito Foundations, University of Zurich: CHF 16,000 2002: SNF research grant, Institute of Cartography and Geo-information, ETH Zurich: CHF 166,000 2001: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowship, Museum of Ethnography, Stockholm 2000: Publication grant, University of Oklahoma 1998: Junior Faculty research grant, University of Oklahoma 1997: Junior Faculty research grant, University of Texas at Austin 1995: Junior fellowship, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, UT Austin 1994: NEH Summer Institute fellowship, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor 1994: S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup fellowship, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley 1993: Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation fellowship, Chair of Modern China, Collège de France, Paris 1990: Canon Foundation fellowship, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo 1990: Lavoisier Program fellowship, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo

SERVICE (selection) Service to the university: Creation of a teaching, research, and outreach program in the environmental humanities (EH) Development of a multi-campus EH program with several teams Development of bilateral programs through visits, conferences, and joint grant applications Elaboration of the research strategy of a comprehensive STEM university Management of university program, department, and school Mentoring and training of junior faculty and postdoctoral researchers Monitoring, assessment, and implementation of institutional research policy Participation in committees on the promotion of research Participation in committees on research funding Participation as member in meetings of the Research Council Participation as Dean in meetings of the Academic Council Participation as Chair in meetings of School research committee Participation in calls for proposals, reviews of application, and selection of awardees Reviews of department and school master plan Reviews, hiring, promotions, and contract renewals of faculty Reviews and updating of research tools, regulations, processes, and standards Supervision of interdisciplinary and collaborative research projects

Service to the profession: Coordination of country-wide EH teaching, research, service, and outreach activities Development of the priorities of the five-year plan of the National Scientific Councils

3 Development of collaborations between universities, research centers, learned societies, and academies of science Management of international and domestic teams in areas of EH expertise Monitoring of collaborative projects led by universities in several countries Participation in workshops on research funding by the European Commission Reviews of proposals and applications submitted to national and international foundations Reviews of proposals submitted to Institutes of Advanced Studies Reviews of degree programs for national agencies Reviews of publications submitted to academic journals and presses

MEMBERSHIPS (selection) America: AAG, American Association of Geographers — AAS, Association for Asian Studies — AGS, American Geographical Society — Manchu Studies AAS Group, Harvard — OSUN, Open Society University Network, Working Group on Sustainability, Bard College

Switzerland: MRI, Mountain Research Initiative, Bern — PAGES Past Global Changes, Future Earth, Bern — SAGUF, Swiss Academic Society for Environmental Research and Ecology, Basel — SGK, Swiss So- ciety of Cartography, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, Zurich

Europe: BRIDGES Global Coalition in Sustainability Science — CEDETE Development Center on Territory and Environment, University of Orleans — Club of Rome, French Committee — ESEH, European Soci- ety for Environmental History, KTH Stockholm — IIAS New Silk Roads Academy, Leiden Univer- sity

ADVISING AND TEACHING Recent supervisions: One lecturer in economics, BracU; one lecturer in linguistics, NU; three Carson Fellows, LMU; three postdocs in the environmental humanities, UZH; applicants to doctoral programs in geography and environmental studies; one PhD student in Chinese studies, Nanyang Technological University; one PhD student in landscape studies, University of Sheffield; one PhD student in modern history, UZH Seven awards: one research grant from the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Kazakhstan, two Car- son Fellowships, two SNF Fellowships, and two Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships (one awarded and one under review)

Graduate courses taught: University of Basel: “The Anthropocene: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities” (Spring 2020 and Spring 2021) University of Zurich (guest lecturer): “Themes in the Environmental Humanities” University of Zurich (id.): “Understanding Ecology through the Humanities” University of Zurich (id.): “Mountains without Borders” University of Zurich (id.): “The British and Chinese Empires” University of Nottingham: “Environment and Development in China, II” University of Oklahoma: “Political Geography of Conflict in Modern East Asia” University of Oklahoma: “Theory and Anti-Theory in Geography” University of Oklahoma: “Travel Literature and Orientalism” UT Austin: “Geographical Perspectives on Chinese Culture” UC Berkeley: “Political Ecology of the Chinese Frontier”

Undergraduate courses taught: Nazarbayev University: “History of the Anthropocene” Nazarbayev University: “History of Modern East Asia” University of St. Gallen (guest lecturer): “China’s Culture of Consumption”

4 University of Zurich: “The Chinese Landscape. From Notion to Representation” University of Nottingham: “Environment and Development in China, I” University of Geneva: “Mobility and Travel. The Discovery of Asia” University of Oklahoma: “Cultural Geography” University of Oklahoma: “Cultural Geography of Greater China” University of Oklahoma: “Introduction to Cartography” University of Oklahoma: “Introduction to Human Geography” University of Oklahoma: “The Language of Maps” University of Oklahoma: “Political Geography” University of Oklahoma: “World Regional Geography” UT Austin: “Geography of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong” UT Austin: “Society and Environment in China” UT Austin: “Planning the East Asian City” UT Austin: “Regional Geography of China and Central Asia” UT Austin: “Religious Geography of China and Central Asia”

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES

ORCID 0000-0001-8567-8328 I have selected below entries that illustrate best my current interests. An exhaustive list of my publica- tions and lecture papers (about 180 entries) is available upon request. Many can be downloaded from: http://philippeforet.academia.edu/ .

