we look forward to hosting a guest talk by @carwynmorris.bsky.social on wanghong and speculative investment cycles! 🗓️Tuesday 5 May ⏱️2-3:30pm 📍TLC039

We argue that this presents all others countries with essentially four options

I'm giving a lecture on 'complexity and complicity in social anthropology', online and at LSE, on 5th March www.lse.ac.uk/events/socia...

Symposium CFP - Internet Fame and the Future of Internets Everywhere: From Wanghong to AI Slop and Trashfutures Organisers Carwyn Morris (SOAS) and Margaret Hillenbrand (Oxford) Date June 15 (full day) and June 16 (half day) 2026 Application This form forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Ub8FYcSNwE

We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...

AAS Vancouver Panel: Global Wanghong, Global China. I'm putting together a panel for the AAS on the global nature of wanghong and how it helps us understand a global China. If you wish to participate send me a title and abstract by end of day July 17: cm89 [ at ] soas . ac . uk

Two fully funded PhDs with me at SOAS. Within my ERC project; one researching in Paris, the other in Düsseldorf. Exploring the impact of Chinese capital on European urban space, the cultural industries, and social media. More info here: drive.google.com/file/d/12srA... Deadline is 21 July.

Looking to participate or co-organise an AAS Vancouver 2026 panel on internet fame, wanghong, or Xiaohongshu. If anyone is interested let me know.

Today I had my first experience of seeing a paper (and to be clear: a research paper, not a student paper) cite a paper I'm a listed author on where that paper does not actually exist. It's clearly an AI-generated fabrication. *sigh* #generativeAI #artificialintelligence

📢 Upcoming Global Africa Seminar @Rm0.16, BG1, Univ of Amsterdam. Join us on 20 Jun | 15:00 – 16:30 CEST. Speakers: Dr. Andrea Pollio (Turin) & Dr. Maria Repnikova (GSU). Moderated by Dr. Carwyn Morris Zoom link: uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220 Details: www.chinaafricafashionpower.org/event-detail...

ASCA Global Africa Seminar Series Event #4 | CAPF

The ASCA Global Africa Reading group is delighted to announce the details of our fourth and final seminar event for this academic semester. For our final session, we will be having a book salon. This ...

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Exciting! Folks in London, please mark your diary and come to listen to @coralinglingxu.bsky.social discuss her book The Time Inheritors @sunypress.bsky.social. @carwynmorris.bsky.social

Dr Cora Lingling Xu 许玲玲博士@coralinglingxu.bsky.social · last yr.

A bit of planning ahead--for colleagues and friends who will be in London in Jan, please mark this for your diary. I will give a book talk on The Time Inheritors @sunypress.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social SOAS China Institute on 26 January 2026 at 5 pm. See you! www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Back in the UK, working at SOAS. Happy to travel across the British Isles and say hi/give a talk.

Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) are key actors in Myanmar's revolutionary war. But their positioning towards the crisis has been far from clear. How do we make sense of their strategies? I hope to shed some light on this with my new open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0047... Some takeaways🧵1/8

Rebel Politics after the Coup: Ethnic Armed Organisations and Myanmar’s Spring Revolution

Ethnic armed organisations or EAOs play a pivotal role in the revolutionary war against Myanmar’s junta. These ethno-national rebel movements have not only captured large swathes of territory, but ...

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I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut." www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Why So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe Rogan

The slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades.

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📣 New book cover!!!! INFORMATIONAL PERIPHERIES: RETHINKING THE URBAN IN A DIGITAL AGE Free OA with a fantastic lineup of authors. It's been a pleasure working with @fennaimara.bsky.social Shoutout to @uclpress.bsky.social for being so supportive and organised. uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...

Informational Peripheries

Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...

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Guess who has finally arrived on bluesky? Here we’ll be sharing lots of digital geography delights: conference news, new publications, spotlights on brilliant research, calls for papers, upcoming events, and the occasional musing. #digitalgeographies #blueskynewbe

a woman is standing in front of a door with the words i 'm here written in red

ALT: a woman is standing in front of a door with the words i 'm here written in red

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New Text Book Alert: Studying Political Communication and Media in East Asia, by Florian Schneider. It covers everything, including methods + key literature across disciplines & time periods. It also includes detailed guidance on setting up a gamified, XP focused course. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Studying Political Communication and Media in East Asia

Communication is at the heart of politics, and certainly in East Asia, where vibrant media systems and cultural industries connect with political processes that range from the democratic to autocratic...

