Overview
| Title: | Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia |
| Speaker: | Dr. Max Hirsh Dr. Till Mostowlansky Dr. Dorothy Tang Professor Hallam Stevens |
| Date/Time: | February 3, 2023, 3:30 – 5:00 pm |
| Venue: | Lecture Hall, G/F, May Hall, The University of Hong Kong (Map) |
| Language: | English |
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About the Book
Infrastructure and the Remaking of Asia investigates the deeper implications of that pivot to the East. Written by leading international infrastructure experts, it demonstrates how new roads, airports, pipelines, and cables are changing Asian economies, societies, and geopolitics — from the Bosporus to Beijing, and from Indonesia to the Arctic. Ten tightly interwoven case studies powerfully illustrate infrastructure’s leading role in three global paradigm shifts: climate change, digitalization, and China’s emergence as a superpower.
About the Speakers
Dr. Max Hirsh is managing director of the Airport City Academy and a research fellow at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research focuses on infrastructure and urban development.
Dr. Till Mostowlansky is a research professor of anthropology at the Geneva Graduate Institute, where he leads the collaborative research project “Quiet Aid: Service and Salvation in the Balkans-to-Bengal-Complex”.
Dr. Dorothy Tang is an assistant professor of architecture at the National University of Singapore. A registered landscape architect, her research and practice focus on urban and rural communities undergoing large-scale environmental changes.
Professor Hallam Stevens is a professor of interdisciplinary studies and an associate dean at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. His research focuses on genomics, the life sciences, big data, and the history of computers.
Organizer
CRF Project “Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th – 21st Centuries” (RGC CRF HKU C7011-16G), Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong