I'm giving a lecture on 'complexity and complicity in social anthropology', online and at LSE, on 5th March www.lse.ac.uk/events/socia...

Symposium CFP - Internet Fame and the Future of Internets Everywhere: From Wanghong to AI Slop and Trashfutures Organisers Carwyn Morris (SOAS) and Margaret Hillenbrand (Oxford) Date June 15 (full day) and June 16 (half day) 2026 Application This form forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Ub8FYcSNwE

We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...

AAS Vancouver Panel: Global Wanghong, Global China. I'm putting together a panel for the AAS on the global nature of wanghong and how it helps us understand a global China. If you wish to participate send me a title and abstract by end of day July 17: cm89 [ at ] soas . ac . uk

Two fully funded PhDs with me at SOAS. Within my ERC project; one researching in Paris, the other in Düsseldorf. Exploring the impact of Chinese capital on European urban space, the cultural industries, and social media. More info here: drive.google.com/file/d/12srA... Deadline is 21 July.

Looking to participate or co-organise an AAS Vancouver 2026 panel on internet fame, wanghong, or Xiaohongshu. If anyone is interested let me know.

Today I had my first experience of seeing a paper (and to be clear: a research paper, not a student paper) cite a paper I'm a listed author on where that paper does not actually exist. It's clearly an AI-generated fabrication. *sigh* #generativeAI #artificialintelligence

📢 Upcoming Global Africa Seminar @Rm0.16, BG1, Univ of Amsterdam. Join us on 20 Jun | 15:00 – 16:30 CEST. Speakers: Dr. Andrea Pollio (Turin) & Dr. Maria Repnikova (GSU). Moderated by Dr. Carwyn Morris Zoom link: uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220 Details: www.chinaafricafashionpower.org/event-detail...

Exciting! Folks in London, please mark your diary and come to listen to @coralinglingxu.bsky.social discuss her book The Time Inheritors @sunypress.bsky.social. @carwynmorris.bsky.social

Back in the UK, working at SOAS. Happy to travel across the British Isles and say hi/give a talk.

Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) are key actors in Myanmar's revolutionary war. But their positioning towards the crisis has been far from clear. How do we make sense of their strategies? I hope to shed some light on this with my new open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0047... Some takeaways🧵1/8

I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut." www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

📣 New book cover!!!! INFORMATIONAL PERIPHERIES: RETHINKING THE URBAN IN A DIGITAL AGE Free OA with a fantastic lineup of authors. It's been a pleasure working with @fennaimara.bsky.social Shoutout to @uclpress.bsky.social for being so supportive and organised. uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

Guess who has finally arrived on bluesky? Here we’ll be sharing lots of digital geography delights: conference news, new publications, spotlights on brilliant research, calls for papers, upcoming events, and the occasional musing. #digitalgeographies #blueskynewbe

New Text Book Alert: Studying Political Communication and Media in East Asia, by Florian Schneider. It covers everything, including methods + key literature across disciplines & time periods. It also includes detailed guidance on setting up a gamified, XP focused course. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Applications are now open to join the next generation of American China specialists as the ninth cohort of the Public Intellectuals Program (PIP). Deadline: May 11, 2025 Learn more: www.ncuscr.org/applications...

The Aquabats are one of the strangest and weirdly wholesome bands. Can't believe they've been going for over 30 years.

Chinese companies have been scouting out the UK as a destination to counter/work around US tariffs for quite a while. I guess yesterday continues to make the UK attractive to Chinese capital.

Hosting a #slowfashion and #artisan sample sale, trunk show, and collection preview this weekend in London. Come along and chat to me/us about ANYTHING. It's seventyfive, Monad, The Backward Vendor, and Provision at 18 Iliffe Yard SE17 3QA

IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 [email protected]

✨TRUNK – AW25 TRUNK SHOW & ARCHIVE SALE ✨ Join us for TRUNK, a collaboration between artisan fashion brands seventyfive, Monad, The Backward Vendor, and lifestyle store Provision. 📍 18 Iliffe Yard, London SE17 3QA 📅 Saturday 5 April | 10AM - 8PM 📅 Sunday 6 April | 12PM - 6PM #slowfashion #fashion

My first strike ever. I have joined demonstrations before. But Monday I will be on strike. As part of the national series of strikes across the country @woinactie.bsky.social Against draconian, shortsighted cuts to research and higher education 🟥 Hopefully joined by many @uva.nl colleagues.

new publication by the trendy @drliucao.bsky.social on wanghong consumption in Guangzhou. some of the early research was presented at a workshop we hosted in 2022 and it's great to see this out in the wild. after a week of fashion week research, I think I also have 'fashionable people phobia.'

And this Friday (the 7th), Yan Hairong speaking at IIAS, don't miss it! www.iias.asia/events/chine...

The brilliant @izading.bsky.social will be giving a talk at Leiden University on March 19th, discussing authoritarian teleology 🔥 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... Looking forward to it.

What was up with Neptune 400 years ago? @frederickcrofts.bsky.social and I have been trying to find out: we had a great research stay @zikg.eu! While we cross our fingers for the article (under review), you can find out more about the project, and the small exhibition we co-curated, here:

Looking forward to this event

@ubleiden.bsky.social Chinese Queer Collection at Leiden University Library will be officially launched. An amazing resource for research and teaching. If you are interested in joining the inaugural workshop and learning more, see the post below!

Ian Johnson: LIAS China Seminar, 12 March. For the next seminar Ian discusses "Underground China." Ian presents a picture of Xi Jinping’s China where a vibrant movement of underground actors challenge the Communist Party's control of history. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

"sites in Cheese digital spaces" - Favourite term from a recent review. I'm quitting 'digital China' and going to focus on 'digital Cheese' 🧀 Nobody is asking the important questions about cheese digital sovereingty! Is it a 🫕, a 🍔, or a 🪤?

"The scholarships will cover the costs of flight tickets (in economy class) to and from Sweden, hotel in Stockholm for the period of the workshop, travel between Stockholm and Lund, and visa fee. Students who wish to be considered for the scholarships must indicate this in their application."

This is true! Fantastic opportunity for a motivated junior researcher looking for a stimulating research environment in which to grow while prepping to pursue a Ph.D.

This is today in leiden

Hiring RA: We (led by Chenchen Zhang) are hiring a Research Assistant. It is for a British Academy project: "Digital counterpublics, everyday geopolitics, and the emerging transnational activism of diasporic Chinese youth”. Requires UK right to work. See more: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

I and many others have been saying this for years. Glad we are pushing for that.

I'm looking to hire a student research assistant to work on a BA project on digital Chinese diaspora's engagement in progressive social movements. they could be based anywhere in the UK. if this is of interest to any of your students, please let them know! 🙏 durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

be our student ra (or share this to one of your students)

great postdoc opportunity on China, gamification and green governance candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Hiring RA: We (led by Chenchen Zhang) are hiring a Research Assistant. It is for a British Academy project: "Digital counterpublics, everyday geopolitics, and the emerging transnational activism of diasporic Chinese youth”. Requires UK right to work. See more: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Leiden China Seminar: Oliver Moore 12th Feb 15.00 in-person Oliver Moore will be delivering the first Leiden China Seminar of the semester. No need to signup; just turn up. Event page: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... Unfortunately we don't have the support to stream these.

7/ Then there’s a lack of expertise. The U.S. has underfunded and de-prioritized China studies for years. We lack reporters, policymakers, and business leaders who truly understand China’s society, culture, and political economy.

Postdoc opportunity! The position is part of a project on digital platforms and cities. I’m looking for someone with programming skills to map the uneven presence of places across platforms like Instagram, Google Maps, and TikTok. I’m happy to answer questions. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

For those of you interested in the interplay of social media and cities, check out this interesting discussion of wanghong urbanism as a phenomenon and concept: chaoyang.substack.com/p/wanghong-u... @carwynmorris.bsky.social @axz.bsky.social

🚨🚨Job alert🚨🚨 We're hiring a data engineer to join our @data.ft.com data journalism technology team in Sofia, Bulgaria. Details and application form are here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...

The Robert van Gulik Fund has established a Robert van Gulik Fellowship with effect from 2025, to support research on the sinological collections of the Leiden University Libraries. Details and application form available here: edu.nl/putg4 Deadline for submitting research proposals: 1 April 2025.

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

How do content creators learn about a dozen platforms and push their content into the ‘for you’ page?🤔 In this new OA paper in New Media & Society, I explore transnational creators' algorithmic and visibility practices across multiple Chinese and US-based platforms. 🔗 shorturl.at/f0mAC

As promised, a reading list about Xiaohongshu is available now with the help of many Chinese social media researchers: qianxeniahuang.super.site/resources/xi.... Special thanks to @carwynmorris.bsky.social for co-editing this. I am only hosting this on my personal website for logistic reasons.

Engaging with #Xiaohongshu ( #RED / #REDnote / #LittleRedBook): A Reading List. @qianhuang.bsky.social and I curated this crowdsourced reading list on Xiaohongshu - qianxeniahuang.super.site/resources/xi... We're happy to add more suggestions! Hosted by Qian to make it accessible in China.

After 3 years and multiple job/country changes for us all, THRILLED to announce that the conference of the China Academic Network on Gender is back for a 4th edition! ✨ Join us on 17-18 June in lovely Paris with fab keynote speakers (Howard Chiang and Rachel Harris 💫 ) for "Voicing Gender in China"