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Gonçalo D. Santos is an Assistant Professor of Social-Cultural Anthropology and is the Coordinator of the PhD Program in Anthropology in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Coimbra. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS), University of Coimbra, where he coordinates the Research Group 'Technoscience, Society and Environment'. Before moving to Coimbra in 2020, he held positions at the London School of Economics and Political Science, the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Chinese Village Life Today (Univ of Washington Press, 2021) and the co-editor of Transforming Patriarchy (Univ of Washington Press 2017). His research has been published in major journals in the fields of Anthropology, Social Studies of Science and Technology, and Asian Studies, including Current Anthropology; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory; Technology and Culture; Engaging Science, Technology, and Society; Modern Asian Studies; and European Journal of East Asian Studies. His work explores new approaches to social transformations in contemporary China, showing the limitations of technocratic visions of development and highlighting the need to give voice to the perspectives of ordinary citizens and local communities. His research is strongly committed to questions of social and environmental justice, insisting on the need to foreground issues of inequality when thinking about the challenges of the Anthropocene and the current planetary conjuncture of environmental crisis . He is the founding director of the International Research Network Sci-Tech Asia and is a member of the Research Croup "Chinese Culture and Society" of the Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues at Georgetown University.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Gonçalo Santos

Citation names

  • Santos, Gonçalo
  • Santos, Gonçalo D.
  • Santos, Gonçalo Duro dos
  • Jiang Shaolong (¿¿¿)

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
F919-6BD8-BD33

Email addresses

  • gsantos@uc.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Fax
  • (+351) 239855789 (Professional)
Telephone
  • (+351) 239240716 Ext.: 262216 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Universidade de Coimbra, Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde (CIAS), Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Calçada Martim de Freitas, 3000-456 , Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
  • Social Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2005 - 2007
Concluded
 FCT Post-Doc in Anthropology (Pós-doutoramento)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2005 - 2007
Concluded
 FCT Post-Doc in Anthropology (Pós-doutoramento)
The University of Manchester Social Anthropology, United Kingdom
2001 - 2004
Concluded
 Visiting Research Student (Doutoramento)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2004
Concluded
 PhD Degree in Social-Cultural Anthropology (Doutoramento)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Escola de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
 Aprovado com Louvor e Distinção por Unanimidade
1998
Concluded
 Diploma of Chinese (Cantonese) Language (Diploma de especialização)
Macao Polytechnic Institute - School of Languages and Translation, Macau SAR China
1996
Concluded
 Licentiate Degree in Anthropology (Licenciatura)
University of Coimbra, Department of Anthropology, Portugal
 16
Affiliation

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023 - Current Coordinator of PhD Program in Anthropology University of Coimbra, Department of Life Sciences, Portugal
2022 - Current Coordinator of Mobility in Anthropology University of Coimbra, Department of Life Sciences, Portugal
2021 - Current Coordinator of the Research Cluster "Technoscience, Society, and Environment" Research Center for Anthropology and Health (CIAS), University of Coimbra, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021 - Current Full Researcher (Investigador Integrado) Research Center for Anthropology and Health (CIAS), University of Coimbra, Portugal
Research Center for Anthropology and Health (CIAS), University of Coimbra, Portugal
2020 - Current Assistant Professor (Professor Auxiliar) of Social-Cultural Anthropology University of Coimbra, Department of Life Sciences, Portugal
University of Coimbra, Faculty of Science and Technology, Portugal
2017 - Current Director of the Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network Sci-Tech Asia, Portugal
2020 - 2021 Full Researcher (Investigador Integrado) Center for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), University of Coimbra, Portugal
Center for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), University of Coimbra, Portugal
2014 - 2019 Honorary Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Hong Kong, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong SAR China
University of Hong Kong, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong SAR China
2013 - 2019 Assistant Professor of Anthropology University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong SAR China
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong SAR China
2011 - 2013 Senior Research Fellow Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
2007 - 2011 LSE Fellow in Anthropology London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2005 - 2005 Visiting Scholar Nanjing University School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, China
Nanjing University, Institute of Social Anthropology, China
1998 - 1999 Visiting Scholar Sun Yat-Sen University Department of Anthropology, China
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2016 - Current Hang Seng Fund Research Project: Chinese Midwives under Socialism: An Oral History Project
203700877.083885.45400.400.01
Principal investigator
The University of Hong Kong, China
 University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences
Concluded
2020 - 2023 General Research Fund (GRF) Research Project: "Women and Birth in Transition: The Politics of Childbirth Medicalization in Reform era China"
RGC GRF CityU 17612719
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Research Center for Anthropology and Health (CIAS), University of Coimbra, Portugal

City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
Ongoing
2021 - 2021 FCT Project "Verão com Ciência 2021": Traditional Epistemologies and Perceptions of Climate Breakdown: The case of Fishing Communities in Portugal"
VeraoComCiencia_TA_CIAS_UID283
Principal investigator
Research Center for Anthropology and Health (CIAS), University of Coimbra, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2019 - 2020 General Research Fund (GRF) Research Project: "Women and Birth in Transition: The Politics of Childbirth Medicalization in Reform era China"
RGC GRF HKU 17612719
Principal investigator
The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Social Sciences, China

City University of Hong Kong Department of Asian and International Studies, Hong Kong SAR China
Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
Ongoing
2017 - 2019 Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) Research Project: Making Modernity in East Asia. Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th-21st centuries
RGC CRF HKU C7011-16G, Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Social Sciences, China
 Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
Concluded
2017 - 2019 General Research Fund (GRF) Research Project: Old Neighborhoods, New Spaces: Urban Reconstruction and Governance in China¿s Urbanization.
RGC GRF HKU 17636016 (Co-Investigator)
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
City University of Hong Kong Department of Asian and International Studies, Hong Kong SAR China

University of Hong Kong Department of Sociology, Hong Kong SAR China
Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
Concluded
2018 - 2018 Smith College Grant to fund Early Career Scholar Workshop: Reproductive Labor and Gynocentric Technologies in East Asia, 1800s-2000s (Smith College, 2018)
East Asian Studies Fund
Convenor (with Suzanne Gottschang and Jacob Eyferth)
Smith College, United States
 Smith College
Concluded
2015 - 2018 General Research Fund (GRF) Research Project: Technology, Charitable Benefaction, and Humanitarian Aid in Contemporary China
RGC GRF HKU 17402014
Principal investigator
University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong SAR China
 Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
Concluded
2015 - 2018 Seed-Funding Research Project: Intimate Modernities. Love, Money, and Everyday Ethics in the Hills of Guangdong, 1970s-2010s
201411159201
Principal investigator
The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Social Sciences, China
 The University of Hong Hong, Faculty of Social Sciences
Concluded
2016 - 2016 American Council of Learned Societies International Conference Grant (Humanitarianism in Action: Asia-Pacific Ethnographic Perspectives, Hong Kong, 2016)
American Council of Learned Societies, Comparative Perspectives on Chinese Culture and Society
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
American Council of Learned Societies, United States
Concluded
2015 - 2015 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Publication Grant (Santos, Gonçalo, and Stevan Harrell (eds) 2017. Transforming Patriarchy. Chinese Families in the 21st Century. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press)
N/A
Editor (with Stevan Harrell)
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
Concluded
2013 - 2013 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology International Conference Grant (Is Chinese Patriarchy Over? The Decline and Transformation of a System of Social Support, Halle, Germany, 2013)
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Convener (with Stevan Harrell)
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
Concluded
2008 - 2011 FCT Post-Doctoral Research Project: Chinese Patriliny and Human Cognition
SFRH/BPD/40396/2007
Principal investigator
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2005 - 2008 FCT Post-Doctoral Research Project: The Changing Dynamics of Kinship and Family in Contemporary China
SFRH/BPD/20489/2004
Principal investigator
University of Manchester - Department of Social Anthropology, Portugal

