📝 Our final blog post is out: www.remote-xuar.com/post/silenci... ➡️ a reflection on going public about our experience researching #China. This is also our last post here on BlueSky, as the project officially came to a close in December 2025 🔚 Thank you for following and supporting our work! 🙏

Silencing Scholars: Why Europe Cannot Afford to Ignore China’s Influence

Authors: Björn Alpermann, Vanessa Frangville, Rune Steenberg31 December 2025How China’s Pressure Campaign Reaches European UniversitiesWhen news broke that Sheffield Hellam University had allegedly a...

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A big thank you to everyone who joined our last methodology workshop! 👏 The speakers’ methodological insights from three years of remote ethnography were invaluable 🙏 and the follow-up discussions will shape the upcoming Handbook of Remote Ethnography, a key output of the project 📑

What shaped #Soviet responses to the #Xinjiang uprisings of the early 1930s? Join our online Inner #Asia #Colloquium on 26 November for insights 🔍 from Siarhei Bohdan: www.remote-xuar.com/events/the-d... MS Teams: msteams.link/CRNG, meeting ID: 386 791 868 171 5, password: YV9h2gu6.

🗞️ #Handelsblatt reports on the global spread of #China’s #surveillance practices 👁️, featuring insights from Björn Alpermann (@uni-wuerzburg.de) following his recent trip to #Xinjiang: www.handelsblatt.com/politik/inte...

🍂 On 4 November, Bjorn Alpermann (@uni-wuerzburg.de) discussed in a webinar the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC) and its “southward development”, a policy reshaping demographics in southern #Xinjiang under the #CPC’s broader strategy of control and “ethnic blending.” 👇

🗓️ 10 November, 19:30 at @unihannover.bsky.social Another opportunity to hear Björn Alpermann (@uni-wuerzburg.de) speak about how #Xinjiang and the #Uyghur population are shaped by both economic development initiatives and state repression: www.geohannover.de/vortr%C3%A4ge/

🗓️ 30 October, 19:15 Don't miss a hybrid lecture with Björn Alpermann (@uni-wuerzburg.de) on #Xinjiang’s history and 21st-century challenges 🧑‍🏫 The lecture is part of the “ #China Competence” series at #UniJena. Register here: www.uni-jena.de/en/353870/1-...

Xinjiang: China and the Uyghurs

Lecture Series: China Competence

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A Look at #Xinjiang's Rural Revitalization 🏡 Check out the latest interview by Rune Steenberg on the impact of the #revitalization plan on the region's inhabitants: novastan.org/fr/region-ou...

Quels enjeux derrière la "revitalisation rurale" du Xinjiang ?

Sur les réseaux sociaux, les images de prisonniers ouïghours ont récemment cédé la place aux rues pittoresques de Kachgar et aux paysages verdoyants. Derrière ces visuels, Pékin continue de déployer s...

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We’re wrapping up #RemoteChay podcast 🍵 with one final episode: #RemoteXuar Principal Investigators reflect on how #RemoteEthnography is reshaping #UyghurStudies, drawing on lessons from the previous eight episodes with leading experts in the field 🎓 www.remote-xuar.com/podcast

How do the socio-political dynamics of #Islamophobia 🕌 on #China's social media help establish boundaries of Chinese #national identity? @davidstroup.bsky.social will address this issue at the upcoming Inner #Asia #Colloquium on 29 September at 15:00 CET: www.remote-xuar.com/events/loath...

A big thank you to @bennoweiner.bsky.social for such an insightful talk and discussion! 👏 It was a joy having you with us.

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I had a wonderful time at Palacký University Olomouc. Big thank you to my hosts and to all who attended the talk. Now off to Krakow! @remotexuar.bsky.social

Making Minorities in Late Republican and Early #Maoist #China: A View from the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands 👇 We are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Benno Weiner @bennoweiner.bsky.social at Palacký University Olomouc next week! www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin...

The next Inner #Asia #Colloquium is coming! Join the talk on 📆 2 September at 10:00 CEST (bit.ly/4mguLhA) to learn how #cadre management shapes #China’s strategy for governing #Tibet in #XiJinping’s ‘New Era’: www.remote-xuar.com/events/stabi... 🎤 Speaker: @doctordev.bsky.social

Until July 27, 2025, the exhibition FOR REAL FOR REAL 🎨📹is on view at #daadgalerie in Berlin, bringing together artists who explore the poetics and complexity of being. Rune Steenberg participated in the opening event with a reading session: www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/events/fo...

Björn Alpermann presented his paper, “Ethnic Blending through Resettlement and #Urbanization 🏙️: #Bingtuan Expansion in South #Xinjiang,” at the Scales of Worldmaking conference, organized by Joint Center for Advanced Studies in #Würzburg: www.worldmaking-china.org/annual-confe...

