Conference Presentations

  • C. Kefala. “AI as Performer, AI as Creator: China’s New Aesthetic Order.” Cultural Studies Association, California Institute of the Arts–Valencia, California, May 29 - 31, 2025 (accepted).

  • C. Kefala. “Silicon Dreams, National Schemes. AI and the Rise of Digital Nationalism in China’s Cultural Industries.” Global Southing Internet Workshop, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, March 25-26, 2025.

  • C. Kefala. “Klara under China’s AI sun.” ICAS 13, Surabaya, Indonesia, July 28 – August 1, 2024.

  • C. Kefala. “Whispers of Innovation: Foreign Entrepreneurs Crafting Identity in China's Digital Business Landscape.” EASA 2024: Doing and Undoing with Anthropology. Barcelona, Spain, July 23-26, 2024.

  • C. Kefala. “The Racialized Artificial Female Body in China’s Business Sector.” American Anthropological Association, Toronto, Canada, November 15-19, 2023.

  • C. Kefala. “The Affective Intimacy Between Whiteness and Artificial Intelligence in China.” China- Europe: Reconnecting in an Era of Competition and Rivalry? – CHERN Joint Working Group Conference, Vrije University, Amsterdam, Netherlands, September 7-8, 2023.

  • C. Kefala. “Women Who Tech: Strategies and Branding Among Foreign Women Entrepreneurs in China.” ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia, June 25 – July 1, 2023.

  • C. Kefala. “Under the Skin: ‘White’ artificial intelligence in China’s business sector.” American Ethnological Society. Indeterminacy, Princeton University, March 23-25, 2023.

  • C. Kefala. “Under the Skin: ‘White’ artificial intelligence in China’s business sector.” International workshop. Researching whiteness in a transnational pandemic context, University of Amsterdam, December 1-2, 2022.

  • C. Kefala. “I'm not an Alien. I'm a digital ethnographer: Doing online research through China’s social media.” QUAMAFA (Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia). Innovative Research Designs and Methods in Asian Migration Research. Goethe University, Frankfurt, 18 July - 19 July 2022.

  • C. Kefala. “Young Foreign Migrant Entrepreneurs in China: negotiating gender and race in migration and in creative and online businesses.” IMISCOE Conference, on "Migration and Time: Temporalities of Mobility, Governance, and Resistance", OsloMet University, Oslo, 28 June – 1 July 2022.

  • C. Kefala. “Make it Pop! Business practices and branding among foreign brands and entrepreneurs on China’s social media platforms.” Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Productions, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 01-02 June 2022.

  • C. Kefala. “China's Lost Dreamers: How young western entrepreneurs renegotiate their aspirations, skills and racial capital in pandemic times.” China- White Workshop, Racialization and Social Boundary - Making in Times of COVID-19, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 02-04 December 2019.