Dear all,

Time is flying quickly.

Thank you to those who participated in our brainstorming session this summer. We will get back to you shortly with the next steps. If you’re interested in taking part in or seeking collaborators for a common project, don’t hesitate to reach out and we will rely your call.  

Upcoming events and calls:

–          Last-Minute Call for Papers for the “Handbook of Critical Respiratory Studies: Breath and Air in Humanities and Social Sciences” (general editors: Magdalena Górska and Lenart Škof, Springer). For the moment we are looking for interested contributors to communicate just a provisional title, short bio and a minimal abstract by November 3, to collect them in our full proposal. As per title, we especially welcome in the first section contributions that engage with breathing from cross-cultural perspectives. 

–          Last-Minute Call for Papers for a panel organized by Subarna De on Bioregional History and the Global South. If you are interested, or for more info, please reach out as soon as possible. The Fourth World Congress of Environmental History general Call for Papers is open until April 23, 2023.
–          Call for Papers on “Nature and the Social Order since the 1970s” by November 28th

–          Call for Papers for a  Special Issue on Environmental Philosophy – Diálogos: The Journal of the Department of Philosophy of the University of Puerto Rico by December 5 (https://philevents.org/event/show/103818 )

–          Call for Contributions to Edited Volume “Women Who Write Animals” by 23 December 2022

–          Call for Papers for the Fifth International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life by January 31, 2023 

–          Call for Papers on “Considering Future Generations in Democratic Governance” by 15 June 2023

–          Postdoctoral Position in the Intellectual History at the Department of Global Studies on “Unearthing Multispecies Intellectual History: Earthing Trajectories of Area Studies”

 –          International Climate Protection Fellowship 

Finally, Nguyen Duy Hung, a member from Vietnam, launched a new International Project Collaboration (IPC) Program with SOLEN JSC.  It is along the lines of NAEP’s vision, but mainly focusing on technical and managing aspects. They have already started collaborations with Indonesia and Myanmar. Reach out for more!

As usual, if you have any question, suggestions, event, publications, call for paper, ideas for projects or anything else to share, please feel free to contact us!

Best wishes,

Orika Komatsubara and Laÿna Droz 
Coordination for the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy

Dear all,

We will meet informally online to brainstorm on our next common project on July 14th between 17.00-19.00 Japan Standard Time. Please join us on zoom: https://lmu-munich.zoom.us/j/97670144866?pwd=RUg4SHVOdFdOOWVGb2p1WTZrV2wxQT09

Meeting ID: 976 7014 4866 Password: 418128

If you cannot make it to this meeting, but are potentially interested in participating in the project, please send us an email (asiaenviphilo@gmail.com) and we will include you in the project group. We will share the main points of our discussion with you by email and find ways to continue the conversation.

Looking forward to seeing you there.

Best regards,

Laÿna and Orika

Dear all,

We want to thank everyone who interacted in the process of organizing as well as during the two days of the 2022 Online Symposium of the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy. We wrote a short feedback here. We are also working on some video presentations that we will publish soon.

We will organize an open discussion online to discuss what to do as our next common project (for instance along the lines of our previous project on the meanings of Nature in East and South-East Asia). If you are interested in collaborating on our next common project, please fill up your availabilities here by July 6^th.

Other upcoming events and calls:

• The international conference “Aesthetics of Atmosphere in an Intercultural Perspective“ will be held online between 16-17 September, 2022
• Call for Paper on “Early Modern Women and Climate” by November 15^th 2022
• Call for Paper on “Relations. Beyond Anthropocentrism” by September 15^th 2022

As usual, if you have any question, suggestions, event, publications, call for paper, ideas for projects or anything else to share, please feel free to contact us!

Best wishes,

Orika Komatsubara and Laÿna Droz 
Coordination for the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy

Dear all,

The program for NAEP’s first Online Symposium on 17-18 June 2022 is ready!

We will explore the diversity of environmental philosophies in Asia thanks to over twenty presenters from a dozen countries, from India to Japan. The program includes special sessions to approach Asian Environmental Philosophy from the perspective of philosophical traditions, policy, indigenous knowledge, as well as movies and literature. We will also hold two interactive workshops to debate about “Nationalism and Environmental Philosophy in Asia” and discuss the meanings of “nature” in Asia as well as future projects of the network.

Participation is free and online.

Please register and download the full program from here.

Everyone is welcome. Share widely!

As usual, if you have any question, suggestions, event, publications, call for paper, ideas for projects or anything else to share, please feel free to contact us (asiaenviphilo@gmail.com)!

We are looking forward to your participation!

Best wishes,

Orika Komatsubara and Laÿna Droz 
Coordination for the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy

Dear all,

Welcome to our new members!

The network’s project on the diversity of conceptions of “nature” in East Asia and South-East Asia is progressing, and we are looking forward to sharing with you later the outputs of our working group. Meanwhile, if you would like to join us, just write to us!

Upcoming events and calls:

• Webinar on Asian Ecocinema in the Anthropocene on 24 September 2021 with Prof. Kiu-wai Chu, Singapour.
• The “Modern East Asian Literature Research Cluster” offers a series of talks starting on Sept. 29 (Hong Kong).
• Call for Paper for the Asia and the Anthropocene: Visions of Being Human in a More-than-Human World (San Diego, USA).
• Call for Paper for the Fourth International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life on January 17-19, 2022, online  (Deadline: October 1, 2021).
• Call for Paper for the Annual Conference of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy “(Counter)influences” , on February 1–4, 2022, Hungary (Deadline 15th October 2021).
• Call for Paper for a virtual workshop Halo-Halo Ecologies: a Transnational Workshop on Emergent Philippine Environments and Foodways in June 2022 (Deadline: Oct 30, 2021).
• The AMOR MUNDI Lab, an intersectional research initiative in the Global South on  the relations between human and more-than-human organizes a series of talks, some of them related to Asia.
• The Facebook group “Asian Ecocriticism/ Environmental Humanities in Asia“ shares interesting events and information.

