The Asian Pacific Studies Institute hosted The Politics of Dwelling in the Anthropocene, a 30-person, hybrid symposium, from April 25-26, 2024, at the John Hope Franklin Center on campus. The symposium touched on fire zones in India’s coalfields, intergenerational land revitalization efforts in Tibet, patches of residual radiation left over from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in Japan, the politics of nuclear waste clean-up in Washington state, water infrastructure following rapid development in China, and the modernization of agriculture in the Korean peninsula during Japanese occupation. These discussions explored relationships between nature, politics, power, and the systems that underlie our modern world.