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Call for Papers: Voicing Gender in China
Fourth Conference of the China Academic Network on Gender
Dates: 17-18 June 2025
Location: Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris (France)
Deadline for abstracts (300 words): 1 February 2025
Send to: voicinggenderinchina@gmail.com
We are pleased to announce that the Fourth Conference of the China Academic Network on Gender will be hosted by the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle on 17-18 June 2025. Titled ‘Voicing Gender in China,’ the conference seeks to explore the multiple sites of intersection between voice and gender in Chinese society, past and present.
Within Chinese studies, fruitful articulations between voice and gender studies have drawn from studies of women’s political activism in history and sociology, exploring the ways in which activists and organisers have articulated new political identities in rallying cries and everyday protest. Literary scholars have looked at the shaping of gendered subjectivities through self-narratives and autobiographies, paying close attention to dialogue, orality and the mechanisms of silencing within literary establishments. In recent years, an explosion of sensory histories have explored how gender is enacted and defined through music, opera, dance and song. In parallel, sound studies scholars have brought to life the gendered soundscapes of modern and contemporary China in considering, for instance, the production of socialist state-sponsored music as well as the aural experiences of everyday life. Drawing from these multivocal approaches, this conference seeks to explore ways of rewriting into academic scholarship previously silenced minority voices, paying attention to the affective and political resonances of voicing out gender issues in different spaces, academic and public-facing.
Interdisciplinary at heart, the conference aims to bring together scholars (including doctoral, postdoctoral, early, mid and advanced career researchers) from the humanities and social sciences working on gender and China. We seek proposals that articulate issues of gender in relation to voice broadly construed, in a range of disciplines including but not limited to: gender studies, media studies, cultural studies, film studies, literature, history, sociology, anthropology, queer studies.
During the workshop participants will be encouraged to frame their own work in discussion with other researchers’ papers. They will also have the chance to gain feedback on their research from leading scholars in the field who will act as discussants in each panel session. Outstanding papers will be considered for publication in an edited volume.
Participating scholars
The opening keynote speaker, Prof. Howard Chiang (University of California, Santa Barbara), is a historian of queer Asian Pacific history, the author of several books, including After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (Columbia UP, 2018) and Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific (2021). Prof. Rachel Harris (SOAS), who is an ethnomusicologist and has worked extensively on the soundscapes of Uyghur islam in China, will also present her latest research in the closing keynote. Dr Jennifer Bond (University College London), Dr. Chang Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen), Dr Coraline Jortay (CNRS UMR 7172 Thalim Sorbonne Nouvelle/ENS), Dr. Beatrice Zani (CNRS, LISE UMR 3302) will also participate as panel discussants.
Submission
Please send a 300 word abstract to voicinggenderinchina@gmail.com, including your full name, institutional affiliation, email address, and a short bio before 1 February 2025. Applicants will be notified of the outcome by mid-February 2025, and successful applicants will need to submit full papers two weeks prior to the conference (1 June 2025). We are currently in the process of exploring options for providing funded on-site childcare for conference participants. If you would be interested in this option, please indicate the age, languages spoken, and specific needs (if applicable) of any children travelling with you in your submission email.
For further information, please contact the workshop committee at the above email address.
Calendar
– Deadline for abstract: 1 February 2025
– Notification of acceptance: mid-February 2025
– Deadline for full submission: 1 June 2025
Organisers: China Academic Network on Gender & Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Organising committee: Jennifer Bond (UCL), Chang Liu (CUHK Shenzhen), Coraline Jortay (CNRS)
Scientific committee: Jennifer Bond (University College London), Aoife Cantrill (University of Oxford), Po-hsi Chen (Academia Sinica), Coraline Jortay (CNRS UMR 7172 Thalim Sorbonne Nouvelle/ENS), Chang Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen), Béatrice Zani (CNRS, LISE UMR 3302)
Premières journées d’étude francophones Genre et Chine
Comité organisateur:
Lyce JANKOWSKI (Musée royal de Mariemont) et Coraline JORTAY (Université d’Oxford)
Université libre de Bruxelles / Musée royal de Mariemont
Vendredi 10 et Samedi 11 Juin 2022
Avec le soutien de
Entrée libre sur inscription
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PROGRAMME
JOUR 1 – Vendredi 10 juin
Université libre de Bruxelles, Institut d’études européennes, salle Kant
Accueil
9:30-10:00
Panel 1: Métaphores du genre
10:00-11:15
Discutante: Coraline JORTAY (Université d’Oxford)
LI Pei-ci (Cergy Paris Université)
Changeantes comme les nuages, dures comme un glaçon : La métaphore Les femmes sont de l’eau en chinois et les pratiques sociales qu’elle implique
Bérénice REYNAUD (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
Les Anges portent du blanc : vulnérabilité et féminité en Chine contemporaine
Pause café
11:15-11:30
Panel 2: Féminismes d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, d’ici et d’ailleurs
11:30-13:00
Discutante : Vanessa FRANGVILLE (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Léa BUATOIS (Chercheuse indépendante)
Yan Bin et sa revue des Nouvelles Femmes Chinoises (1907) : quel apport pour la construction d’un corpus féministe en langue chinoise ?
WU Lebing (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
Le courant féministe manifesté dans la réception du cinéma chinois contemporain – Étude de cas : Hi, Mom (2021) de Jia Ling
Fanny CARON (Aix-Marseille-Université)
Corps genré, luttes (éco)féministes, et « retour à la tribu » chez trois femmes paiwan : Liglav Awu, Aluaiy Kaumakan, et Abao
Pause déjeuner (réservée aux présentateurs)
13:00-14:15
Panel 3: Genre, migrations, discriminations
14:15-15:30
Discutant: Eric FLORENCE (ULiège)
JIANG Xiaoyi (Université de Lausanne)
Nouvelles formes d’inégalités de genre et sociales: le cas des migrantes manucures chinoises en région parisiennne
Aaron PONCE (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Mamasang, sœur, salope : Réflexions sur l’humour sexuel féminisé comme méthode ethnographique chez les sujets homosexuels migrants
Pause café
15 :30-15:45
Panel 4 : Question du corps ?
