(EAEH 2021) Program

As of 20 August 2021 The Sixth Biennial Conference of East Asian Environmental History (EAEH 2021) Program

Dates and time are based on Japan Standard Time. (GMT +09:00 )

Monday, September 6

Pre-event

Welcome Online Party Free Discussion Room Sep.6 18:00-20:00 Zoom Test and Instruction

Tuesday, September 7

Opening Remark & Keynote Speech

Opening Remarks Sep.7 8:45-09:00 Webinar Akihisa Setoguchi (President of AEAEH) Minoru Inaba (Director, Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University)

Keynote Speech Sep.7 9:00-10:00 Webinar Speaker Wataru Iijima Aoyama Gakuin University Pandemic and Endemic in East Asian Chair History Akihisa Setoguchi Kyoto University Discussant Manyong Moon Jeonbuk National University

Parallel Session 1

Parallel Session 1.1 Sep.7 10:30-12:00 Room 1 The History of Nuclear Energy and Organizer/Chair Radiation Management in Yuka Tsuchiya Kyoto University Environment, Part I: Nuclear Moving on the Surface of the Ocean: Ships in Discussant Environmental History of Nuclear Masato Tainaka Kobe University Title Presenters

As of 20 August 2021 Just Another Ship? The Contested Nuclearity of Toshihiro Higuchi Georgetown University U.S. Nuclear Warships in Japan, 1959-1968 US Nuclear Merchant Ship NS Savannah as a Traveling Showcase Changed Motivation behind Shinsuke Tomotsugu Hiroshima University the Voyage and Induced Reaction The Golden Rule and the Phoenix of Hiroshima: Elyssa Faison University of Oklahoma An Ocean History of Anti-nuclear Activism

Parallel Session 1.2 Sep.7 10:30-12:00 Room 2 Organizer/Chair Traversing borders in search of food: Anne McDonald Sophia University sea/land nomads, migration and Discussant resource management narratives Juan Ricardo Gomez Javeriana University Title Presenters Japan’s territorial expansionisms and its Sophia University and implication in traditional food systems at the Erika Salazar Javeriana University Pacific Islands Tales from two Inner-Mongolian pastoral Tana Sophia University communities Japanese free diver communities at a crossroads: conflicting narratives from Mie and Ishikawa of Pablo Andres Ramos Javeriana University technological innovation, trade-off decisions gone good and bad, gender and migration

Parallel Session 1.3 Sep.7 10:30-12:00 Room 3 Organizer/Chair Kathleen Cruz University of California Gutierrez Agential Natures of Southeast Asia Discussant Eastern Connecticut State Bradley Camp Davis University Title Presenters From Imperial Tribute to Illegal Trafficking: the East Asian Tributary System from Han to Ming Southern Connecticut State C. Michele Thompson as the Historical Background to Today’s Traffic University in Endangered Southeast Asian Flora and Fauna. Fernando Amorsolo: Master of Philippine Nicole CuUnjieng University of Cambridge Sunlight and Elite Conceptions of Nature Aboitiz A Dictatorial Hoax and the Imelda Marcos Toad Kathleen Cruz University of California Lily Gutierrez

As of 20 August 2021 Parallel Session 1.4 Sep.7 10:30-12:00 Room 4 Chair/Discussant Disaster Peter Lavelle Temple University Title Presenters The Toba Super-catastrophe as the History of the Nanyang Technological Faizah Zakaria Future University Landscapes of Disasters Relief during the Period of “Socialist Construction” in China- A Case Zhengzheng Huang Kyoto University Study on the 1954 Yangzi-Huai Flood Bon Zombie, Chinese Rainmakers, Tibetan Raiders and Muslim Traders: A Drought at the Marnyi Gyatso Columbia University Multicultural Crossroad of the Inner Asian Highlands, 1899-1907

Parallel Session 1.5 Sep.7 10:30-12:00 Room 5 Chair/Discussant Animals Akihisa Setoguchi Kyoto University Title Presenters Landscape history of goldfish farming in Shoichiro Takeuchi Kyoto Prefecture University Yamatokoriyama City, Nara Prefecture, Japan Ride a White Horse: Equine Environmental Robert Winstanley- University of Leeds Histories of North Korea Chesters Japanese Ornithological Expeditions in Manchukuo (1932-1945): Collecting and the Annika A. Culver Florida State University Extension of Avian Imperialism Approaches to domestic animal care in the Edo W. Puck Brecher Washington State University period

Parallel Session 2

Parallel Session 2.1 Sep.7 13:30-15:00 Room 1 Organizer The History of Nuclear Energy and Togo Tsukahara Kobe University Radiation Management in Chair Environment, Part II: Nuclear Energy Yuriko Tanaka Kobe University and Environmental Hazard on Human in History Discussant Toshihiro Higuchi Georgetown University Title Presenters

As of 20 August 2021 EHESS – Centre Alexandre- The first perceptions of the atomic bombing in Masatoshi Inoue Koyré & Centre d’étude des Hiroshima and Nagasaki in France, 1945-1946 mouvements sociaux Settling” Uncertainties on Radiation Risk Sumiko Hatakeyama University of Pennsylvania Yasuo Nakagawa’s “History of Radiation Masato Tainaka Kobe University Exposure” and U.S. “Radiological Warfare”

Parallel Session 2.2 Sep.7 13:30-15:00 Room 2 Organizer Political Economy of Water at the Tomoko Shiroyama The University of Tokyo Three River Basins in Modern Asia: Chair New Approaches with Meteorological Sayako Kanda Keio University Database and Spatial Analyses Discussant Iftekhar Iqbal Universiti Brunei Darussalam Title Presenters Scientific and historical approaches to revisit the Michihiro Ogawa Kanazawa University Great Famine (1876-1878) in Western India Structural Change of Vietnamese Rice Market in the 1920s: Internal Trade, Meteorological Rui Takahashi Tokai University Changes and Transaction Costs in the Mekong River Delta Meteorological change and the water system of Takeshi Hamashita Oriental Library Yangtze River at Hankou: 1870-1900

Parallel Session 2.3 Sep.7 13:30-15:00 Room 3 Thinking about Environmental History Organizer/Chair/Discussant of Disease from the perspective of One Department of History, Xueqin Mei Health Tsinghua University, China Title Presenters Practice and Extension in Convalesce —— School of History and Culture, Discussion on the construction and Its Significance Lixia Mao Shandong Normal University, of Green Space in Tuberculosis Prevention and Cure China in 18th-19th Centuries Britain Environmental Health in the Industrial Era: An Sichuan International Studies Important Theme in American Environmental Lili Chen University, China History in Recent 20 years Hemi-parasitic Empire: Sandalwood Spike Disease and the Ecological Dilemma of the Mysore Department of History, Lingjing Wu Sandalwood Trade in Southern India at the Tsinghua University, China Beginning of the 20th Century

As of 20 August 2021 Why Malvern: The Environmental Explanation about Department of History, Daijun Liu the origin of hydropathy in England Tsinghua University, China

Parallel Session 2.4 Sep.7 13:30-15:00 Room 4 Chair/Discussant Urban Environment Kazuhiro Uesugi Kyoto Prefectural University Title Presenters University of York Mitigating Water Emergency in Rural and David Clayton Nanyang Technological Urban Hong Kong, 1963-64 Florence Mok University Mapping the Urban Parks of Nanjing in the 20th Zhen Xu Nanjing Forestry University century with Historical GIS Toilet Revolution: The politics of excrement in Lingnan University, Hong Lei Zhang Beijing, 1928-1937 Kong

Parallel Session 2.5 Sep.7 13:30-15:00 Room 5 Chair Susumu Kitagawa University of Yamanashi Pollution (I) Environmental Policy Discussant Satoru Kobori Nagoya University Title Presenters Preliminary study on the understanding of air Northwest University, Xi’an, pollution in the society from 1950s to 1970s in Yong Hu Shaanxi, China new China Emergence of Global Environmental Policy in Japan: Saburo Okita and the Ad Hoc Group on Susumu Kitagawa University of Yamanashi Global Environmental Problems The Environment of Political Crisis in 1873 Amin Ghadimi Utsunomiya University Japan

Parallel Session 3

Parallel Session 3.1 Sep.7 15:30-17:00 Room 1 Organizer/Chair A Comparative History of Atomic Satoru Kobori Nagoya University Energy: UK, Japan, and West Germany, 1950-1970 Discussant Ayumu Sugawara Tohoku University Title Presenters UK Reactor Export Policy and its Exports to Kazuyoshi Oku Kansai University Japan

As of 20 August 2021 Japan’s Nuclear Energy Policy, 1956–1967: US Light-water Reactors and the National Satoru Kobori Nagoya University Independent Nuclear Fuel Cycle Project Development of the West German Nuclear Hirotaka Nakaya Nanzan University Industry in the 1960s

Parallel Session 3.2 Sep.7 15:30-17:00 Room 2 Organizer Comparative afforestation in South and Hanns Seidel Foundation Hyun-Ah Choi North Korea – can the North learn from Korea South Korea’s and international Chair/Discussant experience? Hanns Seidel Foundation Bernhard Seiliger Korea Title Presenters Korea University The history and lessons from afforestation in Woo-Kyun Lee Forest Management Strategic South Korea Kyung-Seok Park Institute The history and current situation of North Korea’s Hanns Seidel Foundation Hyun-Ah Choi forests Korea Former Forestry Officer and Branch Chief in charge German-Korean cooperation for the South Korean Joachim Lorbach im Forestry Department of afforestation program FAO; Freelance consultant in forestry

Parallel Session 3.3 Sep.7 15:30-17:00 Room 3 Organizer/Chair Miho Ishii Kyoto University Conservation, Environmentalism, and Imagined Nature in India Discussant Department of Humanities and Jenia Mukherjee Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur Title Presenters Natural farming and religions in India Shinya Ishizaka Ehime University Imagining law of/with nonhumans: Giving legal personhood to natural entities in contemporary Moe Nakazora Hiroshima University India “Clean Energy” or “Sacred Energy”?: Toward an Ontological Study Regarding Eruption of Kodai Konishi Tokyo Gakugei University Narratives in Wind Power Development among the Thar Desert, India

As of 20 August 2021 Living in the forest as a pluriverse: Tiger conservation and indigeneity in India’s Western Miho Ishii Kyoto University Ghats

Parallel Session 3.4 Sep.7 15:30-17:00 Room 4 Organizer Satoshi Murayama Kagawa University Environmental Decision Making: Past Chair and Present Toru Terao Kagawa University Discussant Aleksander Panjek University of Primorska Title Presenters Wet-rice agriculture and economic growth in pre- Masanori Takashima Kwansei Gakuin University industrial Japan Complex processes of decision-making in organic economies around 1750: an environmental- Satoshi Murayama Kagawa University economic history of early modern taxation on village and town in Hessen-Kassel, Germany The role of participative decision-making in Hiroko Nakamura Kagawa University France's energy transition

Parallel Session 3.5 Sep.7 15:30-17:00 Room 5 Chair/Discussant Pollution (II) Mining and Environment Shuntaro Tsuru Kyoto University Title Presenters Energy for Mining Guizhou’s Zinc Wealth: Coal Fuel, Labor, and Ecological Footprints in Qing Hailian Chen University of Leipzig China’s Southwest Frontier, 1680–1800 Uchimura Kanzō and the Ashio Copper Mine James Harry Morris University of Tsukuba Incident

