1st LMU-China Academic Network Scientific Forum
RCC-Sponsored Panels
13.11.2015 – 15.11.2015
Location: LMU Main Building, Senatssaal
Together with its partners at Renmin University, the Rachel Carson Center is organizing two panels on environmental history topics during the 1st LMU-China Academic Network Scientific Forum. The conference is part of LMU-ChAN, a new collaboration between LMU and leading research universities in China.
Saturday, 14 November, 14:40-15:20
The Earth and its Environments
Chair: Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch, LMU
- “Collaborative Investigation on Critical Transitions in Deep-Time Bio-evolution among Sino-German
Scientists”
Prof. Dr. Qun Yang, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences - “Tonics of Nature: An Environmental History of Beer Brewing in China and Germany”
Prof. Dr. Shen Hou, Renmin University
Sunday, 15 November, 9:00-12:00
Environmental History / Workshop
Chair: Prof. Dr. Christof Mauch, LMU Rachel Carson Center
Keynote presentation:
- “On the Relationship between Maize Cultivation and the Development of Rocky Desertification in Guizhou from the Mid-Qing to the Republic (1736-1949)”
Prof. Dr. Zhaoqing Han, Fudan University
Work-in-progress presentations:
- “Corn in the US: A Cultural and Environmental History”
Annka Liepold, LMU Rachel Carson Center - “Clams, Tsingtao Beer, and Gout”
Prof. Dr. Shen Hou, Renmin University - “Green Island in the Sun: German Visions of Qingdao, 1897-1914”
Dr. Agnes Kneitz, Renmin University
Workshop members, from left to right: Zhaoqing Han (Fudan University, RCC Visiting Fellow), Dongmei Zhang (LMU-CSC Program Coordinator), Stefan Lauterbach (Director, International Office, LMU), Christof Mauch (RCC), Annka Liepold (RCC), Agnes Kneitz (Renmin University/LMU), Shen Hou (Renmin University), Hans van Ess (Vice President for International Affairs, LMU).
The complete program for all three days can be found here.