Deutsches
Historisches
Institut

CONFERENCE

Moskau

CLIMATE CHANGE, ENERGY,AND SUSTAINABILITY IN THE
PACIFIC REGION
Knowledge, Policies, and Transfers(1970s – Present)

DATE

19-22
April 2021

VENUE

Online (Zoom)
REGISTRATION

dij.tokyo/climate

19 APRIL

20 APRIL

21 APRIL

22 APRIL

15:00-19:00 BERLIN
21:00-01:00 SINGAPORE
22:00-02:00 TOKYOWELCOME & INTRODUCTION
9:00 Washington D.C. /16:00 Moscow/
22:00 Tokyo
Franz Waldenberger/ Sandra Dahlke/
Simone Lässig &Sarah Beringer/ Benjamin Beuerle/ Sonja
Ganseforth/ Yufei Zhou
PANEL 1
7:15 – 8:30 San Francisco/ 16:15 – 17:30 Berlin/
22:15 – 23:30 Singapore/ 23:15 – 00:30 Tokyo

10:00-12:15 LONDON
12:00-14:15 MOSCOW
18:00-20:15 TOKYOKEYNOTE II
11:00-12:00 Berlin/18:00-19:00 Tokyo
Miranda Schreurs - Energy transitions andclimate change in East Asia
PANEL 2
11:00-12:15 London/13:00-14:15 Moscow/
19:00-20:15 Tokyo

8:00-11:15 WASHINGTON D.C.
15:00-18:15 MOSCOW
21:00-0:00 TOKYOPANEL 38:00-9:15 Washington D.C./15:00 -16:15 Moscow/
21:00-22:15 Tokyo

19:30-03:45 EUGENE, OREGON
4:30-12:45 WARSAW11:30-19:45 TOKYOPANEL 5 50min
19:30-20:45 Eugene, Oregon/11:30-12:45 Tokyo

Benjamin Beuerle - Renewable Energies
and Coal in the Russian Far East: regional andtransnational perspectives
Sarah Beringer - The California-China Clean
Energy and Climate Change Partnership:
Cooperation vs. Industrial Policy in the Clean
Energy Sector
Anna Kuteleva - Discursive Politics of Energy
in Canada’s China Policy
Chair: Franz Waldenberger
BREAK
22:15-23:00 TokyoPANEL 48:00-9:00 Edmonton/ 16:00-17:00 Berlin/
23:00-0:00 Tokyo

Kjell Ericson - Virtually a Direct Link between theTennessee River and Japan’s Inland Sea’: The Transpacific
Ecologies of a Pearl Cultivation Boom, 1950-1970
Ryan Jones - Cooperation and Conservation acrossEmpire and Ideology: North Pacific Salmon and Climate
Sonja Ganseforth - Transnational Renegotiationof Sustainability Discourses in Japanese Fisheries
Chair: Albert Manke
BREAK
12:45-16:30 TokyoKEYNOTE III
15:30-16:30 Beijing/ 16:30-17:30 Tokyo
Bao Maohong - Anthropocene and East Asia
BREAK
17:30-18:00 TokyoPANEL 6
11:00-12:15 Warsaw/17:00-18:15 Hong Kong/
18:00-19:15 Tokyo & Blagoweschtschensk

Pacific Islands dealing withclimate change and sustainabilityissues

Beatrice Dippel - Follow the discourse: Sealevel change in Singapore
Yoonhee Jung - Planning´s role in Urban Heat
Island Mitigation in Singapore
Rebecca Hogue - (Dis)unified approaches toClimate Change and Energy Relations in thePacific Islands
Chair: Sarah Beringer/ Benjamin Beuerle
BREAK
00:30-01:15 TokyoKEYNOTE I
11:00-12:00 Kansas /18:00-19:00 Berlin/
19:00-20:00 Moscow/1:00-2:00 Tokyo
Gregory Cushman - Anthropocenes: Colonial
Landscapes in the Post-War PacificChina´s environmental policies,
transpacific cooperation andimage

Chen Xiang - Imperial Envoys: Central
Inspection Teams and the Enforcement ofEnvironmental Regulation in China
Olga Zalesskaia - Cooperation between
Russia and China on environmental issues:
problems and prospects
Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska Environmental policies as soft power: Can
environmental policies help Beijing ‘win hearts
and minds’ in Asia’s Pacific Rim?
Chair: Christina Till

(Trans)Pacific Energy relations,climate and the environment

Local actors and (trans)pacificenvironmental designs

Vivian Giang - Indigenous Rights, theEnvironment and Geothermal Energy Developmentin the Pacific Ring of Fire
Sabrina Kirschner - Addressing Urban Air
Pollution in Latin American Pacific States: Local
Scientists, the CEPIS in Lima and the REDPANAIRE
Chair: Yufei Zhou

Trans-Pacific relations andcooperation in fisheries
managementmin

Ideas and projects for (trans)pacificclimate change mitigation andadaption

Sven Rudolph - Toward a Trans-Pacific Carbon
Market: Politically Feasible and Sustainable (ToPCaPS)
Igor Makarov/ Anna Sokolova - Emissions
reduction in countries exporting energy-intensive
goods: the case of Russia and potential cooperationin the Pacific Region
Vladimir Jankovic- Making urban winds: Kazeno michi as a synergetic approach to governance ofTokyo’s climate futures
Chair: Sonja Ganseforth
CLOSING REMARKS
6:15-6:45 Washington D.C./ 13:15-13:45 Moscow/
19:15-19:45 Tokyo

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

ORGANIZATIONAL TEAM

Sarah Beringer - German Historical InstituteWashington

Rebecca Hogue - Harvard University

Benjamin Beuerle - German Historical InstituteMoscow

Ryan Tucker Jones - University of Oregon

Bao Maohong - Peking University
Xiang Chen - The University of Hongkong

Vladmir Jankovic - University of Manchester
Yoonhee Jung - National University ofSingapore

Gregory T. Cushman - University of KansasSabrina Kirschner - Universität der
Bundeswehr München

Sandra Dahlke - German Historical InstituteMoscowAnya Kuteleva - National Research University
Higher School of Economics (Moscow)

Beatrice Dippel - German Development Institute(Bonn)

Simone Lässig - German Historical InstituteWashington D.C.

Kjell Ericson - Kyoto University

Igor Makarov - National Research University
Higher School of Economics (Moscow)

Sonja Ganseforth - German Institute for JapaneseStudies (Tokyo)
Vivian Giang - University of Alberta

Albert Manke - German Historical InstituteWashington, Pacific Office Berkeley

Agnieszka Nitza - Makowska - Collegium
Civitas (Poland)

Sarah Beringer - German Historical InstitutеWashington D.C.

Miranda Schreurs - Technical University ofMunich

Benjamin Beuerle - German Historical
Institute Moscow

Anna Sokolova - National Research University
Higher School of Economics (Moscow)

Sonja Ganseforth - German Institutе forJapanese Studies (Tokyo)

Sven Rudolph - Kyoto University

Yufei Zhou - German Institute for JapaneseStudies (Tokyo)

Christina Till - Max Weber Stiftung, China
Branch OfficeFranz Waldenberger - German Institute forJapanese Studies (Tokyo)
Olga Zalesskaia - Blagoveshchensk State
Pedagogical University
Yufei Zhou - German Institute for JapaneseStudies (Tokyo)