Round Table

Round Table Sep.7 17:30-19:00 Round Table Room Chair Trans-Regional Diseases: Exploring Akihisa Setoguchi Kyoto University Environmental History and Disease History Discussant Tatsushi Fujihara Kyoto University Title Presenters

As of 20 August 2021 The Environment Changes and The Epidemics in the Northern and the Southern Dynasties of Hyunsook Lee Yonsei University Medieval China Geopolitics of smallpox inoculation: A case of the Toyoko Kozai Bukkyo University Ryukyu Kingdom in the early modern period Plague in Republican China (1912-1949) Meng Zhang Peking University Surveillance, Policing and Filtration: Quarantine Jeong-Ran Kim University of Oxford against Repatriates in Busan after WWII

Wednesday, September 8

Keynote Speech

Keynote Speech Sep.8 9:00-10:00 Webinar Niigata Minamata Disease 1965-2021: Speaker Social Exclusion, Hidden Victims and Reiko Seki Rikkyo University the Power of “Folk Cultural Chair/Discussant Revisionism” Cyrian Pitteloud EHESS Paris

Parallel Session 4

Parallel Session 4.1 Sep.8 10:30-12:00 Room 1 Between Environmental Destruction and Chair Environmental Sensitivity: Ideological Luke Habberstad University of Oregon and Institutional Approaches to Socio- Organizer/Discussant Ecology in Early China Rebecca Robinson Hong Kong Baptist University Title Presenters The Agrilogistics of Lord Shang: the Early Anthropocene Model and Early Chinese Rebecca Robinson Hong Kong Baptist University Environmental Theory Strategies of Domestication: the Huainanzi and Matthew Hamm University of British Columbia the Anthropocene Narrative Water Officials in Early Imperial China: From Luke Habberstad University of Oregon Expansion to Retrenchment to Celebration

Parallel Session 4.2 Sep.8 10:30-12:00 Room 2 Organizer/Chair History of Climate/Disaster in Togo Tsukahara Kobe University East/South Asia Discussant

As of 20 August 2021 Masumi Zaiki Seikei University Ikumi Akasaka Senshu University Institute of Developing Noriyuki Osada Economies, Japan External Trade Organization Mitch Aso University at Albany SUNY Title Presenters Who Failed the Hồ Dynasty (1399-1407) of University of Michigan Center Hieu Phung Vietnam, the Ming Empire or the Climate? for Southeast Asian Studies Emeritus professor of Southeast Asian history at University of Amsterdam and University of Queensland; Relief or Prevention? Discursive path dependency Gerry Klinken honorary senior research in Asian typhoon politics fellow at Royal Netherlands Institute of Caribbean and Southeast Asian Studies (KITLV) in Leiden. Former Project Researcher at Research Institute for An Attempt to Describe Flooding in Batavia in the Humanity and Nature, Kyoto, Hiroko Sasamoto Late 19th Century and the Early 20th Century Japan Koshi Yoshida under the Dutch Colonial Rule Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo Building Disaster Reporting System: The Early Years of Japanese Local Observatories and the Takuya Miyagawa Hiroshima Shudo University Meteorological Project

Parallel Session 4.3 Sep.8 10:30-12:00 Room 3 Oceans (I) International Politics and Chair/ Discussant Fisheries Kjell Ericson Kyoto University Title Presenters Coral Bell School of Asia Japan and the creation of the legal regime Kristen Sellars Pacific Studies, governing pollution in international straits Australian National University Reshaping Oceanic Asia: Sino-Japanese Fishing Relations and the U.S. Role during the Early Rui Liu Peking University Postwar Period (1945-1955) From Superwhale to Supertuna? Fisheries Aaron Van Neste Harvard University Oceanography and Occupation Science in Japan’s

As of 20 August 2021 Experimental Fishing and Scientific Whaling Programs

Parallel Session 4.4 Sep.8 10:30-12:00 Room 4 Chair/Discussant Forests (I) Koji Nakashima Kanazawa University Title Presenters Silviculture and State-building in Maoist China Steven Pieragastini Whittier College Alders, Fallows, and the Limits of Traditional John Hayashi Harvard University Ecological Knowledge in Colonial Taiwan Andrea Flores Long term changes in forests, forestry and forest Kyoto Seika University Urushima management in Japan to the Postwar period Kyoto University Naoko Tokuchi Making the Northeast Forest Legible to the State: University of California, Santa PRC State Control of Forest Dwellers in Northeast Kyuhyun Han Cruz China, 1949-1959

Parallel Session 5

Parallel Session 5.1 Sep.8 13:30-15:00 Room 1 Organizer/Chair Waste in East Asia: Disaster Fast and Scott Gabriel Knowles KAIST Slow Discussant Carl Zimring Pratt Institute Title Presenters Infrastructure of Disaster: Slow Disaster of Nanjido Landfill and Conflicting Visions and Sanghee Bae Seoul National University Practices of Waste Management in Late 20th Century Seoul Disposable Safety: The Pandemic and Material Hyunah Keum KAIST Politics of Plastic Waste in South Korea The COVID Anthropocene Stratum Scott Gabriel Knowles KAIST Diagnostic kit: The Counter-Materialization of Korea University of Junyeong Lee COVID-19 Technology and Education

Parallel Session 5.2 Sep.8 13:30-15:00 Room 2 Organizer Conflict, War and the Environment in Autonomous University of East Asia: A Long-term Observation Baihui Duan Barcelona from Premodern to Modern Chair/Discussant

As of 20 August 2021 Victor Shmagin Colby College Title Presenters Destruction to Construction: Samurai Armies’ Impact upon the Landscape in Late Medieval Elijah Bender Concordia College Central Japan War and resources: Conflicts over timber on Kǒje Autonomous University of Baihui Duan Island during the Imjin War(1592-1598) Barcelona Forest Conflicts and Lawsuits in Modern Chinese Academy of Social Xiang Chi Northeast China (1907-1932) Sciences

