Free entrance with registration.
Day 1 | Thursday, 14 February
13:00 | Registration |
14:00–14:15 | Conference opening and welcome address |
Vanessa Frangville (ULB), Jennifer Bond, Chang Liu, and Coraline Jortay | |
14:15–15:45 | Keynote address |
Gail Hershatter (UC Santa Cruz) Blindspotting, gender, and China’s revolutions |
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15:45 | Coffee break |
16:00–17:45 | Panel 1 | Re-envisioning audiences: gender, bodies, and readability |
Discussant: Jennifer Althenger (KCL) Chair: Coraline Jortay (ULB) XIE Chen (Birmingham), Tang Women and the art of writing GENG Yushu (Cambridge), A gendered reading public: obscene publications and spectatorship in Republican China WANG Yang (U Colorado), The internalizing gaze: urban subjectivity and ink representations of peasant women in the early PRC ZHOU Yunyun (Oxford), Narrating Funü ganbu: new discourses and visualisations of women cadres in China’s post-socialist media |
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18:00 | Speakers’ dinner |
Day 2 | Friday, 15 February
8:30 | Morning coffee |
9:00–10:30 | Panel 2 | Beyond Chineseness: intersectional approaches |
Discussant: Vanessa Frangville (ULB) Chair: Chang Liu (CUHK Shenzhen) ZHU Jing (Humboldt), Visualising human differences in late imperial China: body, nakedness, and sexuality Yasser NASSER (Chicago), The pedagogy of pan-Asian sisterhood: Xin Zhongguo funü and defending the peace of Asia Aurélia ISHITSUKA (Genève), Visual encounters in global Shanghai: racial and gendered arrangements of bodies in a coworking space |
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10:30 | Coffee break |
10:45–12:30 | Panel 3 | Gender, networks, and solidarities |
Discussant: Gail Hershatter (UC Santa Cruz) Chair: Jennifer Bond (Durham) Rebecca Karl (NYU), Tracing feminist origins of Marxism in China PI Chenying (Heidelberg), Becoming guimi (闺蜜): singleness, friendship, and the cosmopolitan city in Chinese popular culture Harriet Evans (LSE), The invisibility of nannü pingdeng in an ‘old Beijing’ neighbourhood: grassroots perspectives on changing gender relations since the eve of the PRC Béatrice Zani (Lyon 2), Towards a transnational ‘mutuality of being’: gendered solidarity networks, and affections between China and Taiwan |
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12:30 | Lunch break |
13:30–14:30 | Talk |
Derek Hird (Lancaster) Re-envisioning China through gender: a critical gaze on masculinities and postsocialist modernity |
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14:45 | Coffee break |
14:45–16:30 | Panel 4 | Queering masculinities on the page and screen |
Discussant: Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (University of Lincoln) Chair: David Paternotte (ULB) HEE Wai-Siam (Nanyang Technological University), From amorous histories to sexual histories: tracing the origins of the term pi GU Jingyi (UIUC), ‘Fanchuan’ on TV and ‘drag’ in the dance hall: gender impersonation and the legibility of Chinese queer identity Pamela Hunt (Oxford), Good fellows on the road: masculinity and the Han Han phenomenon Corrado Neri (Lyon 3), The SCUD enigma |
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16:30 | Coffee break |
16:45–18:30 | Panel 5 | Gender in the digital age |
Discussant: BAO Hongwei (Nottingham) Chair: ZHOU Yunyun (Oxford) Kara CHAN & Giovanna PUPPIN (Hong Kong Baptist University & Leicester), In the name of love? Exploring the representation of women, loving relationships, and marriage in Chinese controversial advertising campaigns GUAN Zexu (Leiden), Beauty blog and micro-business: two ways to sell beauty in digital China LIU Chiu Wan (SOAS), Changing marital power relations in the digital era? Negotiating the role of breadwinner and housekeeper in the Chinese Taobao families Taliesin Thomas (Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts), Asexual sex: expanding visions of gender in contemporary Chinese art |
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20:00–21:30 | Film screening & round table WEI Tingting, Bichina (48 mins, OV with EN subtitles) Salle de projection de la Maison des Arts (J56.3.303) |
Stijin Deklerck (KUL/Liège, producer of Bichina), Stephanie Hemelryk Donald (University of Lincoln), Berenice M. Reynaud (Lyon 3), and Marie Vermeiren (Elles Tournent/Dames Draaien Film Festival). |
Day 3 | Saturday, 16 February
8:30 | Morning coffee |
9:00–10:45 | Panel 6 | The body as a temple: inscribed mythologies |
Discussant: Françoise Lauwaert (ULB) Chair: Pamela Hunt (Oxford) MA Xu (UC Irvine), Boudoir and temple: re-imagining women’s social spaces in later imperial China Rachel Marsen & Linda Pittwood (University of the Arts London & Nottingham), ‘Gender scars’: women artists in China and beyond Zhan Feifei (SOAS), Narcissus meets Cinderella: gaze, body, and mother-daughter relationship in Narcissus Went with Carp Doris Sung (U Alabama), Sirens: the enchantresses of contemporary art in China |
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10:45 | Coffee break |
11:00–12:00 | Talk |
Pierre Kaser (Université Aix-Marseille) Variations érotiques dans les fictions de Li Yu (1611–1680) |
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12:00–13:30 | Concluding round table Out of the ‘house of gender’ and into the world |
Chair: Gail Hershatter Jennifer Altehenger, Bao Hongwei, Stephanie Hemelryk Donald, Harriet Evans, Vanessa Frangville, Derek Hird, and Rebecca Karl. |
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13:30 | Beers & Brain |
Join us to discuss the network’s future around drinks |
Scientific committee: Jennifer Altehenger (KCL), Hongwei Bao (Nottingham), Jennifer Bond (Durham), Stijn Deklerck (KU Leuven), Eric Florence (Liège/CEFC HK), Derek Hird (Lancaster), Denise Y. HO (Yale), Michel Hockx (Notre Dame), Andrea Janku (SOAS), Françoise Lauwaert (ULB), Chang Liu (CUHK Shenzhen), LIU Jieyu (SOAS), David Paternotte (ULB).
Organizing committee: Vanessa Frangville, Eric Florence, Coraline Jortay, Chang Liu, Jennifer Bond.
In partnership with the Université de Liège, the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, the SOAS China Institute, the Department of History at King’s College London, and the Centre for Gender and Cultural Studies at East China Normal University (ECNU).
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Chang (January 22, 2019). Conference programme: Re-envisioning gender in China. China Academic Network on Gender — CHANGE. Retrieved April 22, 2025 from https://doi.org/10.58079/mn60