The roundtable will take place on Wednesday 12.08, 13:00, via Zoom. It is a closed research workshop jointly held by the ERC project team 'Welfare for Migrant Factory Worker: Moral Struggles and Politics of Care under Market Socialism' led by Minh Nguyen at Bielefeld University and ERC project team 'Whales of Power: Aquatic Mammals, Devotional Practices, and Environmental Change in Maritime East Asia' led by Prof. Aike Peter Rots at the University of Oslo.

The participants will exchange information regarding their fieldwork plans and discuss how to deal with emerging difficulties of conducting fieldwork during the current crisis as well as general issues of doing fieldwork in East Asian countries.