Parallel Session 5.3 Sep.8 13:30-15:00 Room 3 Organizer/Chair University of California Sean Keenan State-Building in Vietnam's Highlands Riverside Discussant Eastern Connecticut State Bradley Camp Davis University Title Presenters Up to the Mountains and Going West: Dai Viet Vietnam National University - Đổ Thị Thùy Lan and Its Upland Regions (11th-16th Centuries) Hanoi A Non-Zomia Case, or History of the Central Vietnam National University – Highland’s Intergration into Vietnam Until Early Hồ Thành Tâm Hanoi XX Century State-Building in Vietnam’s Central Highland in National University of the Cold War: The Construction of the Da Nhim Chu Duy Ly Singapore Hydropower Project (1961-1964) 3:10 to Yunnan: French Expansion into Southwest University of California Sean Keenan China Riverside

Parallel Session 5.4 Sep.8 13:30-15:00 Room 4 Organizer/Chair Kazue Akamatsu Kyoto Institute of Technology Terroir as a new Approach: Tea in East Asia in the Twentieth Century Discussant Université Bordeaux Frédéric Boutoulle Montaigne Title Presenters The production and plantation geography of Uji Kazuhiro Uesugi Kyoto Prefectural University tea Yasuko Kishi Landscape of tea production in Taiwan Shoichi Ota Kyoto Institute of Technology

As of 20 August 2021 Japan’s Rivalry with the Soviet’s ‘Scientific’ and Miki Sugiura Hosei University China’s ‘Extensive’ Tea Terroirs, c.1920–1960

Parallel Session 6

Parallel Session 6.1 Sep.8 15:30-17:00 Room 1 Digital Dimensions in Environmental Organizer/Chair/Discussant History - new Perspectives Rüdiger Glaser University of Freiburg

Title Presenters Systematization and formalization of workflows in historical climatology using the example of Franck Borel University of Basel written sources Bayes goes Vivaldi - Observing seasons by Michael Kahle University of Freiburg statistical word analysis Nicholas P. McKay Northern Arizona University Kuanhui Elaine Lin National Taiwan Normal Towards a unified description of paleoclimate data Julien Emile-Geay University and historical documents Michael Kahle University of Southern Rüdiger Glaser California University of Freiburg Yura River in Japan under the influences of the Satoshi Murayama Asian monsoon: digitalization of historic- Masahide Ishizuka Kagawa University topographic narratives and water flow simulations Toru Terao

Parallel Session 6.2 Sep.8 15:30-17:00 Room 2 Lakes and Rivers (I) Controlling Chair/Discussant Waters Shinobu Iguro Otani University Title Presenters The Making of a Swan City: An Environmental Xiangli Ding Rhode Island School of Design History of the Sanmenxia Dam The Development and Management of Water Dabin Wang Shanxi Normal University Conservancy in Ningxia in the Qing Dynasty Containing vs. accepting floods: Concepts of Julia Mariko Jacoby University of Freiburg river management in Modern Japan Japan's Water Systems in Yongding River Basin during the Sino-Japanese War: Conflict between Miwa Shimada Keio University North China and “Mongolia and Xinjiang”

As of 20 August 2021 Parallel Session 6.3 Sep.8 15:30-17:00 Room 3 Organizer University of Science and Untangling the Green: Responding to Jongmin Lee Technology, Korea the Challenges of Tradition and Transition in Japan and the Two Koreas Chair/Discussant Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Michael Shiyung Liu University of Pittsburgh Title Presenters The Field of Reeds on Silk Island: A Study on North Korea’s Reed Fiber Industry and Its Eunsung Cho Seoul National University Potential as Green Fiber Transition towards a Recycling-Based Society: Kyungsun Lee Texas A&M University The Development of Kitakyushu Eco-Town States of the Environment: “The environmental” University of Science and Jongmin Lee in Korean Government in the 1980s and 1990s Technology, Korea

Parallel Session 6.4 Sep.8 15:30-17:00 Room 4 Organizer Togo Tsukahara Kobe University Mayumi Fukunaga The University of Tokyo Trout confined: Changes in bio-natural Chair and socio-cultural ecological relations in the age of the Anthropocene, Hida, Togo Tsukahara Kobe University central Japan Discussant Aarhus University, Global Heather Swanson Trout Shiaki Kondo Kobe University Title Presenters Hybridizing trout imaginaries to revitalize agricultural waterscapes: Historical trajectories of Mayumi Fukunaga The University of Tokyo trout farming and naturalization in the Gifu region, central Japan Historical changes in a local stream and fish Yoshinori Taniguchi Meijo University, Nagoya assemblages revealed through folktales and Togo Tsukahara Kobe University interviews with local villagers in the Hida region, Hirohisa Suzuki Shinshu University central Japan Life cycle of caddis fly in river/lake environments Hirohisa Suzuki Shinshu University in Hida, central Japan, in the age of the Yoshinori Taniguchi Meijo University, Nagoya Anthropocene. Togo Tsukahara Kobe University

As of 20 August 2021 Parallel Session 7

Parallel Session 7.1 Sep.8 17:30-19:00 Room 1 Organizer/Chair Environmental Problems in Japan: Takuji Iwaki Kyoto University What Kind of Damage has Become an Environmental Problem? Discussant Aleksandra Kobiljski EHESS Paris Title Presenters Environmental Problems in Pre-modern Japan Takuji Iwaki Kyoto University Mine Pollution and Health Issues in Modern Cyrian Pitteloud EHESS Paris Japan: Acknowledgment and Denial Gary Snyder’s Search for Green Religion in Institute for Research in Till Knaudt Japan's New Left around and after 1968 Humanities Kyoto University

