Lena Kaufmann
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Lena Kaufmann
@lenakaufmann.bsky.social
China Anthropologist | @snsf-ch.bsky.social Ambizione Fellow @unifr.bsky.social | PhD Zurich University | Book OA https://bit.ly/3Bktstt | Chinese society, farming, migration, tech, digital
https://www.unifr.ch/anthropos/fr/unite/equipe/people/405151/69d92
👉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:
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#Conference #Anthropology #Fribourg
November 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
📍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

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#conference #anthropology #CfP
July 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
📍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!

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May 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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
January 6, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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...
November 16, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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...
November 16, 2024 at 5:22 PM
📖 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/...
November 16, 2024 at 5:06 PM
📍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
March 26, 2024 at 2:15 PM
*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
February 19, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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
February 15, 2024 at 8:09 AM
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
November 24, 2023 at 1:33 PM