Kaian LAM 林嘉欣
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Tel: +853 8822 4552
Office: 4045, Humanities and Social Sciences Building (E21B)
E-mail: kaianlam@um.edu.mo
- PhD Degree in African Studies, ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
- Master in African Studies, Institute of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Undergraduate Program in Applied Foreign Languages, Catholic University of Portugal, Portugal
- Bachelor of Social Sciences in Government and Public Administration, University of Macau, Macao, China
- Political Ethnography
- International Political Sociology
- Aesthetics and Politics
- Infrastructures
- Practices of Government
- Translation and Interpreting
- Lam, K. (2025). Photo-Essay of the Migrant Home: Doing International Political Sociology and Engaging the Other “Other”. International Political Sociology 19(2): olaf012. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olaf012
- Lam, K. (2025). Macao and Hengqin on China’s Southern Coast: Aesthetic Reading of Infrastructural Materiality and Island Integration. Visual Studies: 1–14 (online first). https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2025.2519739
- Lam, K. (2024). Interpreting Europe: Sonic Politics and the Affective Foundation of Multilingual Negotiations. Mediterranean Politics 30(3): 557–81. https://doi.org/10.1080/13629395.2024.2345523
Kaian Lam（林嘉欣）is based in Macau. Her more recent research is dedicated to Portuguese Speaking Countries and Regions. Currently she serves as an assistant professor of International Relations at the University of Macau.
There is a place for storytelling and self-styled narration in world politics. Kaian Lam develops her projects within International Political Sociology (www.kaianlam.com).
Her research on multilingual negotiations in Europe was awarded by the Diplomatic Studies Section (DPLST) of the International Studies Association.
Besides the academic credentials and European Commission training, Kaian Lam accumulated some years of local experience working for the Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Civil Service & Public Administration Bureau.
She was invited to sit on the Public Administration Reform Consultation Committee.
Kaian Lam taught gastronomical history and food security courses at the Macao University of Tourism.