2020
“COVID-19, Technocracy, and Biosecurity in Times of Increasing Environmental Uncertainties.”
Host:
Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg
Location:
University of Johannesburg
2019
“Work, Ethics, and Freedom in 21st Century China: Emerging visions of work-life balance.”
(co-authored with Yichen Rao, Jack L. Xing and Jun Zhang), presented at the Max-Cam International Conference: “Work, Ethics, and Freedom,”
Host:
Max Planck – Cambridge Centre for Ethics, Economy and Social Change
Location:
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany, Halle (Saale)
“谁在要求刨腹产？21世纪科技产的道德 (Who is Requesting Cesarean Delivery? The Morality of Technological Birth in 21st Century China).”
Host:
Institute of Social Anthropology (社会人类学), School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (社会学院), Nanjing University
Location:
Anthropology Seminar, Institute of Social Anthropology (社会人类学), Nanjing University, Nanjing
“二十一世纪日常科技的人类学(Anthropology of Everyday Technologies in the 21st Century).”
Host:
Institute of Social Anthropology (社会人类学), School of Social and Behavioral Sciences (社会学院), Nanjing University
Location:
Sun Benwen Sociology Forum, Nanjing University, Nanjing
“Technology and the Ethics of Childbirth.”
presented at a research workshop on “Culture and the Common Good,”
Host:
Research Group “Culture and the Common Good,” Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues, Georgetown University
Location:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
“Who is Requesting Cesarean Delivery? Women’s Birth Choices and The Politics of Technological Birth in Late Reform China.”
Host:
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Anthropology
Location:
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Anthropology, Hong Kong
“Toilet Revolution in Contemporary China.”
Host:
LIAS, Leiden University
Location:
LIAS, Leiden University
“Women and Birth in Transition. Childbirth Medicalization in Late Reform China,”
Host:
LIAS, Leiden University, Leiden
Location:
LIAS, Leiden University, Leiden
2018
“Love, Marriage, and Family Life in a World of Technology.”
Host:
Center for Cultural Studies on Science and Technology in China, Technical University of Berlin
Location:
Center for Cultural Studies on Science and Technology in China, Technical University of Berlin
“Who is Requesting Cesarean Delivery? The Politics and Ethics of Childbirth Medicalization in Late Reform China.”
Host:
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Location:
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany
“Who is Requesting Cesarean Delivery? The Techno-Politics of Childbirth Medicalization in Late Reform China.”
Host:
London School of Economics, Department of Anthropology
Location:
Seligman Library, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics
“Rural Midwives and Women’s Networks of Maternity Care in rural South China, 1960s-2010s.”
presented at the International Conference: “China in Time and Space: G. William Skinner’s Ideas Going Forward,” organized by Stevan Harrell (U Washington) and William Lavely (U Washington)
Host:
Stevan Harrell (U Washington), William Lavely (U Washington), and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Location:
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
2017
“Women and Birth in Transition.”
presented at the Oxfam Symposium on Chinese Society and Policy: “The Transition of Marriage and Family in China,”
Host:
Universities Service Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Location:
Universities Service Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Reproductive Labor and Gyno-Technologies in East Asia 1800s-2000s,”
ZiF Research Group Symposium “Kinship and Politics: Rethinking a Conceptual Split and its Epistemic Implications in the Social Sciences,”
Host:
Kinship and Politics Research Group, ZiF, Bielefeld University
Location:
Bielefeld University, Bielefeld
“Ethical labor and the workings of non-governmental humanitarian care in contemporary China: Beyond Individualization.”
(co-authored with Jun Zhang), presented at the International Conference: “Humanitarianism in Action: Asia-Pacific Ethnographic Perspectives”
Host:
Gonçalo Santos (HKU), Jun Zhang (City U HK), Isaac Gagne (HKU)
Location:
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2015
“Flush Toilet Modernities. Emergent Models in the Chinese countryside.”
International Workshop: “The Second Life of Things”
Host:
Mareile Flitsch, Völkerkundemuseum der Universität Zürich
Location:
University of Zurich, Zurich
“Do Flush Toilets Have Politics?”