"‘Musapir’ means ‘someone living outside their community, an outcast, a stranger—someone to have pity on,’ explains Rune Steenberg in an article about global brands that use #Uyghur workers in #Chinese factories: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025... 🏭 Published by @tbij.bsky.social

China’s economy runs on Uyghur forced labour

More than 100 global brands are linked to a scheme that ships Xinjiang ethnic minorities to work in factories thousands of miles away

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At the 6th Annual #CASNIG conference in #Bishkek, Rune Steenberg presented on colonial architecture, symbolism, and #ethnicization in #Kashgar’s urban landscape—and how it’s transformed since 2017. He also highlighted #RemoteEthnography as a key methodological approach: www.auca.kg/en/auca_news...

18 July at 15:00 CET 👉 In our next Inner #Asia #Colloquium talk, @bennoweiner.bsky.social examines the incorporation of the #Amdo region of Eastern #Tibet into the #PRC and its enduring implications for borderland communities: www.remote-xuar.com/events/makin... Join us on MS Teams: bit.ly/3EWmhfE

An #American-Uyghur wedding 👰🤵 in #Xinjiang, described in our latest blog post, highlights how love can become a marketable product in times of political crisis: www.remote-xuar.com/post/love-as...

Love as a Commodity in a Time of Political Crisis: An American-Uyghur Wedding in Rural Southern Xinjiang

Author: Marcel McDonald27 June 2025An unusual wedding ceremony took place on May 7 in Tazghun village in Yengisheher county of Kashgar, in Xinjiang, in the far northwest of China. What made it unusua...

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In the latest episode of #RemoteChay podcast, we speak with Rebecca Clothey & Dilmurat Mahmut about the challenges #Uyghurs face in preserving culture and identity in the #diaspora. Based on their 2024 book: doi.org/10.4324/9781... 📖 www.remote-xuar.com/podcast

Co-organized by #RemoteXUAR at Palacký University Olomouc, the workshop aimed to enhance the skills and capacities of local research support staff 📈

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A big thank you to all participants of #RMA Power Week!⚡ This intensive 5-day workshop focused on #EU project management, science communication, research data management, and #AI in project workflows: www.euvip-project.com/podrobnosti-... Expert-led, hands-on, and full of insight 🧠 #HorizonEU

While #China’s coastal cities dominate #urbanisation debates, the Inner #Asia #Colloquium on 5 June at 14:00 CET shifts focus to #Xinjiang. It explores how #Uyghur middle-class citizens navigate #ethnicity, status & state relations through #architecture 🏙️ Join us on MS Teams: bit.ly/44cO1qz

23 May at 15:00 CET 👉 The next Inner #Asia #Colloquium challenges the idea that #Islam 🕌 was only securitized after 9/11. Malika Abdulbakieva traces the roots back to Russian #colonialism in #CentralAsia: www.remote-xuar.com/events/colon... Join via MS Teams: bit.ly/424wEa2

27 May 14:00 - 15:30 Beyond #Xinjiang Join our online seminar exploring how #China’s securitization policies impact #Muslim minorities 🕌 — with a focus on #Uyghur and #Hui communities: www.remote-xuar.com/events/beyon...

In the new episode of #RemoteChay podcast, Yalkun Uluyol shares how his #Uyghur identity shaped interviews on sensitive topics — from politics to trauma. He reflects on the ethics and expectations researchers face in such charged conversations 💬: www.remote-xuar.com/podcast

#China's state-led #environmentalism 🌿 is reshaping life on its western frontiers — but often at the expense of #ethnic minority herders. Join our Inner #Asia #Colloquium on 9 May to learn how these environmental policies have been negotiated on the ground: www.remote-xuar.com/events/lives... 🐫

How does #Chinese territorial planning 🏗️ under the Belt and Road Initiative impact local communities in #Xinjiang? Don't miss @mariehiliquin.bsky.social's upcoming talk at the Inner #Asia #Colloquium: www.remote-xuar.com/events/belt-... MS Teams: bit.ly/4kWoacg #BRI #urbanplanning #Kashgar

A Critical Global Perspective on the #Uyghur Region 🎧 In the latest episode of the #RemoteChay podcast, Darren Byler and Rune Steenberg analyse key turning points in #Xinjiang's current situation within contexts that go far beyond geopolitics: www.remote-xuar.com/podcast @dbyler.bsky.social

The next Inner #Asia #Colloquium is coming up on April 4! Learn about the process of building a thriving Uyghur community 🏗️ with its own schools 🏫 courts, economy, police, and defense in northern Syria following the turbulent aftermath of the Syrian Revolution in 2012. MS Teams: bit.ly/4iqy7NI

Three #documentary films 📽️ by #RemoteXuar team members were screened last month at the film festival #Decolonial Documentation: Homeland, Survival and Belonging in #Kazakh and #Uyghur Filmmaking at @uoft.bsky.social ⬇️ www.cinema.utoronto.ca/events/decol...

Decolonial Documentation: Homeland, Survival and Belonging in Kazakh and Uyghur Filmmaking

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) is perhaps best known today as western China’s site of the largest mass internment of an ethno-religious group since WWII. Since 2018, the Chinese governme...

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