Parallel Session 7.2 Sep.8 17:30-19:00 Room 2 Organizer Toru Terao Kagawa University Chair The Asian monsoon: An interactive National Research Institute for system between the human and nature Hideyuki Kamimera Earth Science and Disaster Resilience Discussant Satoshi Murayama Kagawa University Title Presenters Variations of rainfall over southern parts of Hiambok Jones Meghalaya and its impact on human communities: North-Eastern Hill University Syiemlieh Perspectives from the rainiest region of the world Impacts of preindustrial cultivation on the Asian Kumiko Takata Azabu University summer monsoon climate Consequences of waterlogging proneness on local Kagawa University / ecology and livelihoods in Southwestern part of Nazmul Huda Bangladesh University of Bangladesh Engineering and Technology

Parallel Session 7.3 Sep.8 17:30-19:00 Room 3 Chair/Discussant Oceans (II) Resources and Disaster Mayumi Fukunaga The University of Tokyo Title Presenters Russian Maritime Exploration in the North Pacific Scott C.M. Bailey Kansai Gaidai University and Ezo during the early 19th century

As of 20 August 2021 Natural disaster and the changes of sea governance: the case of Panglima Laot in Aceh, Muzayin Nazaruddin University of Tartu Indonesia

Parallel Session 7.4 Sep.8 17:30-19:00 Room 4 Chair/Discussant Forests (II) Moe Nakazora Hiroshima University Title Presenters Importance of Sustainable Forest Management in Baisakhi Asia Including East Asia-an Historical The Asiatic Society Bandyopadhyay Assessment Social-Cultural Mechanism for the Preservation of the Village-Forest of the Hill Tribe in Myanmar - Hanbit Institute of Cultural Su Keung Yeo An Anthropological Investigation of the Palaung Properties People in Shan State Towards Sustainable Forest Management in China - A Historical Analysis of the Impact of London School of Economics Internationally Funded Afforestation Projects Belinda Schäpe and Political Science during the Reform and Opening-Up Period from the mid-1980s to the early-2000s Vegetation Distribution Evolution in Loess Plateau, Grassland and Desert Regions in Qin and Qilong Luo Guizhou University Han Dynasties: a Textual Research on Tree Species in Relevant Ancient Books

Thursday, September 9

Keynote Speech

Keynote Speech Sep.9 9:00-10:00 Webinar Speaker Bin Wong UCLA East Asian Environmental History & Chair Contemporary Global Environmental Shanghai Jiao Tong University/ Michael Shiyung Liu Challenges University of Pittsburgh Discussant Shinobu Iguro Otani University

As of 20 August 2021 Parallel Session 8

Parallel Session 8.1 Sep.9 10:30-12:00 Room 1 Organizer Local Attitudes Toward Trees in Hong Shuntaro Tsuru Kyoto University Kong and Taiwan: toward a socio- Chair/Discussant cultural approach Paul Kreitman Columbia University Title Presenters A Socio-Ecological History of a Banyan Tree in Yoko Fukao Osaka University Cheng Chau Island, Hong Kong Hanging Out in the Shade of Banyan Trees: a case study of how environmental consciousness is Shuntaro Tsuru Kyoto University embedded into daily life in contemporary Taiwan Concern for “Indigenous” Trees in Postcolonial Kris Li Chung Tai Osaka University Hong Kong: the case of Agarwood

Parallel Session 8.2 Sep.9 10:30-12:00 Room 2 Organizer/Chair Discovery of the Asian monsoon: Toru Terao Kagawa University Seeking the sustainable basis of living spaces in the monsoon Asia Discussant Sayako Kanda Keio University Title Presenters The basic concept of monsoon, revisited Kooiti Masuda Rissho University The Monsoon as a Force of Connection across Sunil Amrith Yale University Asian Regions Combined Analysis of Early Instrumental Pressure Data and Historical Daily Weather Junpei Hirano Teikyo University Documents for Winter Climate Reconstruction in Japan Tokyo Metropolitan University The rice agriculture development and severe flood Jun Matsumoto / Japan Agency for Marine- history since the late 20th century in Bangladesh Earth Science and Technology

Parallel Session 8.3 Sep.9 10:30-12:00 Room 3 Organizer Friedrich-Alexander- Daniel Burton-Rose Insect-Human Relations in East Asia Universitat Erlangen-Nürnburg Chair Mark Frank Yale University

As of 20 August 2021 Discussant Washington and Lee David A. Bello University Title Presenters Fantasy Entomology: Projecting Human Constructions onto Insects in Early and Medieval Olivia Milburn Seoul National University China When Historical Positivism Met the Civil Service Examination Curriculum: Entomological Surveys Friedrich-Alexander- Daniel Burton-Rose of the Confucian Classics in the People’s Republic Universitat Erlangen-Nürnburg of China, 1957–1982 Finding the Sweet Spot: Wild Bees, Indigenous Southern Connecticut State Peoples, and the Historic Trade in Honey and C. Michele Thompson University Beeswax

Parallel Session 8.4 Sep.9 10:30-12:00 Room 4 Chair/Discussant Lakes and Rivers (II) Taisaku Komeie Kyoto University Title Presenters Comprehensive Water Resources Development and the Emergence of Hydrology in Modern Seohyun Park Virginia Tech South Korea The Mechanization and Technology Mobility of Institute of History and Taiwan's Post-War Civil Well-Drilling Industry Chun-Yi Ho Philology, Academia Sinica (the 1950s-1970s): Observations from Ling-Yi Tseng Preparatory Office of National Field Survey and History of Technology Railway Museum

