Upcoming Events
Past Events
June 15-6, 2023
Conference: Environing Tourism: Multispecies Entanglements, Histories, Infrastructure
Rachel Carson Center, Munich
May 26, 2023
CARG #44
Reading group, Munich
April 19, 2023
Workshop: Asian Cultural Mobilities: Transitions, Encounters, Heritage
Rachel Carson Center, Munich
March 24, 2023
CARG #43
Reading group, Munich
March 11, 2023
Thinking through amber: Global China and area studies
Presentation at symposium “Global Area Studies: Towards a New Epistemology for Mapping the Globalizing World“, Minpaku, Osaka
February 24, 2023
Global China: A view from the borderlands of East and Southeast Asia
Guest Lecture, University of Padova
January 27, 2023
CARG #42
Reading group, Munich
December 7-10, 2022
Knowing the underground: Spatial and temporal depth beyond extractvism
Panel at the 4S/ESOCITE meeting in Cholula, Mexico
December 5-7, 2022
From raising livestock to sell to raising livestock to survive: COVID-19 and rural poor in east Indonesia
Poster presentation at the Forum “Corona Crisis and Beyond”, Herrenhausen Palace, Hanover
December 1, 2022
Lecture “Agroecology and Environmental Knowledge Co-production”
Lecture by Huiying for Griffiths University Environmental Sciences Programme, at the Regional Center for Sustainable Development (RCSD), Chiang Mai University.
November 11, 2022
CARG #41
Reading group, Munich
July 14-15, 2022
Radical History in East Asia
Participation in workshop, Center for Advanced Studies (LMU Munich)
July 20, 2022
Double book presentation and discussion: Alessandro Rippa & Björn Alpermann, "China's Borderlands - Infrastructures and Domination"
University of Würzburg
July 22-23, 2022
After the Crisis? Rethinking Processes and Potentials of Change in Environment and Society
Participation in workshop, Seidl Villa ( Munich)
July 29, 2022
“Seminal matters of planetary uncertainty: The transformational ecologies of material infrastructures and agricultural practices”
Panel convenors Roger Norum and Dmitry Arzyutov
Paper presenter Huiying Ng: “Mediating infrastructural instability - on riverine weed along the Mekong and structureless soil in the highlands”
EASA conference, Belfast, Ireland (26 July-29 July 2022)
June 29, 2022
Laboratory: To heal the colonial wound: Towards decolonial practice of storytelling
2-part Laboratory, co-organised by Huiying Ng, Dimas Laksmana, and Nadya Karimasari, Paris EUROSEAS (29 June-1 July 2022)
June 16-17, 2022
China as Context
Workshop, Manchester China Institute & LSE Anthropology
June 23, 2022
Beyond Exception: The Chinese “Zone” as Export Model Across Asian Borderlands
Double Panel, 7th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network Conference, Seoul
June 13, 2022
About Food Regime Theory & Participatory Food Systems
Talk with Heather Luna for Keduzi
About Food Regime Theory and why Participatory Food Systems are urgently needed. The PFS co-learning sessions were supported by a South Korean Arts Council-funded curatorial project, Look Who is Talking.
June 24, 2022
Borderlands Redux: Knowledge Production, New Forms of Public Engagement, and Re-Scaling of Border Spaces in Asia
Roundtable, 7th Conference of the Asian Borderlands Research Network Conference, Seoul
June 13, 2022
On the Participatory Food Systems Project: a view from Southeast Asia
Guest speakers for Åsa Sonjasdotter, for the class More than Human Realms and Art 2022, HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design at University of Gothenburg.
Course outline here; more info here
June 6-11, 2022
VIU Conference and Graduate Seminar: Defining the Human in Environmental Humanities
Venice International University, Italy
May 27-29, 2022
Uniting Ecology and Civilization: Histories, Theories, Futures
Workshop, NYU Athens
May 20-22, 2022
Fourth China Made Workshop: From the “China Model” to “Global China”
University of Toronto, Asian Institute at the Munk School of Global Affairs
May 18, 2022
Diversity in International Research Groups: What We Have Learned So Far
Bus talk at the event “Multiple Diversities: A Day at the Rachel Carson Center Landhaus“
April 25, 2022
Graduate Thesis Clinic: Making and studying agroecological futures as socio-technical object
A discussion about fieldwork, future-making and action research with graduate students of the RCSD. Organised by Daniel Hayward, Chiang Mai University Regional Centre for Sustainable Development (RCSD), Chiang Mai, Thailand
March 25, 2022
Supporting sustainable transformations towards agroecology in the food system: issues, opportunities, challenges in this decade
Guest lecture for Napong Tao Rukghapan for the course “Sustainable Transformations”, School of Global Studies, Thammasat University
More info soon
March 8, 2022
Intimate Geopolitics of Mobility: Lauren Berlant and Tourism’s Affective Natures
Interrogating criticality in tourism analysis, Bauman Institute, Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds (online talk)
February 10, 2022
Corridoi economici e confini etnici: il ruolo del Xinjiang nella proiezione economica cinese in Asia Centrale
Talk at the University of Trento
December 7, 2021
Book talk: Borderland Infrastructures
University of Göttingen
November 4, 2021
Relearning the Asian City
Guest lecture for Jeffrey Hou, International College of Innovation, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
August 4 — November 18, 2021
JPS 3rd Annual Writeshop 2021 in Critical Agrarian Studies and Scholar-Activism
Organised by the Collective of Agrarian Scholar-Activists from the South (CASAS) + 6 other groups
November 3, 2021
Amber Worlds: Violent extraction, global exchanges, and the science of extinction at China’s periphery
