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 Southward collaborations", library representative
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
Winter term 2021/22
„The Politics of Traditional Medicines“
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, FU Berlin
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.
