Professor Stephen Roddy, a CBSI senior executive board member, was active in research this summer. He served as the discussant for the panel “Chinese Eco-Civilization, Eco-cultures, and Literary and Aesthetic Imagination” at the ASLE biannual conference held at UC Davis on June 24-27. He also co-chaired the conference, “Encountering, Imagining, and Reinventing Chinese Literature and Culture: Western Writers’ China Engagement” held at Peking University on July 29-30.