University of Lisbon, Institute of Social Sciences, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2006 - 2006 British Academy International Conference Grant (On Chinese Kinship and Relatedness. Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives, Manchester, 2006)
The British Academy
Convenor (with Susanne Brandtstadter)
The British Academy, United Kingdom
Concluded
2006 - 2006 University of Manchester International Conference Grant (On Chinese Kinship and Relatedness. Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives, Manchester, 2006)
University of Manchester
Convenor (with Susanne Brandtstadter)
The University of Manchester Social Anthropology, United Kingdom
Concluded
2006 - 2006 University of Lisbon International Conference Grant (On Chinese Kinship and Relatedness. Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives, Manchester, 2006)
Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon
Convenor (with Susanne Brandtstadter)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Concluded
2005 - 2005 Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia Publication Grant (Santos, Gonçalo D. 2005. A Escola de Antropologia de Coimbra 1885-1950. (The Anthropological School of Coimbra 1885-1950). Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais)
Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Author
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
1997 - 2002 FCT Doctoral Research Project: The Process of Kinship and Identity in Rural South China
PRAXIS XXI/BD/11184/97
Principal investigator
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Santos, Gonçalo. Chinese Village Life Today. Building Families in an Age of Transition. Seattle, United States: University of Washington Press. 2021.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-46103-8
  2. Santos, Gonçalo. A Escola de Antropologia de Coimbra, 1885-1950 (The Anthropological School of Coimbra, 1885-1950). Lisboa, Portugal: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. 2005.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Santos, Gonçalo. "Good care in childbirth: C-sections as individual or collective decisions.". In Weathering the Storm: Family and Community Formation in China., edited by Becky Hsu. New York, United States: Columbia University Press., 2024.
    In press
  2. Santos, Gonçalo. "Gonçalo D. Santos". In 30 anos, 30 antropólogos, edited by Wasterlain, sofia, 75-76. Coimbra, Portugal: Imprensa da universidade de Coimbra, 2023.
    Published
  3. Santos, Gonçalo; Yichen Rao (University of Hong Kong); Jack L. XING (Georgia Institute of Technology); Jun ZHANG (City University of Hong Kong). "Capitalism, Overwork, and Polanyi's Dialectics of Freedom: Emerging Visions of Work-Life Balance in Contemporary Urban China". In Work, Society, and the Ethical Self. Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era., edited by Hann, Chris (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology), 132-157. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berghahn Books (Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy), 2021.
    Published
  4. Santos, Gonçalo. "Technological Choices and Modern Material Civilization. Reflections on Everyday Toilet Practices in rural South China". In Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis. Eurasian Explorations, 259-280. New York, United States: SUNY Press, 2018.
    Published
  5. Rosón, María. "Love, Family, and Gender in 21st Century China". In Socialism with Neoliberal Characteristics. Social Support and Kinship in China and Vietnam, 31-35. Halle (Saale), Germany: Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, 2017.
    Published
  6. Santos, Gonçalo. "Introduction to Transforming Patriarchy". In Transforming Patriarchy. Chinese Families in the 21st Century., 3-36. Seattle, United States: University of Washington Press, 2017.
    Published
  7. Santos, Gonçalo. "Multiple mothering and labor migration in rural South China". In Transforming Patriarchy. Chinese Families in the 21st Century, edited by Santos, Gonçalo; Harrell, Stevan, 91-110. Seattle, United Kingdom, 2017.
    Published
  8. Santos, Gonçalo. "Technologies of Ethical Imagination". In Ordinary Ethics in China Today, edited by Stafford, Charles, 194-221. London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury (LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology Series), 2013.
    Published
  9. Santos, Gonçalo. "On ‘same-­-year siblings’ in rural South China". In The Ways of Friendship. Anthropological Perspectives, edited by Desai, Amit; Killick, Evan, 20-45. Oxford, United Kingdom: Berghahn Books, 2010.
  10. Santos, Gonçalo. "L'Agriculture Traditionnelle Chinoise est-­elle Verte et jusqu'où?". In L’Empreinte de la Technique. Comment les Technologies Changent les Societés? Colloque de Cerisy., edited by Gaudin, Thierry; Faroult, Élie, 117-139. Paris, France: L'Harmattan, 2010.
    Published
  11. Santos, Gonçalo. "The ‘stove-­family’ and the process of kinship in rural South China". In Chinese Kinship. Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives, edited by Santos, Gonçalo; Brandtstadter, Susanne, 112-136. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2009.
    Published
  12. Santos, Gonçalo. "Introduction. Chinese Kinship Metamorphoses". In Chinese Kinship. Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives, edited by Santos, Gonçalo (F919-6BD8-BD33). Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2009.
    Published
Book review
  1. Santos, Gonçalo. "Review of Substitute Parents: Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies. Edited by Gillian Bentley and Ruth Mace (Berghahn Books)". Review of Substitute Parents: Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies. Edited by Gillian Bentley and Ruth Mace. Oxford: Berghahn 44, 2 (2012): 255-256.
    Published
  2. Santos, Gonçalo. "Review of Private Life under Socialism by Yunxiang Yan (Stanford University Press)". Review of Yan Yunxiang. 2003. Private Life under Socialism. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 183, (2007): 626-634.
    Published
  3. Santos, Gonçalo. "Review of Chinese Sociologics: an Anthropological Account of the Role of Alienation in Social Reproduction by P. Steven Sangren (Athlone Press)". Review of Sangren, P. S. 2001. Chinese Sociologics: an Anthropological Account of the Role of Alienation in Social Reproduction. London: Athlone Press 8, 2 (2004): 397-402.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Santos, Gonçalo; Baptista, Joana. "Intersecções de conhecimento: antropólogos; biólogos marinhos, e pescadores tradicionais em tempos de crise climática e ambiental". Paper presented in III Conferência Anual de Antropologia do Ambiente, Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, 11 de Outubro de 2022, Lisbon, 2022.
    Published
  2. Coutinho Nogueira, Dany; Umbelino, Cláudia; Godinho, Ricardo Miguel; Ramos -Gaspar, Rosa; Santos, Gonçalo. "O passado na compreensão dos desafios do presente: impacto das alterações climáticas do Mesolítico sobre as comunidades humanas de Muge.". Paper presented in III Conferência Anual de Antropologia do Ambiente, Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, 11 de Outubro de 2022, Lisbon, 2022.
    Published
  3. Santos, Gonçalo. "Towards an anthropology of everyday technoscience". Paper presented in 16th EASA Biennial Conference (European Association of Social Anthropology), Lisbon, 2020.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Santos, Gonçalo; Harrell, Stevan; Jankowiak, William; Brown, Melissa; Evans, Harriet; Engebretsen, Elisabeth L.; Gottschang, Suzanne; et al. Transforming Patriarchy. Chinese Families in the 21st Century. Seattle, United States: University of Washington Press. 2017.
    Published • Editor
  2. Santos, Gonçalo; Stafford, Charles; Carsten, Janet; Feuchtwang, Stephan; Brandtstadter, Susanne; Kipnis, Andrew; Bray, Francesca; et al. Chinese Kinship. Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives.. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge. 2009.
    Published • Editor
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Santos, Gonçalo; Zhang, Jun (City University of Hong Kong). "Urbanization in China". In International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Edited by Hilary Callan and Simon Coleman. Wiley Online Library.. John Wiley & Sons, 2021. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2470.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Santos, Gonçalo; Jun ZHANG (City University of Hong Kong). "The Rise in Cesarean Births and Technocratic Medicalization of Childbirth in Late Reform China". Modern China 50 2 (2024):
    In press
  2. Santos, Gonçalo D.; Sharif, Naubahar; Xing, Jack Linzhou. Corresponding author: Santos, Gonçalo D.. "Translating STS in China. Disciplinary Struggles and Future Prospects". Engaging Science, Technology, and Society 9 1 (2023): 23-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.17351/ests2023.805.
    Open access • Published • 10.17351/ests2023.805
  3. Jiang Shaolong (¿¿¿). "Jishu de xuanze yu xiandai wuzhi wenming ¿¿ dui huanan nongcun diqu richang cesuo shijian de fansi (Technological Choices and Modern Material Civilization: Reflections on Everyday Toilet Practices in Rural South China).". Renleixue Yanjiu (Anthropology Research) 15-16 (2022): 206-228. https://www.cp.com.cn/book/0ea2b319-d.html.
    Published
  4. Santos, Gonçalo. "O cuidado parental em tempos de migração laboral. Culturas e tecnologias de multiparentalidade na China rural do início do século XXI". Orientes do Português 4 (2022): 55-94. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/27073130/ori4a3.
    Published • 10.21747/27073130/ori4a3
  5. Santos, Gonçalo. "The Polyphony of Nature (Book Symposium, Comment on Daston, Lorraine. 2009. Against Nature. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press)". HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 11 2 (2021): 847-851. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/716597.
    Published • 10.1086/716597
  6. Santos, Gonçalo; Gottschang, Suzanne. "Rethinking Reproductive Technologies and Modernities in Time and Space". Technology and Culture 61 2 (2020): 549-558. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/761575.
    Published
  7. Santos, Gonçalo. "Birthing Stories and Techno-­Moral Change across Generations. Coping with Hospital Births and High-­Tech Medicalization in rural South China, 1960s-­2010s". Technology and Culture 61 2 (2020): 581-616. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/761577.
    Published
  8. Santos, Gonçalo; Harrell, Stevan. "21 shiji zhongguo jiating de quanli goucheng xingtai. nanquan jiazhang zhi zuowe yizhong fenxi kuangjia (Changing Power Configurations in 21st century Chinese Families. Using Patriarchy as an Analytical Category)". Zhongguo Xueshu (China Scholarship) 41 (2019): 79-124. https://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9787100175685.
    Published
  9. Santos, Gonçalo; Donner, Henrike. "Love, Marriage, and Intimate Citizenship in Contemporary China and India: an Introduction". Modern Asian Studies 50 4 (2016): 1123-1146. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/love-marriage-and-intimate-citizenship-in-contemporary-china-and-india-an-introduction/F8BC7A502748C85DDF53AA827727FAB5.
    Published • 10.1017/S0026749X16000032
  10. Santos, Gonçalo. "On Intimate Choices and Troubles in Rural South China". Modern Asian Studies 50 4 (2016): 1298-1326. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/on-intimate-choices-and-troubles-in-rural-south-china/629E2E1144E2B24B7F994AF3F2B2F424.
    Published • 10.1017/S0026749X14000754
  11. Santos, Gonçalo. "The Birth of Physical Anthropology in Late Imperial Portugal". Current Anthropology 53 S5 (2012): 33-45. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/662329.
    Published • 10.1086/662329
  12. Santos, Gonçalo; Harrell, Stevan; Han, Hua; Wang, Yuesheng; Zhou, Yingying. "Fertility Decline in Rural China. A Comparative Analysis". Journal of Family History 36 1 (2011): 15-36. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0363199010388864.
    Published • 10.1177/0363199010388864
  13. Santos, Gonçalo. "Rethinking the Green revolution in South China. Technological Materialities and Human-environment Relations". East Asian Science, Technology, and Society: an International Journal 5 4 (2011): 479-504. https://read.dukeupress.edu/easts/article-abstract/5/4/479/61024/Rethinking-the-Green-Revolution-in-South-China.
    Published • doi.org/10.1215/18752160-1465479
  14. Santos, Gonçalo; Donzelli, Aurora. "Rice Intimacies: Reflections on the ‘House’ in Upland Sulawesi and South China". Archiv fu¨r Völkerkunde 57-58 (2009): 37-64.
    Published
  15. Santos, Gonçalo. "On ‘same-year siblings’ in rural South China". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 14 3 (2008): 535-553. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9655.2008.00516.x.
    10.1111/j.1467-9655.2008.00516.x
  16. Santos, Gonçalo. "The Anthropology of Chinese Kinship. A Critical Overview". European Journal of East Asian Studies 5 2 (2006): 275-333.
    Published
  17. Santos, Gonçalo. "Zhongguo fuxi zongzu yu yinger de yingzhi (Chinese Patriliny and Infant Cognition)". Zhongguo Yanjiu (China Study) 3 (2006): 1-19vvv.
    Published
  18. Santos, Gonçalo. "“Os ‘Camponeses’ e o ‘Imperador’. Reflexões Etnográficas sobre Orizicultura Intensiva e Estratificação Social no Sudeste da China” (The ‘peasants’ and the ‘emperor’. Ethnographic reflections on wet-­-rice-­-farming and social stratification in Southeast China)". Etnográfica 10 1 (2006): 40-71.
    Published
Journal issue
  1. Santos, Gonçalo; Gottschang, Suzanne. "Histories of Childbirth Medicalization in China and Japan". Technology and Culture 61 2 (2020):
    Published • Editor
  2. Santos, Gonçalo; Donner, Henrike. "Love, Marriage, and Intimate Citizenship in Contemporary China and India". Modern Asian Studies 50 4 (2016):
    Published • Editor
Magazine article
  1. Santos, Gonçalo D.. "Ai Weiwei no Antropoceno", Público (Ípsilon), Special edition coordinated by the artist Ai Weiwei, 2023, https://www.publico.pt/2023/03/05/culturaipsilon/ensaio/ai-weiwei-antropoceno-2040454.
Newspaper article
  1. Santos, Gonçalo. "O que acontece quando um antropólogo vai ao médico?", Público, 2022, https://www.publico.pt/2022/07/23/opiniao/opiniao/acontece-antropologo-vai-medico-2014515.
  2. Santos, Gonçalo D.. "O problema chinês do “lixo estrangeiro”: racismo e xenofobia em tempos de pandemia.", Público, 2020, https://www.publico.pt/2020/05/16/opiniao/noticia/problema-chines-lixo-estrangeiro-racismo-xenofobia-tempos-pandemia-1915250.
  3. Freitas, Helena; Santos, Gonçalo D.. "Há um modelo português de resposta à pandemia de covid-19?", Público, 2020, https://www.publico.pt/2020/04/03/sociedade/opiniao/ha-modelo-portugues-resposta-pandemia-covid19-1910533.
Online resource
  1. Santos, Gonçalo. The Ethics of C-sections in China and the United States, Text written for the Blog "The Challenges of Globalization" published by the Initiative for U.S. - China Dialogue on Global Issues, Georgetown University. 2022. https://uschinadialogue.georgetown.edu/responses/the-ethics-of-c-sections-in-china-and-the-united-states.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Santos, Gonçalo. "The Process of Kinship and Identity in a Cantonese Village in Southeastern China, PhD Dissertation in Anthropology, 421pp". PhD, ISCTE-­University Institute of Lisbon, Department of Anthropology, 2004.
  2. Santos, Gonçalo. "Topografias Imaginárias: as Estórias de Eusébio Tamagnini no Instituto de Antropologia da Universidade de Coimbra entre 1902 e 1952, Licentiate Degree Thesis in Anthropology, 196pp". Degree, University of Coimbra, Department of Anthropology, 1996.
Website
  1. Santos, Gonçalo. Sci-Tech Asia: Bringing Together Science, Technology and Humanities in Asia and the World. 2017. https://www.scitechasia.org/.

