(ERC Project: No 803614)
Jingyu Mao is hosting a film screening event titled: »Worlds of Labour: from socialist China (1980s) to late-socialist Vietnam (2010s)«
The documentaries »North China Factory« (1980) and »Nimble Fingers« (2017) will be shown. After that there will be a discussion with the director of Nimble Fingers, Parsifal Reparato. The event is hosted via Zoom and everybody is welcome to join.
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Minh Nguyen will hold a symposium titled: »New Directions in Anthropological and Sociological Research on Vietnam« on October 13th 2022.
Dr. Jingyu Mao presented and discussed at Digital Workshop Series "Digital Dialogues 數字對話" #9".
Minh Nguyen is serving as a Steering Committee member of the 3rd UK-GERMAN FRONTIERS OF HUMANITIES SYMPOSIUM on 09 - 10 May 2022 (virtual conference). This year’s conference draws on the insights of the humanities and social sciences on the theme of ‘Mobilities’, exploring how mobilities have shaped, are shaping, and will shape our environments – both social and natural – and our interaction with them, through time. The symposium’s program can be downloaded here.
Minh Nguyen (Bielefeld University) and Nicolas Lainez (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) will convene the panel The Financialization of Everyday Life in Vietnam in the 2022 EUROSEAS Conference. Allison Truitt will be the panel discussant. Minh Nguyen and Minh Ngoc Luong from Bielefeld University will present their papers in this panel.
Phill Wilcox (Bielefeld University) and Simon Rowedder (Passau University) will convene the panel Negotiating China in Southeast Asia: (re)thinking development via infrastructure schemes in the 2022 EUROSEAS Conference.
Yueran Tian has presented her paper "Welfare Held in Suspension: How Factory Workers Participate in the Socialist Market Economy" at the roundtable- Communicative Knowledge and Mobilisational Concepts: Taking "Suspension" as an Example on 15. Feb 2022.
The roundtable is organised by China and Global Development Network, Department of Applied Social Sciences, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
From 13th to 15th January 2022, Dr Jingyu Mao has attended the workshop organised by the project 'Social Worlds: China's Cities as Spaces of Worldmaking' at Würzburg University. She presented a work-in-progress draft entitled "'Friends are those who can help you out': unpacking the understandings and experiences of friendship among young migrant workers in China", and has received constructive feedback on her draft. She also participated in lively discussions of other participants' papers, which share the common theme of the social world, urban spaces, and contemporary China.
Midterm conference
Date: 7 – 8 December 2021
Convenors: Minh Nguyen (Bielefeld, GER), Jake Lin (Bielefeld, GER), Ngoc Minh Luong (Bielefeld, GER), Yueran Tian (Bielefeld, GER)
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An interview with Professor Minh Nguyen was published on 22nd of December.
In the interview she talks about the importance of mobility in research and about her current ERC project
Please register in advance for this webinar
The webinar belongs to a long-term lecture series, which is organised by people in several global location. Please feel free to take part in the upcoming lectures
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22. Nov. 2019 Location: Vancouver CC WEST | Room 111 | West Level 1
Organizer: Minh Nguyen, Professor of Social Anthropology, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Discussant: Ann Marie Leshkowich, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts, USA
Professor Minh Nguyen’s book Waste and Wealth: An Ethnography of Labor, Value, and Morality in a Vietnamese Recycling Economy is the winner of the 2019 Book Prize of the Society for the Anthropology of Work, which is part of the American Anthropological Association.
15.10 Prof. Dr. Catherine Alexander
11.11 Prof. Dr. Mark Johnson
10.12 PD Dr. Antje Linkenbach-Fuchs
21.01 Dr. Martin Saxer
Author: Jake Lin
Professor Minh Nguyen featured in DAAD's Research in Germany
20.05 Dr. Czarina Saloma
03.06 Dr. Christina Schwenkel
17.06 Associate Professor Kelvin E.Y. Low
24.06 Dr. Dominik Müller
Panel at Conference- The Gender of Labor in Privatizing Vietnam
Conveners and Discussants:
Minh Nguyen, Professor of Social Anthropology, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Ann Marie Leshkowich, College of the Holy Cross, Massachusetts, USA
Authors: Minh T.N. Nguyen and Oliver Tappe