“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.
Date and Time : 1:30～2:45pm Nov 4th, 2025 (JST)
Venue : Incubation Room 2,Research Institute for Humanity and Nature(RIHN), and online
Contact to participate the forum：human.rihn[a]chikyu.ac.jp. (Replace [a] with @)
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)
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
Date and Time : 10am～12noon Nov 13th, 2025 (JST)
Venue : Seminar Room ３&４, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature(RIHN), and online
Contact to participate the forum：human.rihn[a]chikyu.ac.jp. (Replace [a] with @)
Program
10:00～10:40 am Prof. Naoko Ellis
(Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British
Columbia)
Prof. Derek Gladwin
(Associate Professor, Language & Literacy Education, University of
British Columbia)
10:00～10:40 am
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 am～12noon Q/A and Discussion
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Completed Forum
Venue: RIHN＋online
Date: ３～5pm Sep 30th, 2025 (JST)
Program
3:00～3:45 pm Prof. HENS Kristien
(Professor, University of Antwerp, Department of philosophy)
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
Abstract:
As deep-sea mining accelerates, so too does the urgency to rethink how we know the ocean’s depths. I first present my vision on the role of ethics with regard to scientific practice and knowledge in general, and the opportunities engaging with artists can offer. Second, drawing on historical and contemporary artistic practices—from underwater sketching to deep listening— I explore how art-philosophy-science collaboration can shift how scientists, ethicists, and policymakers approach the deep sea. I explore how cultivating multispecies attentiveness through art can catalyze cognitive and ethical transformations toward sustainable Earth-human futures.
4:00～4:45 pm Prof. HUNKELER Daniel
(Professor, University of Neuchâte, Centre for Hydrogeology and
Geothermics）
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 ”
4:45～5:00 pm Q&A
Abstract:
Groundwater is increasingly vital for water supply and ecosystems amid climate change and biodiversity loss. Competing subsurface uses—such as CO₂ storage and geothermal energy—add pressure, while urbanization and agriculture further threaten its quality and sustainability. Although knowledge of groundwater interconnectedness has advanced, it rarely informs practice. Managing groundwater remains difficult due to its slow, large-scale processes and delayed impacts. Drawing on diverse case studies, this presentation explores ways to overcome barriers to sustainability—including public awareness, education, and art-based communication. It emphasizes integrating this often[1]invisible resource into inter- and transdisciplinary dialogues and fostering new models of multi-actor collaboration.
5:00～5:15 pm Q&A
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.