Join Asia Society Northern California as it hosts its second The Long Conversation, a collaboration with the Long Now Foundation as part of Asia Society’s COAL + ICE exhibition on Monday, March 21, 2022 from 5:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. (Pacific) This will be a virtual event with live rolling 15-minute conversations with experts and leaders from climatology, journalism, energy policy, and U.S.-China relations, in a relay of two-person dialogues focused on the climate crisis – its causes and consequences.
Speakers include:
– Kevin Rudd, Asia Society President and CEO
– Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society
– Fan Dai, Executive Director, California-China Climate Institute at University of California, Berkeley
– Chenjian Li, University Chair Professor, Peking University
– Bin Ouyang, Arthur Ross Fellow at the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society and Associate Editor of ChinaFile
– Zander Rose, Executive Director and Secretary of the Board, The Long Now Foundation
Registration is free and open to the global community. Suggested donation is USD 25.00.
The best minds on climate change will engage in a series of 15-minute rolling conversations. Speaker A will interview Speaker B for 15 minutes, after which Speaker B will interview Speaker C and so on. Each conversation will involve two experts from different backgrounds with a focus on China’s energy policy, its relationship to environmental activism, or the future of technology.
This conversation is part of Asia Society’s larger COAL + ICE exhibition held by Orville Schell, the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations from March 15 – April 22, 2022 in Washington D.C. The exhibition will hold 48 projectors that will illuminate the 30,000-square-foot exhibition space built on the John F. Kennedy Center of Performing Arts in REACH Plaza. Additionally, a vibrant six-week festival of events will transform the center of the exhibition into a stage for music, theater, panel discussions, art-making and more.
The Long Conversation was held previously by Asia Society Northern California and The Long Now Foundation at the Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture in San Francisco in 2018. The event was part of the U.S.-premiere of COAL + ICE, coinciding with California Governor Jerry Brown’s Global Climate Action Summit, and included a three-week climate festival of dance, music, spoken word, food, family activities, films, educational programming, and creative dialogue. Learn more about our 2018 COAL + ICE program here.
AGENDA
Date: Monday, March 21, 2022 from 5:00 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. Pacific
5:00 p.m. Program Begins
7:15 p.m. Program Concludes
Link to join virtually via Zoom will be emailed the day before and an hour before the program is scheduled to begin by Rexille Uy, Director of Programs ([email protected]). This will be a webinar program; attendees will not appear on camera.