Parallel Session 8.5 Sep.9 10:30-12:00 Room 5 Art and Philosophy (I) Human Attitude Chair/Discussant Toward Nature Ryuji Hiraoka Kyoto University Title Presenters Offerings to Nature, Offerings from Nature: Amy Holmes- Imagining and Re-imagining Ecology in the Occidental College Tagchungdarpa Making of Himalayan Buddhist Material Cultures Fashionable Numbers: Altitude as Science and Embellishment in Mountain Travelogues in Xinyue Li Nankai University Modern China (1911-1945) Facing the Anthropocene with the Buddhist Ian Blaise Cipperly University of Chicago Aesthetics of the Tamamushi Shrine

As of 20 August 2021 Parallel Session 9

Parallel Session 9.1 Sep.9 13:30-15:00 Room 1 Organizer/Chair Putting Masks in Their Places: The East Tomohisa Sumida Keio University Asian History of Masks and the Environment Discussant Scott Gabriel Knowles KAIST Title Presenters Controlling the Environment: Face Masks and Meng Zhang Peking University Colonial Laboratory in the Manchurian Plague Bacteria and Droplets: Manchurian Plague and the Yumeng Wang Sun Yat-sen University Birth of a Modern Anti-Epidemic Mask Masks at Japanese Schools: Flu, Home Fronts and Tomohisa Sumida Keio University Air Pollution From Industrial Areas to Campuses: Masks and the Politics of Environmental Pollution in South Jaehwan Hyun Pusan National University Korea, 1967-1987

Parallel Session 9.2 Sep.9 13:30-15:00 Room 2 From Colonial Forestry to Empire Organizer/Chair Forestry, Part 1: Empire Forestry and Koji Nakashima Kanazawa University Scientific Networks Title Presenters From Colonies to Empire Forestry Gregory Barton Western Sydney University Exclusion and Collaboration in the Forest of Kushiro Public University of Empire: Activities of Forestry Organizations in Taisho Nakayama Economics Karafuto (Southern Sakhalin) and Hokkaido From colonial forestry to invasion biology: imperial scientific networks and the refashioning Brett M Bennett Western Sydney University of knowledge on introduced species Education and spatial network of imperial foresters of Japan: Career analysis of graduates Taisaku Komeie Kyoto University from imperial universities

Parallel Session 9.3 Sep.9 13:30-15:00 Room 3 Managing Nature: Confrontations and Organizer Articulations Between Conceptions of French National Centre for Nature and Regimes of Knowledge in Scientific Research (CNRS) - Christian Culas Vietnam ART-DEV –University of Montpellier

As of 20 August 2021 Chair University of Wisconsin- Royce Novak Madison Discussant University of California, David Biggs Riverside Title Presenters French National Centre for Anthropological approaches to protected areas in Scientific Research (CNRS) - Vietnam. How to talk about nature in other Christian Culas ART-DEV –University of people's conceptions? Montpellier Wild Buffalo and Encaged Humans: Science, University of Wisconsin- Myth, and Ecological Management on Phú Quốc Royce Novak Madison island, Southern Vietnam Rice landraces management in Northern Upland French National Research Emmanuel Pannier of Vietnam. From farmers’ practice and Institute for Sustainable Frédéric Thomas knowledge to collective actions and State policy Development (IRD), PALOC Phan Thi Kim Tam USSH

Parallel Session 9.4 Sep.9 13:30-15:00 Room 4 Chair/Discussant Water Resources Yawen Ku Academia Sinica Title Presenters A Fertile Borderland: The Crisis in Altishar and the Studies of Freshwater Resources in Early Xue Zhang Hampden-Sydney College Nineteenth-Century China The Relationship between Agricultural Economy Graduate Institute of Taiwan and Changes of Water Resource Utilization Su-bing Chang History, National (1900s~1990s): A Case Study of Erlin Township Mei-ling Chen Taiwan Normal University in Taiwan Using the Invisible Water: Groundwater Resources Development and Well-Drilling Yawen Ku Academia Sinica Industry in Colonial Taiwan

Parallel Session 9.5 Sep.9 13:30-15:00 Room 5 Art and Philosophy (II) Art and Chair/Discussant Environment Mika Markus Merviö Kibi International University Title Presenters Factory Music and Noise Abatement: An/aesthetic Keisuke Yamada University of Pittsburgh Strategies of Early-Industrial Japan Andrew Niess University of Pennsylvania

As of 20 August 2021 Politicization of the environment and art in Japan Mika Markus Merviö Kibi International University Learning about Life and Nature through Camping: Sookyeong Hong Tsuda University the School of Health in 1940s Japan

Parallel Session 10

Parallel Session 10.1 Sep.9 15:30-17:00 Room 1 Organizer Max Planck Institute for the Chun Xu Concepts of Famine in Early Modern History of Science East Asia Chair/Discussant School of Oriental and African Andrea Janku Studies Title Presenters The Superior Doctor Doctors the Country: Physicians and Famine Relief Manuals in Mengxi Zhao Heidelberg University Tokugawa Japan Benevolence and Efficacy: A Genealogy of Chen Huang City University of Hong Kong Famine Food Treatises Politics and Discourses of Famine in the Xujiang Max Planck Institute for the Chun Xu Valley (1100-1600) History of Science

Parallel Session 10.2 Sep.9 15:30-17:00 Room 2 Organizer/Chair Shoko Mizuno Komazawa University From Colonial Forestry to Empire Forestry, Part 2: Legacies of Empire Discussant Tokyo University of Forestry to the Postcolonial World Taro Takemoto Agriculture and Technology Rohan D'Souza Kyoto University Title Presenters Forestry and indigenous land use in postcolonial Shoko Mizuno Komazawa University India Conservation and exploitation: Japan’s tropical forest development in Southeast Asia during Koji Nakashima Kanazawa University 1930s-1960s