Artistic / Performance

Curatorial / Museum exhibition
  1. 2022. "Exposição do I Concurso Internacional de Fotografia Etnográfica: “UrbanAct. Imagens de Ação e Ativismo Ambiental na Cidade”, Casa das Artes Bissaya Barreto, Coimbra, 20 maio de 2022 a 25 de junho de 2022". In “UrbanAct. Imagens de Ação e Ativismo Ambiental na Cidade”.
Program / Show
  1. Bosco, Joseph; Lou, Loretta; Santos, Gonçalo; Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Nicolas; Zhang, Jun (City University of Hong Kong). 2023. "TechnoViews #16. An Ecological History of Modern China | Stevan Harrell (U. of Washington)". Podcast TechnoViews #16. An Ecological History of Modern China: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/technoviews/1277140/.
  2. Santos, Gonçalo; Castro, Rosana; Toniol, Rodrigo; Valentim, Cristina Sá. 2023. "TecnoGrafias #3 "Sons do Império, vozes do Cipale: canções cokwe e memórias do trabalho forçado nas Lundas, Angola" com Cristina Sá VALENTIM (Instituto de Ciências Sociais da U. de Lisboa) S01 - E03". Podcast TecnoGrafias #3 Sons do Império, vozes do Cipale: canções cokwe e memórias do trabalho forçado nas Lundas, Angola: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/tecnografias/1037814/.
  3. Santos, Gonçalo; Castro, Rosana; Toniol, Rodrigo; Valentim, Cristina Sá. 2023. "Tecnografias #2 "In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda" com António TOMÁS (U. de Joanesburgo)". Podcast Tecnografias #2 In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/tecnografias/955393/.
  4. Santos, Gonçalo; Valentim, Cristina Sá; Toniol, Rodrigo; Castro, Rosana. 2023. "Tecnografias #1 Working the system: Uma etnografia política da ‘Nova Angola' com Jon SCHUBERT (U. de Basileia)". Podcast Tecnografias #1 Working the system: Uma etnografia política da ‘Nova Angola': 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/tecnografias/861792/.
  5. Bosco, Joseph; Santos, Gonçalo; Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Nicolas; Zhang, Jun (City University of Hong Kong). 2022. "TechnoViews #14. Chinese Village Life Today I Gonçalo D. SANTOS (Univ. of Coimbra)". Podcast Technoviews #14 Chinese Village Life Today: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/technoviews/506259/.
  6. Bosco, Joseph; Santos, Gonçalo; Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Nicolas; Zhang, Jun (City University of Hong Kong). 2022. "Prototype Nation I Silvia M. Lindtner (Univ. de Michigan)". Podcast TechnoViews #15 Prototype Nation: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/technoviews/682031/.
  7. Bosco, Joseph; Santos, Gonçalo; Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Nicolas; Zhang, Jun (City University of Hong Kong). 2021. "TechnoViews #13 Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China I Andrew Kipnis (CUHK)". Podcast TechnoViews #13 Life, Death, and Ghosts in Urbanizing China: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/technoviews/314028/.
  8. Bosco, Joseph; Santos, Gonçalo; Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Nicolas; Zhang, Jun (City University of Hong Kong). 2021. "TechnoViews #12 Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change I Lena Kaufmann (U. Zurich)". Podcast Technoviews #12 Rural-Urban Migration and Agro-Technological Change: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/technoviews/296380/.
  9. Bosco, Joseph; Santos, Gonçalo; Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Nicolas; Zhang, Jun (City University of Hong Kong). 2021. "TechnoViews #11 Animal Disease and Global Health at China¿s Pandemic Epicenter I Lyle FEARNLEY (SUTD)". Podcast Technoviews #11 Animal Disease and Global Health at China¿s Pandemic Epicenter: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/technoviews/272454/.
  10. Bosco, Joseph; Zhang, Jun (City University of Hong Kong); Santos, Gonçalo; Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Nicolas. 2021. "TechnoViews #10. Food Safety After Fukushima I Nicolas STERNSDORFF-CISTERNA (SMU)". Podcast Technoviews #10 Food Safety After Fukushima.: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/technoviews/254321/.
  11. Bosco, Joseph; Santos, Gonçalo; Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Nicolas; Zhang, Jun (City University of Hong Kong). 2021. "Technoviews #9 Can Science and Technology save China? I Susan GREENHALGH (Harvard University)". Podcast Technoviews #9 Can Science and Technology save China?: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/technoviews/166460/.
  12. Bosco, Joseph; Santos, Gonçalo; Sternsdorff-Cisterna, Nicolas; Zhang, Jun (City University of Hong Kong). 2021. "Technoviews #8 Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy. I Li ZHANG (UC Davis)". Podcast Technoviews #8 Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy.: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/technoviews/151405/.
  13. Bosco, Joseph; Santos, Gonçalo; Zhang, Jun (City University of Hong Kong). 2019. "TechnoViews #6 'Solar Energy in China' | Edwin A. SCHMITT (Oslo University)". Podcast TechnoViews #6 Solar Energy in China: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/technoviews/116463/.
  14. Bosco, Joseph; Santos, Gonçalo; Zhang, Jun (City University of Hong Kong). 2018. "TechnoViews #5 'Genocide/Feminicide, Memory, and Technologies of Violence' | Fazil Moradi (LOST)". Podcast TechnoViews #5 Genocide/Feminicide, Memory, and Technologies of Violence: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/technoviews/116461/.
  15. Bosco, Joseph; Santos, Gonçalo; Zhang, Jun (City University of Hong Kong). 2018. "TechnoViews #4 'Doing Anthropological Research on GMOs' | Glenn Stone (Washington University)". Podcast TechnoViews #4 Doing Anthropological Research on GMOs: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/technoviews/116457/.
  16. Bosco, Joseph; Zhang, Jun (City University of Hong Kong); Santos, Gonçalo. 2018. "TechnoViews #3 'Environmental Crisis in China' | Stevan Harrell (University of Washington)". Podcast TechnoViews #3 Environmental Crisis in China: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/technoviews/116456/.
  17. Santos, Gonçalo. 2018. "TechnoViews #2 'The Crafting of the 10.000 Things. Shifting Frameworks of Knowledge and Technology in Imperial China' | Dagmar Schäfer (MPI for the History of Science)". Podcast TechnoViews #2 The Crafting of the 10.000 Things. Shifting Frameworks of Knowledge and Technology in Imperial China: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/technoviews/116449/.
  18. Santos, Gonçalo. 2018. "TechnoViews #1 'The Craft of Anthropology. Doing Fieldwork with Artisans in Thailand and Greece in Times of Change' | Michael Herzfeld (Harvard)". Podcast TechnoViews #1 The Craft of Anthropology. Doing Fieldwork with Artisans in Thailand and Greece in Times of Change: 1. Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network, URL: https://rss.com/podcasts/technoviews/114724/.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11/23 Public Outreach Talk: "Mineração e Poluição Industrial na Amazónia, Conversa com Jorge Paiva (CFE, DCV/UC) e Gonçalo D. Santos (CIAS, DCV/UC)", Escola Secundária Dr. Joaquim de Carvalho, Figueira da Foz Semana da Cultura Científica (20 a 24 de novembro)
Escola Secundária Dr. Joaquim de Carvalho, Figueira da Foz (Figueira da Foz, Portugal)
2023/03/27 Public Outreach Talk: Antropologia e Diversidade Cultural, Oficina de Antropologia nas Escolas
Escola Secundária c/3º Ciclo Dr. Bernardino Machado, Figueira da Foz (Figueira da Foz, Portugal)
2023/01/24 Invited Talk: "Decolonizing Research on Rural China." Decolonizing Research on Rural Space. CES - Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, In English Decolonizing Research on Rural Space. Com Maria Paula Menezes, Gonçalo Santos e Paul Jenkins
CES - Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/11/07 Invited Lecture: Chinese Village Life Today. Building Families in an Age of Transition. Xavier Research Center, University of St Joseph, Nov 7th 2022, Macau, Online Event (international, in English). Departmental Seminar
Xavier Research Center, University of St Joseph, Macau (Macau SAR China)
2022/10/11 Conference Presentation: ¿Intersecçoes de conhecimento: antropologos, biólogos marinhos e pescadores tradicionais em tempos de crise climatica e ambiental¿, III Conferência Anual de Antropologia do Ambiente, Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, Lisboa, Evento Presencial, 11 de Outubro de 2022, URL do evento: https://3confambdotcom.wordpress.com/ III Conferência Anual de Antropologia do Ambiente
Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2022/06/14 Invited Lecture: “Notas de Campo de um antropo´logo na China,” Departamento de Estudos Asiáticos, Universidade do Minho, Braga, 14 de junho 2022, Evento presencial (nacional, em português). Departamento de Estudos Asiáticos, Universidade do Minho, Braga, 14 de junho 2022, Evento presencial Palestra Convidada (nacional, em português).
Departamento de Estudos Asiáticos, Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2022/05/25 Invited Talk: “Notas de Campo de um antropo´logo na China,” Conversa de Viajantes, Centro Cultural Penedo da Saudade, Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra, Coimbra (em português). Conversa de Viajantes
Centro Cultural Penedo da Saudade, Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/04/28 Invited Talk: “Ai Weiwei in the Anthropocene”. Intertwine Talks | Conversas Entrelaçar, Serralves, Porto, April 28th 2022, URL: https://www.serralves.pt/en/atividades-serralves/2204-conversas-entrelacar-dia-mundial-da-terra/ (international, in English). Intertwine Talks | Conversas Entrelaçar
Fundação Serralves (Portugal)
2022/04/06 Invited Lecture: Chinese Village Life Today. Building Families in an Age of Transition. University of Macau, Department of Sociology, Macau, Virtual Talk, April 6th 2022 (International, in English) Departmental Seminar
University of Macau, Department of Sociology (Macau SAR China)
2022/03/24 Invited Lecture: “Birthing Stories and Techno-moral Change across Generations: Coping with Hospital Births and High-tech Medicalization in Rural South China, 1960s–2010s,” followed by discussion on the article with the same title published by the journal Technology and Culture, event organized by the Reading Group on Reproductive Technologies, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlim, Online Event, March 24th 2022 (international, in English). Reading Group on Reproductive Technologies
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlim (Germany)
2022/01/28 Comments as Invited Discussant. Discussion of "On Soil and Sustainability, Or, Who Cares about Shit?" by Nicole Barnes (Duke University), Science across regions in Asia Colloquium, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, Online Event, URL: https://www.chstm.org/content/science-across-regions-asia?page=1 Science across regions in Asia Colloquium
Science across regions in Asia Network, Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (United States)
2021/11/23 Invited Lecture: The Anthropocene and the Culture of Flushing International Colloquium: Pluralizing the Anthropocene II. Reenvisioning the Future of the Planet in the 21st century
Fundação Serralves (Porto (Online Event), Portugal)
2021/11/18 Comments as Invited Discussant, Panel: Experts, Truth Claims, and Uncertainty: Towards an Anthropology of Risk in the 21st Century, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Hybrid Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, November 18 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Hybrid Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland
American Anthropological Association, (United States)
2021/07/28 Invited Lecture: Political Ecologies of Human Shit. The Recycling Economy of Night Soil in Early 20th Century China BioSocial Talks
Research Centre for Anthropology and Health (CIAS) (Coimbra (Online Event), Portugal)
2021/03/12 Invited Talk: Histories of Childbirth Medicalization in East Asia: An Intercultural Conversation Sci-Tech Asia Webinar
Sci-Tech Asia International Research Network (Online Event, Portugal)
2021/01/29 Childbirth in China and the U.S. (Georgetown University, Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global issues) China, Unseen: Solving Problems in the New Era
Georgetown University, Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global issues, Research Group Culture and Society (Washington, United States)
