“T3 Earth Forum” is an open forum on cognitive transformation, behavioral transformation, social transformation, and the Earth-human system. Under the limits of the global environment due to expanding human activities and the chain of events that may exceed those limits, how can humanity make a sustainable society? Furthermore, at the core of this question lies the fundamental query: How humans live? This forum will explore interconnections between changes of global environment and cognitive transformation, behavioral transformation, and social transformation in human and society. We will discuss the relationship between the beliefs and values that individuals hold internally, the actions and habits that manifest externally, and the norms, institutions, and systems that emerge when these are shared within society, all in relation to the Earth's environment, through dialogue with experts from various fields.
Next Forum
- The 11th T3 Earth Forum
Date and Time : 1:30~2:45pm Nov 4th, 2025 (JST)
Venue : Incubation Room 2,Research Institute for Humanity and Nature(RIHN), and online
Online： https://chikyu-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/83501723196?pwd=eK0bbWocQn4qOfNaYnIeFCkusLFf0N.1
ID : 835 0172 3196 Cord : 335875
Program
1:30～2:15 pm Dr. Oscar Hartman Davies
(A postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene
History at the KTH Division of History of Science, Technology and
Environment)
Title ：“Anthropocene History and the governance of flows between ecological
science,management, and activism”
Description:
This presentation introduces ongoing research, by myself and others, at the Centre for Anthropocene History at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. The presentation consists of two parts.
First, I introduce the Centre for Anthropocene History and discuss the key concerns of this emerging interdisciplinary field seeking integrated perspectives on human and earth history through dialogue across the humanities and social and natural sciences. In the second, I share ongoing work from my postdoctoral project and doctoral research, which explores the Anthropocene through the lens of the governance of flows and mobilities. Empirical examples include entanglements between wastewater infrastructures and river health in Britain, the development of landscape connectivity models for conservation and land use planning, and the use of animals as ‘ecosystem sentinels’ for sensing large-scale environmental changes.
2:15～2:45 pm Q/A and Discussion
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Upcoming forum schedule
- The 12th T3 Earth Forum
Date and Time : 10am-12noon Nov 13th, 2025 (JST)
Venue : Seminar Room ３&４, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature(RIHN), and online
Online：https://chikyu-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/86175027347?pwd=WzJVbMd8BtdyvfJWvhIe8DayH70fRI.1
ID : 861 7502 7347 Cord : 401942
Program
10:00～10:40pm Prof. Naoko Ellis
(Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British
Columbia)
Prof. Derek Gladwin
(Associate Professor, Language & Literacy Education, University of
British Columbia)
Title ：“Relational Approaches to Energy Transition and the Practice of Energy
Literacy”
Abstract:
The energy transition represents not merely a technical shift from fossil fuels to renewable sources, but also a profound sociocultural transformation that reconfigures values, identities, and collective worldviews. This talk advances a relational approach to energy transition through the framework of energy literacy, conceived as the integration of knowing, being, and doing in the pursuit of sustainable futures. Drawing on examples from the United Kingdom, Japan, and Canada, this talk examines how sustainability emerges through relational and affective practices that reconfigure how energy is conceptualized and experienced, while also informing how it may be enacted across interconnected ecological and cultural systems.
10:40～12:00 pm Q/A and Discussion
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completed Forum
- The 10th T3 Earth Forum
Venue: RIHN＋online
Date: ３～5pm Sep 30th, 2025 (JST)
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3:00～3:45 pm Prof. HENS Kristien
(Professor, University of Antwerp, Department of philosophy)
“Attuning to the Abyss: Art–Science Collaborations for Non-Extractive Knowledge of the Deep Sea”
3:45～4:00 pm Q&A
4:00～4:45 pm Prof. HUNKELER Daniel
(Professor, University of Neuchâte, Centre for Hydrogeology and
Geothermics）
“From Science to Practice: Overcoming Barriers in Sustainable Groundwater Management ” （tentative）
4:45～5:00 pm Q&A
- The 9th T3 Earth Forum
Venue: Lecture Hall, RIHN＋online
Date: June 18th, 2025 3-5pm(JST)
Speaker : Prof. R. Bin Wong （Distinguished Research Professor, UCLA.）
Title：Making 21st-c. Political Economy a Social-Ecological System through Leverage Points Perspectives & Systems Thinking
The brief biography for Prof. Bin Wong :
Before moving to UCLA in 2004 to be the Director (2004-2016) of the UCLA Asia Institute, Bin Wong served as Director of the Center for Asian Studies at UC Irvine where he was Chancellor’s Professor of History and Economics. He has also been a visiting professor and researcher at institutions in mainland China, France, Japan, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. As Director of the UCLA Asia Institute, he was responsible for fostering collaborations with a strong Asian component across campus, nationally, and internationally. These include new inter-disciplinary initiatives spanning research, graduate training, and class room curricula in K-16 settings. Wong’s own research has examined Chinese patterns of political, economic and social change, especially since eighteenth century, both within Asian regional contexts and compared with more familiar European patterns, as part of the larger scholarly efforts under way to make world history speak to contemporary conditions of globalization. Among his books, China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience (Cornell University Press, 1997) is the best known in its English and Chinese editions. Wong has also written or co-authored more than a hundred articles published in published in Chinese, English, French, German and Japanese journals that reach diverse audiences within and beyond academia. Since his retirement from UCLA in 2023 he has been teaching in a graduate program on political economy at the Taipei School of Economics and Political Science.