Host:
Colloquium of the Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University
Location:
Yale University, New Haven
2014
“Do Flush Toilets Have Politics? Anthropocenic Reflections.”
Host:
Hong Kong Anthropological Society
Location:
Hong Kong Museum of History
2013
“Material Civilization and Hygienic Modernity. Reflections on Everyday Toilet Practices in rural South China.”
Host:
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Anthropology
Location:
Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong
“Multiple mothering and labor migration in rural South China.”
International Conference: Is Chinese Patriarchy Over? The Decline and Transformation of a System of Social Support
Convenor:
Gonçalo Santos (Max Planck Institute), Stevan Harrell (Washington)
Location:
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
“The Art of ‘Doing Good’ in Contemporary China. Emerging Frameworks of Non-Governmental Charity and Philanthropy.”
Host:
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Location:
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany
2012
“The Flush Toilet and the Anthropocene Project.”
An international workshop organized in the context of the larger project: “The Anthropocene Project / Das Anthropozän-Projekt“ at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Host:
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Location:
Berlin
“Technology, Waste, and Modernity. Reflections on toilet practices in rural South China.”
Host:
University College of London, Department of Anthropology
Location:
Department of Anthropology, University College of London
“Charitable Practices and Ethical imagination in rural South China.”
Host:
Institut für Ethnologie, Hamburg University
Location:
Ethnology Colloquium, Institut für Ethnologie, Hamburg University, Hamburg,
“Technological choices and civilizational processes. Reflections on toilet practices in rural South China.”
International Conference ‘Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis’
Convenor:
Chris Hann (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) & Johann Arnason (La Trobe University)
Location:
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
“中国比较研究：理论与方法(China in Comparative Perspective: Ideas and Methods).”
Host:
Sun Yat-Sen University, Department of Anthropology
Location:
Department of Anthropology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou
“Technologies of ethical imagination,”
Host:
Emory University, Department of Anthropology
Location:
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta
2011
“Kinship and the politics of intimacy. Chinese perspectives.”
Host:
Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August Universität
Location:
Göttingen, Germany
2010
“Fragrant names’ and charity auctions in rural South China. An ethnographic approach to ethical imagination.”
Host:
Museu Nacional of Rio de Janeiro, Department of Anthropology
Location:
Anthropology, Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro
“The Birth of Physical Anthropology in Late Imperial Portugal.”
Host:
Wenner Gren Foundation
Location:
Rio de Janeiro
“Popular religion and contests of virtue in rural South China.”
Host:
University of Brasília, Department of Anthropology
Location:
Department of Anthropology, University of Brasília, Brasília, Brazil,
2009
“L’agriculture traditionelle chinoise est-elle verte et jusqu’òu? (How Green is Chinese Traditional Agriculture?).”
Convenor:
Thierry Gaudin, Elie Faroult, Centre Culturel Internationale de Cerisy
Location:
Château de Cerisy-la-Salle, France
“‘Fragrant names’ and contests of virtue in rural South China.”
Convenor:
Charles Stafford (London School of Economics)
Location:
International Conference: Ethical questions in China today, London School of Economics
2008
“Chinese patriliny and human cognition. Why children matter?”
Host:
Centre for Child-Focused Anthropological Research, Brunel University
Location:
International Workshop: Emerging Perspectives in the Anthropology of Childhood, Centre for Child-Focused Anthropological Research, Brunel University, London
“Resistance and the ‘moral economy’ of the peasant: China and Southeast Asia compared.”
Host:
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Department of Anthropology
Location:
Department of Anthropology. Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan
“Chinese patriliny and infant cognition.”
Host:
London School of Economics, Department of Anthropology
Location:
Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics
2007
“Kinship, food, and money in rural South China.”
Host:
University of Montréal, Department of Anthropology
Location:
Department of Anthropology, University of Montréal, Canada
2006
“The triumph of ‘goods’ over ‘children’? Family-planning in post-Mao rural South China.”
Host:
China Colloquium, University of Washington
Location:
China Colloquium, University of Washington, Seattle