2021/01/29 Comments on the Ethics of China’s Pandemic Response in 2020, Invited Presentation at Online Workshop “China, Unseen: Solving Problems in the New Era” organized by the Initiative for US-China Dialogue on Global Issues, Georgetown University, 29 January 2021, URL: https://uschinadialogue.georgetown.edu/events/china-unseen-solving-problems-in-the-new-era
Initiative for US-China Dialogue on Global Issues, Georgetown University (United States)
2020/10/10 Neuroética, Neurodireito, e Antropologia Apresentação do Livro: Neuroética e Neurodireito. Pensar a Responsabilidade a Partir das Neurociências de Ana Elisabete Ferreira
Centro de Direito Biomédico, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2020/07/23 Towards an Anthropology of Everyday Technoscience Roundtable: Shifting Horizons: Anthropology and STS in the 21st Century
Biannual Meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropology, Lisbon, Roundtable Organizers: Sci-Tech Asia Research Network and LOST Research Network (Lisbon)
2020/06/19 COVID-19 and the Anthropocene Virtual Symposium: COVID-19, Technoscience, Bio-security in the 21st century
Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (Johannesburg (Online), South Africa)
2020/05/18 'Women and the Moral Dilemmas of Technological Birth.' International Workshop on Culture and the Common Good, Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues
Georgetown University
2019/12/12 'Work, Ethics, and Freedom in 21st Century China: Emerging visions of work-life balance.' Work, Ethics, and Freedom
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle (Saale), Germany)
2019/11/22 'Governing Poverty at a Distance. New Technologies of Citizen Philanthropy in Contemporary China.' 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association(Panel: “New Ways of Governing Poverty in East Asia)
American Anthropological Association (Vancouver, Canada)
2019/11/21 Double Panel: 'Changing Climates and Infrastructures of People-Making and Reproductive Labor in East Asia.' 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
American Anthropological Association (Vancouver, Canada)
2019/07/17 'Corruption, Ethics, and Philanthropy: The Case of Lions Clubs in South China.' Panel: ‘State-Society Encounters at the Grassroots: China and Beyond’, 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars
2019/06/13 'Who is Requesting Cesarean Delivery? The Morality of Technological Birth in 21st Century China.' Anthropology Seminar
Nanjing University, Institute of Sociology (Nanjing, China)
2019/06/12 'Anthropology of Everyday Technologies in the 21st Century.' Sun Benwen Sociology Forum
Nanjing University, Institute of Sociology (Nanjing, China)
2019/05/07 'Technology and the Ethics of Childbirth.' International Workshop on Culture and the Common Good, Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues
Georgetown University (United States)
2019/04/15 'Who is Requesting Cesarean Delivery? Women’s Birth Choices and The Politics of Technological Birth in Late Reform China.' Invited Lecture
Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
2019/02/22 'Women and Birth in Transition. Childbirth Medicalization in Late Reform China.' Invited Lecture
Leiden University
2019/02/22 'Toilet Revolution in Contemporary China.' Invited Lecture
Leiden University
2018/12/18 'Love, Marriage, and Family Life in a World of Technology.' Invited Lecture
Center for Cultural Studies on Science and Technology in China, Technical University of Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
2018/12/10 'Technology, Gender, and Reproductive Labor in East Asia, 1800s-2000s.' International Conference: Making Modernity in East Asia. Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th-21st centuries
University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
2018/11/28 'Who is Requesting Cesarean Delivery? The Techno-Politics of Childbirth Medicalization in Late Reform China.' Research Seminar
Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics (London, United Kingdom)
2018/11/13 'Who is Requesting Cesarean Delivery? The Politics and Ethics of Childbirth Medicalization in Late Reform China.' Invited Lecture
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
2018/07/17 'Digital Humanitarians: Online Charity Platforms in Contemporary China.' 18th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
2018/07/06 'From Agricultural Commodities to Domestic Waste Materials: Changing Infrastructures of Human Waste Management in Republican Canton.' AAS in Asia Meeting (Panel: Mundane Matters: Everyday Politics in Chinese Metropolises)
(New Delhi, India)
2018/06/22 'Rural Midwives and Women’s Networks of Maternity Care in rural South China, 1960s-2010s.' International Conference: “China in Time and Space: G. William Skinner’s Ideas Going Forward,” organized by Stevan Harrell (Univ. of Washington) and William Lavely (Univ. of Washington)
HK University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong, China)
2017/11/29 Double Panel: 'Chinese Family Matters: Hierarchy, Conflict, and Negotiation.' 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
American Anthropological Association (Washington DC, United States)
2017/10/20 'Women and Birth in Transition.' Oxfam Symposium on Chinese Society and Policy: 'The Transition of Marriage and Family in China.'
Universities Service Centre for China Studies, Chinese University of HK (Hong Kong, China)
2017/07/16 'Reproductive Labor and Gynocentric Technologies in East Asia 1800s-2000s.' International Symposium 'Kinship and Politics: Rethinking a Conceptual Split and its Epistemic Implications in the Social Sciences'
Kinship and Politics Research Group, ZiF, Bielefeld University, Germany (Germany)
2017/01/13 'Ethical labor and the workings of non-governmental humanitarian care in contemporary China: Beyond Individualization.' International Conference: 'Humanitarianism in Action: Asia-Pacific Ethnographic Perspectives'
University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
2016/11/23 'Birthing Infrastructures. Women’s Networks and Everyday Reproductive Practices in Rural China, 1960s-2010s.' International Workshop: Making Modernity in East Asia. Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th-21st centuries
University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
2016/06/23 'The Flush Toilet in China. Technology in Regional History.' SHOT-in-Asia Meeting, Annual Meeting of the Soc. for the History of Technology (SHOT), Panel: “Making modernity. Technology in Regional History”
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) (Singapore, Singapore)
2016/06/23 'Birthing dramas and generational narratives. Coping with medicalization in rural South China, 1960s-2010s.' SHOT-in-Asia Meeting, Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Double Panel: “Rethinking Reproductive Technologies: Pregnancy and Childbirth in East Asia, 1800s-2000s"
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) (Singapore, Singapore)
2015/08/26 'Flush Toilet Modernities. Emergent Models in the Chinese countryside.' International Workshop: 'The Second Life of Things'
University of Zurich
2015/05/16 'The Labor of Night-soil Collection and Human Waste Management in the Chinese Countryside: Theoretical Reflections and Challenges.' International Symposium 'Knowing and Doing: Text and Labor in Asian Agriculture'
University of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
2015/03/27 'I give, I'm happy, I mature!' The making of humanitarian middle-class subjectivities in contemporary.' Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, Panel: Class Reconsidered in Contemporary China
Association for Asian Studies (Chicago, United States)
2015/01/23 International Postgraduate Student Forum, Panel 5: 'Risk, Morality, and Modernity.' International Postgraduate Student Forum
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Anthropology (Hong Kong, China)
2014/04/29 'Do Flush Toilets Have Politics? Reflections on everyday toilet practices in rural South China.' Research Seminar
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
2014/04/11 'The Logics of Humanitarian Care in Contemporary China. The case of Guangdong Lions Club.' International Conference: Beyond the Global Care Chain
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Germany)
2014/01/18 International Postgraduate Student Forum, Panel A6 'Environment and Economic Development.' International Postgraduate Student Forum
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Anthropology (Hong Kong, China)
2014/01/15 'Do Flush Toilets Have Politics? Anthropocenic Reflections.' Invited Lecture
Hong Kong Anthropological Society, Hong Kong Museum of History (Hong Kong, China)
2013/11/08 'Material Civilization and Hygienic Modernity. Reflections on Everyday Toilet Practices in rural South China.' Research Seminar
Department of Anthropology, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
2013/06/28 'Multiple mothering and labor migration in rural South China.' International Conference: 'Is Chinese Patriarchy Over? The Decline and Transformation of a System of Social Support'
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Germany)
2013/01/16 'The Art of ‘Doing Good’ in Contemporary China. Emerging Frameworks of Non-Governmental Charity and Philanthropy.' Invited Lecture
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle (Saale), Germany)
2012/12/07 'The Art of ‘Doing Good’ in Contemporary China. New Material Powers.' Invited Lecture
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China)
2012/11/28 'Technology, Waste, and Modernity. Reflections on toilet practices in rural South China.' Invited Lecture
University College of London (London, United Kingdom)
2012/11/26 'The Flush Toilet and the Anthropocene Project.' International Workshop “The Anthropocene Project / Das Anthropozän-Projekt“
The Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Max Planck Society at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin, Germany)
2012/07/11 'On intimate choices and troubles in rural South China.' Panel: 'Coping with uncertainty. Comparative perspectives on marriage and intimate citizenship in Asia.' 12th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists
European Association of Social Anthropologists (Paris-Nanterre, France)
2012/06/29 'Technological choices and civilizational processes. Reflections on toilet practices in rural South China.' International Conference ‘Anthropology and Civilizational Analysis’
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Germany)
2012/06/05 'Charitable Practices and Ethical imagination in rural South China.' Ethnology Colloquium
Institut für Ethnologie, Hamburg University (Hamburg, Germany)
2012/05/17 'Technology, Charity, and Ethical imagination: an Anthropological Perspective.' Invited Lecture
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Hong Kong, China)
2012/05/15 'China in Comparative Perspective: Ideas and Methods.' Invited Lecture
Department of Anthropology, Sun Yat-Sen University (Guangzhou, China)
2012/04/24 'Technologies of ethical imagination.' Invited Lecture
Department of Anthropology, Emory University (Atlanta, United States)
2011/09/22 International Workshop: ‘Ritual Kinship’ (Panel: ‘Solidarity and Relatedness’) International Workshop: ‘Ritual Kinship’
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle (Saale), Germany)
2011/07/07 'Cosmologies of kinship.' Research Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle (Saale), Germany)
2011/06/16 'Kinship and the politics of intimacy. Chinese perspectives.' International Conference: Love, Marriage and Intimate Citizenship in Contemporary China and India
Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August Universität (Göttingen, Germany)
2011/05/11 'Ethical imagination and technologies of virtue.' Research Seminar
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Germany)
2010/03/24 'Popular religion and contests of virtue in rural South China.' Invited Lecture (in Portuguese)
Department of Anthropology, University of Brasília (Brasília, Brazil)
2010/03/19 'Ordinary ethics and popular religion in China.' Invited Lecture (in Portuguese)
Department of Anthropology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
2010/03/17 'China and the challenge of the environment.' Invited Lecture (in Portuguese)
