A-bomb survived trees in Hiroshima.<\/span><\/p>\n
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[AS 237] In the Modern Chinese Literature and Society course student read and discussed novels about the environmental changes in Taiwan. They consulted, contributed to, and blogged on the website that presents the results of Leah Suffern (\u201917)\u2019s 2016 summer fieldwork funded by LIASE, titled “<\/span>Mapping Taipei in Chu T\u2019ien-hsin\u2019s Novella ‘The Old Capital’<\/span><\/a>.” The course was also enriched by Hana Anderson (\u201920), Anthony Faure (\u201920), Sofia Reed (\u201920), and James Sandberg (\u201920)\u2019s 2018 summer fieldwork <\/span>funded by LIASE<\/span>, titled “<\/span>Memories of Agricultural Yilan, Taiwan<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>”\u00a0\u00a0[Chin 320] The course continued use of lyrics and prose about environmental changes, and the students who were interested in environmental studies commented on the materials from relevant perspectives. [Japan\u00a0320] Students read the article, “See How the Whole World Works through a Bowl of Udon” in Japanese. \u00a0The key words in the article include food self-efficiency, farm to spoon, sustainability, permaculture, and slow life.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.25.4″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”2016-2017″ _builder_version=”3.27.4″ border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”ASES Courses” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n [AS\/ES 277 AS\/ES 396] \u00a0These two courses will be offered again in 2017-18, led by Professor Kathy Tegtmeyer Pak and Professor Greg Muth.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”AsianCon” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n [AS 215 taught by Karil Kucera and Rika Ito in Shanghai and Tokyo, January 2017; Ka Wong and Tom Williamson taught AS220 on campus in Spring 2017.] During the course of their 27 days in Asia, the 23 students enrolled in the Asian Conversations Program continued the connections and conversations with colleagues and students at East China Normal University and International Christian University. The focus of this year\u2019s program shifted slightly to discussions of the built environment, having the students look at how the Chinese and Japanese have traditionally approached living within the environment versus where they are at in the modern era. Some of the current practices with regard to sustainable building actually look back to past methods so this made for a nice synergy between past and present. In China, students experienced first-hand the intense air pollution of Beijing, after which they met with Professor Che and his graduate students, who reported on their ongoing research on air and water quality research in Shanghai. In Japan, activities included a trip to Nikko, site of one of the first legal battles related to the environmental preservation in Japan. In both countries, students interviewed their peers with questions related to how they understood the environment and what they saw as some of the big issues facing their country, their part of the world, and their generation going forward. Spring term activities included transcribing portions of these interviews and using the content in their final papers. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”AssortedTopics” _builder_version=”4.7.5″ hover_enabled=”0″ border_style=”solid” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [Chin 320] The course continued use of lyrics and prose about environmental changes, and the students who were interested in environmental studies commented on the materials from relevant perspectives.[Japan 232] Students read and discussed a Japanese comic called “3.11 Japan Disaster: the scenery I had with you.”[Japan 320] Students read the article, “See How the Whole World Works through a Bowl of Udon” in Japanese. \u00a0The key words in the article include food self-efficiency, farm to spoon, sustainability, permaculture, and slow life.[AS\/Religion 289, Buddhism:\u00a0 Peace and Justice] This course continued to include a module on eco-Buddhism.[AS 397 Seminar, Human Rights in Asian Contexts] This course continued to include a module on environmental justice and e-waste issue in Asia.[History 250 & 251] The classes read excerpts from Robert Marks, China: Its Environment and History <\/em>and the Modern China course viewed the Gary Marcuse film, “Waking the Green Tiger<\/em>.”[Art 161] World Architecture \u2013 This course has moved away from the canonical study of Western architecture with half of the course now focused on historical sustainable approaches to the built environment and how those approaches are being revisited and revised in order to be implemented in today\u2019s new green building practices.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ custom_padding_last_edited=”on|desktop” disabled_on=”off|off|off” _builder_version=”3.22″ background_color=”#ffffff” custom_padding_tablet=”50px|0|50px|0″ custom_padding_phone=”” transparent_background=”off” padding_mobile=”off” make_fullwidth=”off” use_custom_width=”off” width_unit=”on”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”2015-2016″ _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Sustain… in Japan” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n [AS\/ES 277; offered by Professor Tegtmeyer Pak, January 2016]\u00a0 In its second iteration, 21 students, one faculty member and one staff member traveled to Japan to work and study alongside Japanese staff, volunteers and students at the Asian Rural Institute and the Tokyo University of Agriculture. In addition, they enjoyed interacting with students from Taiwan, who were also guests of TUA\/N\u014ddai in Nagawamachi, Nagano Prefecture. By joining in farm life, visiting a national park, taking a twelve-hour day trip through coastal areas of Fukushima most affected by the 3.2011 triple-disaster, and attending cultural festivals that promote rural life, students gained wider familiarity with the premises and practice of sustainability in Japan. To prepare for their experience, 17 students without abilities in Japanese language completed the \u201cSurvival Japanese\u201d course in the fall semester. Students wrote about their experiences on the class blog<\/a>: https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/esj-2016\/<\/a> <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”AsianCon” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n [AS 215 taught by Barbara Reed and Caleb Boteilho in Shanghai and Tokyo, January 2016, and AS 220 by Tom Williamson and Robert Entenmann on campus, Spring 2016.]