DFG Network prepares book project “China Multiple: Un/Doing Ethnographic Regions in Anthropology” at Zurich

The photo shows the participants of the 3rd DFG network conference in Zurich. Twenty people are standing in front of the Völkerkundemuseum in warm winter clothes.

Members of the DFG network at the University of Zurich, December 16, 2022. Photo: Kyimo Ghung, Pablo Ampuero-Ruiz From 15 to 17 December 2022, the DFG Network “Anthropology and China(s)” convened its 3rd Conference in Zurich. The meeting continued the preparation of a book that reconsiders the place of regional anthropologies in the general discipline. …

Upcoming: 3rd Conference of the DFG Network „Anthropology and China(s)“ in Zurich, December 15–17, 2022

The 3rd Conference of the DFG Network "Anthropology and China(s)" will take place at the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich. It will explore the topic "The Politics of the Anthropology of China(s)." Among others, the conference will explore the following questions: How has China become an ethnographic region in certain academic regions but not …

DFG Network at Heidelberg: Anthropology of China and Area Studies – Human and More-than-Human

Last November in Cologne , the DFG Network “Anthropology and China(s)” was launched. Back then we started our collective work on the first theme that we continued at the second network conference that we held in Heidelberg on 3-4 August, 2022. A conference report by Christof Lammer, Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Klagenfurt.

Upcoming: 2nd Conference of the DFG Network “Anthropology and China(s)” in Heidelberg, August 3-4, 2022

Which versions of China are enacted in relations between area studies and regional anthropologies? And with what consequences? These are the questions we will explore in the second meeting of our network that will take place at HS 5, Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS), Heidelberg University, from August 3 to 4, 2022. Over …

Kick-off meeting: DFG Scientific Network “Anthropology and China(s)” in Cologne, November 5-6, 2021

Christof Lammer, Marco Lazzarotti, Jean-Baptiste Pettier Members of the DFG network at Cologne University, November 6, 2021. Photo: Christof Lammer More than twenty scholars participated in the first of six conferences of our network “Anthropology and China(s)” at the University of Cologne to start exploring the first of three themes: “Anthropology and the Study of …

Upcoming Group Events, May to July 2021

Starting in May 2021, the Regional Group China(s) organizes a monthly online colloquium during German academic semesters. These regular meetings are intended to facilitate discussion and exchange within the group. They will provide a forum to present and discuss work in progress, and will be occasionally dedicated to organisational matters, such as plans for the forthcoming DFG-Network "Anthropology and China(s): Co-constructions of Ethnographic and Academic Regions" (2021-2024).