Conference participation
2024
The 18th International Society of Ethnobiology Congress, Cadi Ayyad University, May
Yayi Zheng drew from PhD research and presented the paper “Multispecies invasion: Parthenium hysterophorus in the pastoral lands of southern Ethiopia” in the panel “Multispecies assemblages in times of climate change-induced (eco)systemic transformations: An interdisciplinary discussion on how ticks, fleas, mosquitoes, & other vectors of human & animal diseases restructure the world”.
Workshops
2024
Internal kick-off workshop with the AMBER team, March
The AMBER team held an internal kick-off workshop over two days of intense discussions about the project, ending with an informal presentation for fellow SAI staff.
2023
Rural-Urban Lives, Locations, and (Dis)Connections during Covid and Beyond, the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore, November.
Alessandro Rippa and Dan Seng Lawn (Kachinland Research center) presented and discussed their paper "Trading in troubled times: The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, military coup, and Chinese border closure on the Kachin amber industry"
Invited Lectures
2024
Research seminar at the Department Social Anthropology, University of Stockholm, March
Alessandro Rippa gave the presentation: "China as ethnographic absent presence: missed encounters in the Polish and Mexican amber markets."
2023
Lifetimes Friday seminar at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, November.
Alessandro Rippa gave the presentation: "Amber times: Reflections on entanglements and (missed) encounters from the Chiapas mines"