Next Forum
The 10th T3 Earth Forum
Date and Time : ３～5pm Sep 30th, 2025 (JST)
Venue : eminar Room ３&４, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature(RIHN), and online
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(https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86166544592?pwd=vsK2vlYnE6JpxjaaWpKVhv32BHbnv4.1)
Meeting ID : 861 6654 4592 Passcord : 850999
Program
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
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Upcoming forum schedule
- The 11th T3 Earth Forum
Date and Time : Nov 13, 2025 (JST)
Venue : Seminar Room ３&４, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature(RIHN), and online
✽ Details are to be announced.
1) Prof. Naoko Ellis
(Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of British Columbia)
2) Prof. Derek Gladwin
(Associate Professor, Language & Literacy Education, University of British Columbia）
Closed Forum
- 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.