We look forward to welcoming you at @unifr.bsky.social soon! Registration & program: www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m... Keynote: Prof. Christina Schwenkel from the University of California, Riverside #SAA2026 #Conference #Anthropology #Fribourg

New #OpenAccess article “Science, Foreign Policy, and Corporate Global China” in Minerva @springernature.com 👉 doi.org/10.1007/s110... Part of a special issue on Science, Foreign Policy & #China by @annalahlers.bsky.social @mpiwg.bsky.social 🙏 @snsf.ch @unifr.bsky.social @modomodo.bsky.social

👉Register now: Annual Meeting of the Swiss Anthropological Association! Feb 5-7, 2026 @unifr.bsky.social “Care, Maintenance, Decay: Ways of attending to vulnerability in a transforming world” Program & registration: www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m... #Conference #Anthropology #Fribourg

China is one of Switzerland’s main trading partners. Anthropologist @lenakaufmann.bsky.social and historian Niklaus Remund analyse half a century of this commercial partnership in a study that is particularly topical in view of current trade wars. 👉 buff.ly/S1hJQrw

Thank you @snf-fns.ch for featuring our article on the history and present of economic relations between #China and #Switzerland, and for funding the research behind this project. 🙏 @modomodo.bsky.social @ultrabeige.bsky.social

La Chine est un des partenaires commerciaux principaux de la Suisse. L’anthropologue @lenakaufmann.bsky.social et l’historien Niklaus Remund analysent un demi-siècle de ce partenariat commercial dans une étude particulièrement d’actualité face aux guerres économiques. 👉 buff.ly/hDLWBKx

CfP closing soon!

Delighted to be part of this #OpenAccess issue on researching #Global #China!

@lenakaufmann.bsky.social at the @rg-china.bsky.social meeting

@rg-china.bsky.social day 2. @lenakaufmann.bsky.social sharing her project about technology between Switzerland and China

📍Call for Papers! Annual Meeting 2026 of the Swiss Anthropological Association, February 5-7, 2026 @unifr.bsky.social “Care, Maintenance, Decay: Ways of attending to vulnerability in a transforming world” Submission deadline: 31 Aug 2025 www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m... #conference #anthropology #CfP

“Swiss-Chinese Entanglements: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives on Transnational Economic Collaborations” by Niklaus Remund and @lenakaufmann.bsky.social . Free to access in both web and PDF versions: zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2024-2025/...

Ausserdem ein Interview von Nils Güttler und @lenakaufmann.bsky.social mit Debjani Bhattacharyya und Brian Larkin. Und eine Besprechung des Projektes »Digital Benin« von @bildoperationen.bsky.social !

Mit tollen Beiträgen, u.a. von @gesinekrueger.bsky.social und Michaela Oberhofer, Madlen Kobi und Adam Przywara, @lenakaufmann.bsky.social und Niklaus Remund und von mir und @mrtzg.bsky.social.

Mit grosser Freude verkünde ich die Nachrichte, dass gestern unser Special Issue der Zeitschrift «Zeithistorische Forschungen» erschienen ist. zeithistorische-forschungen.de/1-2024-2025

How can we study Chinese multinationals ethnographically amid geopolitical & tech rivalry restrictions? @lenakaufmann.bsky.social uses Swiss fieldwork to propose innovative methods and a socio-technical lens for ICT firm research in Europe and beyond. buff.ly/KN0VP9b

How can we study Chinese multinationals ethnographically when access is restricted by geopolitics and tech rivalry? In this essay, @lenakaufmann.bsky.social draws on fieldwork in Switzerland to propose creative methods and a socio-technical lens for researching ICT firms in Europe and beyond.

📍Call for Panels! Annual Meeting 2026 of the Swiss Anthropological Association, February 5-7, 2026 @unifr.bsky.social “Care, Maintenance, Decay: Ways of attending to vulnerability in a transforming world” Looking forward to receiving your panel proposals! www.sagw.ch/en/seg/saa-m...

@lenakaufmann.bsky.social “Prefiguring China’s Digital Silk Road to Europe”, is featured in the latest episode of the joint ReConnect China - Horizon Europe Research Consortium and CHERN China in Europe Research Network podcast. Podcast: soundcloud.com/turun-yliopi...

🥳 Out now: Our article "Farming Technologies, Migration and Left‐Behind Women in China: A Socio‐Technical Perspective", in Population, Space and Place, co-authored by Han Tao & me. 👉 doi.org/10.1002/psp.... Or contact us directly for a copy #China #migration #agriculture #technology #anthropology

Hot off the press!📚 “Seeing China‘s Belt and Road“ @oxunipress.bsky.social by @edwardschatz.bsky.social & Rachel Silvey eds. rb.gy/to24vn My chapter on the history & present of the #DigitalSilkRoad between #China & Europe is OA: doi.org/10.5167/uzh-... #NewBook #BeltandRoad @modomodo.bsky.social

Coming soon! Including my chapter on the history and present of the Digital Silk Road to Europe, particularly Switzerland. #digital #china #europe #newbook

Dear all, from today you can also follow us on this account. If you haven't done so yet, take a look at our web page and our initiatives. ethnologiechinas.org

My new @snsf-ch.bsky.social project on agricultural drones in #China and #Europe at the University of Fribourg. Now with the fabulous Dr. Han Tao and Ruishi Zhen, MA, MSc. 🥳🎉 Details: www.unifr.ch/anthropos/fr...

My review of “The Political Economy of Science, Technology, and Innovation in China: Policymaking, Funding, Talent, and Organization” by Yutao Sun & Cong Cao in the China Quarterly. Email me if you can’t access it here: doi.org/10.1017/S030...

📖 Out now! My article “‘Today There are Ploughing Machines, That’s Quicker!’ The Transformation of Agricultural Working Knowledge in Post-Reform China” In this volume on the history of the transformation of work. OA next year, for now access here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

📍Looking for a PhD student in my @snsf-ch.bsky.social project “Digital Agriculture: Sino-European Contrasts, Correspondences & Collaborations” @Unifr.bsky.social, thanks for sharing! Apply by: 30 April Details: shorturl.at/hjwW5 #China #Europe #ethnography @graduatefunding.bsky.social

*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. 👉 leadinghouseasia.ethz.ch/funding-inst... #PhD #grants #asia

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.bsky.social, in collaboration with @modomodo.bsky.social #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