On 27 January 2024, Nhung Lu Rots presented a paper about Buddhist responses to the plastic waste crisis in the Mekong Delta. Her paper was part of the symposium “Religious and Theological Responses to Environmental Disaster in Asian History”, which was organized by the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Japan.
On 5 May, Mette Halskov Hansen delivered a lecture at the University of Oslo on Anthropocene. She presented the research project of transsustain by comparing the ecological civilisation sociotechnical imaginary of the Chinese state with spirituality and religion inspired environmental initiatives led by citizens in China, Taiwan and India. Please check out more of the video and audio from the website.
On CICERO (Center for International Climate Research), the interview with Aase Jeanette Kvanneid on her research in North India was published in Norwegian, entitled 'Den indiske landsbygden: Små skritt i bærekraftig retning'.
On 16 January, Mette Halskov Hansen and Koen Wellens will deliver a talk at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica in Taipei to present the research project of Transsustain.
Kenneth Bo Nielsen, an Associate Professor at the department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and one of the leaders of the Norwegian Network for Asian Studies, also a member of Transcendence and Sustainability research project interviewed fellow project members Mette Halskov Hansen, Amita Baviskar and Lu Chen to explain the project and its ongoing research. The interview was recorded and edited into a podcast published on 16 September 2022.
In the new column of 'Notes from the Field' of The China Story, Lu Chen presented one of the stories she observed during her fieldwork on water risk under extreme weather in rural China.
On 16th and 17th of June, Transsustain members attended the 2022 Asianet Conference held in Trondheim.
Asia Week Programme 2020 consisted of a series of talks and roundables organized by the Center for Development and the Environment in UiO lasting from December 7 to 11. Transsustain research team was invited to present the project as the closing event. After some of the research team members presented their research in China, India and Taiwan, there were also discussions over the transnational implications of the respective research projects in different field sites.
