International Colloquium with Pei-yin Lin and John Agbonifo
International Colloquium “Environment, Society, and Justice—Global Perspectives”
04.08.2026 12:00 – 14:00
Location: Rachel Carson Center, fourth floor, Conference Room, Leopoldstr. 11a, 80802 Munich, Germany
In this international brown bag colloquium (feel free to bring your lunch), we will discuss recent and groundbreaking research on environmental justice and related topics with doctoral students, visiting scholars, and fellows from different parts of the world and from different disciplines.
Literary scholar Pei-yin Lin and development studies scholar John Agbonifo will present their current research.
12:00–13:00 Pei-yin Lin (University of Hong Kong) on “Archipelagic Imaginary and Cetacean Narratives in Contemporary Taiwan”
13:00–14:00 John Agbonifo (Osun State University) on “Relational Ecology, the Benin Bronzes, and Ecological Justice”
The event is open to all members of the RCC as well as the wider public—everyone interested is warmly invited.