Parallel Session 10.3 Sep.9 15:30-17:00 Room 3 Organizer Climate Change and Disaster Hyunsook Lee Yonsei University

As of 20 August 2021 Chair/Discussant Noriko Sato Pukyong National University Title Presenters Korea National University of Mine Development in Modern and Contemporary Ji-hye Yang Education, Educational Korea and the Slow Violence of Pollution Museum The Floods in Seoul during the Later Joseon Institute of Korean Studies in Period: Were Rainfall and Flood Damage Misung Kim Yonsei University Proportional? The Little Ice Age and the Epidemics in Joseon Hyunsook Lee Yonsei University Dynasty A Study on Agriculture and the Occurrence of Jiyeon Kim Gilding Ecological Park Hwangchung in the Goryeo Dynasty

Parallel Session 10.4 Sep.9 15:30-17:00 Room 4 Foods and Agriculture (I) Crops and Chair/Discussant Landscape Tatsushi Fujihara Kyoto University Title Presenters Northwest Institute of Grassland Utilization and Regional Society in Historical Environment and Li Zhang Modern Turpan (1864-1928) Socio-Economic Development of Shaanxi Normal University Rule by Rice: Food Supply and Governance in National Taiwan Normal Hung-yi Chien Early Northern Taiwan, 1626 to 1720s University

Parallel Session 10.5 Sep.9 15:30-17:00 Room 5 Chair/Discussant Disease as Human Environment Università della Campania L. Federico Paolini Vanvitelli Title Presenters A Virus and the Bug of Democracies: Università della Campania L. Environment, Inequalities and Social Problems in Federico Paolini Vanvitelli the Globalized Pandemic World Mortality crisis after the 1833 cold weather in Hiroshi Kawaguchi Tezukayama University northeast Japan

As of 20 August 2021 Round Table

Round Table Sep.9 17:30-19:30 Round Table Room

Asian and Oceanian environmental Chair history in the future? Asian pluralism Akihisa Setoguchi Kyoto University and environmental diversity under the Satoshi Murayama Kagawa University influences of the Pacific Ocean. Part 1: Discussant Environmental Challenges across Jenia Mukherjee IIT Kharagpur Continents Christof Mauch LMU Munich Title Presenters Tokyo University of Agriculture Papua and Its Exposure to the Development—Past Kaihei Koshio General Incorporated and Future of Forgiving People— Akiko Tsuru Association "Green Coop Collectives” Rice Crisis in Colonial Java: A Preliminary Analysis of Climatic Influence on Agriculture in Atsushi Ota Keio University Tropical Asia From the great acceleration to the global risk map: Challenges and perspectives for environmental Rüdiger Glaser University of Freiburg history? Università della Campania L. Observing Asia from Europe Federico Paolini Vanvitelli The Asian monsoon discussed by environmental histories of Living Spaces: Meteorological Toru Terao Kagawa University approaches Planetarity, regionality, and nationality: The scale problem of East Asian environmental history in Buhm Soon Park KAIST the Anthropocene

Friday, September 10

Round Table

Round Table Sep.10 9:00-11:00 Round Table Room Chair Asian and Oceanian environmental Akihisa Setoguchi Kyoto University history in the future? Asian pluralism Satoshi Murayama Kagawa University and environmental diversity under the Discussant

As of 20 August 2021 influences of the Pacific Ocean. Part 2: Shen Hou Renmin University of China Pacific Worlds Renmin University of China / Donald Worster Kansas University Title Presenters Riding the wave to victory: UN naval operations in the Korean War and their environmental impli- Lisa Brady Boise State University cations A study of the environmental impact of Baisakhi The Asiatic Society deforestation in South Asia Bandyopadhyay East Asia and the Pacific Ocean: Hidden histories Paul D’Arcy Australian National University and shared futures Characteristics of modern history of social and cultural exchange in Kuroshio region - in the light Hiroshi Yoshio and Kochi University of immigrant fishers in Nahfang-Ao, Taiwan, Mina Hori Kochi University during the Japanese rule Environmental differentiation in Taiwan: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Michael Shiyung Liu Continental viewpoints on island frontier / University of Pittsburgh

Parallel Session 11

Parallel Session 11.1 Sep.10 11:30-13:00 Room 1 Water vs. Land: Resource Competition Organizer/Chair/Discussant and Resource Management in Late Boston College; Shanxi Ling Zhang Imperial China University Title Presenters Human is his own worst enemy: The development and abandonment of the Huai River basin during Shinobu Iguro Otani University the 12th to 14th centuries The Disappearing of the Wen Lake: How do Chi-Ying Chang National Tsing Hua University Human Make Alternatives about Water Resource? Conflict, Order and State Governance in Water Conservancy: Based on the litigation documents Boston College; Shanxi Junfeng Zhang of water in southern Shanxi during the Ming and University Qing Dynasties

Parallel Session 11.2 Sep.10 11:30-13:00 Room 2 Organizer Rethinking the Place of Japan in Global Kjell David Ericson Kyoto University Histories of Transplantation Chair/Discussant Jordan Sand Georgetown University

As of 20 August 2021 Title Presenters Cash-crop Colonialism: “Trans-Pacific” Coffee Mariko Iijima Sophia University Planting and Migrations of People The Japanese Invasion: Japanese Knotweed & Jeannie N. Shinozuka Soka University of America Gardens in Turn of the Century Britain North Carolina State The “Pacific” Oyster Trade and the Possibilities of Matthew Booker University Trans-Pacific Environmental History Kjell David Ericson Kyoto University

