Kaian Lam is an assistant professor of International Relations at the University of Macau. Her current research is aligned with International Political Sociology. She employs aesthetic strategies to study storytelling and self-styled narration in world politics.
STUDIES AND RESEARCH
Ph.D. in African Studies, School of Sociology and Public Policy, ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon
Master’s degree in African Studies, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon
Licenciatura em Línguas Estrangeiras Aplicadas, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (em Lisboa)
Bachelor of Social Science in Government & Public Administration, University of Macau
Diploma Universitário de Português Língua Estrangeira
Colégio de Santa Rosa de Lima (an English secondary school on Macau Peninsula)
ONGOING PROJECTS
Interpreting Europe: Sonic politics and the affective foundation of multilingual negotiations
A Photo-Essay of the Migrant Home: Doing International Political Sociology and Engaging the Other “Other”
Macao and Hengqin on China’s Southern Coast: Aesthetic Reading of Infrastructural Materiality and Island Integration
TEACHING
Global China and China-Africa Relations
Macao, the forum: an arts workshop for students of politics and international affairs
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political Ethnography, International Political Sociology, Aesthetics and Politics, Infrastructures, Practices of Government, Translation and Interpreting, Narrative Enquiry
Area focus: Lusophone (Angola, Cape Verde, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal, Timor-Leste)
MEMBER / ASSOCIATE
European International Studies Association
International Studies Association
Portuguese Political Science Association
Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa
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