BY Professor Nate Shockey In July 2018, I spent several days on the island of Kyushu in Southern Japan engaged in site visits for my research project, “Contested Representations of Industrial Infrastructure in Southwestern Japan,” sponsored by a faculty research grant as part of the Luce Foundation LIASE Initiative. This …
By Diego Callenbach Working on a farm across the world in Japan was truly something I had never imagined doing in my entire life prior to the second semester of my first year at Bard. Initially, my professor Nathan Shockey and advisor Yuka Suzuki had mentioned a lecture in the …
By Yuxuan Zhan This May, I was fortunate enough to be selected to participate in the Bard-Japan Farm Exchange program in Honbetsu, Hokkaido, Japan and receive a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. As a student currently studying Philosophy and Music, I never thought that I would have the opportunity …
BY Professor Yuka Suzuki In July 2018, I traveled to China for two weeks with the support of a Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE) course development grant. I spent most of my time in Beijing, where I visited three museums: the Paleozoological Museum of China, the …
BY Kayla Adams, Bard 2019 “The birds don’t lie.” Nial Moores, Birds Korea One hot summer August in South Korea, gave me an experience I will never forget. Last month, I was granted the opportunity to intern at the Korea Federation Environmental Movement (환경운동연합) in Seoul, South Korea. KFEM is …
Ryan Rusiecki Spending time in both remote villages and populated cities, I was given a glimpse into the food systems in Japan. I spent the first few days of my trip in Fukuoka city and began to observe the themes of maximization and efficiency within everyday infrastructure. Transportation was precisely …
By Mika Endo Our relationship with Ben and Konomi Campbell and their Sophia Farm Community began when a former student and now alumna went to their farm in Honbetsu, Hokkaidô in the summer of 2015. Over the past few years, Professor Nate Shockey and I have been organizing a program …
By Shannon Dixon If you ever find yourself in rural Japan living with a Buddhist monk, try not to bring flowers as a housewarming gift. I was told it was out of the normal for Japanese people to exchange Carnations to one another, and doing so will probably prompt a …
On April 14-15, forty students from across the country converged onto the Bard Campus to participate in our Third Annual, LIASE-sponsored Student Research Conference on Asia and the Environment. Terrific keynote presentations by Dr. Julia Adeney Thomas and Dr. Darrin Magee were followed by a day of student panels and …
Students in the “Challenges of Sustainable Development” course presented their solutions for the problem of air pollution and haze in Singapore at Bard College’s Third Annual Asia and the Environment Research Conference. From left: instructor Jason Wong, Annie Block, Chelsea Jean-Michel, Marchelle Lundquist, Francesca Merrick, Elsie Platzer and Bennett Smith. …