BOOKS Book, in progress: PF. A Documented Negative Outcome. How Geographers Immobilized the Past Climate of Asia. (Book proposal ac- cepted by the University of Chicago Press.)

Book, forthcoming: 傅雷. 图解承德 — 清代的造园工程. 上海: 复旦大学出版社, 2021. (Philippe Forêt. Mapping Chengde. Shanghai: Fudan University Press, 2021.)

Books: Philippe Forêt (PF) and Andreas Kaplony (eds.). The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road. Leiden: Brill, 2008. 245 pages. Ruth Dunnell, Mark Elliott, PF, and Jim Millward (eds.). New Qing Imperial History. London: Routledge, 2004. 245 pages. PF. La véritable histoire d’une montagne plus grande que l’Himalaya. Paris: Editions Bréal, 2004. 288 pages. Aymond Baud, PF, and Svetlana Gorshenina. La Haute-Asie telle qu’ils l'ont vue: Explorateurs et scientifiques de 1820 à 1940. Geneva: Editions Olizane, 2003. 144 pages. PF. Mapping Chengde. The Qing Landscape Enterprise. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2000. 211 pages.

Report: Christoph Kueffer, PF, and Marc Hall. Developing the Environmental Humanities in Switzerland: An Evaluation of Opportunities, Challenges and Priorities in Research, Teaching and Institutional Support. Bern: Swiss Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2015. 49 pages.

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Book chapters (selection): Christoph Kueffer, PF, and Marc Hall. “Environmental Humanities: Ein Experimentierfeld für die Weiterentwicklung der Qualitätsbeurteilung von geisteswissenschaftlicher Forschung?” Qualitats̈ -

5 und Leistungsbeurteilung in den Geistes-und Sozialwissenschaften. Bern: Schweizerische Akademie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, 2016 (90-94). PF. “Challenges to Fieldwork Before 1914 and Today: Adaptation, Omission, and Rediscovery.” Hall, M. and P. Kupper (eds.). Crossing Mountains: The Challenges of Doing Environmental History, RCC Perspectives. Munich: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, 2014 (9-19). PF. “La découverte de l’eau chaude et le rejet des évidences géographiques.” Rencontres scientifiques, Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Nantes. Nantes: IEA, 2012 (49-52). PF and Andreas Kaplony. “Our Approach to the Buddhist Road, the Mongol Road, the Islamic World and the Mediterranean Road.” Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony (eds.). The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road. Leiden: Brill, 2008 (1-5). PF. “Methodological Issues on the Context and Process of Transmission Through Image and Through Text.” Philippe Forêt and Andreas Kaplony (eds.). The Journey of Maps and Images on the Silk Road. Leiden: Brill, 2008 (203-207). PF. “Kartographie der Kontinuität: Vom vormodernen Ostasien zum postmodernen Hong Kong.” Jürg Glauser and Christian Kiening (eds.). Text-Bild-Karte. Kartographien der Vormoderne. Freiburg in B.: Rombach Verlag, 2007 (131-145). PF. “Globalizing Macau: The Emotional Costs of Modernity (1910-1930).” Fulong Wu (ed.). Globaliza- tion and the Chinese City. London: Routledge, 2006 (108-124). PF. “De la vertu au vice: L’espace des loisirs à Macao.” Hans-Jörg Gilomen, Beatrice Schumacher, and Laurent Tissot (eds.). Freizeit und Vergnugen̈ vom 14. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 2005 (173-185). PF. “Les blancs du Tibet: Histoire des solutions adoptées pour résoudre le plus magnifique problème de la géographie.” Isabelle Laboulais-Lesage (ed.). Combler les blancs de la carte. Modalités et enjeux de la con- struction des savoirs géographiques (XVIIe-XXe siècle). Strasbourg: Presses Universitaires de Strasbourg, 2004 (173-188). PF. “La politique patrimoniale du Gouvernement-Général du Chôsen à Keijô.” Maria Gravari-Barbas et Sylvie Guichard-Anguis (eds.). Regards croisés sur le patrimoine dans le monde à l’aube du XXIe siècle. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris-Sorbonne, 2003 (243-258). PF. “Railroad Literature on Suitable Places: How the Japanese Government Railways Forged an "Old China" Travel Culture.” Monika Burri, Kilian Elsasser, and David Gugerli (eds.). Die Internationalitaẗ der Eisenbahn 1850-1970. Zurich: Chronos Verlag, 2003 (309-326).