15:45-17:00
Discutant : Lucas MONTEIL (Université libre de Bruxelles)
HOU Renyou (Université Paris Nanterre)
Inégalités de genre dans l’accès aux pratiques de la PMA en Chine
LIN Siyao et Thomas BAUER (Université de Limoges)
Une coach héroïque : Leap de Peter Chan (2020)
[Soirée libre à Bruxelles]
JOUR 2 – Samedi 11 juin
Musée royal de Mariemont
Départ collectif en bus vers le domaine et Musée royal de Mariemont
08:45 – départ Avenue Jeanne 44, 1000 Bruxelles
Panel 5 : Androgynes
10:00-11:30
Discutant : Vincent DURAND-DASTES (INALCO)
Françoise LAUWAERT (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Celles qui font un pas de côté : Femmes déguisées et travesties de la Chine impériale
Pierrick RIVET (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)
Une féminisation des personnages homosexuels dans la littérature vernaculaire de la fin des Ming ? L’exemple du Bian’er chai 弁而釵 (Épingle sous le bonnet)
HSU Chun-Han (Université d’Oxford)
L’androgyne chinois: Bijou-de-ceinture ou le jeune homme qui porte robe, se poudre et se farde par George Soulié de Morant
Pause café
11:30-11:45
Discussion générale :
Challenges et méthodes de la recherche en genre sur la Chine
11:45-13:00
Lunch de clôture (réservé aux présentateurs)
13 :00
Visite libre de l’exposition « La Chine au féminin. Une aventure moderne » et après-midi libre dans le domaine
14 :30
Retour collectif en bus vers Bruxelles
16:30 à l’entrée principale du Domaine de Mariemont
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Making Gender in China
Third Conference of the
China Academic Network on Gender
— An online conference series —
Register here
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)
Appel à communication: Genre et Chine
Appel à communication
Genre et Chine
Journées d’étude
Vendredi 10 et samedi 11 juin 2022
Université libre de Bruxelles / Musée royal de Mariemont
Très tôt, les chercheur.ses travaillant sur la Chine ont développé des questions liées au genre, qui ont été intégrées à divers domaines de recherches relevant aussi bien des sciences sociales que des sciences humaines. On remarque néanmoins que les publications et les manifestations scientifiques restent essentiellement anglophones. Pourtant, un nombre toujours plus grand de chercheur.ses francophones travaillent sur ces thématiques – sans toujours toutefois avoir l’occasion de se rencontrer ni de réfléchir ensemble aux éventuelles spécificités francophones d’une recherche en études de genre dans le contexte chinois.
Les journées d’étude – Genre et Chine – visent à rassembler les chercheur.ses partageant le français comme l’une de leurs langues de travail afin de favoriser les rencontres et les échanges sur des recherches en cours. Il s’agira de mettre au jour de quelle manière les questions de genre nous permettent de jeter un nouveau regard sur les dynamiques et relations de pouvoir de la société chinoise et de ses pratiques culturelles. Ces journées favoriseront tout particulièrement les contributions de chercheur.ses doctorants et post-doctorants, qui pourront confronter leurs perspectives et recevoir un retour sur leurs travaux des chercheur.ses confirmés. Ces journées sont envisagées comme une occasion de réfléchir ensemble à la manière dont les études de genre et les études chinoises s’articulent dans le monde francophone. Elles ont pour vocation d’offrir un espace inclusif de dialogue et une plateforme fédératrice pour les chercheur.ses travaillant sur ces thématiques et de développer des réseaux académiques de solidarité.
Les journées d’étude – Genre et Chine – auront lieu à l’Université libre de Bruxelles le vendredi 10 juin et au Musée royal de Mariemont le samedi 11 juin. Cette manifestation se tiendra en marge de l’exposition La Chine au féminin. Une aventure moderne (2 avril – 23 octobre) qui aborde la représentation culturelle des femmes en Chine au 20esiècle. Ces journées se font en partenariat avec le China Academic Network on Gender (CHANGE), le Centre de recherche de l’Université libre de Bruxelles dédié à l’Asie de l’Est (EASt) et la Structure de recherche interdisciplinaire sur le genre, l’égalité et la sexualité (STRIGES).
Les propositions de communication, en français, d’environ 300 mots, sont à envoyer avec un court CV avant le 15 mars 2022 aux organisatrices Coraline Jortay (Université d’Oxford) et Lyce Jankowski (Musée royal de Mariemont) aux adresses suivantes : coraline.jortay@orinst.ox.ac.uk et lyce.jankowski@cfwb.be.
Les auteur.e.s dont les contributions auront été acceptées seront notifié.e.s à la fin du mois de mars. Les communications seront ensuite attendues jusqu’au 31 mai 2022.
Call for papers: Making Gender in China
Third Biennial Conference of the China Academic Network on Gender
Conference title: Making Gender in China: Third Biennial Conference of the China Academic Network on Gender
Dates: March 29-May 3, 2022. 2hr panels will be held weekly as a virtual conference series on Tuesdays, Toronto time (EST, UTC-5).
Location: York University, Toronto (online)
Deadline for Abstracts (250 words) – 7 January 2022
Send to: change@ulb.be
We are pleased to announce that the Third Biennial Conference of the China Academic Network on Gender (CHANGE) will be hosted virtually by York University, Toronto.
