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Conference Programme: Voicing Gender in China

Fourth Conference of the
China Academic Network on Gender

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KEYNOTES :
Howard Chiang (UCSB)
Rachel Harris (SOAS)

organized by the
China Academic Network on Gender & Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

DAY 1 – TUESDAY 17 June

Salle Athéna, maison de la recherche, 4 Rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris

REGISTRATION & WELCOME COFFEE
9 :00

CONFERENCE OPENING & WELCOME ADDRESS
9:30-9:45
Anne Isabelle FRANCOIS (GIS Institut du Genre & Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Coraline JORTAY (CNRS – THALIM)

 OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
09:45-11:00
Howard Chiang (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Trans Without Borders: Voices from the Decolonial Past

PANEL 1: AFFECTIVE OUTLETS: VOICE AND EMOTIONS IN CONTEMPORARY CHINA
11:00-13:00
Discussant: Rachel HARRIS (SOAS)

  •  ZENG Jinyan (Lund University)
    Affective Podcasting: Forging Feminist Community for Sinophone-Tibetans
  • HUANG Fei (University of St Andrews)
    Support-Seeking Attitudes and Emotional Sharing Practices Among Stay-at-Home Fathers in Urban China
  •  Arianne M. GAETANO (Auburn University)
    Gendered Subjectivity and Embodied Resistance of Single Women in Urban China

 Lunch
13:00-14:00

PANEL 2: STAGING TRANSGRESSIVE VOICES
14:00-16:00
Discussant: Howard CHIANG (University of California, Santa Barbara)

  • ZHU Ke & LI Jinghui (University of Amsterdam)
    Lip Syncing and the Trans-Asian Art of Dragging in China
  • LI Yizhuo (City University of Hong Kong)
    “Voicing the Villainess: Gender Transgression in Qing Drama”
  • LI Leshan (Heidelberg University) 
    Masculinized Appearances, Feminized Voices: Revolutionary Women in Chinese New Opera, 1949–1966
  • HUANG Yixuan (University of Edinburgh) 
    The Indeterminate Nü-Er: Cross-Dressing of Pre-Teen Boyish Girls in 1960s Hong Kong Cinema

Coffee Break
16:00-16:30

PANEL 3: MARGINALIZED VOICES FROM THE INNER QUARTERS
16:30-18:30
Discussant: Jennifer BOND (University College London)

  • XU Ning (University of Hong Kong)
    Soundscape in Women’s Sphere: Cross-Class Cultural Community of Tanci in the Ming and Qing Dynasties
  • XIA Shi (New College of Florida) 
    Excluding Concubines: The Contested Politics of Progressive Women’s Groups in Republican China (1912-1949)
  •  Anne KERLAN (CNRS – EHESS – Université de Paris)
    The Silences of Ruan Lingyu (1910-1935), Movie Star and Woman

Conference dinner
19:00     

 

DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY 18 June

Salle Athéna, maison de la recherche, 4 Rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris

PANEL 4: PAPERS VOICES: GENDER IN TRANSMEDIAL PERSPECTIVES
09:00-11:00
Discussant: Coraline JORTAY (CNRS – ENS – Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)

  • Chloe ESTEP (University of Pennsylvania)
    Vulgar Classicism: The Book of Odes, the Dance Hall, and the Cinema
  •  CUI Wendong (Chinese University of Hong Kong) 
    Tracing Female Heroes’ Voices: Tang Hongfu’s Gendered Translations Amid Cultural Tensions in Early Twentieth-Century China and Japan  
  •  SHI Bingbing (University of St Andrews)
    Spy Number One and the Creation of the First Chinese Female Spy Film
  •  ZHENG Qijun (École Pratique des Hautes Études)
    Echoes of Emancipation: A Century of Women’s Voices, Gender Dynamics and Religious Authority at Maoshan in China (1912-2012)

 Coffee break
11:00-11:30

PANEL 5: SPEAKING WITH AUTHORITY: WOMEN IN SCIENCE, MEDICINE AND THE ARTS
11:30-13:30
Discussant: Chang LIU (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)

  • HAN Kyuhuyun (University of Rhode Island)
    Women’s Voice in the Flames: Forest Fire Prevention Campaign and Women Forest Guards in the PRC, 1949–1959
  • Chiara CIGARINI (Ca’ Foscari University and Wellesley College)
    Non-Linear Hydric Futures: An Ecofeminist Perspective on Chinese Narratives, Water Policy and Affect
  • Martina MERENDA (University of Bologna) 
    Calligraphy means Feminine: A Focus on a Female Calligraphic Approach within Performance art in Contemporary China
  • Clover Yue GU (Shanghai University) 
    How Was Disability Presented? Emotions, Marriage, and Circumstances of the Stone Maiden in Late Imperial and Republican China

Lunch
13:30-14:30

PANEL 6: VOICES FROM BELOW
14:30-16:30
Discussant: Beatrice ZANI (CNRS – LISE)

  • Isabelle ATTANÉ (INED)
    Women: Forced Actors in Securing China’s Demographic and Economic Future? 
  • Marijn FENNEMA (York University)
    Voicing Allure: Shifting Social Profiles and Work Methods of Sex Workers in Early 20th-Century Yantai
  • Isabella JACKSON (Trinity College Dublin) 
    “I am a Slave-Girl, not an Adopted Daughter.” Enslaved Girls Speaking – and Being Heard – in Early Twentieth-Century China
  • LIU Xi (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) 
    Social Inequalities in Urbanization and Its Discontent: Representing Subaltern Women in Post-2020 Chinese Writings  

CLOSING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
16:30-17:45
Rachel Harris (SOAS)
“No Longer Baby-Making Machines”? Hearing Uyghur Women’s Voices Under the Anti-Extremism Campaigns

CLOSING COMMENTS
17:45-18:00


Organizers: China Academic Network on Gender & Université Sorbonne Nouvelle

Organizing 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)

Conference poster photo credits: Xia Yang (@imrxia on Unsplash)

Organized with the generous support of: