When I first introduced the notion of “field events” with my co-author Fangfang Li (Ahlin and Li 2019), digital technologies were becoming more common in ethnographic fieldwork, but they were still not the most popular. Only one year after the initial publication, the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic forced ethnographers around the world to incorporate these devices into their methodology as funding agencies required the suspension of face-to-face fieldwork (Cabalquinto and Ahl

The conversation explores the impact of robots on mental health and their role in healthcare. Anthropologist Tanja Ahlin and Faces of digital health host Tjasa Zajc discuss the fascination with robots, the ambiguous identity of robots, their use in elder care, the challenges of integrating robots, the global perspective on robots, and the misconceptions and realities of robots.

In January 2025, I was honoured to be invited as one of the speakers for the discussion of Payal Arora's book From Pessimism to Promise ...