Activities

2025

• 24 October 2025 – "Chinese in DR Congo: Reciprocal Migration, Conjugal Mixedness, and Power Inequalities", Course "China in Africa" (coordinator: Antonella Ceccagno), University of Bologna (Italy)

• 12 September 2025 – "Boundary Brokerage: Sino-Congolese Couples Bridging Intergroup Boundaries in Congo (DRC)", 15th European Summer School for the Anthropology of Development and Social Dynamics, KU Leuven & UCLouvain (Belgium)

• 02  July 2025 – "Decentring the West and Whiteness: A Relational Approach to Power and Privilege in South-South Migration – A Case Study of Sino-Congolese Couples in Congo (DRC)", Panel "Privileged Mobility and Transnational Conjugality: Reconsidering Global Power Relations from an Intersectional and Intimate Perspective" (chaired by Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot & Laure Sizaire), 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference “Decentering Migration Studies”, Campus Condorcet, Paris–Aubervilliers (France)

• 02 July 2025 – "Running Away: What the Emergence of Chinese Diasporic LGBTQ+ Organisations Reveals about LGBTQ+ Migration from Mainland China to Western Europe" (with Xingcheng Wen), Panel "New Directions in Queer and Trans Migration Research: Transnational Solidarities" (chaired by Sarah Scuzzarello), 22nd IMISCOE Annual Conference “Decentering Migration Studies”, Campus Condorcet, Paris–Aubervilliers (France)

• 25 June 2025 – "Misunderstanding, Unspoken Understanding, and Mutual Understanding: Cryptopolitics in Segregated Interactions Between Congolese and Chinese in Congo (DRC)",10th European Conference on African Studies "African, Afropolitan, and Afropean Belongings", Charles University, Prague (Czech Republic)

• 13 June 2025 – Roundtable Discussion "A Gaze Without a Gaze: African and Chinese Getting Together in Daily Life" (organised by Florence Padovani, Gis Asie), Africa-Asia, A New Axis of Knowledge 3 Conference-Festival, Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD), Dakar (Senegal)

• 12 June 2025 – "Boundary Brokerage: Sino-Congolese Couples Bridging Intergroup Boundaries in Congo (DRC)", Africa-Asia, A New Axis of Knowledge 3 Conference-Festival, Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD), Dakar (Senegal)

• 18 April 2025 – « Dans l’ombre des engagements Chine-Afrique : asymétries, migration réciproque et couples sino-congolais », Seminar PopAsiE (Asian Population in Europe), Sciences Po Paris (France)

• 31 March 2025 – « Dissolution des frontières ? La (dé)construction des frontières ethnoraciales individuelles au sein des couples sino-congolais résidant au Congo (RDC) »  (discutante : Laura Odasso), Séminaire Afriques, Noria Research (2024-2025), Paris (France) (Online)

• 27 March 2025 – Table-ronde « Queer d’origine asiatique en France: représentation et discriminations dans la vie affective et sexuelle », co-organisée par Brûlant-e-s (association d'éducation à la vie affective et sexuelle) & AJCF (Association des Jeunes Chinois de France), Paris (France)

• 14 February 2025 – "Boundary Dissolution? The (Un)Making of Individual Boundaries in Sino-Congolese Couples Residing in Congo (DRC)", BelMix Seminar Series (2024-2025), Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

• 22 January 2025 – "Ethnographer as Bricoleur: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Boundaries in Field Research", EASt Seminar « Retour de terrain : Chine, Congo et Laos », Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

• 17 January 2025 – "Boundary Bricoleurs: The Management of Variegated Differences among Sino-Congolese Couples Residing in Congo (DRC)”, International workshop "Coupling across Boundaries: Race, Migration and Chinese/Foreign Relationships", University of Amsterdam (the Netherlands)

• 13 January 2025 – "Sharing Experiences on Fieldwork - A Conversation" (with Rishuai Chen), Field school "Sea-ing Africa: Tracing Legacies and Engaging Future Promises of ‘Big’ Infrastructure Projects in Port City Regions in Ghana and Morocco", Netherlands Institute Morocco, Rabat (Morocco)

• 10 January 2025 – "Boundary Dissolution? The (Un)Making of Individual Boundaries in Sino-Congolese Couples Residing in Congo (DRC)", The 2025 CA/AC Early Career Scholars' Workshop, Mohammed IV Polytechnic University, Rabat (Morocco)

2024

• 13 December 2024 – “Boundary Dissolution? The (Un)Making of Individual Boundaries in Sino-Congolese Couples Residing in Congo (DRC)”, 67th African Studies Association (ASA) Annual Meeting (2024) “Global Africa”, Chicago, IL (USA)

• 28 November 2024 – « Rencontres sino-congolaises : l’organisation sociale des différences dans le Congo postcolonial », Séminaire « Ethnicité et nationalisme » (responsable : Lisa Richaud), Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

• 21 November 2024 – « Les Chinois au Congo (RDC) : de la (non) mixité sociale à la mixité conjugale », Cours « Rencontres Afrique-Chine : héritage historique et réalités contemporaines » (responsable : Hang Zhou), Université Laval (Canada) (Online)

