Lightning Talks: Mekong Voices

Schedule

Thu Oct 09 2025 at 04:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

547 E Circle Dr, East Lansing, MI, United States, Michigan 48824 | East Lansing, MI

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How do rivers speak? Join us in the galleries for a series of 10-minute lightning talks by graduate students researching the Mekong River. Set within the exhibition Mekong Voices: Transnational River Justice in Mainland Southeast Asia, these research snapshots amplify the river’s many voices—human and non-human—facing the pressures of damming, development, and climate change. This isn’t your typical poster session! See how art, scholarship, and environmental justice converge to tell the river’s stories.
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On view Sep. 14, 2025–Feb. 22, 2026, Mekong Voices: Transnational River Justice in Mainland Southeast Asia was born out of the Mekong Culture WELL project, an interdisciplinary, collaborative, and multilingual initiative at Michigan State University that foregrounds cultural dimensions of water, ecologies, land, and livelihoods across Mainland Southeast Asia.
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