Phill Wilcox is travelling to Tallinn University, Estonia on a new Erasmus collaboration to connect with the anthropology department there, undertake some joint teaching activities and to give a public lecture on 6th October 2022 entitled  '“They cannot buy the land, but they will own the land”: Negotiating China in Laos' - Tallinn University Nova Building, room N-407 and also available via Zoom:https://zoom.us/j/98378116909.

Minh Nguyen and Phill Wilcox are convening a panel at the DGS conference entitled Rural Futures in Late Socialist Asia: the Countryside in a Globalising World. It features speakers from China, Vietnam and Germany. We are delighted to welcome a discussant, Professor Jonathan Rigg from Bristol University. Full details of our panel are available here.