Upcoming Lectures - Today & tomorrow

The Sinor Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies

The Department of Central Eurasian Studies

The ANU-IU Pan Asia Institute

The East Asian Studies Center

Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business

The School of Public and Environmental Affairs’ Governance & Management Speaker Series

The Department of Anthropology

Invites you to two lectures by

Kanako Kodama

Associate Professor, Eurasian Languages and Cultures,

Faculty of Letters, Chiba University, Japan

Environmental, Economic, and Cultural Sustainability and China’s Ecological Migration Policy: Changing Society and Culture in Ejene District, Inner Mongolia

Tuesday, November 29

4:00 PM

State Room East, Indiana Memorial Union

Strategies for Combating Natural Disasters among Sedentarized Mongolian Pastoralists: Land Use, Market, and Agriculture

Respondent by videoconferencing: Professor Li Narangoa, School of Culture, History & Language, The Australian National University

Wednesday, November 30

5:00 PM

Kelley Graduate Building CG1034

Kanako KODAMA (Ph.D, Nagoya University 2007) has taught at Chiba University since 2007. She is a research fellow at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature’s Initiative for Chinese Environmental Issues and a member of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science research project "Afro-Eurasian Inner Dry Land Civilizations." She has organized numerous interdisciplinary workshops on dynamics of human-environment systems in Chinese and Eurasian arid zones.
Since 1997, she has conducted field research in China’s Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region. Her research investigates the socio-economic-cultural dynamics of Mongolian pastoralists under the Chinese socialist-market economy. Recent research interests include desertification-driven urbanization of Mongolian pastoralists and the impact of the Chinese policy of "ecological migration" in Inner Mongolia.
Her recent writings include the jointly edited An Oral History of Mothers in the Ejene Oasis, Inner Mongolia as well as articles on ground water crises and the ideology of tree-planting.
For more information, please contact Central Eurasian Studies at ceus@indiana.edu