• 21 November 2024 – « Ethnicité, nationalisme, et sexualité : homonationalisme et identité chinoise dans les rencontres queer sino-australiennes - approche autoethnographique » (séance co-encadrée avec Lisa Richaud), Séminaire « Ethnicité et nationalisme » (responsable : Lisa Richaud), Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

• 19 November 2024 – « Au-delà de la victimité : vers une approche relationnelle et intersectionnelle de la racialisation sexuelle chez les migrants gays chinois », Colloque « Sexualité, racisme et migrations », Institut Convergences Migrations (ICM), Aubervilliers (France)

• 04 October 2024 – “Revisiting the Marriage-Migration Nexus in the Global South: Asymmetries of Chinese-Congolese Couples under State Regulations”, International Congress “Reframing Journeys: Migration and Cultural Dialogues in Europe’s Changing Landscape”, Sciences Po Lille, Lille (France)

• 17 June 2024 – « Trois espaces-temps de la migration des étudiants gays chinois vers la France », Événement au grand publique « Asiatiques queers en France : entre désirs et désenchantements », MAF, Paris (France) (Online)

2023

• 08 December 2023 - Roundtable Discussion “Domestic violence in ‘mixed’ couples involving Asians” by BelMix research team, with the contribution “The situation of Chinese migrants” (with Lucas Monteil), Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

• 08 December 2023 – “China-Africa Intimate Encounters: Unpacking How Chinese-Congolese Couples Navigate Ethnoracial Boundaries in the Postcolonial DR Congo”, 3rd Congo Research Network (CRN) PhD Days, December 07-08, 2023, Africamuseum, Tervuren (Belgium)

• 17 November 2023 – “China-Africa-Europe Onward Migration from an Aspirations-Capabilities Framework: The Circulation of French-Speaking Chinese Migrants among Francophone Countries”, 6th CERPE Workshop “In an Era of Uncertainties and New Opportunities – Chinese Migrations in Europe” (CERPE: China-Europe Research Platform on Chinese Migration to and beyond Europe), November 16-17, 2023, Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology (CIES-Iscte), Lisbon (Portugal)

• 03 October 2023 – “Revisiting ‘Marriage Migration’ through the Biographical Accounts of Two Chinese Women Who Are Married to Congolese Men and Living in the DR Congo”, EASt Young Scholar Seminar 2023, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

• 06 July 2023 – “Being Gay, Son, and Chinese: Understanding the Multiple Roles of Chinese Gay Students in France and their Non-Linear Migration Trajectories”, 20th IMISCOE Annual Conference “Migration and Inequalities: In search of answers and solutions”, July 03-06, 2023, University of Warsaw (Poland)

• 25 May 2023 – « Mobilités et enjeux de santé sexuelle des jeunes migrants gays chinois en France : une étude exploratoire », Journées d’études « HSH nés à l’étranger », 25-26 mmai 2023, Campus Condorcet, Paris (France)

• 06 April 2023 – “Migration and Sexual (Re)Socialization: The Case of Young Chinese Gay Migrant Men in France”, Workshop “Chinese Migration to Europe and China’s Diaspora Governance”, French Research Institute on East Asia (IFRAE), Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO), Paris (France)

• 29 March 2023 - Atelier « Favoriser l’entraide mutuelle, la solidarité et le mentorat parmi les chercheur.e.s émergeant.e.s queers et trans migrant.e.s et racisé.e.s » organisé par Pr. Edward Ou Jin Lee and Dr. Gerardo Perfors-Barradas, avec la participation de Nancy Nzeyimana Cyizere, Clark Pignedoli, Axel Ravier, Cai Chen, Yi-Jhen Chen et Damien Trawale, Institut de Géographie, Sorbonne Université, Paris (France)

• 06 March 2023 – « La Chine oppressive versus la France libérale ? : mobilités des étudiants homosexuels d’origine chinoise en France », Séminaire “Sexualités et genre dans le monde sinophone” (responsable : Yi-Jhen Chen), Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis (France)

• 09 February 2023 – “Between the ‘Virtual’ and the ‘Real’: Benefits and Challenges of Using Wechat to Research Chinese Queer Sojourners in France”, International Workshop "WeChat Ethnography: New Practices and Limits of an Emerging Research Method (Part-2)”, February 09-10, 2023, University of Geneva (Switzerland)

• 03 February 2023 - “Negotiating Sexuality and Kinship: The Multidirectional Trajectories of Chinese Gay Students in France and their Dilemma of ‘Return’ or ‘Remain’, International Seminar “Chinese Educational Mobilities in Europe and Beyond”, WG5: Labour and Migration, China in Europe Research Network-CHERN (Online)

2022

• 13 December 2022 – « Sexualité et mobilités : trajectoires des étudiants homosexuels d’origine chinoise en France » (discutant : Regis Schlagdenhauffen), Séminaire EHESS (2022-2023) « La Chine contemporaine et ses diasporas : l'apport des sciences sociales » (responsable : Simeng Wang) (EHESS : École des hautes études en sciences sociales), Campus Condorcet (France)

