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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

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

Conference poster SAA 2026 conference in Fribourg

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

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

I took this photo during my fieldwork. It shows a data center server rack in a company showroom.

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

👉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

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

📍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

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

📍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...

Screenshot of the conference announcement if the Swiss Anthropological Association, showing a photo from Matthäus Rest of four men digging up a street.

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

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

Book cover of “Seeing China’s Belt and Road“, Oxford University Press, 2025

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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...

Agricultural drone in Guangdong province, China

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

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...

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

📖 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/...

Publication: https://www.chronos-verlag.ch/node/28480

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · 26/03/2024

📍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

Screenshot of the job offer at the University of Fribourg

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · 19/02/2024

*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

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · 15/02/2024

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

Underground Internet cables traversing Zurich out of public sight, by Lena Kaufmann.

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Lena Kaufmann @lenakaufmann.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

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

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