Article in a peer-reviewed journal, proposal under review: PF. “Water, Power, and Core Politics. An Environmental History of the Lake District of the Summer Capital of the Qing Dynasty.” Special issue on “Water, Power, and Politics. An Environmental His- tory,” Contemporanea. Rivista di storia dell ’800 e del ’900.

Articles in peer-reviewed journal, proposals accepted: PF. “Procedures and Processes in Climate Reconstruction: A Review of Sven Hedin’s Expedition to Iran, 1905-06.” Special issue on “International Methods and Comparisons in Climate Reconstruction and Impacts from Archives of Societies,” Climate of the Past. PF. “Disciplining the Environment 1: Mapping the Great Qing,” and “Disciplining the Environment 2: Mapping Planet B.” Undisciplined Environments.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals, in progress: PF. “The Silk Road.” Article requested by Oxford Bibliographies in Chinese Studies. PF. Stephen H. Whiteman. Where Dragon Veins Meet. The Kangxi Emperor and His Estate at Rehe. Book review requested by China Review International. PF. Deborah R. Coen. Climate in Motion. Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale. Book review requested by the Annals of Science.

Article in a peer-reviewed journal, forthcoming: PF. “The Polar China Sea.” Arcadia: Online Explorations in Environmental History, Spring 2021.

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Articles in peer-reviewed journals, published (selection): PF. “The Qianlong Emperor Hunting Hare: From the Qing Aesthetics of Nature to the End of European Exceptionalism.” Arcadia: Online Explorations in Environmental History, 2018, 25. Qing Pei and PF. “Source Note: Introduction to the Climate Records of Imperial China.” Environmental History, 2018, 23-4 (1-9). Christoph Kueffer, PF, Marc Hall, and Caroline Wiedmer, “Applying the Environmental Humanities.” Gaia. Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 2018, 27, 2 (254-256). PF. “Le changement climatique dans les cartes de la Route de la Soie: Les contributions négligées de l’Expédition sino-suédoise de 1927-1935.” Annales de Géographie, 2018, 722 (401-426). Qing Pei, David Zhang, Guodong Li, PF, and Harry Lee. “Temperature and Precipitation Effects on Agrarian Economy in Late Imperial China.” Environmental Research Letters, 2016, 11, 6. PF. “Rua de Macau 澳門街: Heterotopic Urbanity in the Celebration of Place, Memory and Identity.” Studies in History and Theory of Architecture, 2015, 3 (105-114). Marc Hall, PF, Christoph Kueffer, Alison Pouliot, and Caroline Wiedmer. “Seeing the Environment through the Humanities: A New Window on Grand Societal Challenges.” Gaia. Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 2015, 2 (134-136). Christoph Kueffer, PF, and Marc Hall. “Developing the Environmental Humanities: A Swiss Perspec- tive.” Gaia: Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society, 2014, 1. PF. “Climate change: A Challenge to the Geographers of Colonial Asia.” RFIEA Perspectives, 2013, 9 (21- 23). PF. “The French Mapping of Wilderness.” Arcadia: Online Explorations in Environmental History, 2013. PF. “Sven Hedin and the Invention of Climate Change.” Oestbulletinen, 2008, 12 (29-33). PF. “Les frontières du Central Asia Atlas de Sven Hedin: Un exemple de dilemme politique.” Le Monde des Cartes, 2006, 187 (51-64). 傅雷. « 热河环境史: 中国北方农民文化的扩展 » (“The Environmental History of Jehol: The Expan- sion of the North China Farming Culture”), 法国汉学, 2004, 9 (245-267). PF. “Mapping Ancient Chinese Antarctica.” Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, 2001, 73 (193- 215). PF. “Preliminary Catalogue of the Sven Hedin Map Library.” Himalayan Research Bulletin, 2000, 19-20 (21- 55). PF. “The Intended Perceptions of the Imperial Gardens of Chengde in 1780.” Studies in the History of Gar- dens and Designed Landscapes, 1999, 3, 4 (343-363). PF. “The Manchu Landscape Enterprise: Political, Geomantic and Cosmological Readings of the Gar- dens of the Bishu Shanzhuang Imperial Residence at Chengde.” Ecumene: A Journal of Environment, Cul- ture, Meaning, 1995, 2, 3 (325-334).

