Placing Tea: Mobility, Territory and the Agri-food Transfer between Taiwan and the Southeast Asian Highlands
Thursday, March 31, 2022
3:30 p.m.
Rankin Science West room 293
The Department of Geography and Planning Speaker Series is hosting Dr. Po-Yi Hung for a presentation titled “Placing Tea: Mobility, Territory and the Agri-food Transfer between Taiwan and the Southeast Asian Highlands.” Hung is an associate professor in geography at the National Taiwan University in Taipei City, Taiwan.
Hung’s research focuses on the relationship between nature and society by using agricultural practices and food trade to investigate the relations amongst people, place and environments. His presentation will focus on the tea transfer between Taiwan and the Highlands of Southeast Asia, specifically in Thailand and Vietnam. Showing how tea is a critical force in mobilizing bordering and de-bordering works. The story helps to reconsider the Asian borders in general and their relationship with people’s everyday lives.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison and two masters, one in social ecology of development and conservation from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental studies and the other in environmental planning from the National Taiwan University.
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The Department of Geography and Planning Speaker Series Featuring Dr. Po-Yi Hung