The theme of the conference will be ‘Making Gender in China.’ We seek to explore how gender is enacted, negotiated, and disrupted through objects and in the process of making them. How does scrutinizing things (a poem, a cookbook, a translation, a sword, a piece of furniture, noodles, an online protest, or a piece of legislation) help inform and reshape our understanding of gender in China itself? Indeed, material culture and gender studies share a reciprocal methodological outlook on the construction of societal norms. They ask not only how objects – or gender – are being shaped by society, but also how the material world – or gender – in turn shape society itself. Within Chinese studies, fruitful articulations between material culture and gender studies have first focused on areas such as dress, spinning, weaving (Bray, 1997; Ko, 2005). Recent work has expanded into the realm of literati’s writing apparatus, dictionaries and other domestic objects such as furniture, drawing our attention to the importance of interrogating the materiality of the everyday (Ko, 2017; Althenger and Ho, forthcoming). This workshop invites scholars to explore further how gendered divisions of labour or gender roles inform and shape the social lives of objects and vice-versa. If we take gender as a site of social construction, one that is “made,” what do we see when we turn to literal sites where construction takes place: shipyards, factory-floors, theatres, media broadcasting houses, the scholars’ study or the inner quarters? What symbolic and practical social roles do these objects then play in the creation of gender dynamics of daily life? How can they in turn be subverted or redirected from the intention of the maker in the uses to which they are put?
The conference aims to bring together scholars (including doctoral, postdoctoral, early, mid and advanced career researchers) from the humanities and social sciences working on gender and China. We seek proposals that articulate issues of gender in relation to material culture, or dealing more broadly with gender in relation to the physicality of objects, their use and making. We welcome applications from a broad range of disciplines including but not limited to: gender studies, media studies, cultural studies, film studies, literature, history, sociology, anthropology, queer studies. We particularly encourage papers in the following subject areas:
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- Socialization and the construction of gendered identities through material culture: children’s textbooks, picture books, lianhuanhua, dolls.
- Spatiality of the city or the house: streets, department stores, factories, space arrangements within the house as testaments to gender roles.
- Gender, corporeality, dress, and makeup: from everyday life to performance costumes, cosmetics-making, or drag.
- Gender and foodways: food-making and transmission of recipes (oral storytelling, recipe books), lives of kitchen objects, alcohol-making and consumption.
- Gender and waste: thrift shops, recycling facilities, waste collection, various calls to “purity.”
- Gender in the history of technology: handicraft, tools, weapons, machines and robots.
- Digital materiality: data, computer code, digital humanities approaches to gender.
- Gendered lives of objects in literature and metaphorical associations between objects and gender.
- Visual production of gendered stereotypes: portraiture, political cartoons, photography.
- Gender in the materiality of the archive: ribbons, ink stains, flowers, and their backstories, alternative material sources.
- Gender on display: museumification and art collections, and curating.
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During the workshop participants will be encouraged to frame their own work in discussion with other researchers’ papers. They will also have the chance to gain feedback on their research from leading scholars in the field who will act as discussants in each panel session. Participants will have the opportunity to enjoy informal (virtual) coffee sessions for members of the network to meet new people working in the field. Outstanding papers will be selected for publication in an edited volume.
Participating scholars
The opening keynote speaker, Prof. Joan Judge (University of York), is a cultural historian of modern China with a scholarly focus on print culture and women’s history at the turn of the twentieth century. She will deliver the opening keynote speech on her book project entitled ‘China’s Mundane Revolution: Vernacularizing Science and Scientizing the Vernacular in the Long Republic,’ exploring the production of everyday knowledge that shaped modern China.
The closing keynote speaker, Professor Wang Zheng (University of Michigan) will share her latest research on gender in practice. Her latest book, (Finding Women in the State, 2016) focuses on the struggles of PRC feminists to carve out their own spaces within the state after the 1949 revolution.
Submission
Please send a 250-word abstract to change@ulb.be, including your full name, institutional affiliation, email address, and a short biography before 7 January 2022. Scholars whose papers have been selected for the conference will be notified by early February 2022, and successful applicants will need to submit a paper two weeks prior to their session (29 March-3 May 2022).
Calendar
– Deadline for abstract: 7 January 2022
– Notification of acceptance: early February 2022
– Deadline for full submission: two weeks prior to session date (29 March-3 May 2022)
Format
The conference will be held online weekly in March-May 2022 on Tuesdays: 29th March, 5th April, 12th April, 19th April, 26th April, 3rd May. Each 2-hr online session will be held on Toronto Time (EST, UTC-5), between 8am-8pm. Exact timings will be decided with consideration being given to the location of the panelists, discussants and chairs for each session. To help replicate the close-knit atmosphere of a regular conference, we are also planning to have “coffee break” private discussion sessions for presenters to chat and get to know one another.
Organisers
China Academic Network on Gender & University of York
Committee: Chris Vogel (University of York), Jennifer Bond (University College Dublin), Chang Liu (CUHK Shenzhen), Coraline Jortay (University of Oxford).
Sponsors
This online conference series is sponsored by a grant from the Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF).
This is the third in a series of CHANGE biennial conferences, postponed from 2021 to 2022 in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The previous conferences were held in February 2019 in Brussels, and February 2017 in London.
Our Gender & China Guide to AAS 2021
Below is a list of sessions and individual presentations at AAS 2021 related to gender and China, broadly construed. If anything has been missed, please email us at change@ulb.ac.be and we will be glad to add it.