CONFERENCE PAPERS Recent organizations of conferences: “Toward Smart Sustainable Cities,” EXPO 2017 Future Energy Forum, NU, University of Applied Sci- ences of Zurich, and swissuniversities, 2017. “World of Desire. The Eroticization of Tourist Sites,” University of Geneva, University Paris 1, and UC Berkeley conference on tourism, University of Geneva, 2015. “Anthropocene Slam Zurich,” ETH Zurich and SAGUF, 2015. Festival International de Géographie, International Geographic Union, Saint-Dié, 2013. “Entangled Landscapes. Rethinking the Landscape Exchange Between Asia and Europe,” UZH, 2013. “Constructing Qing Imperial Landscapes. Exhibition of the 樣式雷 Yangshi Lei Architectural Archives (1644-1911),” ETH Zurich, UZH, and Tianjin University, 2013.

Recent guest lectures (selection): “The Reconstruction of the Past Climate of the Silk Road,” The Conservation and Management of An- cient Sites on the Silk Road: New Strategies, New Tools, Dunhuang Academy and Getty Conserva- tion Institute, October 2021 (date TBC).

7 “Visualizing Change and Stability: The Science Behind Sven Hedin’s Photographs of Iran,” STREAMS: Transformative Environmental Humanities, KTH Stockholm, June 2021. “The Qing Contributions to Global Ethics: Good Governance and Common Health in Qianlong Em- peror’s Ode to Mukden (盛京賦)” Chinese and European Resources for a Global Ethic Seminar, UNESCO and The International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences, November 2020. “New Strategies” roundtable, Humanities and Social Sciences for Sustainability conference, UNESCO and Universities of Jena and Erfurt, October 2020. “’My Dear Old Friend’ — Remontée vers les sources de la littérature scientifique sur le Tibet,” Fabrique littéraire du Tibet : Itinéraires, carnets de route, journaux de voyage, récits viatiques, Paris, Maison de l’Asie, July 2020. “COVID-19 in Virtual and Urban Space,” Geographers Respond to COVID-19, American Association of Geographers virtual conference, April 2020. “Expertise in Climate Change,” School of Advanced Studies Project Design Session, SAS PDS 2020, Uni- versity of Tyumen, UTMN, March 2020. “Developing and Delivering a Treatment that Controls the Diversification of Cancer Cells,” SAS PDS 2020, UTMN, March 2020. “Creating the Tyumen Model. Climate Crises, Crisis of Trust, and Actionable Science,” SAS PDS 2020, UTMN, March 2020. “The Environmental Humanities in Switzerland: Scientific Boundaries and the Need for Social Innova- tion,” BRIDGES Global Coalition and UNESCO Management of Social Transformations Programme third workshop and public symposium, Sigtuna Foundation, 2019. “The Chinese Ecohealth: From Notion to Representation,” Ecohealth, EBES, University of Zurich, 2019. “How to Survey, Reconstruct, Visualize, Review, and Perhaps Enter the 21st century,” Themes in Envi- ronmental Humanities, EBES, University of Zurich, 2019. “Greetings from the Anthropocene: Volcanic Images of Uncertainty in Methods and Process,” Reflect, Reform, Reset Symposium, Zurich University of Design and Culture, 2017. “How the Gentlemen of Science Obscured the Truth About Global Warming,” Rachel Carson Center (RCC) Lunch Colloquium series, Munich: Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU), 2017. “The ‘Way’ to Research China’s Climate Records,” RCC Work in Progress series, LMU, 2017. “Approche du découpage du monde chinois,” Department of Geography, University of Geneva, 2016. “History and Environment in Chinese Antarctica,” Institute of History, University of Bern, 2015. “Qing Cosmopolitanism According to Contemporary Geographers: Defining the Right Methodology,” Images, Visuality and Cosmopolitanism in Qing China, University of Heidelberg, 2015. “In Anticipation of Collapse: Citizenship, Mobility, and Evidence,” Franklin University Switzerland, 2015. “Antarctica, China’s Last Frontier: Contributions from Silk Road Studies and the Environmental Hu- manities to the Chinese Polar Sciences,” Department of History, Ohio State University, 2015. “A Scientific Proposal: Sven Hedin and Today’s Global Challenges,” Sven Hedin Foundation, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 2015. “Apology of Failure,” From the Wild to Post-Collapse conference, University of Zurich, 2014. “A Short and Personal Introduction to the Environmental Humanities,” Understanding Ecology through the Humanities conference, University of Zurich, 2014. “The 21st Century Sven Hedin. Today’s Assessment of Past Topographical Surveys in Central Asia,” Swedish Society of Geography and Anthropology, 2013. “Challenges to Fieldwork in Environmental History: The Cautionary Tale of the Expedition to the Gobi 戈壁 Desert that Mapped the Qilian Shan 祁连山 Mountain Fan,” Mountains Without Borders con- ference, Lavin GR: ESEH Summer School, 2013. “Overland to : The Debate on Climate Change of 1904-1914,” Climate and Weather: Science as Public Culture conference, Maison Française d’Oxford, 2013.

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