\u00a0 The 38 students enrolled in the Asian Conversations Program\u00a0continued the connections and conversations with colleagues and students at East China Normal University, Chuo University and International Christian University. In China, Professor Che and his graduate students reported on recent work being done on air and water quality research in Shanghai. In Japan, students once again spent a day at Chuo University hearing student reports on Japanese food and the environment and discussing their work together. In the spring term, students were assigned Marks\u2019 The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative<\/em>, and watched the film, Waking the Green Tiger<\/em> (first screened on campus during our exploration grant year).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”DUR” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”JapanLitNature” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n [AS 233 taught by Kendra Strand, a visiting professor, in Spring 2016]\u00a0 This course examined how nature is imagined, described, and consumed in Japanese literature and culture, and considered moments when the natural environment becomes inhospitable to human life. Students explored the relationships between humans and nature in Japanese literature and popular culture by: (1) tracing traditions from eighth-century landscape poetry to post-apocalyptic narratives in contemporary anime, (2) reading Japanese literature from a perspective of ecological criticism, and (3) producing their own works of nature writing. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Assorted Topics” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n [Chin 320] The course introduced lyrics and prose about environmental changes, and the students who were interested in environmental studies commented on the materials from relevant perspectives.[Japan 232] Students read and discussed a Japanese comic called “3.11 Japan Disaster: the scenery I had with you.”[Japan 320] Students read the article, “See How the Whole World Works through a Bowl of Udon” in Japanese. \u00a0The key words in the article include food self-efficiency, farm to spoon, sustainability, permaculture, and slow life.[AS\/Religion 289, Buddhism:\u00a0 Peace and Justice] This course continued to include a module on eco-Buddhism.[AS 397 Seminar, Human Rights in Asian Contexts] This course continued to include a module on environmental justice and e-waste issue in Asia.[History 250 & 251] The classes read excerpts from Robert Marks, China: Its Environment and History <\/em>and the Modern China course viewed the Gary Marcuse film, “Waking the Green Tiger<\/em>.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Senior Sem” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n [AS 399 taught by Robert Entenmann, Spring 2016] Readings included James Scott, The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia<\/em> (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009), a book focusing on environmental history and the highland peoples of “Zomia,” a region encompassing upland Southeast Asia and Southwest China.\u00a0 The students viewed the film, Threshold: Whispers of Fukushima<\/a>, and interacted with the director.\u00a0 One student wrote “An Analysis of Hydropower on the Yangtze and Mekong Rivers\u201d as her senior thesis; her interest in the topic stemmed from Gary Marcuse\u2019s visit during our Exploratory Grant year.\u00a0 She majored in both Asian Studies and Environmental Studies.[ES 399 taught by John Schade, Spring 2016] Students viewed the film, Threshold: Whispers of Fukushima<\/a>, and engaged the filmmakers subsequently during a class visit.\u00a0 Two students completed Asia-related projects during the semester; \u00a0one wrote a second paper on environmental aspects of damming the Mekong River (see also Asian Studies 399) and the other researched rural and urban environmental attitudes in Japan stemming from his experiences during the Sustainability in Japan interim course. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.22″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”2014-2015″ _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,1_3,1_3″ admin_label=”row” _builder_version=”3.25″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” use_border_color=”off” border_color=”#ffffff” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n [Asian Studies\/Environmental Studies 277; offered by Professor Tegtmeyer Pak, January 2015]Students brought the ideas and practices of “sustainability” to life in a new context, by joining in farm life, comparing a national park with the neighboring devastation left by copper mining, and by joining in cultural festivals intended to fend off rural depopulation. \u00a0Throughout their month, they worked, studied and played alongside Japanese staff, volunteers and students at the Asian Rural Institute and the Tokyo University of Agriculture.<\/p>\n See the 2015 blog\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0and the 2016 blog here<\/a>.\u00a0This course will be offered again in January 2016.\u00a0 Here’s more information<\/a>.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”3.0.47″ custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Asian Con” _builder_version=”3.27.4″ background_size=”initial” background_position=”top_left” background_repeat=”repeat” border_style=”solid”]<\/p>\n [AS 215 taught by Karil Kucera and Kris MacPherson in Shanghai and Tokyo, January 2015] During their 28-day stay in Asia, the 35 students enrolled in the Asian Conversations Program focused on food and the environment, engaging in individual research related to food production and dissemination as well as sustainability. In Shanghai, they studied at East China Normal University, where they heard lectures by Professor Che and his graduate students on air quality research and water improvement techniques on nearby Suzhou Creek. Students also toured Hangzhou and discussed local efforts to clean up West Lake as well as the impact of the new UNESCO designation of West Lake as a World Heritage Site on preservation efforts. In Tokyo, students spent a day at Chuo University sharing reports on food and the environment as well as learning about the environmental research being done by Professor Tanaka and his students. At International Christian University, some students heard a lecture by a visiting Greenpeace research associate on Japanese environmental activism. Spring term activities included bringing together the Environmental Conversation students with the Asian Conversations at St Olaf to talk about food production and sustainability in Asia while enjoying various Asian dishes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n2016-2017<\/h2>\n
Sustainability in Japan & Environmental Research in Japan<\/h3>\n
Asian Conversations<\/h3>\n
Language study, Cultural study & Topics<\/h4>\n
2015-2016<\/h2>\n
Sustainability in Japan<\/h3>\n
Asian Conversations<\/h3>\n
Environmental Research in Asia (Japan)<\/h3>\n
Nature in Japanese Literature<\/h3>\n
Language study, Cultural study & Topics<\/h4>\n
Senior Seminars<\/h3>\n
2014-2015<\/h2>\n
Sustainability in Japan<\/h3>\n
Asian Conversations<\/h3>\n
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