This document is intended as a quick reference guide and also includes border-crossing/inter-area panels that at least include one China-related presentation. For more information on the sessions, please visit the AAS conference website: https://www.asianstudies.org/conference/conference-program/
Sunday, March 21, 2021
9:00am – 11:00am EDT (Beijing: 9pm; London 1pm) |
China Academic Network on Gender (CHANGE) CHANGE is hosting an informal meeting for members and non-members to catch up and meet new people working in this field. Grab a cup of coffee or tea and join us for a relaxed chat. We look forward to meeting you online! Please click here to register. Please feel free to drop in at any time. This is a AAS Meeting-in-conjunction and is free for everyone to join regardless of AAS conference registration status. The China Academic Network on Gender (CHANGE), is an interdisciplinary network for scholars who are researching Gender in China: https://change.hypotheses.org/ |
Monday, March 22, 2021
10.00am – 11.30am EDT (Beijing: 10:00pm; London 2.00pm) |
A012: Gender and Colonialism in the Japanese Empire (Roundtable)
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12:30pm – 2:00pm EDT (Beijing: 12:30am; London 4:30pm) |
B005: East Asian Feminism Today
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3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT (Beijing: 3am; London 7pm) |
C019: Transnational Asian Film Pioneers: Revolution, Gender, Race, (Re)location
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Tuesday, March 23, 2021
12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT (Beijing: 12am; London 4pm) |
E020: Public Space through Gendered Perspectives: Part 1 Boundaries as Site of Resistance
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E007: Chinese Feminisms as Transnational Feminisms
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E021: Queering Racialized Capital and Labor across Asian/Pacific Time and Space
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3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT (Beijing: 3am; London 7pm) |
F017: Panel: Discourses of Chastity in Early Modern Vernacular Literature and Culture
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Wednesday, March 24, 2021
8:30am – 10:00am EDT (Beijing: 8:30pm; London 12:30pm) |
G007: Gender and Theatre: Portrayals of Women Characters on the Chinese Stage
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12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT (Beijing: 12am; London 4pm) |
H018 Shame/Shine: Chinese Sluts across Time, Border, and Media
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H023: Women Writing Art: Feminist Approaches in Chinese Women’s Art Writing, Cartoons, and Self-Portrayals in the Early Republican Period
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3:00pm – 4:30pm EDT (Beijing: 3am; London 7pm) |
I012: Patients, Nurses, and Doctors: Medicine and Gender in Modern East Asian Literature and History
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Thursday, March 25, 2021
8:30am – 10:00am EDT (Beijing: 8:30pm; London 12:30pm) |
J004: Engendering Buddhism: Non-Theravādin Buddhist Women in Southeast Asia
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J021: The Familial Is Political
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12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT (Beijing: 12am; London 4pm) |
K011: Negotiating Ethnicity and Gender on Imperial Frontiers: A Multidisciplinary Lens on Intersectionalities in Tang China
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Friday, March 26, 2021
8:30am – 10:00am EDT (Beijing: 8:30pm; London 12:30pm) |
M023: The Internet and Articulations of Sexuality in East and Southeast Asia
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12:00pm – 1:30pm EDT (Beijing: 12am; London 4pm) |
N009: Gender, Work and Social Mobility in Asia
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On Demand
On demand/Individual presenters |
Law, Gender, and Public Opinions of a Post-World War Ⅱ Conundrum: “Resistance-war Wives” in Court and in Newspapers (Chuning Xie, Binghamton University) |
Wives at Men’s Parties: Gender Ethics and Expressions of Closeness (Chih-Yen Huang, University of Pennsylvania) |
Boarding Singleness: Women’s Hostels in Shanghai (1932–1941) (Chang Liu, The Chinese Universities of Hong Kong,Shenzhen) |
Constructing Wu Topolect as the Language of Female Courtesans and the Entertainment World in Shanghai (Yichun Xu, The Ohio State University) |
Literature in #MeToo Movement: Literary Violence and Agency in Fang Si-chi’s First Love Paradise (Yuhan Huang, Rochester Institute of Technology) |
The Queering of the Master-Disciple Relationship in Chinese Martial Arts Narratives (Yan (Belinda) Wang, University of Alberta) |
“Improvised Intimacy”: Female Sex Workers (xiaojie) in Post-Socialist China (Yeon Jung Yu, Western Washington University) |
Publication of China Perspectives 2020/3 – Re-Envisioning Gender in China: (De)Legitimizing Gazes
The China Academic Network on Gender is very glad to announce the publication of the special issue of China Perspectives titled “Re-Envisioning Gender in China: (De)Legitimizing Gazes” that grew out of the biannual conference of the network “Re-Envisioning Gender in China” held on February 14-16, 2019 at the Université libre de Bruxelles (Brussels, Belgium). Many thanks again to all the participants of the conference for three days of fulfilling intellectual discussions.
Stay tuned for more information coming soon about the next conference, which will be slightly delayed due to Covid-19, but is planned for winter/spring 2022 in Canada.
Read the whole special issue on the website of China Perspectives.
Table of contents
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Foreword [Full text]
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Knowing Male Subjects: Globally Mobile Chinese Professionals and the Aesthetics of the Confucian Sublime [Full text will be available in open access in September 2021]
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The Road Home: Rebellion, the Market and Masculinity in the Han Han Phenomenon [Full text will be in open access in September 2021]
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Visual Encounters in Global Shanghai. On the Desirability of Bodies in a Coworking Space [Full text will be available in open access in September 2021]
The Gender & China Guide to ICAS 11
Leiden, 16-19 July 2019
Finding one’s way around a conference as large as ICAS 11 can feel daunting — especially with so many parallel sessions relevant to your research interests going on at the same time.
To simplify ICAS for you, the China Academic Network on Gender has compiled a short conference guide including individual presentations, panels, and your personalised gender & China itinerary. Follow one of our three handpicked streams, or make your own from our full list below. Happy conference!
You can also download the conference guide as PDF here.
You’re presenting on a China/gender-related topic and can’t find your name on the list? Send us an email at change@ulb.ac.be
The China Academic Network on Gender will be organising a get-together event for members during the conference. Don’t hesitate to contact us!
Your personalised gender & China itinerary
Stream 1: Gender Representations and Feminisms
Tuesday, July 16
10:00 – 11:45
Religion, Politics, and the Representation of Chinese Women: Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Location: Huizinga 0.26
Breaking the Reputation of Female Rule in China:Daoism and the Rewriting of the History of the Reign of Wu Zetian (624-705)
Timothy Barrett – University of London
From Mother Love to Spiritual Communities: The Political Vision in Su Xuelin’s Jixin
Maram Epstein – University of Oregon
Mary C.K. Chang, Another Face of Zhang Zhujun?
Ellen Widmer – Wellesley College
Peace activism in the Women’s Movement in Republican China
Louise Edwards – University of New South Wales
Wednesday, July 17
14:45 – 16:30
Session Title: Liberating Oppressed voices
New Digital Media and Changing Gender Roles: The Rise of Women Cultural Entrepreneurs in a Globalising China
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.28
Daria Berg, Giorgio Strafella — University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
17:00 – 18:45
Session Title: Enterprising-self in China’s New Economy: The State, Technology and Individual
Wandering Internet Celebrities: Beauty Bloggers and Cross-platform Production
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.28
Zexu Guan, Leiden University, Netherlands
Thursday, July 18
09:00 – 10:45
Gender and Social Policy in China
Location: Lipsius 2.27
“Han Teacher in the Uyghur School”: Nation, Muslim, and Military Wives in Chinese State Propaganda
Zheng Ying – Netherlands
Feminism or Marketability: The “Beauty Writer” and “Body Writing” Phenomenon in China and the World
Jolin Tian – University of Wollongong
Inside Work: Transformations in the Exploitation of Rural Women in Modern China
Tamara Jacka – Australian National University
Mainland Chinese New Age Milieu and the Post-Maoist Balancing of Yin and Yang
Anna Iskra – University of Hong Kong
11:15 – 13:00
The Transnational Languages of Socialist Feminist Internationalism: Chinese and German Perspectives
Location: Huizinga 0.04
Socialist Feminist Imaginaries in Shanghai and Berlin in the 1930s
Anup Grewal – University of Toronto
“Not just a socialist woman, but an international socialist woman”: The image of the proletarian woman in German women’s writing, 1918-1929
Catherine Smale – King’s College London
Female Solidarity as Hope: Socialist Feminist Writings by Christa Wolf and Ding Ling
Yejun Zou – King’s College London
14:45 – 16:30
The Threat of the Beautiful Woman: The Influence – or Lack of – European Feminism in Chinese Representations of the Feminine / Feminism
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.13
Yang Fudong and the ambiguities of female power in contemporary Chinese art, Christine Vial Kayser – Creops, Paris IV-Sorbonne
‘My Body Says’: Performing Vagina Monologues and Enacting Transnational Feminism in Contemporary China
Hongwei Bao – University of Nottingham
Girls who drink human blood: Lipstick, feminism, and the male gaze in Xiao Hong’s fiction
Coraline Jortay – Université libre de Bruxelles
The image of the “modern girl” in the Republican Shanghai in the writings and images of Ye Lingfeng
Marie Laureillard – Lumière-Lyon 2 University
17:00 – 18:45
Women Empowerment and Female Images in Asia
Location: Lipsius 2.27
Feminine Visibility, The Self and Design in Early Twentieth Century Visual Culture in China
Sandy Ng – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Revising women’s work: Representing the production of cotton in 18th-century China
Roslyn Lee Hammers – University of Hong Kong
Gender and Identity in Hong Kong Art
Silvia Fok – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Friday, July 19
09:00 – 10:45
Writing Women’s Roles in 5th-13th Century China
Location: Lipsius 0.05
Representing Palace Women in Medieval Chinese Literature: The “Zhao Feiyan waizhuan” in Images of the Imperial Harem
Olivia Milburn – Seoul National University
Possession, Revelation, and Identities: Healers, Transcendents, and “Enchanted” Women in Song China
Hsiao-wen Cheng – University of Pennsylvania
11:15 – 13:00
Session Title: Governance, Religion and Ethnic Others: A View from Southwest China
Religion and Gender: Yao Female Singers and Their Relation with Panhu
Location: Lipsius 0.05
Meiwen Chen, Independent Scholar, Netherlands
14:45 – 16:30
Session Title: Fictional Realities
Tragicomedy: Modern Love and New Women in Yang Jiang’s Translated “Comedy of Manners”
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.02
Xi Tian, Bucknell University, United States
17:00 – 18:45
Session Title: War and Conflict III
Imagining Female Heroism: Three Tales of the Woman Fighter in Republican China
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.16
Iris Ma, University of Notre Dame, United States
Stream 2: Beyond Women: Masculinities and Queer Approaches to Gender
Tuesday, July 16
10:00 – 11:45
Session Title: ICAS Book Prize ‘Humanities’ – Shortlisted Authors
After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.17
Howard Chiang, University of California, Davis, United States
Wednesday, July 17
09:00 – 10:45
Session Title: Emotion and Transnational Migration in Asia and Europe I
The Pleasure of Being Useful: Ageing Japanese Men, Migration and Encore Careers in Dalian, China
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.30
Kumiko Kawashima, Macquarie University, Australia
17:00 – 18:45
Session Title: East and Southeast Asian Queer Cultures in Transnational Frames
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.20
Queer Chinese Malaysians’ Educational Migration to Taiwan
Ting-Fai Yu, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia
Walking Up to the Front: Assembling Gay Live Streamers, Reconfiguring Chinese Gay Male Subjectivities on Gay Dating Apps
Shuaishuai Wang, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Thursday, July 18
09:00 – 10:45
Session Title: B&D Carousel: Art, Museums and a Personal Reflection
#notesofapatriot : On Ghana, Asia, China, Fela, Women, Zidane and More
Location: Huizinga 0.04
Lloyd Amoah, Centre for Asian Studies, University of Ghana, Ghana
11:15 – 13:00
Session Title: Sexuality and Discontent II
Fire in My Heart: Smoldering Pornographies on the Chinese Internet
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes C0.04
Katrien Jacobs, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Belgium
Friday, July 19
11:15 – 13:00
Session Title: Social Engagement and Activism II
A Traitor or Patriot: Yang Yinyu and Her Struggling in Masculine Society and Nationalism in China
Location: Lipsius 2.27
Xuening Kong, University at Buffalo (SUNY), United States
14:45 – 16:30
Session Title: Lifestyle, Identities and Social Capital in China, Japan and Korea
Modern Chinese Parenthood: Cultural Identities in Flux
Location: Lipsius 0.28
Marleen Spijkman, University of Twente, Netherlands – Co-Author(s): Menno de Jong, University of Twente, Netherlands ; Ke Xue, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Stream 3: Marriage, Migration and Comparative Perspectives
Tuesday, July 16
10:00 – 11:45
Session Title: Marriage Migration: Emotions, Socio-Economic Decisions and State Policies
Wife or Maid? Chinese Marriage Migrants’ Lives in Taiwanese Households
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.14
Paoyi Huang, City University of New York, United States
13:30 – 15:15
Session Title: B&D Carousel: Migration for a Multitude of Reasons
Illusions and Suffering: Chinese Migrants in Paris
Location: Huizinga 0.23c
Simeng Wang, The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
Wednesday, July 17
09:00 – 10:45
Session Title: Emotion and Transnational Migration in Asia and Europe I
The Pleasure of Being Useful: Ageing Japanese Men, Migration and Encore Careers in Dalian, China
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.30
Kumiko Kawashima, Macquarie University, Australia
11:15 – 13:00
Session Title: Parenting Practices in Public Policy and Media in Contemporary China
Marrying the Perfect Child — Middle Class Norms and Intergenerational Arrangements in the Marriage Corners of Urban China
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.20
Jean-Baptiste Pettier, Affective Societies Collaborative Research Center, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
14:45 – 16:30
Session Title: Temporalities and Social Activities in Changing Asian Rural Societies I
Temporalities of Marriage in Contemporary Rural China: Harmonization Between Ritual Practices and Life Rhythms
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes C0.04
Renyou Hou, Institut Nationales des Langues et Civilisation Orientales, France
17:00 – 18:45
Roundtable: New Approaches to “Race” in Asia
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.14
Elizabeth LaCouture
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jason Petrulis
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sonja Thomas
Colby College, United States
Lawrence Chua
Syracuse University, United States
Thursday, July 18
09:00 – 10:45
Session Title: Transnational Foodways: Farming, Food Entrepreneurship, and Identity Politics in Asia and Europe
A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Farming Women in China and Sweden
Location: Lipsius 0.05
Annika Pissin, Lund University, Sweden
11:15 – 13:00
The Transnational Languages of Socialist Feminist Internationalism: Chinese and German Perspectives
Location: Huizinga 0.04
Socialist Feminist Imaginaries in Shanghai and Berlin in the 1930s
Anup Grewal – University of Toronto
“Not just a socialist woman, but an international socialist woman”: The image of the proletarian woman in German women’s writing, 1918-1929
Catherine Smale – King’s College London
Female Solidarity as Hope: Socialist Feminist Writings by Christa Wolf and Ding Ling
Yejun Zou – King’s College London
14:45 – 16:30
Rethinking Gender Equality and Transitional Justice in Post-War Taiwan
Location: Lipsius 2.27
Taiwan and Marriage Equality
Jens Damm – Chang Jung University, Taiwan
CEDAW in Taiwan and the localization of Women’s Human Rights
Astrid Lipinsky – University Vienna
The Implementation of Taiwan’s Gender Equity Education Act – Current and Future Challenges
Fanni Maráczi – Pallas Athene Geopolitical Institute
Friday, July 19
09:00 – 10:45
Session Title: A Century of May Fourths: Legacies, Questions and Reinterpretations
“Our Responsibility”: Missionary school girls and the May Fourth Movement in Shanghai, 1917-1929
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.14
Jennifer Bond, Durham University, United Kingdom
11:15 – 13:00
Session Title: Student and Skilled Mobilities Across Asia and Beyond II
Asian Women Scientists on the Move: Privilege, Prejudice and Pressure
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes C1.31
Anju Mary Paul, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
14:45 – 16:30
Session Title: Migrant Workers: Rights, Policy and Practice II
Gendered Migration in Asia: A Study of Low-Wage Female Migrant Workers from China to Singapore
Location: Lipsius 0.02
Wei Yang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Individual Presentations
Tuesday, July 16
10:00 – 11:45
Session Title: ICAS Book Prize ‘Humanities’ – Shortlisted Authors
After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.17
Howard Chiang, University of California, Davis, United States
Session Title: Marriage Migration: Emotions, Socio-Economic Decisions and State Policies
Wife or Maid? Chinese Marriage Migrants’ Lives in Taiwanese Households
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.14
Paoyi Huang, City University of New York, United States
13:30 – 15:15
Session Title: B&D Carousel: Migration for a Multitude of Reasons
Illusions and Suffering: Chinese Migrants in Paris
Location: Huizinga 0.23c
Simeng Wang, The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
Wednesday, July 17
09:00 – 10:45
Session Title: Emotion and Transnational Migration in Asia and Europe I
The Pleasure of Being Useful: Ageing Japanese Men, Migration and Encore Careers in Dalian, China
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.30
Kumiko Kawashima, Macquarie University, Australia
11:15 – 13:00
Session Title: Parenting Practices in Public Policy and Media in Contemporary China
Marrying the Perfect Child — Middle Class Norms and Intergenerational Arrangements in the Marriage Corners of Urban China
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.20
Jean-Baptiste Pettier, Affective Societies Collaborative Research Center, Freie, Universität Berlin, Germany
14:45 – 16:30
Session Title: Temporalities and Social Activities in Changing Asian Rural Societies I
Temporalities of Marriage in Contemporary Rural China: Harmonization Between Ritual Practices and Life Rhythms
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes C0.04
Renyou Hou, Institut Nationales des Langues et Civilisation Orientales, France
Session Title: Temporalities and Social Activities in Changing Asian Rural Societies I
The Time Challenges of Beauty Pageant for Gyarong (China)
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes C0.04
Jingming Fan, Université Paris Nanterre, France
Session Title: Liberating Oppressed voices
New Digital Media and Changing Gender Roles: The Rise of Women Cultural Entrepreneurs in a Globalising China
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.28
Daria Berg, Giorgio Strafella — University of St.Gallen, Switzerland
17:00 – 18:45
Session Title: East and Southeast Asian Queer Cultures in Transnational Frames
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.20
Queer Chinese Malaysians’ Educational Migration to Taiwan
Ting-Fai Yu, Monash University Malaysia, Malaysia
Walking Up to the Front: Assembling Gay Live Streamers, Reconfiguring Chinese Gay Male Subjectivities on Gay Dating Apps
Shuaishuai Wang, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Session Title: Enterprising-self in China’s New Economy: The State, Technology and Individual
Wandering Internet Celebrities: Beauty Bloggers and Cross-platform Production
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.28
Zexu Guan, Leiden University, Netherlands
Session Title: Enterprising-self in China’s New Economy: The State, Technology and Individual
From Apprentice to Entrepreneur: Rural Migrant Women and Affective Labour in the Shanghai Beauty Parlour Industry
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.28
Penn Tsz Ting Ip, University of York, Canada
Thursday, July 18
09:00 – 10:45
Session Title: B&D Carousel: Art, Museums and a Personal Reflection
#notesofapatriot : On Ghana, Asia, China, Fela, Women, Zidane and More
Location: Huizinga 0.04
Lloyd Amoah, Centre for Asian Studies, University of Ghana, Ghana
Session Title: Transnational Foodways: Farming, Food Entrepreneurship, and Identity Politics in Asia and Europe
A Comparative Discourse Analysis of Farming Women in China and Sweden
Location: Lipsius 0.05
Annika Pissin, Lund University, Sweden
Session Title: B&D Carousel: Economic Developments
Towards Gender Diversity on the Boards of Listed Firms in China and India?
Location: Huizinga 0.23c
Alice de Jonge, Monash University, Australia
11:15 – 13:00
Session Title: Writing and Gender I
Trouble Women,Trouble Comedy:Li Jianwu’s Adaption of Lysistrata in Shanghai (1946)
Location: Lipsius 0.02
Jian Zhang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Session Title: Sexuality and Discontent II
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes C0.04
Counter Discourses to Sex Binarism in May Fourth Literary Feminism
Xi Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Fire in My Heart: Smoldering Pornographies on the Chinese Internet
Katrien Jacobs, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Belgium
14:45 – 16:30
Session Title: Revisiting Urban Spaces in Late Imperial China Through Visuality and Materiality
Picturing Urban Pleasures of Nanjing: Courtesans, Gender, and Representations in Ming Dynasty
Location: Lipsius 3.08
Yizhou Wang, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany
Session Title: Chinese Diaspora: Historical Trajectories and current Socio-Economic Influence in the Global World I
Emotional Geographies, Hyper-mobility and Transnationalism: Migrant Women’s Circulations Between China and Taiwan
Location: Huizinga 0.06
Beatrice Zani, Lyon 2 University, France
Writing and Gender II
Location: Lipsius 0.02
Feminist Approaches to Reflecting on the Cultural Revolution – Contextual and Textual Study on Literary Works by Chinese Female Writers in 1990s
Luming Zhang, Duke University, United States
The Weakening of “Yin”: The Suicide and the Unpunished Endings of Wanton Women in Ming-Qing Fiction
Ziyi Hu, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Friday, July 19
09:00 – 10:45
Session Title: A Century of May Fourths: Legacies, Questions and Reinterpretations
“Our Responsibility”: Missionary school girls and the May Fourth Movement in Shanghai, 1917-1929
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.14
Jennifer Bond, Durham University, United Kingdom
11:15 – 13:00
Session Title: Social Engagement and Activism II
A Traitor or Patriot: Yang Yinyu and Her Struggling in Masculine Society and Nationalism in China
Location: Lipsius 2.27
Xuening Kong, University at Buffalo (SUNY), United States
Session Title: Student and Skilled Mobilities Across Asia and Beyond II
Asian Women Scientists on the Move: Privilege, Prejudice and Pressure
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes C1.31
Anju Mary Paul, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
Session Title: Language and Literature of China
The Functions of the Wu Dialect in the Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.14
Wen He, IrAsia, Aix-Marseille University, France
Session Title: Governance, Religion and Ethnic Others: A View from Southwest China
Religion and Gender: Yao Female Singers and Their Relation with Panhu
Location: Lipsius 0.05
Meiwen Chen, Independent Scholar, Netherlands
14:45 – 16:30
Session Title: Migrant Workers: Rights, Policy and Practice II
Gendered Migration in Asia: A Study of Low-Wage Female Migrant Workers from China to Singapore
Location: Lipsius 0.02
Wei Yang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Session Title: Lifestyle, Identities and Social Capital in China, Japan and Korea
Modern Chinese Parenthood: Cultural Identities in Flux
Location: Lipsius 0.28
Marleen Spijkman, University of Twente, Netherlands; Co-Author(s) Menno de Jong, University of Twente, Netherlands, Ke Xue, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Session Title: Fictional Realities
Tragicomedy: Modern Love and New Women in Yang Jiang’s Translated “Comedy of Manners”
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes A0.02
Xi Tian, Bucknell University, United States
Dynastic History I
Party, Ball, and Hostess: The Politics of Gender and Etiquette in Late Qing Diplomacy
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes C0.20
Xia Shi, New College of Florida, United States
17:00 – 18:45
Session Title: War and Conflict III
Imagining Female Heroism: Three Tales of the Woman Fighter in Republican China
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.16
Iris Ma, University of Notre Dame, United States
Full panels and roundtables
Tuesday, July 16
10:00 – 11:45
Religion, Politics, and the Representation of Chinese Women: Transdisciplinary Perspectives
Location: Huizinga 0.26
Breaking the Reputation of Female Rule in China:Daoism and the Rewriting of the History of the Reign of Wu Zetian (624-705)
Timothy Barrett – University of London
From Mother Love to Spiritual Communities: The Political Vision in Su Xuelin’s Jixin
Maram Epstein – University of Oregon
Mary C.K. Chang, Another Face of Zhang Zhujun?
Ellen Widmer – Wellesley College
Peace activism in the Women’s Movement in Republican China
Louise Edwards – University of New South Wales
Wednesday, July 17
17:00 – 18:45
Roundtable: New Approaches to “Race” in Asia
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.14
Elizabeth LaCouture
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jason Petrulis
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sonja Thomas
Colby College, United States
Lawrence Chua
Syracuse University, United States
Thursday, July 18
09:00 – 10:45
Gender and Social Policy in China
Location: Lipsius 2.27
“Han Teacher in the Uyghur School”: Nation, Muslim, and Military Wives in Chinese State Propaganda
Zheng Ying – Netherlands
Feminism or Marketability: The “Beauty Writer” and “Body Writing” Phenomenon in China and the World
Jolin Tian – University of Wollongong
Inside Work: Transformations in the Exploitation of Rural Women in Modern China
Tamara Jacka – Australian National University
Mainland Chinese New Age Milieu and the Post-Maoist Balancing of Yin and Yang
Anna Iskra – University of Hong Kong
11:15 – 13:00
The Transnational Languages of Socialist Feminist Internationalism: Chinese and German Perspectives
Location: Huizinga 0.04
Socialist Feminist Imaginaries in Shanghai and Berlin in the 1930s
Anup Grewal – University of Toronto
“Not just a socialist woman, but an international socialist woman”: The image of the proletarian woman in German women’s writing, 1918-1929
Catherine Smale – King’s College London
Female Solidarity as Hope: Socialist Feminist Writings by Christa Wolf and Ding Ling
Yejun Zou – King’s College London
14:45 – 16:30
The Threat of the Beautiful Woman: The Influence – or Lack of – European Feminism in Chinese Representations of the Feminine / Feminism
Location: Kamerlingh Onnes B0.13
Yang Fudong and the ambiguities of female power in contemporary Chinese art, Christine Vial Kayser – Creops, Paris IV-Sorbonne
‘My Body Says’: Performing Vagina Monologues and Enacting Transnational Feminism in Contemporary China
Hongwei Bao – University of Nottingham
Girls who drink human blood: Lipstick, feminism, and the male gaze in Xiao Hong’s fiction
Coraline Jortay – Université libre de Bruxelles
The image of the “modern girl” in the Republican Shanghai in the writings and images of Ye Lingfeng
Marie Laureillard – Lumière-Lyon 2 University
Rethinking Gender Equality and Transitional Justice in Post-War Taiwan
Location: Lipsius 2.27
Taiwan and Marriage Equality
Jens Damm – Chang Jung University, Taiwan
CEDAW in Taiwan and the localization of Women’s Human Rights
Astrid Lipinsky – University Vienna
The Implementation of Taiwan’s Gender Equity Education Act – Current and Future Challenges
Fanni Maráczi – Pallas Athene Geopolitical Institute
17:00 – 18:45
Women Empowerment and Female Images in Asia
Location: Lipsius 2.27
Feminine Visibility, The Self and Design in Early Twentieth Century Visual Culture in China
Sandy Ng – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Revising women’s work: Representing the production of cotton in 18th-century China
Roslyn Lee Hammers – University of Hong Kong
Gender and Identity in Hong Kong Art
Silvia Fok – Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Friday, July 19
09:00 – 10:45
Writing Women’s Roles in 5th-13th Century China
Location: Lipsius 0.05
Representing Palace Women in Medieval Chinese Literature: The “Zhao Feiyan waizhuan” in Images of the Imperial Harem
Olivia Milburn – Seoul National University
Possession, Revelation, and Identities: Healers, Transcendents, and “Enchanted” Women in Song China
Hsiao-wen Cheng – University of Pennsylvania
Dr Derek Hird (Lancaster University) – conference podcast
‘Re-envisioning China through gender: a critical gaze on masculinities and postsocialist modernity’
Watch our conference podcast, with Dr Derek Hird (Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies, Lancaster University) presenting his research ‘Re-envisioning China through gender: a critical gaze on masculinities and postsocialist modernity’. Filmed at the conference ‘Re-Envisioning Gender in China’, 14–16 February 2019, Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium.
Dr Derek Hird’s institutional home page and latest publications.
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