Soziologie

» Veröffentlicht am 17. Januar 2023

Panel to be held at ASA 2023 conference on Financializing social protection in the Global South

Professor Minh Nguyen and Dr Jingyu Mao will co-convene a panel at ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists) 2023 conference this April at SOAS, London.

Professor Sohini Kar from the London School of Economics will be the discussant.

More details can be found here: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/asa2023/p/12818.  

» Veröffentlicht am 16. Januar 2023

Transnational Mobility, Kinship and Aspiration for the Good Life in Rural Central Vietnam

"Transnational Mobility, Kinship and Aspiration for the Good Life in Rural Central Vietnam" is the title of the talk Minh Nguyen will give tomorrow (January 17th, 6pm) at University of Bremen. The talk is part of the IfEK colloquium series (Institute for Ethnology and Cultural studies). You can join the hybrid event by contacting: xiaoling@uni-bremen.de.

» Veröffentlicht am 16. Januar 2023

Parental migration and differences in families ́ treatment of boys and girls in rural China

The Understanding Asia colloquium series continues on January 18th with the lecture titled: "Parental migration and differences in families ́ treatment of boys and girls in rural China". It will be held by Prof. Rachel Murphy from St Antony's College Oxford. The talk talk starts at 16:30 in X-C3-107. For more information klick here.

» Veröffentlicht am 20. Dezember 2022

"Fieldwork Meets Crisis" - Latest special section of the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology published

A new special section of the Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology titled "Fieldwork Meets Crisis" has just been published. Minh Nguyen is one of the co-editors of the publication and Phill Wilcox and Ngoc Minh Luong contribute a shortcut piece named "Life and Dept: Financial Precarity, COVID-19 and Ethical Dilemmas in Laos and Vietnam". You can find the content of the publication here. The journal is the official publication of the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology.

» Veröffentlicht am 5. Dezember 2022

New shortcuts piece by Phill Wilcox and Ngoc Minh Luong: Life and Debt: Financial Precarity, COVID-19 and Ethical Dilemmas in Laos and Vietnam

Phill Wilcox and Ngoc Minh Luong published a new shortcuts piece titled "Life and Debt: Financial Precarity, COID-19 and Ethical Dilemmas in Laos and Vietnam". For more information click here.

» Veröffentlicht am 23. November 2022

Hybrid lecture by Dr. Sophia Woodman: Reflections on citizenship from a China vantage point

Dr. Sophia Woodman from University of Edinburgh will give a lecture titled »Reflections on citizenship from a China vantage point« on December 8th. The lecture starts at 4pm c.t. can be joined in person (X-B2-103) or via Zoom. For registration klick here.

» Veröffentlicht am 10. November 2022

Producing flexible working subjects

Jingyu Mao is invited to give a talk by the Cambridge Chinese Migration Studies Group on November 24th. The talk is entitled: Producing flexible working subjects: the politics of seasonal bonus work and welfare arrangement among migrant factory workers in China. For more information, please see the poster. 

» Veröffentlicht am 28. Oktober 2022

Understanding Asia: Young, mixed and Japanese: The politics of belonging in Asia and beyond

On November 17, Dr. Danau Tanu from Waseda University Tokyo will give a lecture as part of the Understanding Asia Series. The lecture, titled "Young, Mixed, and Japanese: The Politics of Belonging in Asia and Beyond," will take place via Zoom between 12:15 and 13:45 pm. For more information and to register, please click here.

» Veröffentlicht am 4. Oktober 2022

Symposium: New Directions in Anthropological and Sociological Research on Vietnam

Minh Nguyen will hold a symposium titled: » New  Directions  in Anthropological and  Sociological  Research on Vietnam« on October 13th 2022.  

» Veröffentlicht am 27. September 2022

Two visiting Post-doctoral Fellowships in Social Anthropology

The Social Anthropology Unit invites applications for two visiting post-doctoral fellowships with a focus on Asia. Deadline is November 15th. For more information klick here .&nbs...

» Veröffentlicht am 26. September 2022

They cannot buy the land, but they will own the land

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.

» Veröffentlicht am 26. September 2022

Rural Futures in Late Socialist Asia - DGS conference panel

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.

» Veröffentlicht am 14. Juli 2022

WelfareStruggles Policy Brief Series now available online

We are pleased to announce the WelfareStruggles Policy Brief Series is now available online. This series is edited by Prof. Minh Nguyen and features short comparative assessments of a number of key issues that characterise the institutional contexts of labour mobility and welfare provision in China and Vietnam. These issues are directly implicated in the politics around the care of the migrant labour force that we are investigating in this project. The Policy Brief is written for a broad range of audience, including NGO workers, policy makers, researchers, students, and anyone interested in the similarities and differences between the Chinese and Vietnamese institutional contexts. 

» Veröffentlicht am 2. Juli 2022

Videomitschnitt der Abschiedsvorlesung von Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka

 Der Videomitschnitt der Abschiedsvorlesung von Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka ist jetzt online verfügbar.

» Veröffentlicht am 28. Juni 2022

Öffentliche Voträge im Rahmen des ZiF-Workshops „Moving in a divided world“

Vom 11. bis zum 12. Juli 2022 findet am Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF) der Workshop „Moving in a divided world: Transnational crime, national borders and irregular migration“ statt. Wir wollen in diesem Rahmen gerne auf die beiden öffentlichen Vorträge von Gabriella Sanchez (El Paso, USA), am 11 Juli von 17:00 Uhr bis 18:15 Uhr, zum Thema „The pressure to Condemn: Researching Smuggling in the Time of Security“ und David Kyle (San Diego, USA) zu „Smuggling ‘Creativity' in the Meritocracy of Global ‘Talentism'“ am 12 Juli 2022, zwischen 17:30 Uhr und 18:30 Uhr, aufmerksam machen. Beide Vorträge können via Zoom gestreamt werden.