Higher Education School of Marketing and Communication Management (Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing) (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
2010/03/14 '‘Fragrant names’ and charity auctions in rural South China. An ethnographic approach to ethical imagination.' Invited Lecture (in Portuguese)
Dep. of Anthropology, Museu Nacional Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2010/03/08 'The Birth of Physical Anthropology in Late Imperial Portugal.' Wenner Gren Symposium: 'The biological anthropology of modern human populations: World histories, national styles, and international networks.'
Wenner Gren (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2009/07/07 'L’agriculture traditionelle chinoise est-elle verte et jusqu’òu? (How Green is Chinese Traditional Agriculture?).' Cerisy Colloquium: The Imprint of Technology: How Technologies Change Societies?
(Château de Cerisy-la-Salle, France)
2009/05/04 'Fragrant names’ and contests of virtue in rural South China.' International Conference: Ethical questions in China today
London School of Economics and Political Science (London, United Kingdom)
2008/11/21 'Eating and distinction in Asian rice societies: South China and Upland Sulawesi.' Panel: 'Food and Culture' 107th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association
American Anthropological Association (San Francisco, United States)
2008/08/27 'Culture, state, and the fertility transition in rural South China.' Panel 073: 'Questioning the 'Quiet revolution': Demographic change and modernity' 10th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists
European Association of Social Anthropologists (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
2008/05/26 'Resistance and the ‘moral economy’ of the peasant: China and Southeast Asia compared.' Invited Lecture
Department of Anthropology. Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy)
2008/05/21 'Chinese patriliny and human cognition. Why children matter?' International Workshop: Emerging Perspectives in the Anthropology of Childhood
Centre for Child-Focused Anthropological Research, Brunel University (London, United Kingdom)
2008/03/13 'Birth control policies in rural South China.' Invited Lecture
Department of Anthropology, University of Nevada (Las Vegas, United States)
2008/02/01 'Chinese patriliny and infant cognition.' Research Seminar
Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics (London, United Kingdom)
2007/09/13 'Rice intimacies. Reflections on the 'house' in upland Sulawesi and South China.' Panel: 'Living in Memory: Houses, history and social/natural environment in Southeast Asia.' 5th EuroSEAS Conference
Gabriele Weichart and Jani Kuhnt-Saptodewo (Naples, France)
2007/06/10 'Kinship, food, and money in rural South China.' Invited Lecture
Department of Anthropology, University of Montréal (Montréal, Canada)
2007/05/15 'On Eurasian kinship: Comparing Southern Europe, Southern China and Island Southeast Asia.' Invited Lecture
Department of Anthropology. Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy)
2007/03/23 'Family planning in a South Chinese village.' Research Seminar
Department of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews (United Kingdom)
2006/11/16 'The triumph of ‘goods’ over ‘children’? Family-planning in post-Mao rural South China.' China Colloquium
University of Washington (Washington, United States)
2006/06 'On ‘same-year siblings’ in rural South China.' International Conference: ‘The Anthropology of Friendship’
London School of Economics and Political Science (London, United Kingdom)
2006/04/07 'Scales of Comparison in early 20th century Physical Anthropology.' Panel 'Race, Eugenics, Nation, and Empire.' 3rd Biennial Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology
Portuguese Association of Anthropology (Lisbon, Portugal)
2006/03/13 'On commensality, kinship and relatedness in rural South China.' Research Seminar
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester (Manchester, United Kingdom)
2005/06/16 “The ‘stove-family’ and the ‘uterine family’.” Research Seminar
Department of Sociology, Nanjing University (Nanjing, China)
2003/06/05 'Gilberto Freyre in China: Metaphors and ideologies of ‘mixing’ in anthropology.' Research Seminar
Department of Anthropology, ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon (Lisbon, Portugal)
2002/12 'Infant attachment and child-rearing practices in rural South China.' Research Seminar
Dep. Anthropology University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019 - Current O ofício do fotógrafo: etnografia digital e experiência artística de fotógrafos em Belém/Pará
Supervisor
 Social-Cultural Anthropology (PhD)
University of Coimbra, Department of Life Sciences, Portugal
2019 - 2021/12/21 O vitalismo tecnológico de André Leroi-Gourhan
Supervisor
 Master in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2019 - 2021/12/20 Public Toilets in the Feminine: Portuguese Female User Perspectives on Public Toilets and the International Movement Calling for Adoption of Gender Norms
Supervisor
 Master in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2019 - 2021 Uma etnografia das saídas do armário evangélico: os reflexos do patriarcado, da heteronormatividade e da homofobia na teologia e prática evangélica no Brasil
Supervisor
 Social-Cultural Anthropology (Master)
University of Coimbra, Department of Life Sciences, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Surviving the Ruins of Hope: Life under China’s P2P Financial Crisis
Supervisor
 Social-Cultural Anthropology (PhD)
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong SAR China
2017 - 2019 Technology Choice of Taxi Drivers under E-hailing: Conventional Occupation Group under the Pressure of Sharing Economy and Post-Fordism
Supervisor
 Anthropology and Social Studies of Science and Technology (Master)
The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Social Sciences, China
2015 - 2019 The Social Life of Art Prices: Culture and History of Collecting Modern Chinese Art in Hong Kong
Supervisor
2016 - 2018 Redefining the “Self” through MartialArts. Ethics, Honor, and Moral Bodies in Transnational Kendo Networks in Hong Kong
Supervisor
 Anthropology (Master)
University of Hong Kong Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong SAR China
2016 - 2018 Mothering with Mobile Communication Technologies in Urban China
Supervisor
 Anthropology (Master)
The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Social Sciences, China
2014 - 2018 Technowelfare in Japan: Personal care robots and temporalities of care
Supervisor
 Anthropology and Social Studies of Science and Technology (PhD)
The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Social Sciences, China
2014 - 2017 Pilgrimage to Prosperity: Business Trajectories and Networking Strategies of Transnational sub-Saharan African Women Traders in Guangzhou
Supervisor
 Anthropology (Master)
The University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Social Sciences, China
2008 - 2013 Macau Sá Filo: Memória, Identidade e Ambivalência na Comunidade Euroasiática Macaense
Co-supervisor
 Social-Cultural Anthropology (PhD)
ISCTE-­University Institute of Lisbon, Department of Anthropology, Portugal
2007 - 2011 MSc dissertation projects on topics such as governmental approaches to ethnic minorities in the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China, history teaching and nationalism in 20th century China and India, amongst other themes.
Supervisor
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2009 - 2010 Economic Sustainability in China and Japan: a Look at the Evolving Role of Technology and Government Policy
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2009 - 2010 Comparing Administrative Reforms in China and the UK
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2009 - 2010 Approaches towards Iran's Nuclear Programme: The United States of America and China in Comparative Perspective
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2009 - 2010 China vis-à-vis Brasil: What Role Will These Emerging Markets Play In Tomorrows' Global Economy?
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
The London School of Economics and Political Science Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2009 - 2010 How do China and Brazil deal with water pollution challenges? A comparative perspective of two emerging countries' approach to water pollution problems
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2009 - 2010 Collectivisation and coercion: A comparative study of Stalinist and Maoist models and their impact on the peasantry
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2009 - 2010 The Relationship between Bureaucracy and Private Entrepreneur in Post-socialist Era: China and Russia in Comparative Perspective ·
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2009 - 2010 Unequal sex ratios, bride shortage & marriage migration
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009 The impact of kinship on the development of industrialisation: from the British industrial revolution to the Chinese industrialisation
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009 Squares of Memories. A comparison of Tiananmen square, Ba Dinh and the Red square
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009 History education at the service of nation-building in china and india: a comparative study of secondary school history textbooks
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
The London School of Economics and Political Science Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009 Co-operative hegemony in East Asia: A comparative study of China and Japan
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009 Empire, Ethnicity and Nation-State: China and Russia in comparative perspective
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009 Filial Daughters Now and Then – Women´s Performance of Xiao in Contemporary Urban China and Taiwan
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009 The social meaning of consumption in a globalised world: youth, mobile phones and social identity in China and India
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009 In Search of a Political Society in China: A Reflection on the Sources of China's Democratization
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009 The Reflexive Impact of Foreign Affairs on Civil Rights: A Comparison between Early Cold War America and Contemporary Xinjiang
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009 The China Economic Development Model in Comparative Perspective Versus the Washington Consensus and the East Asian Development Model
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009 The Legacies of Ch'ing and Tokugawa Scholarship: Education Modernization in the T'ung wen-Kuan and Meiji Charter Oath of 1867-1868
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009 Will china's "middle-class" lead a democratic revolution? – a re-evaluation of Seymour Martin Lipset's class-based theory on democratic change
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009 The Diaspora as an Economic Asset: How China and India use their diaspora to support their economic development
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009 Post-Socialist Economic and Political Reform: China and Albania in Comparative Perspective
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2008 - 2009 The Distribution of Pain - An Anthropological Comparison of Table Tennis Environments in China and Western Europe
Co-supervisor
 china in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2007 - 2008 Double Happiness? Or: Will Prosperity Lead to Democracy in China?
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2007 - 2008 Thirty Years of Reforms and Still No Crisis. Is China's Financial Future at Risk? Theory and Evidence
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2007 - 2008 Strategies for North East Asia. The role of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in American and Chinese foreign policy, a comparative analysis
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2007 - 2008 The Relationship between Consumerism and the Expression of Individuality among Chinese and Vietnamese Youth in the 1990s and Today
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2007 - 2008 Services Outsourcing to India and China
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2007 - 2008 Chinese and Russian Privatisation in Comparative Perspective
