Tommy Tse
@tommytse.bsky.social
Asso Prof @ UvA Media Studies || PI of ERC Research - China Africa Fashion Power (2022-27) || Editor of Int’l Journal of Fashion Studies || IIAS Board Member
📍ASCA #GlobalAfricaRoundtable 🗓 10 Sep 2026, 2:30–5:30pm 📌BG1, Room 0.16, Turfdraagsterpad 9 Two panels on African traders, transnational life, gender, beauty & intimacy across China–Africa, followed by a film screening by researcher-artist Hangfeng Chen. Come join the conversation on #GlobalAfrica!
The upcoming ASCA talk "The Shape of the Cloud: Cloud computing as AI infrastructure in China & US," by Prof. Jingyan Elaine Yuan from the University of Illinois, Chicago, will take place on July 7 2026, 3pm at Room 1.04, PC Hoofthuis (Spuistraat 134), University of Amsterdam. See you there!
See you on 3 June in this hybrid public seminar, where I will present ideas from my work-in-progress monograph for the first time. Venue: UTS Building 06.06.038 Hosted by Centre for Excellence in Sustainable Fashion & Textiles Thanks for hosting me #UniversityofTechnologySydney #ERC #CAFP
On 9 Jun, I’ll be speaking at the Uni of Applied Arts Vienna. My talk “The Life of Clothes: Smell, Touch and the Remaking of Authenticity in China–Africa Fashion Worlds” rethinks what authenticity means in interconnected fashion markets across China & Africa www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...
On 31 Mar (3–4:30pm, CGIS South, Room S153) I’ll give my 1st public seminar at #HarvardU titled: “China as data colonizer?” examining how platform logics shape cultural production & consumer practices beyond simple “data colonisation” narratives. See you! fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/fairb...
My article “Fashions in Africa, and Africas in Fashion” is now out (OA) in #FashionTheory. What if we take #GlobalAfricaAsMethod seriously - not as a fixed region, culture or identity, but as a way to rethink fashion, value & creativity beyond Eurocentric frames? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Fashions in Africa, and Africas in Fashion – Global Africa as Method
“‘Africa’ can mean many things… there are thus multiple Africas, including regions, diverse politics and economies, and some 2,140 living languages” (Large 2021, 9). This article proposes Global Af...
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On 6 Mar I’ll present Global Africa as Method at #GloTechLab. Drawing on ethnography across Nairobi, Maputo & Guangzhou, it rethinks African fashion in plurals and as a method for understanding creativity and value-making across China–Africa networks. 📍 UMass Amherst 🔗 glotechlab.net/events-globa...
California’s warmth keeps me in a good mood of writing so far, and it’s time to engage in some good conversations with the great media studies fellows here - on 23 Feb (Mon), 12noon, ASC 207, the #USCAnnenberg Research Seminar series. Pls share, see you there, and see below for details & RSVP.
China as data coloniser? Rethinking cultural production, cultural mediation, and consumer agency on Kenyan and Chinese e-commerce platforms
Has China become a neo-colonizer, exporting its cultural and economic power to the world based on its agenda of building soft power? Existing scholarship on neocolonialism and data colonialism
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Invitation! Interested in in beauty, bodies, decoloniality and inequality? Please join us for an online seminar series on "decolonizing bodies". With our very special guest Walter Mignolo; and @tommytse.bsky.social, Patricio Simonetto, Ashley Mears, Ladan Rahbari & @carorabasarucki.bsky.social >>
What happens when Nairobi traders call an “original” Adidas fake — but better than the “real”? In this upcoming #IIAS talk I draw on #ethnography in China & Kenya to rethink creativity, fakes and value in Global South markets. 13 Nov · Hybrid · Register: tinyurl.com/5n8ty8zc #FashionStudies #IIAS
📚 Book Launch | Thinking Through Fashion🌟Join editors Agnès Rocamora & Anneke Smelik in conversation w/ Tommy Tse, Roberto Filippello, Diego Semerene, and Jane Tynan. Expect lively dialogue on fashion, theory & culture. 🗓14 Nov 2025 | 15:00–16:30 CET 📍UB D2.08 (UvA Library) & Zoom shorturl.at/59QIn
Over 2 days we hosted Prof. Alf Gunvald Nilsen at UvA - Packed workshop on turning a PhD into a book, leaving young scholars energised; Lecture on the “Southern interregnum” - elites reanimate neoliberalism, while protests reshape futures across the Global South. #ERC #CAFP #ASCA #GlobalAfrica
🚨 Postdoc Alert! 🚨 Join ERC project China (Africa) Fashion Power @uvahumanities.bsky.social U of Amsterdam Media Studies/ASCA. Ethnography in Guangzhou’s fashion hubs + digital sustainability strategies. 9-mo contract (extendable 6 - 12-mo). Apply by 30 Sept 2025 👉 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
Vacancy — Creativity, Authenticity, and Cultural Mediation: Ethnography of China-Africa Fashion Trade and Cons
The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) currently has a vacant Postdoc position as part of the ERC-funded research project Fashioning Power through South-South Interaction: Re-thinking Creat...
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🌟We are thrilled to present this semester’s #UvA #ASCA #GlobalAfricaSeminar lineup! Join us for a series of fascinating discussions featuring renowned scholars from around the world (details in the poster). Drinks & snacks will be served! #ERC #ChinaAfricaFashionPower @uvahumanities.bsky.social
✨ Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines is here! Explore how machines reshape intimacy. Submission deadline: 29 Aug 2025. Join the conversation: 🖥️🤖❤️ 👉 digitalintiamcies11.wordpress.com #digint11 #TheLoveOfMachines
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The Love of Machines
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📣New Pub! Pls share 🗯️ What do forgotten clothes say about us—and fashion’s future? In #EJCS, we explore 21 HK men’s “limbo wardrobes” to rethink waste, value & fashion competence.🍀 What if sustainability not begins with buying less, but knowing what we keep? ⬇️👇🏻 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
✨ That’s a wrap on our #ASCA #GlobalAfrica book salon with Dr. Andrea Pollio’s “Silicon Elsewhere” and Dr. Maria Repnikova’s “China’s Image-Making in Africa”, moderated by Dr. Carwyn Morris. We ended with Hangfeng Chen’s poetic film “I Swam to Africa in My Dream”. #ERC #UvA #ChinaAfricaFashionPower
Our #ChinaAfricaFashionPower team had such a great experience at the Africa-Asia 3 ConFest at Universite Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. Salute to the amazing #IIAS team who spent over a year to put these meaningful collaborations together. #ERC #ASCA #UvAMediaStudies #GoréeIsland #HouseOfSlaves
📢 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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In "The cloak of creativity", Pei-Sze Chow and Claudio Celis Bueno critique the ways ‘creativity’ is harnessed to justify a sense of urgency around the adoption of artificial intelligence tools in creative work. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
In today’s #ASCA #GlobalAfrica 3rd research seminar, Dr. Seyram Avle (UMass Amherst) and Dr. Wei Wang’s (UvA) talks offered a nuanced exploration of Afro-Sino technological entanglements, urging a critical reassessment of dominant tech narratives and their implications for global futures. #ERC #CAFP
The 3rd #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar “Afro-Sino Tech Futures” will be held on 11 Apr 2025 (3 - 4:30pm, CEST). Seyram Avle (UMass Amherst) & Jupiter Wei Wang (UvA) will present in person. You can also join us on Zoom (QR code below). Drinks & snacks @ the networking session - see you there! #ERC #CAFP
The 2nd #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar “Global Africa/Global China” will be held on 28 Mar 2025 (3 - 4:30pm, CET). Miriam Driessen (Oxford) & Nicholas Loubere (Lund) will come to Ams in person. You can also join us on Zoom (QR code below). Drinks & snacks @ the networking session - see you there! #ERC
See you all this summer at our panel “Interdependence, autonomy and friction in inter-Asian fashion, craft and design economies”, in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand from July 23 to 25 2025! iacs2025.com/program/ #InterAsiaCulturalStudies #IACS2025Conference #WalailakUniversity #NakhonSiThammarat
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🌟💡Join our 1st #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar event this year: “Building Futures, Shaping Resistance: Nairobi in Focus” (In-person only)! Speakers: Dr. Elisa Tamburo (Harvard/Oxford) & Fairuzah Atchulo (UvA) Time: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 (3-4:30pm CET) at Rm D1.18A, OMHP 4-6, 1012 CN Amsterdam. #ERC #CAFP
It’s been an awesome year in different cities, with so many of you. Will hold these memories dear to my heart, and keep creating more in 2025. 🙂🌸🎄 #HK #Shenzhen #London #Maputo #Taipei #Guangzhou #Shanghai #Basel #Zurich #Pretoria #Surabaya #Porto #Nairobi #Edinburgh #Amsterdam #MerryXmas24 #HNY25
Thank you International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)! It’s my pleasure being part of the IIAS Board and in particular, joining the ICAS 13 Conf-Fest in Surabaya, Indonesia this summer. See you all in Dakar, Senegal next June! #MerryChristmas #IIAS #Africa–AsiaANewAxisofKnowledge #11-14June2025
This will be a seminal book on the politics of Hong Kong pop music & its colonial, postcolonial & recolonial trajectories thru the analytical optics of Tatming Pair 達明一派, the legendary experimental Cantopop duo. Such a touching talk - congrats @jeroendekloet.bsky.social Yiu Fai & Leonie! #ERCResCue
Let my first post here be more self absorbed: please join our booklaunch on Tatming and the postcolonial politics of pop in Hong Kong spui25.nl/programma/th...
The Politics of Pop: Tat Ming Pair
To celebrate the publication of the book It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong, the authors Yiu Fai Chow, Jeroen de Kloet, and Leonie Schmidt, will b...
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