Assistant Professor of Anthropology Chenyu Wang delivered a keynote address titled “Learning to Be Vulnerable in American Universities: How Frameworks of Recognition Shape Politics and Belonging among Chinese Students” at the 2026 Ethnography in Education Research Forum. It took place at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education on Feb. 7.
In the talk, she examined the limitations of liberal frameworks of recognition in U.S. higher education and discusses how forms of technological mediation (i.e., generative writing tools such as ChatGPT) reproduce racialized norms of voice and vulnerability.