7 p.m. March 7 – Christopher Coggins, Ph.D., professor of Geography and Asian Studies at Bard’s College at Simon’s Rock in Massachusetts, presents “God Mountains and Fengshui Forests: China’s Village Watersheds as Relict Sacred Space in the Anthropocene,” in Benes Room A of Ohio Wesleyan’s Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., Delaware. Coggins’s research focuses on rural China, political ecology, biodiversity, sacred landscapes, protected area management, globalization and property/possession. Since 2011, he has led teams engaged in a multi-year, mixed methods, field and archival research project on the fengshui forests of southern and central China. His visit is supported by an ASIANetwork Speakers Bureau Grant and sponsored by the
His visit is supported by an ASIANetwork Speakers Bureau Grant and sponsored by the OWU East Asian Studies Program, and Environmental Studies major.