Joint coordination of panel "The Value of Land", presentation "Local State Formation and the Value of Land in Rural China", "Ownership and appropriation", joint international conference of the ASA, the ASAANZ and the AAS, Auckland, New Zealand, 8-12 December 2008.

Presentation "State Formation and Local Sociality in central China: From Involution to Intimacy", Friday Morning Seminar, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics, UK, 28 November 2008.

Participation in the "Advanced Summer School in History and Anthropology: China in Local and Transnational Perspectives", lectures and discussions, presentation of thesis work at Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China; excursion and fieldwork tutorials in Pinghe County, Fujian Province, China; participation sponsored by Research Councils UK China Office, 16-31 July 2008.

Presentation "A Remote Place from Three Angles", Urban Day, workshop of "Culture and Society Project"/NYLON series, Brighton, UK, 30 May 2008.

Presentation "Rituals in the countryside - or how to conceptualize li ?", China Research Workshop, Cambridge, UK, 23 April 2008.

Invited participation, Postgraduate Gambling Research Workshop, Goldsmiths University, University of London, 17 March 2008.

Presentation "Changing Work Ethics in Rural China", China Postgraduate Network Workshop, Oxford, UK, 16 March 2008.

Presentation "The Moving Boundaries of Social Heat: Gambling in Rural China" in workshop on "Calculability and Gambling", "Rethinking Economic Anthropology", international conference, London School of Economics, UK, 11-12 January 2008.

Participation Annual conference of the Chinese Association for Sociology, Changsha, Hunan, China, 21-23 July 2007.

Presentation "A 'face project' and a funeral: Everyday forms of state formation in central China", presentation, "The State - the states. Comparative reflections of concepts and realities. The experience of China, France, Russia and Argentina", international conference, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 19-20 June 2007.

Invited Presentation  "The theory and practice of fieldwork", Department for sociology and ethnology, Central-Southern University for Minorities, Wuhan, Hubei, China, 21 December 2006.

Invited Presentation "English, German and Chinese Cultures", Foreign Language Department, Hubei Institute for Nationalities, Enshi, Hubei, China, 8 December 2006.

Presentation "'Liberalization' in the countryside, as experienced in a village in Hubei Province", Europe-China Club, Beijing, China, 31 October 2006.

Presentation and organisation of a workshop on "The History of the WTO and the Importance of Cancun", Annual Conference of student fellows of the Foundation Boell in Central America, Mexico City, 17-22 September 2003.

Presentation and organisation of a workshop on "food security and food sovereignty", "Fatal Global: Conference of the German civil society ahead of the 5th WTO Ministerial Conference", Berlin, Germany, 5-7 September 2003.

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Publications

Presentations, Talks, Conferences

Fieldwork Reflections in China

NYLON Research Network

Gambling Research Network

China in Comparative Perspective Network

Conflicts in Time ESRC Research Network and Seminar Series

Department of Anthropology LSE