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SUMMARY:Mountains and Sacred Landscapes Conference
DESCRIPTION:The India China Institute (ICI) at The New School\, the International Society for the Study of Religion\, Nature and Culture (ISSRNC)\, American University’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies (CLALS)\, and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) are excited to announce an international conference on Mountains and Sacred Landscapes at The New School in New York City from Thursday\, April 20th to Sunday\, April 23rd\, 2017. The conference will include the latest research on the intersections of religion\, nature and culture and will also feature a special presentation from the India China Institute’s three-year research project on Sacred Landscapes and Sustainable Futures in the Himalaya (Sacred Himalaya Initiative). \n\n\n\nDiverse mountain communities from the Himalayas to the Andes to the Appalachians face growing pressures linked to social and ecological changes. Melting glaciers\, shifting agricultural patterns\, conflicts over mining and resource extraction\, and risks to livelihoods\, the consequences of increasingly erratic global climate change\, pose unknown future challenges to many sacred landscapes\, including mountain communities and ecosystems and those beings\, human and nonhuman alike\, who rely on these habitats. Scholars have even suggested we have entered a fundamentally new geologic epoch called the Anthropocene. \n\n\n\nThe conference seeks to critically explore how the idea of sacred landscapes is entangled with these communities\, with a particular interest in topics related to mountain landscapes. Some of the issues we hope to explore include: major challenges and opportunities facing communities in the 21st century; religious conceptualizations of place and landscape; relationships between mountain spiritualities and peoples adapting to climate change; traditional ecological knowledge held by communities that can help address issues of social and ecological justice; the future of mountain and forest peoples; and the fate of more than human worlds inhabiting these diverse landscapes. What kinds of meanings shape and are shaped by the effects of climate change\, mass extinction\, human population growth\, and the ecological degradation of mountains\, forests\, rivers\, and other sacred landscapes? How do ritual activities linked to sacred landscapes respond to environmental challenges\, or not? How do mountains—as highly biodiverse ecosystems\, as critical sources of water\, energy\, and materials\, as repositories of tradition\, and as sacred beings—remain vital components in ongoing processes of religious change? How do understandings of the sacred manifest within and across different landscapes\, such as deserts\, rivers\, or forests? \n\n\n\nYou can view and download the pdf version of the Conference Program.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/mountains-and-sacred-landscapes-conference/
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SUMMARY:Book Launch w/ Jonathan Bach
DESCRIPTION:LEARNING FROM SHENZEN: CHINA’S POST-MAO EXPERIMENT FROM SPECIAL ZONE TO MODEL CITY \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease join us on Wednesday evening\, April 26th\, for a reception celebrating the publication of Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City\, edited by Mary Ann O’Donnell\, Winnie Wong\, & Jonathan Bach (University of Chicago Press\, 2017). \n\n\n\nThis multidisciplinary volume presents an account of China’s contemporary transformation via one of its most important yet overlooked cities: Shenzhen\, located just north of Hong Kong. From an experimental site as the first of China’s special economic zones\, Shenzhen is now a dominant city at the crossroads of the global economy\, a UNESCO City of Design\, and the hub of China’s emerging technology industries. A city of contradictions\, it embodies the spatial and temporal intricacies of the contemporary urban experience. The book explores especially how urban villages and informal institutions enabled social transformation. Through cases of labor\, architecture\, gender\, public health\, politics\, education\, and more\, this urban case study serves to explore critical problems for modern-day China and beyond. \n\n\n\nThe book just received prominent mention in the latest Economist magazine special feature on the Pearl River Delta. \n\n\n\nRemarks by co-editor and author\, Jonathan Bach\, chair of the Global Studies Program (New School)\, Mark Frazier\, Professor of Politics (New School)\, and special guest Na Fu\, Luce Visiting Scholar in Urban Studies at Trinity College and head of the research department at the Shenzhen Center for Design. \n\n\n\nRefreshments will be served and books will be available for purchase at a discount. \n\n\n\nSponsored by the interdisciplinary programs in Global Studies\, Urban Studies\, and Environmental Studies\, the India China Institute\, the Department of Anthropology\, and the Graduate Program in International Affairs.
URL:https://www.indiachinainstitute.org/event/book-launch-w-jonathan-bach/
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