Lecture at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Cologne
October 21, 2021
CARG #40
Reading group, Munich
October 2023, 2021
Global Chinese Infrastructure: A writing workshop
Co-organised with Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi (ROADWORK project) and Tim Oakes (China Made project)
Splügen, Switzerland
October 29, 2021
‘Mobilità, turismo, ambiente, e nuove direzioni di ricerca’
Ambiente e Italianità: Per una storia ambientale delle migrazioni italiane workshop, Modena, Italy
October 1, 2021
Disrupting the “Giant Plot” of Global China: Steps towards an infrastructural history of the China-Burma borderlands
Paper at the DGSKA panel “Seismic China”
October 1, 2021
On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China border. Book Discussion with Franck Billé and Caroline Humphrey
Alessandro participates in this roundtable discussion at the “Emptiness: Ways of Seeing” conference
July 19 — early September, 2021
‘The World is Our Household!’ Fellowship — Huiying Ng
organized by Struggles for Sovereignty, based in Indonesia
September 15, 2021
Global Chinas: Environments, Epistemologies, Ethics
Workshop and Book Launch at the LMU Center for Advanced Studies
August 25, 2021
The History of Chinese Infrastructure in Southeast Asia: Imperial Legacies, Socialist Continuities, and Modernist Aspirations
Panel for the European Association of Chinese Studies conference (organised by Alessandro Rippa and Hans Steinmüller)
August 9-11, 2021
Ph.D. Course: ‘The Political Ecology of Pandemics’ — Paper presentation by Huiying Ng
Centre for Development and Environment, University of Oslo
July 8, 2021
‘Towards a methodology of mediated mobility: Premises, promises and problems with immersive multispecies ethnographic empathy research’
Northumbria University, UK (online talk)
July 8, 2021
Soft skills workshop series (session 5: crafting an international academic career)
Workshop for doctoral students, Munich
June 25, 2021
CARG #39
Reading group, Munich
June 24, 2021
Baking the Rules: Academia and Activism in Debate
University of Helsinki, Finland (online roundtable)
June 23, 2021
Finnished Zooming into Silence
University of Helsinki, Finland (experimental laboratory)
June 15, 2021
The Anthropocenic Imaginary:
Political Ecologies of Tourism in a Geological Epoch
University of Tromsø, Norway (online talk)
June 7 - June 18 2021
Summer School on Land Relations and Land Governance in the Mekong Region — Huiying Ng
Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development, Chiang Mai University
May 13, 2021
Soft skills workshop series (session 4: presentation and conferences)
Workshop for doctoral students, Munich
May 7, 2021
CARG #38
Reading group, Munich
May 5 - May 7, 2021
Hazardous Hope: Exploring New Ways of Narrating Toxic Bodies and Landscapes — Paper Presentation by Huiying Ng
Closing Workshop, DFG Hazardous Travels Group, Rachel Carson Center
April 15, 2021
Movement Heritage
Workshop, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
April 20, 2021
Teaching Environmental Anthropology in Fearful and Inspiring Times
Online workshop
April 23, 2021
“Thinking like a Valley”. Paper for the online workshop “Thinking through Islandness” organised by Philipp Schorch and Franck Heidemann
Online workshop
April 9, 2021
CARG #37
Reading group, Munich
March 18, 2021
Soft skills workshop series (session 3: funding)
Workshop for doctoral students, Munich
March 10, 2021
Re-membering agroecological futures in heterogeneous landscapes: assembling scenes — Huiying Ng
Invited Colloquium Talk, Critical Media Lab, IXDM
March 5, 2021
CARG #36
Reading group, Munich
February 18, 2021
Soft skills workshop series (session 2: productivity)
Workshop for doctoral students, Munich
February 8 - March 17, 2021
Signals and Storms — Huiying Ng, Michelle Lai, Luca Lum (participants)
Freeport Labs
February 10, 2021
China Made: the techno-politics, materialities, and legacies of infrastructure development.
The New School, India China Institute (online talk)
February 5, 2021
CARG #35
Reading group, Munich
January 14, 2021
Soft skills workshop series (session 1: CV)
Workshop for doctoral students, Munich
January 8, 2021
CARG #34
Reading group, Munich
December 14, 2020
Book launch – Migrantes (2020, Ediciones Ekaré)
by Alejandro Reig and Roger Norum
(18:30 CET, in Spanish)
Ediciones Ekaré, Barcelona (online)
December 3, 2020
RCC Lunchtime Colloquium talk: "Environing Infrastructure: China’s “Green” Development in Southeast Asia”
Rachel Carson Center, Munich
November 20, 2020
CARG #33
Reading group, Munich
November 5, 2020
Book launch — Alessandro Rippa, Borderland Infrastructures (2020, Amsterdam University Press)
Tallinn University
October 26 - November 1 , 2020
Seminar and Public Talks — Huiying Ng, The Shape of a Practice
Haus der Kulturen der Welt
October 23, 2020
More-than-human Archives
Planning workshop, Rachel Carson Center
October 16, 2020
CARG #32
Reading group, Munich
October 1, 2020
“Presencing absence: materializing infrastructures of silence“ – Talk at THE ANECHOIC CHAMBER: CONSTRUCTION AND RECEPTION OF SILENCE IN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND HISTORY, University of Bielefeld
online workshop
September 17, 2020
“The expat, the migrant, the nomad and their Others” — Panel at RAI 2020 “Anthropology and Geography” conference
online conference
September 15, 2020
“Landscape of Infrastructure” — Panel at RAI 2020 “Anthropology and Geography” conference
online conference
September 4-7, 2020
Roadsides Editorial Meeting
Dorfgastein, Austria
August 13-15, 2020
ARI workshop “Crossing the River while Feeling the Stones”
Online webinar