Organizer: Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University

Type/Location: Hybrid / New Haven, CT

Description:

That there are many links between class and nature is obviously globally and makes sense intuitively, but how, from an originary standpoint, do they relate to one another? What do we learn of one through the other and what do we miss of one without attending to the other?

This workshop, Classed Natures, features research currently underway on this topic from a range of disciplines, including history, archaeology, literature, environmental studies, art history, and architecture. The Classed Natures project analyzes the entanglements of class and human relationships with the natural environment in tropical, insular Southeast Asia, bringing two inveterate literatures together within particularized, local settings. In so doing, Classed Natures seeks to develop a framework for understanding local natures as embedded in historicized class and class as embedded in historicized, local natures in Southeast Asian tropical island environments.

The Classed Natures workshop will be held on Monday, December 2, 2024, sponsored by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale, in conjunction with the forthcoming edited volume Classed Natures, and will run both in person and online.

Papers:

“Disaster Risk Reduction and Class in the Philippines”, Shelley Tuazon Guyton

“Thermal (dis)Comfort: Environmental Design Conditions of the Bahay Na Bato Houses,” Alberto Martinez Garcia

“From Water Space to Public Space: Reconfiguration of Historical Perspective on Philippine Social Spaces,” Luzile Satur

“Away from Utopia: Nature and Class in Two Philippine Novels,” Glenn Diaz

“Fernando Amorsolo: Master Painter of Philippine Sunlight and Elite Conceptions of Nature,” Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz

“Early Agricultural Traditions in South Sulawesi: An Overview of the Cultural Ecosystem and Political Economy of the Bugis Society,” Syahruddin Mansyur, Moh. Ali Fadillah, Muhammad Nur, and Charles Campbell Macknight

“South Seas Hoklo Merchants between Coal and Oil,” Will Sack

Schedule:

Registration Links:

To attend the event in person, please register here.

To attend the event online, please register here.