If you have any question, suggestions, event, publications, call for paper, idea for projects or anything else to share, please feel free to contact us (asiaenviphilo@gmail.com)!

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Best wishes,

Orika Komatsubara and Laÿna Droz 
Coordination for the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy

Dear all,

We have exciting news! We are organizing a workshop on the Meanings of Nature in East and South-East Asia. This project aims to show the high diversity of conceptions of “nature” (and therefore of conceptions of humans) in East Asia and South-East Asia.

Please find the invitation with the details here. To facilitate the discussions during the workshop, we would like to collect draft contributions in advance. If you are interested in contributing and if you have any question, concern or suggestion, please send us an email as soon as possible (asiaenviphilo@gmail.com), and we will be in touch.

Outputs:

• Get to know each other, encourage collaboration, and develop NAEP.
• Online workshop around July 21-31. Fill up the doodle by June 20th!
• Publish a co-authored peer-reviewed paper with the results of the contributions and discussions.
• Feature each contribution on NAEP’s website.

Other upcoming events and calls:

• Virtual Event “Writing with Water: Postcolonial Eco-literature in Taiwan” on June 29 2021.
• Call for paper for the Online Critical Legal Conference “Ecocide/Speciesism: Legislating Hierarchy, Interdependence, Death” on 2–4 September 2021 (Deadline: 30 June 2021).
• Call for paper for the Palgrave Handbook of Southern Green Criminology (Deadline abstracts: 1 July 2021).
• Call for paper for the Special issue of the Journal Criminological Encounters “Critical green criminology goes rural: environmental crimes, harms and conflicts in rural areas and communities” (Deadline abstracts: July 28, 2021).
• Call for Papers: Journal of Ecohumanism (Deadline: 30 September 2021).
• Call for paper for the Fourth International Conference on Philosophy and Meaning in Life on January 17-19, 2022 (Deadline: October 1, 2021).

Any upcoming event, publications or call for paper to share? Please feel free to contact us, and we will share them widely.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Best wishes,

Orika Komatsubara and Laÿna Droz 
Coordination for the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy

Dear all,

Happy new year! 明けましておめでとうございます。新年快乐! 

Do you have any stories about the worldviews of nature? Any upcoming event, publications or call for paper to share? Please feel free to contact us, and we will share them widely.

Upcoming:

• March 3-4: Event on animal ethics in Japan (in Japanese), no registration needed

• By March 19th: The draft of IPBES report on the diverse values of nature around the world is now open for external review. Make Asian Environmental Philosophy voices heard by participating 

• By March 25th: Call for Paper for the The Routledge Handbook of Ecofeminism and Literature

• By April 1st: Applications for the Mind & Life Summer Research Institute 2021, online, are open (scholarships are available)
• Readings: A few chapters of the book Environmental Ethics are about Asian environmental philosophy: Cross-cultural Explorations are about Asian environmental philosophy (Kirloskar-Steinbach M., Diaconu M., ed. 2020). Check them out here.

We wish you a wonderful year 2021,

Orika Komatsubara and Laÿna Droz

Coordination for the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy

Dear all,

Welcome to our new members! Thank you for joining us and continue to spread the word!

This time, we travel to Mongolia. In Mongolian, “nature” can be expressed as “baigali” (Байгаль, ᠪᠠᠶᠢᠭᠠᠯᠢ), echoing the name of Lake Baikal.

If you want to share your stories about the worldviews of nature, please feel free to contact us. Texts can be short and the format is free.

If you have any other information to share with the network (events, new publications, conferences, call for paper, etc.), let us know and we will spread the word.

Upcoming

• Call for paper for the Asia Pacific Society for Agricultural and Food Ethics (APSAFE) Virtual Conference, Dec. 3-16th 2020, online. Deadline for submissions: June 30th.
• Online lecture on July 3rd 2020 (in Japanese) on “After Covid19: Minamata patients’ ecological philosophy” by Orika Komatsubara. Register by July 2nd.
• “Coursera” Online Free course on “Asian Environmental Humanities: Landscapes in Transition”, Start on July 20th 2020.
• Call for paper for a Special Issue of the Asian Affairs Journal on the subject of “The Environment and Social Justice in Asia”. Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2020.
• Call for a Special Issue for the Journal “Ethical Theory and Moral Practice” on Ethics in Asian Philosophical Traditions. Deadline for the first round of applications: October 1, 2020.

Have a beautiful day!

Orika Komatsubara and Laÿna Droz

Coordination for the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy

Dear all,
Welcome to our new members! Thank you for joining us and continue to spread the word!
Did you know that in the Philippines, animals are sometimes considered as the gods’ pets? Thanks Mira Reyes for her inspiring short article about environmental thought in the Philippines.

We are still looking for short presentations about the state of environmental philosophy in each country/culture. Please let us know if you are interested in writing a short summary about environmental philosophy in your country (about 500 words or less)

If you are have some information to share with the network (events, new publications, conferences, call for paper, etc.), let us know! We will share it on our website, mailing list and Facebook page.

Upcoming:
– Call for Papers “Towards Climate Justice: Eco-Strategies for Survival” by March 31st 2020.
– Some of our members will speak about environmental justice at the Annual Conference on Asian Criminology Society, October 2-5 2020 in Kyoto, Japan.
– The Conference of Asian Contemporary Philosophy will be held in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), on Sept. 1-3 2020. Some talks will also approach Asian environmental philosophy. The Call for Paper should come soon.
Have a beautiful day!

Orika Komatsubara and Laÿna Droz 
Coordination for the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy