Third Conference of the
China Academic Network on Gender
— An online conference series —
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KEYNOTES :
Joan Judge (York University)
Wang Zheng (University of Michigan)
organized by the
China Academic Network on Gender & York University
With the generous support of the
Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF)
WEEK 1 – TUESDAY 29 March
8am Toronto – 1pm London – 8pm Beijing
Opening Keynote Address
08:00-09:15
Joan JUDGE, York University
Women as Vernacular Knowers in the Long Republic: What We Can Learn from Cheap Print
Panel 1: Quotidian Objects and Gender in the Making
09:30-11:00
Chair: Jennifer BOND (University College London)
Discussant: ZHU Jing (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
WANG Yizhou (University of Heidelberg)
More than Cool Breeze: Courtesans’ Fans as Material Embodiment and Social Objects in the Everyday Life of Ming Dynasty
GENG Yushu (Trinity College Dublin)
Making and Selling ‘Hazeline Snow’ in Twentieth Century China
WEEK 2 – TUESDAY 5 April
8am Toronto – 1pm London – 8pm Beijing
Panel 2: Sex and the Cityscape: Negotiating Gender Through Urban Spaces
08:00-10:00
Chair: LIU Chiu-Wan (National Taiwan University)
Discussant: TANG Ling (Hong Kong Baptist University)
YIP Suk Man (University of Heidelberg)
The Gendered Images of Hong Kong in the Official Newspaper Supplements in the Early 1960s
WU Ka-ming (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
The Pink Flaneur: Feminist Activism, Urban Infrastructure, and Gendered Citizen Practices in China
LYU Xinshu (Central China Normal University)
Comparative Ethnography of Spatial Characteristics of LGBTQ and Non-LGBTQ Parks
WEEK 3 – TUESDAY 12 April
8pm Toronto – 2pm Honolulu – 8am Wednesday 13 April Beijing
Panel 3: Staging Masculinities: the Phonograph and the Page
08:00-10:00
Chair: Chang Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
Discussant: Kam Louie (The University of Hong Kong/University of New South Wales)
Chihho LIN (University of California, San Diego)
Illustrating Socialist Heroes: The Literary-Martial Ideal of Masculinity in Railroad Guerrillas
TONG Zhenkai (SOAS, University of London)
Gendering and Selling Sports Through the Funü Zazhi, 1915-1931
WEEK 4 – TUESDAY 19 April
8am Toronto – 1pm London – 8pm Beijing
Panel 4: Gadgets, Gowns and Groceries Remaking Gender Identities
08:00-10:00
Chair: Chris VOGEL (York University)
Discussant: GENG Yushu (Trinity College Dublin)
QIU Yitong (London School of Economics)
Power and Identity of Women in Qing: A Study of Women Dress by Means of Confiscation Inventory Lists
HUANG Ao (SOAS, University of London)
Trans-gender Things: Objects and the Materiality of Trans-femininity in Ming-Qing China
XIE Yanli (University College Dublin)
Cooking-related writings, gender making, and Chinese women in the 1920s and 1930s
WEEK 5 – TUESDAY 26 April
8am Toronto – 1pm London – 8pm Beijing
Panel 5: Deflecting Gender: Mirrors Mediating Femininities
08:00-10:00
Chair: Coraline JORTAY (University of Oxford)
Discussant: Amanda ZHANG (University of St Andrews)
Keru CAI (University of Oxford)
The Proximity Effect: Agency and Isolation in Eileen Chang’s “Love in a Fallen City”
Mariana ZEGIANINI (SOAS, University of London/The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Decamping the Mirror, Inhabiting the Portrait: Late Ming Portraits of Women as Gender Performance
Angela CHEUNG (SOAS, University of London)
The Chinese Boatwoman: Desire and Photographic Materiality in Nineteenth-Century Hong Kong
WEEK 6 – TUESDAY 3 May
8am Toronto – 1pm London – 8pm Beijing
Panel 6: Dressing the Part: Refashioning Gender through War and Reform
08:00-10:00
Chair: Coraline Jortay (University of Oxford)
Discussant: Anup GREWAL (University of Toronto, Scarborough)
Nicolas SCHILLINGER (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)
Flag of Our Heroes – Masculinity and Collective Memory in The Eight Hundred
Aoife CANTRILL (University of Oxford)
Three Capes, Playing Mahjong: Dressing the part in Zhang Ailing’s Shanghai
ZHANG Shimin (University of Heidelberg)
New Outfits and New Confidence: Images of Rural Women in Nongjianü Baishitong in Reform China
Closing Keynote Address:
10:00-11:15
WANG ZHENG, University of Michigan
The Chained Woman: Exposing Sexual Slavery in the 21st Century China
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Organizing committee: Jennifer BOND (University College London), Coraline JORTAY (University of Oxford), Chang LIU (CUHK Shenzhen), Chris VOGEL (York University)
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