Siyu Li
Siyu Li
Tel 0160-91047036
E-mail Siyu.Li@gcsc.uni-giessen.de
Siyu Li is a PhD candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) and the Department of Consumer Research, Communication and Food Sociology at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. She completed her master's degree in cultural anthropology at Eötvös Loránd University, also she studied global art and curatorial practice at the Tokyo University of the Arts as a research student.
Her doctoral research is about the shelf life and microbiopolitics. This research will analyze the regulation policy and conduct fieldwork from the food operator to public organizations, and then to individual kitchen practices. It involves multi-site and -species ethnography. Microbes emerge as a semiotic biological code in food regulation, representing a distinct language employed to implement a range of safety systems and knowledge practices. How to sense them, how to understand them, how to translate them across the discipline, how to eventually tell the story is her passion.
Dissertation working title: I am immortal: an investigation of parasitism and mutuality in expired food
Research interests
- Multispecies ethnography
- Microbiopolitics 🕊️
- Shelf life/ Expiration date
- Food system/ Food waste
Publications
- Li, Siyu. 2024. “Microbial Thinking”. KULT_online, no. 69 (April). https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1443.
- Siyu Li. “After Trash: Temperament of Penicillium Societies.” On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 17 (2024). <https://doi.org/10.22029/oc.2024.1448>.
Lebenslauf
Since 2023 PhD candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at the University of Giessen.
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Cultural Anthropology
Master, Cultural Anthropology, 09/2020 - 07/2022,
Thesis: “Body, power and post-humanism: contemporary female artists in Hungary”
http://hdl.handle.net/10831/87141
Tokyo University of the Art, Graduate School of Global Arts,
Department of Arts Studies and Curatorial Practices, Hasegawa Yuko Lab
Research student, Curation, 10/2018-03/2020
Tianjin University of Commerce, School of Foreign Language
Bachelor, English, 09/2013-06/2017