From 1-2pm: Development and the Environment in Tibet
Emily Yeh, Professor of Geography at University of Colorado-Boulder
From 2-3pm: Ecology and Settler Colonialism in Xinjiang
Guldana Salimjan, Professor of ethnic and gender politics in China at Simon Fraser University

The China Peripheries Seminar is a series of policy-oriented talks that provide nuanced, expert discussion of politics on the ethnically diverse and currently highly contested regions along China’s geographical edges. This year’s seminar focuses on three key transformations taking place in China and Greater China today in the fields of environment, migration, and Islam.

The three sessions will discuss developments in China’s territorial peripheries (Xinjiang, Tibet, Inner Mongolia, and Hong Kong) and explore dynamics on China’s internal and overseas frontiers. Each session will look at the specific ways that policies affect grassroot politics, and vice versa. Several of our speakers come from a new generation of scholars who are themselves from China’s territorial peripheries and who combine deep insider-outsider knowledge with analysis of policy.