Lena Kaufmann

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

Polymorphous Engagement with Global China: Researching Contested Chinese Companies in Western Europe This essay explores how we can ethnographically study contested Chinese multinationals when access is limited due to geopolitical sensitivities and technological competition. I argue that, despite the...

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!

ReConnect China & CHERN Podcast: China’s Digital Silk Road to Switzerland In this episode, we trace China’s Digital Silk Road (DSR) into Western Europe. Dr. Lena Kaufmann unpacks the “downstream effects” of Chinese digital infrastructures in Switzerland—an often-overlooked

@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...

Farming Technologies, Migration and Left‐Behind Women in China: A Socio‐Technical Perspective This article sheds new light on the connection between agriculture and rural-urban migration in contemporary China. Focusing on migrants' places of origin and the case of paddy rice fields, it invest...

🥳 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.
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@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