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2007 - 2008 Incubating a Market for Innovation: Technology Policy and Science Parks in China & Singapore
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2007 - 2008 A Silent Famine: Study of China's 1959-61 Famine in Comparative Perspective
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2007 - 2008 Are political reforms possible in China in comparison with Taiwan?
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2007 - 2008 On Ideology and Imperialism: An Exposition of Chinese and American Westward Expansion and the Interrelationship between Frontier Imperialism and the Idea of the Nation
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
2007 - 2008 One Religion, Two Fates: a Comparative Study on Dissemination of Christianity in Korea and China
Co-supervisor
 China in Comparative Perspective (Master)
London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2020/11/11 - Current Sci-Tech Asia Webinar Series (https://scitechasia.org/webinars/) (2020/11/11)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Sci-Tech Asia, Portugal
2022/09/21 - 2022/09/23 Conversas sobre a TRANSAMAZÓNICA - UMA ESTRADA PARA O PASSADO (2022), Direção: Jorge Bodanzky e Fabiano Maciel, com a presença de Nuno Godolphim 21 de setembro 18h - 19h30 | Episódio 4. Vetores da Destruição Moderação: Gonçalo D. Santos e Raoni Arraes (ambos do CIAS/UC) 23 de setembro 18h - 19h30 | Episódio 5. No Caminho dos Índios Moderação: Luís Quintais e Raoni Arraes (ambos do CIAS/UC) (2022/09/21 - 2022/09/23)
Round table (President of the Organising Committee)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2021/10/22 - 2022/01/13 International Colloquium: Pluralizing the Anthropocene II. Reenvisioning the Future of the Planet in the 21st century (Fundação Serralves) https://www.serralves.pt/en/ciclo-serralves/2112-pluralizando-o-antropoceno-ii-outono-2021/ (2021/10/22 - 2022/01/13)
Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)
 Fundação Serralves, Portugal
2021 - 2021 International Colloquium: Pluralizing the Anthropocene. Reenvisioning the Future of the Planet in the 21st century (Fundação Serralves) https://www.serralves.pt/en/ciclo-serralves/2102-pluralizing-the-anthropocene/ (2021/02/15 - 2021/05/10)
Symposium (President of the Organising Committee)
 Fundação Serralves, Portugal
2020/07 - 2020/07 International Roundtable: 'Shifting Horizons: Anthropology and STS in the 21st Century'. Organizers: Sci-Tech Asia Research Network and LOST Research Network. Biannual Meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropology, Lisbon, July 2020. (2020/07/22 - 2020/07/22)
Round table (Co-organisor)
 Sci-Tech Asia, Portugal
2019/06/07 - 2019/06/09 International Conference: 'Technology, Gender, and Reproductive Labor in East Asia 1800s-2000s' , co-organized with Jacob Eyferth (Chicago) and Suzanne Gottschang (Smith), supported by HKU CRF Project: Making Modernity in East Asia, University of Hong Kong, June 7-9 2019 (2019/06/07 - 2019/06/09)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2018/12/10 - 2018/12/11 International Conference: 'Making Modernity in East Asia. Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th-21st centuries - CRF Project Second Plenary Conference.' Organizers: Angela Leung (HKU), Christian Daniels (HKUST), Gonçalo Santos (HKU), Naubahar Sharif (HKUST), University of Hong Kong, December 10-11 2018. (2018/12/10 - 2018/12/11)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2018/10/12 - 2018/10/14 Early Career Scholar Workshop: 'Reproductive Labor and Gyno-Technologies in East Asia 1800s-2010s' , co-organized with Suzanne Gottschang (Smith) and Jacob Eyferth (Chicago), Smith College, October 12-14 2018 (2018/10/12 - 2018/10/14)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Smith College, United States
2017 - 2018 Student Field Trip to Shatin Sewage Treatment Works for the students enrolled in CCGL9051 'Technology, Power, and Culture in the Global Age'. (2017)
Other (Other)
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2017 - 2018 Capstone Project Exhibition: Disaster/Controversy Technology. Exhibition featuring all final group projects of CCGL9051 'Technology, Power, and Culture in the Global Age.' (2017 - 2018)
Exhibition (Other)
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2017 - 2018 Capstone Project Exhibition: Liberation Technology. Exhibition featuring all final group projects of CCGL9051 'Technology, Power, and Culture in the Global Age.' (2017 - 2018)
Exhibition (Other)
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2017/12/09 - 2017/12/10 International Workshop: 'Reproductive Labor and Gynocentric Technologies in East Asia 1800s-2010s - Framing Workshop' , co-organized with Jacob Eyferth (Chicago) and Suzanne Gottschang (Smith), supported by HKU CRF Project: Making Modernity in East Asia, University of Hong Kong, December 9-10 2017. (2017/12/09 - 2017/12/10)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2017/12/07 - 2017/12/08 International Conference: 'Making Modernity in East Asia. Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th-21st centuries - CRF Project First Plenary Conference.' Organizers: Angela Leung (HKU), Christian Daniels (HKUST), Gonçalo Santos (HKU), Naubahar Sharif (HKUST), University of Hong Kong, May Hall, December 7-8 2017. (2017/12/07 - 2017/12/08)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2017/09/15 - 2017/09/15 Book Launch Event: 'The Politics and Ethics of Patriarchy in Contemporary China. A Conversation about Sex, Family, and Power.' Co-organized with China Studies Centre and Department of Anthropology. Book: 'Transforming Patriarchy. Chinese Families in the 21st Century.' Edited by Gonçalo Santos and Stevan Harrell. University of Washington Press, 2017. (2017/09/15 - 2017/09/15)
Other (Co-organisor)
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2017/01/12 - 2017/01/14 ACLS International Conference: 'Humanitarianism in Action: Asia-Pacific Ethnographic Perspectives,' conference co-organized with Jun Zhang (City U) and Isaac Gagné (HKU), Funded by American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Hong Kong, January 12-14 2017. (2017/01/12 - 2017/01/14)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2016 - 2017 Student Field Trip to Happy Valley Underground Stormwater Storage Tank for the students enrolled in CCGL9051 'Technology, Power, and Culture in the Global Age'. (2016)
Other (Other)
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2016/06/22 - 2016/06/26 Double Panel: 'Rethinking Reproductive Modernities: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Reproductive Technologies in East Asia, 1800s-2010s'. Organizers: Gonçalo Santos (HKU) and Suzanne Gottschang (Smith). SHOT-in-Asia Meeting, Annual Meeting of the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Singapore, June 22-26 2016. (2016/06/22 - 2016/06/26)
Other (Co-organisor)
 Society for the History of Technology, United States
2013/06/27 - 2013/06/29 Max Planck Institute International Conference: 'Is Chinese Patriarchy Over? The Decline and Transformation of a System of Social Support,' conference co-organized with Stevan Harrell (Washington), Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale), Germany, June 27-29 2013. (2013/06/27 - 2013/06/29)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
2012/07/12 - 2012/07/13 Double Panel: 'Coping with uncertainty. Love, marriage, and intimate citizenship in Asia'. Organizers: Gonçalo Santos (HKU), Henrike Donner (Goldsmiths), and Geert de Neve (Sussex). 12th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Paris-Nanterre, July 12-13 2012. (2012/07/12 - 2012/07/13)
Other (Co-organisor)
2006/04/22 - 2006/04/23 British Academy International Conference: 'Kinship and Relatedness. Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives', conference co-organized with Susanne Brandtstädter (Manchester), funded by the British Academy, University of Manchester, April 22-23 2006. (2006/04/22 - 2006/04/23)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 The University of Manchester Social Anthropology, United Kingdom
2006/02 - 2006/02 Book Launch Event: 'History of Anthropology and Empire', Bulhosa Bookshop, Lisbon. Event co-organized with Imprensa de Ciências Sociais (Social Science Press). Book: Santos, Gonçalo. 2005. 'A Escola de Antropologia de Coimbra, 1885-1950. (The Anthropological School of Coimbra, 1885-1950)'. Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. (2006/02 - 2006/02)
Other (Co-organisor)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/09/30 - Current Moderador. Mesa Redonda Multidisciplinar: "Povos Originários, Direitos Humanos, e Responsabilidade Ambiental" com Alexandra Aragão (Universidade de Coimbra), Dinamam Tuxá (Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil), André Valécio (Centro Universitário Ibero-Americano). IV Conferência Anual de Antropologia do Ambiente, Auditório DCV, Colégio de São Bento, Universidade de Coimbra, 30 de setembro / 1 de outubro de 2023
Conference
 IV Conferência Anual de Antropologia do Ambiente
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde, Portugal
2023/05/20 - 2023/05/20 Comentador de Sessão Especlal do Filme “YOON” com a presença do realizador Ricardo Falcão
Other
 Sessão especial de cinema documental
Casa do Cinema de Coimbra, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2023/06 Arguente. Projeto de tese no âmbito do doutoramento em Arquitetura: "Redes urbanas em meio rural. Contributos para uma metodologia de reforço da Coesão Territorial a partir de uma análise dos territórios de baixa densidade no Pinhal Interior" por Isabelle Leal Freitas
(Thesis) Arguer
 Isabelle Leal Freitas (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Arquitectura, Portugal
2021/09 Arguente. Projecto de Tese no âmbito do doutoramento em Antropologia Social e Cultural. ECONOMIA(S) SEM FINS LUCRATIVOS? NOVAS LÓGICAS DE ORGANIZAÇÃO SÓCIO- ECONÓMICA EM PORTUGAL, orientada pela Professora Doutora Sandra Xavier e pelo Professor Doutor Francisco Oneto e apresentada ao Departamento de Ciências da Vida da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade de Coimbra.
(Thesis) Arguer
 Luís Filipe Franco Olival (PhD)
Universidade de Coimbra Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Portugal
2019/01/28 'An exploratory study of cross-border conjugal unions and kinship interactions.'
Thesis Member
 Wang Wei (PhD)
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2018/01 'Peasant Resistance to NGO-Based Governmentality: A case from post-quake reconstruction in Sichuan'
Thesis Member
 LIU Qing (PhD)
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2017/01 'Cross-border ‘guerrillas’ – Raising children across the Hong Kong–mainland China border (2003-2012).'
Thesis Member
 Yan Lijun (PhD)
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2013/06 'Eating Huaqiao' and the left behind: the moral and socio-economic consequences of the return of overseas Chinese to a South China village.
Thesis Member
 Chen Meixuan (PhD)
University College London Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2023 - Current Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Member
2020 - Current European Association for Chinese Studies Member
2017 - Current Founder and Director of the International Research Network: Sci-Tech Asia. Bringing Science, Technology, and Humanities Together in Asia and the World. Founder
2017 - Current International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Member
2016 - Current International Research Group: Technology, Gender, and Reproductive Labor in East Asia 1800s-2000s. Research group co-founded with Jacob Eyferth (Chicago) and Suzanne Gottschang (Smith) Convener and Founding Member
2016 - Current Society for the History of Technology Member
2014 - Current Hong Kong Anthropological Society Member
2012 - Current China Research Network: Northern Guangdong History and Culture. Research network initiated by independent scholars and colleagues based at Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou. Convener and Founding Member
2008 - Current American Anthropological Association Member
2007 - Current Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute Fellow
2007 - Current European Association of Social Anthropologists Member
2007 - Current Association for Asian Studies Member
2004 - Current Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia Member