Parallel Session 11.3 Sep.10 11:30-13:00 Room 3 Organizer Anthony Medrano Yale-NUS College Chair Wet Cities: Oceans, Rivers, and the National University of Chitra Venkataramani Making of Urban Southeast Asia Singapore Discussant Nanyang Technological Faizah Zakaria University Title Presenters Land’s End: Ecotone Colonization in Nineteenth Geoffrey Pakiam ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute Century Johor and Its Malay World Antecedents A River Runs Through It: Navigating a History of Anthony Medrano Yale-NUS College Singapore’s Waters Saigon’s Swamp: Exploring the Wet City and Its University of California, David Biggs Mangal Architecture Riverside

Parallel Session 11.4 Sep.10 11:30-13:00 Room 4 Chair Food and Agriculture (II) Animals and Washington and Lee Landscape David A. Bello University Title Presenters Forests of Virtue and Fields of Merit: Human- Kalzang Dorjee University of California Los Environment Relationality in Comparative Bhutia Angeles Systems of Buddhist Agriculture and Foodways Deer and Humans in Early North China: From Brian Lander Brown University Symbiosis to Scarcity Katherine Brunson Wesleyan University) Recipe for Ecological Disaster: Imperial Japan, Hobart and William Smith Lisa Yoshikawa Rural Rehabilitation, and Zoogeography Colleges

As of 20 August 2021 Parallel Session 11.5 Sep.10 11:30-13:00 Room 5 Chair/Discussant Conservation Mayumi Fukunaga University of Tokyo Title Presenters Extinction and Conservation on the Yangzi: David A. Pietz University of Arizona Dolphin and Porpoise Stories Non-exchangeable and Non-aggregable Harm Associated with Environmental Restoration: Ryoto Tomita Shizuoka University Experience of Environmental Destruction and Restoration in Lake Kasumigaura, Japan Social History of National Parks in South Korea Manyong Moon Jeonbuk National University Moving Millions of Humans Through Geological Time -A note on the success factors of China’s Thomas H Hahn UC Berkeley contemporary Geopark program

Parallel Session 12

Parallel Session 12.1 Sep.10 14:00-15:30 Room 1 Chair/Discussant Climates Toru Terao Kagawa University Title Presenters Understanding Tropical Manila: Temperature and Department of History, Heat Studies of the Philippine Weather Bureau, Kerby C. Alvarez University of the 1900s-1920s Philippine Diliman Mongol Ecological Imperialism? Climate, Energy, Department of History, Aaron Molnar and Ecological Change in Mongol Eurasia University of British Columbia Causes and Influences of Climate in the Minds of Erling Torvid Hagen University of Oslo 17th century Jiangnanese Cao Agoey

Parallel Session 12.2 Sep.10 14:00-15:30 Room 2 Multi-layered medical knowledge and Organizer/Discussant regional order in the late 19th century Keisuke Tatara Oriental Library East Asia: analyzing Medical Reports Chair from international and local perspectives Takeshi Hamashita Oriental Library Title Presenters Details of 4000 patients and their social background viewed from the Hankow Medical Takeshi Hamashita Oriental Library Reports of CMCS in 1870's

As of 20 August 2021 A Discovery of Parasitic Diseases in East Asia at the Late Nineteenth Century: Medical and Wataru Iijima Aoyama Gakuin University Intellectual Networks under the Chinese Maritime Customs Making multi-layered connections between local and international medical knowledge: Wallace Hiroki Inoue Tokyo Medical University Taylor and an endemic disease in Japan Activity of Medical Officers to the Chinese Maritime Customs Service in East Asia ―with a Keisuke Tatara Oriental Library focus on Medical Reports―

Parallel Session 12.3 Sep.10 14:00-15:30 Room 3 Organizer Many Players of Waterscapes in Late The Unviersity of California, You Wang Imperial China: State, Society, and Loa Angels Snails Chair/Discussant David A. Pietz The University of Arizona Title Presenters Flood Control and Irrigation Projects: State and Waterscape Transformation of the North China Iris Ai Wang Winona State University Plain in the Qing Dynasty Wetlands and Power in the Central Yangzi Valley Yan Gao The University of Memphis (16-19th Centuries) Engineering the Waterscape: A Communal The University of California, You Wang Approach to Dike Building in Jiangnan’s Lowland Los Angeles Disease, Water and Water Conservancy Construction: A Population History of the Chen Qun Che Shanghai Jiao Tong University Family, Hunan, in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Parallel Session 12.4 Sep.10 14:00-15:30 Room 4 Organizer Chuyoung Won Seoul National University Entangled Histories of the Environment, Governance, and Anthropocene in Chair/Discussant Korea and beyond Korea Advanced Institute of Buhm Soon Park Science and Technology (KAIST) Title Presenters “Born Global”: The Mexican-Asian Origins of George Mason University John Garnett the Green Revolution, 1943-1970 Korea

As of 20 August 2021 The Seoul City Mater Plan and Cold War Urban Chuyoung Won Seoul National University Planning in the 1960s and 1970s Over the Planetary Boundary: The Acelerated Korea Advanced Institute of Seulgi Lee Consumption of Fertilizers and the Soil Science and Technology Buhm Soon Park Revitalization Movement in South Korea (KAIST)

Parallel Session 12.5 Sep.10 14:00-15:30 Room 5 Chair Water Conservation, Forests and Xiaohong Chao Xiamen University Environment Discussant Shen Hou Renmin University of China Title Presenters Woods-Vegetation and Water-soil Conservation: Critical Analyses of the Ideas and Measures in Xiaohong Chao Xiamen University 16th Century Northern China The Irrigation Constructions of Mountain Areas in Tingyu Liu Xiamen University Fujian since Song dynasty Wild or Cultured? An archaeological investigation Wei Ge Xiamen University on Neolithic deer in China

General Meeting & Closing Ceremony

General Meeting Sep.10 16:00-17:00 Room GMA

Closing Remark Sep.10 17:00-17:15 Room GMA