• 12 November 2022 – “Sexuality, Socialization and Inequalities on the Move: The Lived Experience of Young Chinese Gay Migrant Men in France and Belgium” (with Aaron Raphael Ponce), ISSCO XI: 30th Anniversary Conference “Diasporic Futures: Sinophobia, Techno-Political Strife, and the Politics of Care” (ISSCO: International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas世界海外华人研究学会), November 11-12, 2022, San Francisco (United States) (Online)

• 17 January 2022 - “Sexuality and Mobility: The Trajectories of Gay Students from China to France and beyond”, IFRAE-UOS Joint Seminar on Migration and Gender, French Research Institute on East Asia (IFRAE, France) and University of Seoul (UOS, South Korea) (Online)

2021

• 19 November 2021 - “Rethinking the Gay Chinese Migrant: A Comparative Case Study of Sex(uality) as Motivation among Informants in Paris and Brussels” (with Aaron Raphael Ponce), 4th CERPE Workshop in Paris “Chinese Migrations in Europe: between Continuity and Renewal” (CERPE: China-Europe Research Platform on Chinese Migration to and beyond Europe), November 18-19, 2021, CNRS Campus-Villejuif, Île-de-France (France)

• 03 June 2021 - “Sexuality and Mobility: The Trajectories of Gay Students from China to France and beyond”, Webinar Mitra “Crossing Perspectives on Transnational Migrations: An Interdisciplinary Approach”, June 02-03, 2021, Université de Lille (France) (Online)

• 05 February 2021 - “Using Virtual Ethnography amid Covid-19: Exploring Sexuality and Mobility in the Trajectories of Gay Students from China to France and beyond”, Seminar of Master Students under Prof. Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) (Online)

Seminar Series

• 2025-2026 – Critical Approaches to Race Seminar Series, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) & Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium

• 2025-2026 – ABBA Seminar Series (Anthropologie à Bruxelles – Brussels Anthropology), Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium

• 2025-2026 – Midis de STRIGES Seminar Series, Structure de recherche interdisciplinaire sur le genre, l’égalité et la sexualité (STRIGES), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium

• 2021-Present – BelMix Seminar Series (conjugal mixedness, intimacies, and migration), Laboratory of Anthropology of Contemporary Worlds (LAMC), Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium

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Other Events

2026

• 08-10 April 2026 – 15th bi-annual doctoral seminar of the programme ‘Migrations & Cultural Diversity’ of the EDTSS (École doctorale thématique en sciences sociales), Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

• 15-16 January 2026 – 4th Congo Research Network PhD Days, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)

2025

• 29 January 2025 – BelMix Documentary screening & discussion “A Part of Us” with Catherine Therrien, by BelMix research team, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

2024

• 08 February 2024 – EASt Start-of-the-Semester Gathering and Book Presentation: “Chinese in France amid the Covid-19 Pandemic” by EASt, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

2023

• 08 December 2023 – Roundtable Discussion "Domestic violence in ‘mixed’ couples involving Asians", BelMix research team, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

• 13 October 2023 – EASt-JSPS Research Project’s Hybrid Workshop “COVID-19 pandemic experiences of Filipino migrant workers with common roots but different routes”, EASt/MSH, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

• 03 October 2023 – EASt Young Scholar Seminar 2023, EASt/MSH, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

• 25-26 May 2023 – Journées de travail “HSH nés à l’étranger”, funded by ANRS (French National Agency for Research on AIDS), Campus Condorcet, Paris (France)

2022

• 09 December 2022 – Mitra Public Lecture “The role of cultural factors in processes of adaptation of immigrants in Poland” by Prof. Marcelina Zuber (University of Wrocław, Poland), Master Mitra, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

• 25 November 2022 – Book Discussion “Understanding migration and mobilities through a lens of tangleness” with Prof. Noel B. Salazar & Prof. Adrian Favell, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

• 21 March 2022 – Postgraduate Workshop Mitra “Migration research methods in the time of COVID-19 pandemic: Challenges and strategies”, Master Mitra, Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

• 10, 11, 22 February & 11 March 2022 – Screenings-debates of the documentary of the ‘MigraChiCovid’ research team “Between Two Worlds: The Chinese Diaspora in France in the Time of Covid-19”, Paris & Aubervilliers, Île-de-France (France)

• 02 February-01 April 2022 – Photography exposition of the ‘MigraChiCovid’ research team “(Sans) Frontières au temps du coronavirus : Regards croisés sur la population d’origine chinoise en France”, the Library "Grand équipement documentaire" (GED), Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, Île-de-France (France)

2021

• 18-19 November 2021 – 4th CERPE Workshop in Paris “Chinese Migrations in Europe: between Continuity and Renewal”, CNRS Campus Villejuif, Île-de-France (France)

• 26 July 2021 – Book Launch Event “Chinese Immigrants in Europe: Image, Identity and Social Participation”, Paris (France)

• 02-03 June 2021 – Webinar Mitra “Crossing Perspectives on Transnational Migrations: An Interdisciplinary Approach”, Université de Lille (France)