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2017 - 2020 HKIHSS, CRF Grant Project Management Committee, University of Hong Kong
Member
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2016 - 2018 Senate, Library Committee, University of Hong Kong
Member
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2016 - 2018 Faculty of Social Sciences, Faculty Ethics Panel, Univeristy of Hong Kong
Member
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2016 - 2018 Faculty of Social Sciences, Board of Examiners, University of Hong Kong
Member
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2014 - 2018 Faculty Social Sciences, Higher Social Sciences Degrees Committee, University of Hong Kong
Member
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2014 - 2018 HKIHSS, Scholarly Affiliation Proposals Committee, University of Hong Kong
Member
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2014 - 2018 HKIHSS, Library Committee, University of Hong Kong
Member
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2014 - 2018 HKIHSS, Student-Teacher Relations Committee, University of Hong Kong
Member
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
2013 - 2018 HKIHSS, RPg Student Admissions Committee, University of Hong Kong
Member
 City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2015 - 2018 Annual FoSS Postgraduate Student Conference University of Hong Kong

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019 - 2024 Teoria e História da Antropologia II (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2020/06/05 - 2021 Master and PhD Program in Social-Cultural Anthropology, Post-Graduate Writing Seminar Master Program and PhD Program in Social-Cultural Anthropology (Pós-Graduação) University of Coimbra, Department of Life Sciences, Portugal
2020 - 2021 Teoria e História da Antropologia II Antropologia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2020 - 2021 Etnografia Digital (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2020 - 2021 Cultura Material e Museologia (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019 - 2020 Processos e Imagens. Métodos de Investigação em Antropologia Social-Cultural (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2019 - 2020 Antropologia da Religião (Licenciatura) Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2017 - 2018 Technology, Power, and Culture in the Global Age Common Core Course (Bachelor) Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong SAR China
2017 - 2018 Direct Readings on East Asian Culture Post-Graduate Course (Master) Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong SAR China
2016 - 2017 Technology, Power, and Culture in the Global Age Common Core Course (Bachelor) University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong SAR China
2016 - 2017 Marriage and the Family Marriage and the Family (Bachelor) University of Hong Kong Department of Sociology, Hong Kong SAR China
2016 - 2017 Direct Readings on East Asian Culture (Master) University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong SAR China
2015 - 2016 Politics and Society Sociology (Bachelor) University of Hong Kong Department of Sociology, Hong Kong SAR China
2015 - 2016 Direct Readings on East Asian Culture Anthropology / Asian Studies (Master) Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong SAR China
2015 - 2016 Selected Topics on Inter-Asian Connections: Ethnography and Fieldwork Anthropology / Asian Studies (Master) University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong SAR China
2014 - 2015 Direct Readings on East Asian Culture Direct Readings on East Asian Culture (Graduado) University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong SAR China
2014 - 2015 Introduction to Anthropology (Bachelor) University of Hong Kong, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong SAR China
2014 - 2015 Research Seminar on East Asian Medicine, Science, and Technology entitled 'Techno-cultures: A Cross-Disciplinary Exploration'. Anthropology / Asian Studies University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong SAR China
2014 - 2015 Direct Readings on East Asian Culture (Graduado) Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Hong Kong SAR China
2012 - 2013 Anthropology of Kinship and Gender (Bachelor) Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg Institut für Soziologie, Germany
2011 - 2012 Anthropology of China Writing Seminar (Graduado) Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
2007 - 2011 China in Comparative Perspective (Master) London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
2007 - 2009 Anthropology of Kinship, Sex, and Gender (Bachelor) London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Anthropology, United Kingdom
1998 - 1999 Anthropology, Technology, and Material Culture Sun Yat-Sen University, China

