Comparative Historical Ecology in NE Asia

Where: Many Nations Long House

This workshop will bring together international scholars and institutions on the study of human-environmental interactions in Northeast Asia.

A discussion of the diverse responses of ancient cultures to environmental changes and human impacts on local ecology, and how these archaeological understandings relate to contemporary issues of global climate changes and sustainability

Friday, October 10, 2014
Many Nations Long House
(1630 Columbia Street, Eugene, OR)
9:00 AM–5:00 PM

Participants:
Gary Crawford, Nattha Chuenwattana, Daniel Kwan, Mitchell Ma (University of Toronto, Canada); Xing Gao, Ying Guan (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, China); Junko Habu (University of California Berkeley); Simon Kaner (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, UK); Yang Qian (Shadong University, China); Lixin Wang (Jilin University, China); Pan Yan (Fundan University, China); Yunfei Zheng (Zhejiang Provincial Institute of Relics and Archaeology, China); and Jon Erladson, Scott Fitzpatrick, Jeff Hanes, Terry Hunt, Gyoung-Ah Lee, Madonna Moss (University of Oregon).

This event is free and open to the public and is cosponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, and the Department of Anthropology. For more info, please visit: http://pages.uoregon.edu/anthro/eventscalendar/upcoming-events/ or call (541) 346-1521.