Karoline Buchner
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research Associate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Preparation of Project "Taiwan's precarious partnerships: Chinese medicine as a form of everyday diplomacy in South-South collaborations", library responsible
Room 105
14195 Berlin
Office hours
summer semester 2021:
appointment for tel. or WebEx office hours only via Email: karoline.buchner@fu-berlin.de
she/her
since April 2020
Research Associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin
Jan 2019 – May 2020
Research Associate at the Institute of Chinese Life Sciences, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Oct 2016 – Feb 2020
MA Social and Cultural Anthropology, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin
Thesis „Cultivating Competence – Chinese Medicine Student Clubs in Taipei, Taiwan,“ research grant: PROMOS
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger, Dr. Caroline Meier zu Biesen
Oktober 2013 – November 2016
BA Area Studies Asia/Africa, incl. exchange semester at National Taiwan University (NTU), Taipei, scholarship: PROMOS
Thesis „A discovery from the treasure trove? The CCP and the Nobel Prize for Medicine 2015“
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Henning Klöter, Prof. Dr. Boike Rehbein
Summer term 2021
„Methods in social and cultural anthropology“
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin
Winter term 2020/21
„Introduction to topics and theories in social and cultural anthropology“
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin
Summer term 2020
„Ethnographies of China(s) – An Introduction“
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin
Winter term 2014/15, summer terms 2015 and 2016
Tutorial „Debates in Area Studies“
Institute of Asian and African Studies, HU Berlin
Publications
2020a "Chasing the Crisis: On the "Coronification" of Anthropological Research." boasblogs – Fieldwork meets Crisis.
2020b "Cultivating Competence. Chinese Medicine Student Clubs in Taipei, Taiwan." Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin. DOI:10.17169/refubium-27288.
2020c (with M. Schnepf) “Where is my mind? Ecologies of healing and care in more-than-human worlds.” Curare: Journal of Medical Anthropology 42 (1+2).
2019 (with U. Probst and M. Schnepf) “Creative methods and participatory arts research in medical anthropology: Conference report of the 9th MAYS meeting.” Blog Medizinethnologie.
Presentations
April 12, 2019. „Between Academization and Informalization – Ways into the Profession of Chinese Medicine in Taiwan”
European Association of Taiwan Studies Conference, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK, 10.-12. April 2019.