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Applications are now open to join the next generation of American China specialists as the ninth cohort of the Public Intellectuals Program (PIP). Deadline: May 11, 2025 Learn more: www.ncuscr.org/applications...

Call for Applications: Public Intellectuals Programs Ninth Cohort (2025-2027)

This two-year program is designed to identify outstanding members of the next generation of American China scholars, enrich their understanding of policymaking processes in the United States and Great...

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The Aquabats are one of the strangest and weirdly wholesome bands. Can't believe they've been going for over 30 years.

Chinese companies have been scouting out the UK as a destination to counter/work around US tariffs for quite a while. I guess yesterday continues to make the UK attractive to Chinese capital.

Hosting a #slowfashion and #artisan sample sale, trunk show, and collection preview this weekend in London. Come along and chat to me/us about ANYTHING. It's seventyfive, Monad, The Backward Vendor, and Provision at 18 Iliffe Yard SE17 3QA

IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 mb@buttericklaw.com

✨TRUNK – AW25 TRUNK SHOW & ARCHIVE SALE ✨ Join us for TRUNK, a collaboration between artisan fashion brands seventyfive, Monad, The Backward Vendor, and lifestyle store Provision. 📍 18 Iliffe Yard, London SE17 3QA 📅 Saturday 5 April | 10AM - 8PM 📅 Sunday 6 April | 12PM - 6PM #slowfashion #fashion

My first strike ever. I have joined demonstrations before. But Monday I will be on strike. As part of the national series of strikes across the country @woinactie.bsky.social Against draconian, shortsighted cuts to research and higher education 🟥 Hopefully joined by many @uva.nl colleagues.

new publication by the trendy @drliucao.bsky.social on wanghong consumption in Guangzhou. some of the early research was presented at a workshop we hosted in 2022 and it's great to see this out in the wild. after a week of fashion week research, I think I also have 'fashionable people phobia.'

Liu Cao 曹流@drliucao.bsky.social · last yr.

If now we can post photos with filters and multiple edits to create a polished image of the urban (even could be misleading and fake), does that mean there is a new urban aestheticisation process happening in the digital age? @ijurresearch.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

And this Friday (the 7th), Yan Hairong speaking at IIAS, don't miss it! www.iias.asia/events/chine...

The brilliant @izading.bsky.social will be giving a talk at Leiden University on March 19th, discussing authoritarian teleology 🔥 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... Looking forward to it.

Authoritarian Teleology

After the fall of the Soviet Union and the withering away of planned economies, the 20th-century literature on communism shifted decisively toward the 21st-century literature on authoritarianism. Iza ...

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What was up with Neptune 400 years ago? @frederickcrofts.bsky.social and I have been trying to find out: we had a great research stay @zikg.eu! While we cross our fingers for the article (under review), you can find out more about the project, and the small exhibition we co-curated, here:

Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte@zikg.eu · last yr.

#ZISpotlight 💡 Frederick Crofts & Davide Martino on „The Age of Neptune“: Art and the Power of Water, c. 1520–1650 www.zispotlight.de/frederick-cr...

Looking forward to this event

Marc Gilbert@marcgilbert.bsky.social · last yr.

A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics will be organized at Leiden University, 24-25 July 2025, to discuss issues pertaining to the queer experience in the Chinese-speaking world. Expressions of Interest should be emailed by 17 March 2025. See edu.nl/hjc4f for details.

@ubleiden.bsky.social Chinese Queer Collection at Leiden University Library will be officially launched. An amazing resource for research and teaching. If you are interested in joining the inaugural workshop and learning more, see the post below!

Marc Gilbert@marcgilbert.bsky.social · last yr.

A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics will be organized at Leiden University, 24-25 July 2025, to discuss issues pertaining to the queer experience in the Chinese-speaking world. Expressions of Interest should be emailed by 17 March 2025. See edu.nl/hjc4f for details.