Lena Kaufmann

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

In this essay, @lenakaufmann.bsky.social argues that China's farming drones aren't a clean break from the past. The Mao-era Green Revolution is still there in the reservoirs, fields, seeds, and chemicals these machines fly over, with the old political projects shaping new tech.

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

👉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