Welfare for Migrant Factory Workers
(ERC Project: No 803614)
Conferences and other events
Talk: Transnational Mobility, Kinship and Aspiration for the Good Life in Rural Central Vietnam
August 15th, 2024
Book Proposal Workshop: »Welfare, Care, and Mobility under Chinese and Viatnamese Market Socialism«
July 11th
»The Politics of Care under Market Socialism: Labour Mobility, Global Capital and Changing Welfare System in Vietnam and China«
March 26th - 27th
Online Workshop: "Doing research in Vietnam"
December 8th 2023
Ngoc Minh Luong and Julia Behrens organised an online wokshop on "Doing research in Vietnam".
ASA 2023 conference on Financializing social protection in the Global South
April 14th 2023
Professor Minh Nguyen and Dr. Jingyu Mao co-convened a panel at ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists) 2023 conference at SOAS, London.
Producing Flexible Working Subjects: the politics of seasonal bonus work and welfare arrangement among migrant factory workers in China
March 19th 2023
Jingyu Mao presented a papaer at Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.
“Producing Flexible Working Subjects: The Politics of Seasonal Bonus Work and Welfare Arrangement Among Migrant Factory Workers in China
November 24th 2023
Jingyu Mao participated online in the Cambridge Chinese Migration Studies Studies Group at Cambridge University.
Symposium: New Directions in Anthropological and Sociological Research on Vietnam
October 13th 2022
Minh Nguyen held a symposium titled: »New Directions in Anthropological and Sociological Research on Vietnam«.
Rural Futures in Late Socialist Asia - DGS conference 2022 panel
September 28th 2022
Minh Nguyen and Phill Wilcox convened 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.
Panels at the 2022 European Association of Southeast Asian Studies conference in Paris
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. For further information please follow the link.
Kim Anh Dang (Bielefeld University) and Jessica Steinman (Leipzig University) will convene the panel Imagining the "West" in Southeast Asia: Construction, Deconstruction and Contestation in the 2022 EUROSEAS Conference. Minh Nguyen will be the panel discussant. Kim Anh Dang from Bielefeld University will present her paper in this panel. For further information please follow the link.
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. For further information please follow the link.
Reconfiguring Labour and Welfare in Emerging Economies of the Global South
WelfareStruggles Mid-term Workshop
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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Panel at Conference
Care and Privatisation in Marketizing Socialist Asia
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
The Good Life in Late Socialist Asia: Aspirations, Politics and Possibilities
Conveners and Date:
Minh Nguyen (Bielefeld, GER) und Phill Wilcox (Bielefeld, GER)
16-18 September 2019, Universität Bielefeld
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