BY Professor Nate Shockey In July 2018, I spent several days on the island of Kyushu in Southern Japan engaged in site visits for my research project, “Contested Representations of Industrial Infrastructure in Southwestern Japan,” sponsored by a faculty research grant as part of the Luce Foundation LIASE Initiative. This …
By Diego Callenbach Working on a farm across the world in Japan was truly something I had never imagined doing in my entire life prior to the second semester of my first year at Bard. Initially, my professor Nathan Shockey and advisor Yuka Suzuki had mentioned a lecture in the …
By Yuxuan Zhan This May, I was fortunate enough to be selected to participate in the Bard-Japan Farm Exchange program in Honbetsu, Hokkaido, Japan and receive a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation. As a student currently studying Philosophy and Music, I never thought that I would have the opportunity …
BY Professor Yuka Suzuki In July 2018, I traveled to China for two weeks with the support of a Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE) course development grant. I spent most of my time in Beijing, where I visited three museums: the Paleozoological Museum of China, the …
BY Kayla Adams, Bard 2019 “The birds don’t lie.” Nial Moores, Birds Korea One hot summer August in South Korea, gave me an experience I will never forget. Last month, I was granted the opportunity to intern at the Korea Federation Environmental Movement (환경운동연합) in Seoul, South Korea. KFEM is …
Written by Elisabeth Darnell My name is Elisabeth Darnell and I was fortunate enough to receive funding from the Henry Luce Foundation to study organic agriculture in Japan. I graduated from Bard College in the class of 2015 with a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental and Urban Studies. During my studies, …
Before I started working for ClimateWorks, I thought five months would be a long time and I could enjoy the California sunshine. However, the internship with the Advisory and Research Team at ClimateWorks was so exciting and unforgettable that I cannot believe five months have already passed. I harvested much more …
Written by Drew Thompson (Assistant Professor of Historical and Africana Studies) This past summer in June 2014, I traveled to Japan on the LIASE trip. As an African historian my research has involved particular geographical networks, Mozambique, Portugal (the former colonizing power of Mozambique), and South Africa (with its own history …
Written by Kathryn Dixon (Bard College, Class of 2016) As a student at Bard my education has encompassed many subjects ranging from mathematics to Asian economic history, but I was only able to directly use my knowledge and expertise because of LIASE and their gracious grant. With this grant I …
A chunk of the atmosphere, fresh off the Atlantic Ocean, hit the south side of Long Island and squeezed itself into the Upper New York Bay. After careening around curve of Bay Ridge Brooklyn it whipped passed the Statue of Liberty and made its way uptown by way of the …
