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: