@lenakaufmann
China Anthropologist | @snsf.ch Ambizione Fellow @unifr.bsky.social | PhD Zurich University | Book OA https://bit.ly/3Bktstt | Chinese society, farming, migration, tech, digital, global https://www.unifr.ch/anthropos/fr/unite/equipe/people/405151/69d92
Conference poster SAA 2026 conference in Fribourg
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
I took this photo during my fieldwork. It shows a data center server rack in a company showroom.
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.
Screenshot of the conference announcement if the Swiss Anthropological Association, showing a photo from Matthäus Rest of four men digging up a street.
📍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...
Sent, thanks!
@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
Book cover of “Seeing China’s Belt and Road“, Oxford University Press, 2025
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
@marcolazzarotti.bsky.social
Agricultural drone in Guangdong province, China
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...
Publication: https://www.chronos-verlag.ch/node/28480
📖 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/...
Screenshot of the job offer at the University of Fribourg
📍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