Lena Kaufmann

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China Anthropologist 
@snsf_ch Ambizione Fellow @unifr | PhD @uzh | Book https://bit.ly/3Bktstt | #China, Chinese society, agriculture, migration, technology, knowledge, digital infrastructures
https://www.unifr.ch/anthropos/fr/unite/equipe/people/405151/69d92

We look forward to welcoming you in Fribourg at the @unifr soon!

Registration & program:
https://www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-meetings/annual-meeting-2026

Keynote:
Prof. Christina Schwenkel from the University of California, Riverside

#SAA2026 #Conference #Anthropology #Fribourg

👉Register now!
Annual Meeting of the Swiss Anthropological Association
Feb 5-7, 2026
@unifr

“Care, Maintenance, Decay: Ways of attending to vulnerability in a transforming world”

Program & registration:
https://www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-meetings/annual-meeting-2026

#Conference #Anthropology #Fribourg

📍Looking for a PhD student in my @snsf_ch project “Digital Agriculture: Sino-European Contrasts, Correspondences & Collaborations” @unifr, thanks for sharing!

Application: 30 April
Details: https://www.unifr.ch/anthropos/de/news-und-events/news/30636/phd-position-100-in-the-research-project-digital-agriculture?

#China #Europe #academicjobs #Anthropology

PhD Position (100%) in the research project «Digital Agriculture»

The Unit of Social Anthropology is inviting applications for a PhD Position (100%) in the research project «Digital Agriculture».

*Early-Career Grant 2024 Call* for PhD students at an eligible Swiss institution to apply for a research stay of 3 to 6 months in East or Southeast Asia @eth_en Leading House Asia.

👉 https://leadinghouseasia.ethz.ch/funding-instruments/mobility-grants/young-researchers-exchange-programmes/early-career-grant.html

#PhD #grants #asia

Early-Career Grant 2024 Call

Excited to sign agreement with Oxford UP for my forthcoming book chapter on the history & present of China’s Digital Silk Road in Switzerland!
Book edited by Rachel Silvey & Ed Schatz. Research funded by @snsf_ch, in collaboration with @modo_2022

#China #BRI #DigitalSilkRoad

CfP 🔥 Workshop “Chinese Work” in European Agriculture: Money, People and Materials 🔥 by Natalia Ryzhova on behalf of the China in Europe Research Network (CHERN), 14-15 March 2024, at Palacky University Olomouc. With contributions from Maggi W.H. Leung, Niall Duggan & me.
#China #Europe #agriculture

Ten years into the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, my new “The People’s Map of Global China” country profile provides an overview of Sino-Swiss economic relations, Switzerland‘s BRI status and related key controversies.

👉 https://thepeoplesmap.net/country/switzerland/

#global #china #switzerland #beltandroad #economy #investment #debate #CHERN

Switzerland | The People's Map of Global China

Switzerland has generally had closer ties with the People’s Republic of China than other Western European countries, with the Chinese Government considering the country more pragmatic and less confrontational than other European counterparts.

The People's Map of Global China

🎉 Thrilled that the SNSF has granted me an Ambizione Grant for my project "Digital agriculture: Sino-European contrasts, correspondences and collaborations" ! 🙏 for the support from the Universities of Fribourg, Zurich & Konstanz!

My project will provide in-depth perspectives on the challenges & opportunities of digital agricultural technologies in relation to #China & #Europe.

Image: Presenting my project at the HI in Fribourg (by Zarina Urmanbetova).

CfP CHERN Conference @VUamsterdam “China-Europe: Reconnecting in an Era of Competition and Rivalry?”

In line with this CfP, the deadline of my workshop on technology & migration has been extended until 1st June! About two places left.
#China #Europe #conference

👉 https://china-in-europe.net/chern-joint-working-group-conference-in-september-2023-at-vrije-universiteit-amsterdam/

CHERN Joint Working Group Conference in September 2023 at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam

CHERN is organizing another joint working group conference, this year in Amsterdam on 7 and 8 Sept, hosted by Vrije Universiteit. The programme consists of a series of roundtables, keynotes and intensive workshops and networking opportunities organized by the CHERN Working Groups. The topic of the event is: China-Europe: Reconnecting in an Era of Competition and […]

Next week @modo_2022 and I will bring contemporary #history and #anthropology into a closer methodological dialogue!
Our workshop "Between Archive and Field" @uzh, funded by @@snsf_ch, will be followed by an interdiscplinary special issue. Focusing on materialities, infrastructures and technologies, the contributions will cover various temporal stages and regions across Africa, Asia and Europe.
#researchmethods #methods #workshop #archives #fieldresearch