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SUMMARY:Rethinking Semiconductor Global Production Networks: From Geopolit
 ics to Environmental Sustainability
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DESCRIPTION:Henry Wai-chung Yeung - National University of Singapore (unti
 l the end of 2024) / The Chinese University of Hong Kong (from January 202
 5)\nThe Institute of Geography and Sustainability\, the Faculty of Geosci
 ences and Environment\, HEC Lausanne\, and the Enterprise for Society Cent
 er (E4S) are pleased to invite Professor Henry Wai-chung Yeung to give a
  public lecture entitled ‘Rethinking Semiconductor Global Production Net
 works: From Geopolitics to Environmental Sustainability’ on Thursday 28 
 November 2024.\n\nThe public lecture will take place in Anthropole 1129\,
  from 17h00 to 18h30\, followed by an apéro. The lecture will be in Engli
 sh.\nEntry is free\, but you are invited to register by clicking on this 
 link: https://www.unil.ch/gse/fr/home/menuinst/vie-facultaire/evenements/
 2024-rethinking-semiconductor-global-production-networks.html\n\nAbstract\
 nBased on his lead-authored chapter on semiconductors in Global Value Cha
 in Development Report 2023 (WTO/ADB\, October 2023) and Josh Lepawsky’s
  (2024) important work in iScience on the environmental risks of chipmak
 ing\, this lecture offers some key empirical observations on the highly co
 ntested and politicized nature of semiconductor global production networks
  since the US-China trade war and the Covid-19 pandemic.\nIn this capital-
 intensive manufacturing industry\, governance and power dynamics are manif
 ested differently from many other industries due to highly complex technol
 ogy regimes\, production network ecosystems\, and\, more recently\, geopol
 itical imperatives. The industry is also confronted with immense environme
 ntal and sustainability challenges due to the very demanding manufacturing
  requirements in terms of water\, electricity\, waste treatment\, and othe
 r issues.\nWhile some of these critical dynamics had been in play ahead of
  the 2020s in China\, Taiwan\, and South Korea\, their intensity and signi
 ficance have become more apparent since the early 2020s. As more chipmakin
 g fabs are being built in the US and Western Europe\, these environmental 
 challenges remain key governance and policy issues. This lecture ends with
  a discussion of some relevant future research agendas on technology\, env
 ironmental resilience\, and politics for the interdisciplinary studies of 
 global production networks and global value chains.\n\nBiography\nHenry Wa
 i-chung Yeung is a leading academic expert in global production networks 
 and the global economy. He is currently Distinguished Professor and Profes
 sor of Economic Geography at the Department of Geography\, National Univer
 sity of Singapore. In January 2025\, he will take up the Choh-Ming Li Prof
 essorship at the Department of Geography and Resource Management\, The Chi
 nese University of Hong Kong. He received his Ph.D. from the University of
  Manchester in 1995 under the supervision of Peter Dicken\, who is renowne
 d for his seminal book Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the
  World Economy (7 editions).\n\nHis research interests cover broadly theo
 ries and the geography of transnational corporations\, East Asian firms\, 
 and developmental states. His most recent books are Theory and Explanatio
 n in Geography (2023)\, Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Pr
 oduction Networks in East Asia (2022)\, Strategic Coupling: East Asian I
 ndustrial Transformation in the New Global Economy (2016)\, and Global P
 roduction Networks: Theorizing Economic Development in an Interconnected W
 orld (with Neil Coe\, 2015). He is the recipient of the 2022 Sir Peter Ha
 ll Award for Lifetime Contribution by the Regional Studies Association in 
 the UK\, the 2018 Distinguished Scholarship Honors by the American Associa
 tion of Geographers\, and the 2017 Murchison Award by the Royal Geographic
 al Society (with IBG)\, UK.\n\nThe conference can be followed online:  h
 ttps://rec.unil.ch/channels/geopolitics-to-environmental-sustainability/\n
 \nRelated Event\nThe Institute of Geography and Sustainability will organi
 se a seminar to discuss Henry Yeung's latest book Theory and Explanation 
 in Geography on Friday 29 November 2024. Please click here for the deta
 ils.
LOCATION:Anthropole 1129 http://planete.unil.ch/?local=ANT-1129
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