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2023/03/26 Interview Newspaper. Nicole Hong and Zixu Wang. 2023. In China, Marriage Rates Are Down and ¿Bride Prices¿ Are Up. The New York Times, March 26th 2022 The New York Times

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2022 - Current New Books Network Podcast: Chinese Village Life Today. Interview with the Author Gonçalo SANTOS (Jul 25, 2022) New Books in Chinese Studies, New Books Network
2022 - Current TechnoViews Podcast #14 "Chinese Village Life Today." Interview with Author Gonçalo D. SANTOS (May 26, 2022) Available in all major podcast platforms, including Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, etc TechnoViews features interviews with humanities and social science scholars on a wide range of topics at the intersection between science, technology, and society in the 21st century.
2022 - Current Podcast Universo Generalista Episódio #89 China Rural: Tradições, Tecnocracia e Etnografia Longitudinal. Entrevista ao antropólogo Gonçalo Santos, Disponível nas melhores plataformas de podcasts como Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, etc Universo Generalista é um podcast que transpõe as barreiras disciplinares e que busca trazer uma perspectiva científica e de pensamento crítico para diversos temas atuais que envolvem a vida humana.
Distinctions

Award

2018 Visiting Scholar Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Research Project: ¿Women and Birth in Transition. The Politics and Ethics of Childbirth Medicalization in Late Reform China¿
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Germany
2016 Fellowship G’16, American Council of Learned Societies, Conference Project: “Humanitarianism in Action: Asia-­-Pacific Ethnographic Perspectives”

Title

2019 Research Group Fellowship, Georgetown University, Initiative for U.S.-­-China Dialogue on Global Issues, Research Group Culture and Society
Georgetown University, United States
2017 Guest Scholar Fellowship, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, Germany
Universität Bielefeld, Germany
2013 Honorary Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Member of Research Group: ¿Kinship and Social Support in China and Vietnam¿
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany