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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20251031T161500
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20251031T173000
DTSTAMP:20260421T004432
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Édouard Louis
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, 31 October 2025 \n4:15 – 5:30 pm \nRoom CPD-2.19 – Centennial Campus \nThe University of Hong Kong \nAcclaimed French writer Édouard Louis is known for his powerful autobiographical novels that explore themes of class\, identity\, and social injustice. Born in 1992 in northern France\, Louis grew up in poverty—experiences he recounts in his groundbreaking debut\, “The End of Eddy” (En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule). His works\, including “History of Violence” (Histoire de la violence) and “Who Killed My Father” (Qui a tué mon père)\, confront issues such as homophobia\, violence\, and political neglect. His writing combines literary artistry with activism\, establishing him as a significant voice in modern literature. \nIn this conversation\, Édouard Louis will engage the audience on themes such as literature\, violence\, gender identity\, and class. \nModerator: Sylvain Holtermann \nGlobal and Area Studies\, Faculty of Arts \nThis talk will be in English. \nAll are welcome. \nClick here to register \nContact Sylvain Holtermann (sylvainh@hku.hk) for enquiries. \nThis is event is co-organized by \nThe Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and Macau \nGlobal and Area Studies\, HKU\nGender Studies\, HKU\nDepartment of Sociology\, HKU
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/in-conversation-with-edouard-louis/
LOCATION:CPD-2.19
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230918T180000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20230918T200000
DTSTAMP:20260421T004432
CREATED:20230823T030121Z
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SUMMARY:Reframing the Boundaries of Equality: The Ripple Effects of a Single Decision
DESCRIPTION:NEXT GENERATION LEADERSHIP SERIES 2023/2024\nReframing the Boundaries of Equality: The Ripple Effects of a Single Decision\n♦ Abstract ♦ \nThis panel discussion explores the potential impact of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action and higher education admissions policies.  \nWhat are the Transpacific resonances and ripple effects in education\, industry\, and public culture?  \nWill organizations use the SCOTUS case as an excuse to reduce focus on DEI?  \nHow can individuals committed to equity work together in the face of backlash\, highly-charged debates\, and divisive media and political landscapes?  \nWhat should we know about Hong Kong’s past and present efforts to grapple with individual and institutional difference and disparity at the intersection of gender\, race\, and ethnicity?  \nPlease join us with your questions and insights. \n\n♦ Panellists ♦ \nJason Coe\, Lecturer in Master of Arts Programme in Literary and Cultural Studies\, HKU \nMarcia Ellis\, Partner and Global Co-Chair of Private Equity\, Morrison & Foerster; Co-chair\, Women of Influence Steering Committee\, AmCham \nPuja Kapai\, Associate Professor\, Faculty of Law\, HKU; Convenor\, Women’s Studies Research Centre \nElizabeth La Couture\, Associate Professor\, Gender Studies Programme & Department of History; Director\, Gender Studies Programme\, HKU (Moderator) \n\n♦ Details ♦ \nDate  | 18 September\,2023 (Monday)\nTime | 6:00 – 8:00pm \nVenue | The American Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong\nAddress | 22/F\, Hong Kong Diamond Exchange Bldg.\, 10 Duddell St\, Central\nTicket  | HKD$150 (Waived for students and staff of the University of Hong Kong)\nLanguage | English\nEnquiries | genderst@hku.hk / 3917 2820 \n♦ Space is limited. Priority will be given to students of Gender Studies programme ♦ \n  \n♦ Click HERE for Registration ♦\n  \n  \nLearn more about the New Generation Leadership Series 2023/2024 \n 
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/reframing-the-boundaries-of-equality/
LOCATION:The American Chamber of Commerce Hong Kong\, 22/F\, Hong Kong Diamond Exchange Bldg.\, 10 Duddell St\, Central
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-organized events,Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events,Gender Studies Events,HKU Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220926T140000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220926T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T004432
CREATED:20220923T023532Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220923T072158Z
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SUMMARY:DIY condom workshop
DESCRIPTION:Dear guy\, girls and non-binary pals\, \nAre you interested in improving your sex education? Then come join us at our DIY condom workshop! You’ll learn how to make a condom with materials that we will provide and also discuss safe sex. Please remember that you need all three doses of the covid vaccine and need to use the Leave Home Safe app to enter HKU! \nDetails: \nDate: 26 Sept (Mon)\nTime: 2-6pm (come at any time!)\nRegistration Link : https://forms.gle/5bteNyYbyyM5VBE69\nRegistration is required even if you walk-in!  \nVenue: HKU\, 4.04\, 4/F Run Run Shaw Tower\nLanguage: Cantonese(supplemented with English) \nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/diy-condom-workshop/
LOCATION:Room 4.04\, 4/F\, Run Run Shaw Tower\, Centenial Campus\, HKU
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220505T184500
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220505T204500
DTSTAMP:20260421T004432
CREATED:20220427T033312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220427T033312Z
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SUMMARY:BLURRING THE COLOR LINE – SCREENING AND Q&A WITH THE DIRECTOR CRYSTAL KWOK
DESCRIPTION:BLURRING THE COLOR LINE – SCREENING AND Q&A WITH THE DIRECTOR CRYSTAL KWOK\nWhat does it mean to be caught in between two worlds?\nFollowing director Crystal Kwok’s personal journey of discovery\, BLURRING THE COLOR LINE digs deep into how her grandmother’s family navigated life as neighborhood grocery store owners in the Black community of Augusta\, Georgia during the Jim Crow era. The film weaves family anecdotes and neighborhood memories to open up critical conversations about liminal states & anti-Blackness in the Chinese community\, and serves to disrupt racial narratives and bridge divides. \nCrystal Kwok – Director\, Producer & Writer\nCrystal Kwok is an award winning filmmaker who established her career in Hong Kong as an actress\, writer\, director\, and talk show host. She won the audience choice awards at the 2000 Deauville Asian Film Festival for her debut feature length film\, The Mistress. As a strong women’s advocate\, her talk show\, “Kwoktalk” broke boundaries in Hong Kong with conversations about women and sexuality. Kwok is currently a PhD Candidate at the University of Hawaii in Performance Studies and a recipient of the prestigious East West Center Scholar awards. \nIntroduction by:\nGina Marchetti\, Professor\, Department of Comparative Literature\, School of Humanities\, HKU \nModerator:\nStaci Ford\, Affiliated Associate Professor\, Department of History and School of Modern Languages and Cultures\, HKU \nDate: Thursday\, May 5\, 2022\nScreening: 6:45 pm Hong Kong Time\nQ&A: 8:15 pm Hong Kong Time\nVenue: On Zoom\nAll are welcome. Please register and the link will be sent to you before the event.\nhttps://bit.ly/BCLMay5 \nThe event is organised by the Faculty of Arts’ Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity (CGED) and the Department of Comparative Literature’s Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures (CSGC)\, with the support of the Gender Studies Programme\, School of Humanities\, and the Women’s Studies Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. \nEnquiries: Georgina Challen – gchallen@hku.hk \nWebsite: https://www.blurringthecolorline.com/
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/blurring-the-color-line-screening-and-qa-with-the-director-crystal-kwok/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220407T160000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220407T173000
DTSTAMP:20260421T004432
CREATED:20220218T072234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220222T074705Z
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SUMMARY:Mapping the Border: Women Artists’ Reconceptions of Space\, Gender and Representation
DESCRIPTION:Mapping the Border: Women Artists’ Reconceptions of Space\, Gender and Representation\nDate: 7 April 2022 (Thursday)\nTime: 4pm\nWebinar Link: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_HFi-EiCmRIaM453Rst0lmw \nOver the past fifty years\, citizens of the divided capital Nicosia\, Cyprus\, have experienced the instability of their hometown\, the dead end of the streets and the enduring militarism and nationalism of the Buffer Zone. This paper will examine the work of contemporary women artists who explore in their practice the theme of an enclosed city and its environment. Women artists’ reconceptions of place can offer new understandings of seeing and experiencing divided cities. According to Meskimmon\, women artists can become a ‘sentient participant in the city’ and they develop in their artist practices negotiations on gender\, space and representation.[1] \nThe ‘flâneur’ concept has been historically associated with a male figure that had the privilege to stroll leisurely around the cities. For women artists in Cyprus\, strolling along the borders of their divided homeland can be seen as a politicised action\, as they enter a domain that has been predominantly controlled by masculinised politics. This paper will focus on the work of women artists who have used the walking body and its movement to re-enact the boundaries that confine the city. In entering the space of the enclosed city and strolling along its borders\, women artists have used sensory strategies to reclaim it. The site-specific interventions offer new perspectives into understanding past histories and create new narratives of belonging. \n[1] Meskimmon\, M. (1997) Engendering the City: Women Artists and Urban Space\, London: Scarlet Press \nSpeaker: Dr. Maria Photiou \nMaria Photiou is an art historian and a Research Fellow at the University of Derby\, UK. She holds a doctorate in Art History from Loughborough University. Her current research focuses on women’s art practices and the connections between migration\, gender\, memory and the politics of belonging. Previously she worked as a Research Associate at Loughborough University\, developing an AHRC funded project entitled ‘Visual Narratives of Homeland’. She is co-editor of the anthology Art\, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration (Bloomsbury\, 2021).
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/2425/
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220331T193000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220331T210000
DTSTAMP:20260421T004432
CREATED:20220218T065614Z
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SUMMARY:Queer Chinese Feminist Archipelago: Shanghai\, Miami\, and San Francisco
DESCRIPTION:Queer Chinese Feminist Archipelago: Shanghai\, Miami\, and San Francisco\nDate: 31 March 2022 (Thursday)\nTime: 7:30pm\nWebinar Link: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-0hC3rd-RXKtVCXctyqPbQ \nMartinican-born poet and theoretician Édouard Glissant suggests that a shift to “archipelagic thinking” can allow one to see the world metaphorically as a collection of islands connected to each other. Foregrounding the body and affect\, I will consider the exhibition WOMEN 我們\, organized by Abby Chen\, that traveled from Shanghai (2011) to San Francisco (2012) and Miami (2013) through what I refer to as “archipelagic feeling.” WOMEN 我們 explored queer Chinese feminism\, and in a nod to cities where the venues were located\, the curators expanded the checklist at each leg of the tour. In this way\, the curators aimed not to essentialize or center queer Chinese feminism but productively connect it to (for example) Latinx subjectivities and Asian-American feminist concerns. In so doing\, I suggest this exhibition offers a new framework for thinking about the transnational through both queerness and creolization. \nSpeaker: Dr. Alpesh Kantilal Patel \nAlpesh Kantilal Patel is an associate professor of contemporary art at Tyler School of Art and Architecture\, Temple University. His art historical scholarship\, curating\, and criticism reflect his queer\, anti-racist\, and transnational approach to contemporary art. He is the author of the monograph Productive failure: Writing queer transnational South Asian art histories (2017). A co-editor of the anthology Storytellers of Art’s Histories (2022) and special journal issue for Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art (2021)\, he is working on two book projects\, Visual Diaries: Transnational Miami and Multiple and One: Global Queer Art Histories.
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/queer-chinese-feminist-archipelago-shanghai-miami-and-san-francisco/
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220329T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220329T120000
DTSTAMP:20260421T004432
CREATED:20220223T075307Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220302T021853Z
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SUMMARY:Making A Positive Difference For All Women
DESCRIPTION:The Gender Studies Programme\, School of Humanities\, the Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity\, Faculty of Arts\, and the Common Core Office at the University of Hong Kong present:  \nMaking A Positive Difference For All Women \nA Virtual Round Table Discussion This Women’s Month 2022  \n#BreakTheBias \nSpeakers: \nMikee Inton Campbell\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies\, California State University San Marcos \nJoscelyn M. Inton Campbell\, Researcher at the OMNI Institute\, at US-based NGO\, and PhD Candidate in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Otago \nSonia Wong\, Lecturer in the Gender Studies Programme\, CUHK and co-founder of the Women’s Festival HK \nVera Lui\, Founder of Sally Coco\, the first female-friendly intimate lifestyle store in Hong Kong \nMarites Palma\, Founder of Social Justice for Migrant Workers and Fellow\, Resolve\, a HK-based NGO \nRespondent: Brenda Alegre\, Lecturer\, Gender Studies Programme\, School of Humanities\, HKU \nModerator: Yu Ki Yan “Milly\,” a Year 2 student in Business and Law at HKU \nThis event is held with the support of the U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong and Macau. \nDate: 29 March 2022 (Tuesday) \nTime: 10am – 12pm HKT \nVenue: Zoom \nAudience: All Are Welcome \nRegister here: https://bit.ly/3BmaPnq \nWomen’s Month is coming very soon. This year\, we have organized an event – A Virtual RoundTable: Women’s Month 2022 to celebrate Women’s Month. It is a virtual roundtable discussion regarding why Women’s Day/Month celebration is important to us\, what is missing and what else we need to see in women’s visibility projects. This panel follows the international theme of  #breakthebias whereby we want to create awareness on ending bias\, stereotypes and discrimination against all women. Several women with different races\, occupations and backgrounds are invited to this event\, to share their experiences and join in the discussion with you. \nFor enquiries\, please contact Meg Baguio or Raj Reyes: meg3@hku.hk or rajr0207@hku.hk \nVisit our website: https://genderstudies.hku.hk/
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/making-a-positive-difference-for-all-women/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220308T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220308T183000
DTSTAMP:20260421T004432
CREATED:20220228T063346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220228T063448Z
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SUMMARY:Gender Parity in Germany - Current Situation and Strategies
DESCRIPTION:CGED Knowledge Exchange Series: Women & Leadership\nGender Parity in Germany – Current Situation and Strategies\nSpeakers:\nStefanie Seedig\, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Hong Kong SAR\nAlmuth Meyer-Zollitsch\, Director\, Goethe-Institut Hong Kong\nModerators:\nLi Chong\, German Programme\, School of Modern Languages and Cultures\, HKU\nEbbie Ng\, HKU Undergraduate Student\, minoring in Gender Studies and German \nDate: 8 March 2022 (Tuesday)\nTime: 5:00 PM (Hong Kong Time)\nLanguage: English\nDelivery: via Zoom\nAll are welcome. Please register and the Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event.\nhttps://bit.ly/CGEDMar8 \nStefanie Seedig assumed her position as Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Hong Kong SAR in August 2021. She has been working on Asian affairs in different positions in Berlin and Brussels since 2005. Before moving to Hong Kong\, she was Head of Division for Southeast Asia in the Foreign Office in Berlin. Other postings abroad included the German Embassies in Warsaw and in Bogotá. She is an economist by training. \nAlmuth Meyer-Zollitsch\, born in Bremen (Germany)\, holds a doctorate in History and German Studies. Since 1985\, she has been working for the Goethe-Institut in various positions in Germany\, Europe and Asia. Previous posts have included Deputy Director of the Goethe-Institut in Milan (Italy) and Director of the Goethe-Institut in Hanoi (Vietnam). Since the end of 2016 she has been director of the Goethe-Institut in Hong Kong. \nThis event is organized with the support of the Gender Studies Programme\, School of Humanities\, the School of Modern Languages and Cultures\, and the Women’s Studies Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. \nFor enquiries\, please contact Georgina Challen: gchallen@hku.hk \nVisit our website: https://www.cged.arts.hku.hk/
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/gender-parity-in-germany-current-situation-and-strategies/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events,Gender Studies Events,HKU Events,Upcoming Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20211027T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20211027T183000
DTSTAMP:20260421T004432
CREATED:20211022T024903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211022T024903Z
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SUMMARY:
DESCRIPTION:Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity\, Faculty of Arts\nKnowledge Exchange Series – Women & Leadership \nWomen\, Leadership and Technology\nSpeaker: Flora Ng\, Chief Information Officer and University Librarian\, The University of Hong Kong \nModerator: Ying Chan\, Professor and Founding Director (1999-2016) of the Journalism and Media Studies Centre\, HKU \nPrior to joining the University of Hong Kong as its Chief Information Officer and University Librarian in May 2021\, Flora Ng spent over 30 years in the commercial sector\, leading teams in over 16 countries around the world. In this talk\, she will share her vast corporate experience and her views on women’s leadership. She will also discuss her plans for HKU’s digital transformation\, as well as unconscious biases in the work environment\, with a particular focus on the field of technology. \nDate: 27 October 2021 (Wednesday)\nTime: 5:00 PM\nDelivery: via Zoom\nDetails and registration:\nAll are welcome. Please register and the Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event. (https://bit.ly/cgedflorang) \nFlora Ng is the University of Hong Kong’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) and University Librarian. From 2018 to 2020\, she served as the Group CIO for Dairy Farm Company Ltd\, one of Asia’s largest multi-banner FMCG (fast-moving consumer goods) retailers\, with revenues of US$22 billion in 2019. During her tenure with Dairy Farm\, she led an organization-wide digital transformation\, drove the adoption of data and analytics\, and spearheaded the unification of cross banner customer loyalty initiatives. Ms. Ng has previously held senior executive roles at major corporations around the world\, including Vice President of Information Technology at Johnson & Johnson’s global headquarters in New Jersey; CIO of Johnson & Johnson’s Asia businesses in Singapore; and Corporate Process CIO at General Motors in Detroit\, Michigan. \nMs. Ng holds a Master of Applied Science in Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada\, and a Bachelor of Applied Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto. She has completed the CXO Leadership Exchange Program at INSEAD\, Singapore\, and Harvard University’s Women on Boards program. She currently sits on the Board of the Joint Universities Computer Centre (JUCC) Ltd. in Hong Kong. \nThis event is organised with the support of the HKU Gender Studies Programme\, and the Women’s Studies Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. \nRegistration Instruction\nRegistration is open from 08/10/2021 09:00(HKT) to 27/10/2021 15:00(HKT) on a first-come-first-served basis.\nMore registration instructions\nPlease register and the Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event. \n\nContact Information \nFor further information\, please visit:\nhttps://www.cged.arts.hku.hk/ \nShould you have any enquiries\, please feel free to contact Georgina Challen by email at gchallen@hku.hk
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/2331/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210927T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210927T103000
DTSTAMP:20260421T004432
CREATED:20210920T062951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T063208Z
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SUMMARY:Inside the (Re)Production Boundary: Hormones and Labor Control in Japan
DESCRIPTION:Science\, Technology\, and Medicine Seminar 2021-22 Series\nInside the (Re)Production Boundary: Hormones and Labor Control in Japan\nDate/Time: 27/09/2021 09:00-10:30 a.m. (HKT)\nLanguage: English\nDelivery: via Zoom\nSpeaker: Dr. Shoan Yin Cheung (Williams Collage)\nModerator: Dr. Ting\, Grace En-Yi (HKU)\n\nThis talk critically examines how twenty-first century biomedical practices transform women’s bodies into new zones of production control in “flexible” economies. It argues that in 2010s Japan\, reproductive health actors\, including medical professionals\, pharmaceutical actors\, and government officials\, began promoting the regulation of young women’s reproductive hormones as a medical component of the Japanese government’s plans to revitalize the nation through the “empowerment” of women. As the government called on women to both boost economic growth by working more and reverse birth rate decline by reproducing\, new medical discourses encouraged women to regulate their hormones to be more productive\, as well as prevent the development of reproductive illnesses that affect fertility and the reproduction of the nation’s future labor force. Building on feminist theories of social reproduction\, this talk demonstrates how hormone regulation\, as a technology of health\, delivers new forms of value by intervening on the body to redistribute women’s productive and reproductive labor.\n\nDr. Cheung is an anthropologist of medicine\, technology and the body in East Asia. Broadly interested in how the politics of difference structure care in global health\, her research brings critical theory and cultural studies of identity to the study of biomedicalization and bodily epistemology. Her projects have explored reproductive health and gendered labor in Japan\, the financial dynamics of global health\, and the role of historical memory in technology transfer. She is affiliated with the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong and also teaches at Williams College in Massachusetts\, USA. She holds a PhD from Cornell University. \nRegistration Link: HKUEMS :: Event Details\n\nAll are welcome. Please register and the Zoom link will be sent to you the day prior to the event. For enquiries\, please contact Mr. Adrian Kam by email at adkam@hku.hk or by phone at +852 39172867. To visit CHM website: https://chm.hku.hk/
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/inside-the-reproduction-boundary-hormones-and-labor-control-in-japan/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210818T100000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210818T110000
DTSTAMP:20260421T004432
CREATED:20210813T071604Z
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SUMMARY:Listening through the Unheard: A Reflection on 100 Years of U.S. Women’s Suffrage and its Connections with Asia
DESCRIPTION:Listening through the Unheard: A Reflection on 100 Years of U.S. Women’s Suffrage and its Connections with Asia \nThe Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity and the Gender Studies Programme at the University of Hong Kong are hosting an online panel discussion in conjunction with the U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong and Macau’s exhibition celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States. Signed into law on August 26\, 1920\, the passage of the 19th Amendment extended the right to vote to women across the U.S. The exhibits both highlight the work of several key individuals\, as well as the struggle of countless others. The panel discussion aims to complement and question the contents of the exhibition from comparative\, political\, transnational and multicultural perspectives. \nDate: Wednesday\, August 18\, 2021\nTime: 10 am to 11 am (Hong Kong time) / 12 noon to 1 pm (Sydney time)\n10 pm to 11 pm on August 17\, 2021 (Baltimore time)\nDelivery: via Zoom\nDetails and registration:\nAll are welcome. Please register and the Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event.\nhttps://bit.ly/cgedgsp100years \nPanelists \nProfessor Louise Edwards is Emeritus Professor of Chinese History at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney\, Australia. She publishes on women and gender in China and Asia. Her most recent books include Drawing Democratic Dreams in Republican China (2020)\, Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China (2016)\, and Women Politics and Democracy: Women’s Suffrage in China (2008). \nProfessor Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor\, Professor of History\, and a Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at The Johns Hopkins University. She is a legal and cultural historian whose work examines how black Americans have shaped the story of American democracy. Professor Jones is the author of Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers\, Won the Vote\, and Insisted on Equality for All (2020)\, selected as one of Time’s 100 must-read books for 2020. \nPanelist and Moderator \nDr. Brenda Rodriguez Alegre is a Lecturer in the Gender Studies Programme\, School of Humanities\, The University of Hong Kong. She holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and is a registered psychologist. Both her MA thesis and PhD dissertation were about transgender women. She is on the Board of Directors of the Society of Transsexual Women Advocates of the Philippines (STRAP)\, the country’s first and longest active support and advocacy group for and of transgender women. \nThe “100 Years of Women’s Suffrage in America” exhibition will be open to visitors in the HKU Main Library from July 27-August 28\, 2021. For details\, please visit: https://lib.hku.hk/newsblog/?p=1683 \nThe Faculty of Arts is one of the flagship faculties of the University of Hong Kong and one of the finest humanities faculties in the region and internationally. Established in November 2016\, the Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity works with organizations both within and outside of the University to lead the way on gender and diversity. The Faculty’s Gender Studies Programme was established in 2018. This event is held with the support of the U.S. Consulate General Hong Kong and Macau\, the University of Hong Kong Libraries\, and the HKU American Studies Programme\, School of Modern Languages and Cultures. \nFor enquiries\, please contact Ms Georgina Challen: gchallen@hku.hk.
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/listening-through-the-unheard-a-reflection-on-100-years-of-u-s-womens-suffrage-and-its-connections-with-asia/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events
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SUMMARY:Book Launch - Queering Chinese Media and the Sinophone Pacific
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch – Queering Chinese Media and the Sinophone Pacific\nSpeaker: Hongwei Bao\n(https://www.routledge.com/Queer-Media-in-China/Bao/p/book/9780367279455)\nDiscussant: Jamie Zhao \nSpeaker: Howard Chiang\n(https://cup.columbia.edu/book/transtopia-in-the-sinophone-pacific/9780231190978)\nDiscussant: Alvin K. Wong \nModerator: Grace Ting \nSince the late 20th century\, political liberalization and LGBT activism have shaped Sinophone Taiwan and Hong Kong. Postsocialist China has also witnessed community-driven LGBT and queer events\, HIV/AIDS activism\, and film and cultural festivals. In May 2019\, Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize gay marriage; almost simultaneously\, that summer saw a wave of protests in Hong Kong. In August 2020\, ShanghaiPRIDE\, the biggest queer cultural festival in Mainland China\, was shut down permanently. How might queer Chinese and Sinophone studies map the often uneven assemblages across LGBT and queer subjects\, community\, and media? How might community-based and ephemeral queer media practices reflect upon queer method and theory? Likewise\, how might comparing diverse historical experiences\, legal cases\, and visuality of transness across the Sinophone Pacific enable transversal mode of thinking and transtopia? This joint book launch event will launch two books\, Queer Media in China (Routledge\, 2021) by Hongwei Bao and Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific (Columbia UP\, 2021) by Howard Chiang. Together\, Bao and Chiang’s books chart new directions in film and media studies\, Chinese studies\, queer theory\, trans history\, and Sinophone studies. \nAbout the Speakers \nHongwei Bao is an associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Nottingham\, UK\, where he also directs the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies. He is the author of Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China (Nordic Institute of Asia Studies Press\, 2018)\, Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture under Postsocialism (Routledge\, 2020)\, and Queer Media in China (Routledge\, 2021).\nHoward Chiang is Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Davis. He is the author of After Eunuchs: Science\, Medicine\, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China (Columbia University Press\, 2018)\, which received the 2019 International Convention of Asia Scholars Humanities Book Prize and the 2020 Bullough Book Award from the Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality\, and Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific (Columbia University Press\, 2021). Since 2019\, he has served as the Founding Chair of the Society of Sinophone Studies. \nAbout the Discussants and Respondents \nJamie J. Zhao is currently Assistant Professor of Communications at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. She is also Honorary Professor and External Director of the Center for Gender and Media Studies at NingboTech University. Her research explores queer TV and fan cultures in a globalist age. Her writings can be found in a number of journals and edited volumes\, such as the journals Feminist Media Studies\, Continuum\, Celebrity Studies\, and Critical Asian Studies\, and her coedited anthology\, Boys’ Love\, Cosplay\, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China\, Hong Kong\, and Taiwan (HKU Press\, 2017). \nAlvin K. Wong is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at HKU. He is currently writing a book titled Queer Hong Kong as Method. Wong has published in journals such as Journal of Lesbian Studies\, Gender\, Place & Culture\, Culture\, Theory\, and Critique\, Concentric\, Continuum\, and Cultural Dynamics and in edited volumes such as Transgender China\, Queer Sinophone Cultures\, and Hong Kong Keywords. Wong is also the co-editor of Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies (Routledge\, 2020). \nAbout the Moderator \nGrace En-Yi Ting is an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at HKU. As a queer and feminist studies scholar\, she specializes in Japanese women writers and girls’ culture\, as well as transnational feminisms and queer politics. She is currently working on a book manuscript examining femininities and female homosociality within representations of daily life by women writers in post-1980’s Japan. Her other work involves critiques of race and gender in the field of Japanese studies\, as well as interrogating tensions between concepts of “queer”and “Asia” across Japanese\, Sinophone\, and Asian American literary discourses. \nFor updates on future events hosted by the Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures\, please visit https://csgchku.wordpress.com/\nFollow us on:\n– Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/csgc.hku\n– Instagram: @csgc.hku\n– Twitter: @csgchku \nPlease register at:\nhttps://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=75493&fbclid=IwAR3WskAcTqAVHrj37o6vqavgwhfWJfxeJIA4D56yZswfrzgC0U51mSYrYCg \nShould you have any enquiries\, please feel free to contact Ms. Christine Vicera by email at viceracn@hku.hk
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/book-launch-queering-chinese-media-and-the-sinophone-pacific/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210514T090000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210514T103000
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SUMMARY:Gender/Diversity/Democracy - The Gendered Pandemic in China A Feminist Online Ethnographic Study
DESCRIPTION:Center for the Study of Globalization and Cultures \nGender/Diversity/Democracy – The Gendered Pandemic in China A Feminist Online Ethnographic Study\nDate: Friday\, 14 May 2021\nTime: 9 AM (GMT +8)\nSpeaker: ZHAO Feng Chenzi\, PhD Candidate\, Western University\, Canada \nCovid-19 has posed various challenges to peoples in different parts of the world. In coping with the pandemic\, many nation-states adopt militarized rhetoric and measures that refer to fighting and defending rather than caring and persevering. This paper perceives the Covid-19 pandemic in China as a complex emergency that resembles war. By asking where are women\, where is gender\, where is feminism\, and where is security\, this online ethnography examines the lives of women and gendered others during the time of emergency\, the institutional and public discourses around the pandemic\, and the developments in feminist activisms and awareness. This paper argues that the pandemic disproportionately affects women and gendered others in China. Women’s crucial roles and contributions in sustaining the society during the pandemic are unrecognized. Feminist activism gain momentum and visibility\, yet the future of feminism in China remains precarious. State and institutions take a paternalistic attitude that leads to war-like thinking and militarized measures in response to a complex situation that entails deliberation\, care\, and collaboration. Such an attitude is intrinsically biased towards masculinity and domination\, prioritizes state stability and security over the security and livelihood of individuals\, disregards the needs of vulnerable groups\, and perpetuates their vulnerability. \nAbout the Speaker\nZHAO Feng Chenzi is a feminist\, a woman\, and a Chinese international PhD candidate in Critical Policy\, Equity\, and Leadership Studies at the Faculty of Education\, Western University\, Canada. Her research interests include women\, globalisation\, critical institutional studies\, higher education\, and social justice. \nModerator: Laura Meek\, Assistant Professor\, Centre for the Humanities and Medicine \nPlease register at https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=75113  \nFor enquiries\, please contact Christine Vicera at viceracn@hku.hk
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/gender-diversity-democracy-the-gendered-pandemic-in-china-a-feminist-online-ethnographic-study/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210427T170000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210427T183000
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SUMMARY:Gender/Diversity/Democracy – The Atlanta Shootings and the Intersections of Race and Gender: A Hong Kong Perspective
DESCRIPTION:On March 16\, 2021\, a white gunman targeted three Asian owned businesses in Atlanta and murdered eight people\, six of them Asian American women. Panelists will offer insights into what these killings reveal about the intersections of racism and misogyny. In particular\, they will contextualize the impact of the pandemic on anti-Asian discrimination against broader histories of xenophobia\, imperialism\, and sexism linking the United States and Asia. Importantly\, they will suggest ways in which these events in the United States are relevant for Hong Kong today. \nPanelists: \nAngie Baecker\, Lecturer\, Department of Art History\, HKU \nPuja Kapai\, Convenor\, Women’s Studies Research Centre; Associate Professor\, Faculty of Law\, HKU \nGrace En-Yi Ting\, Assistant Professor\, Gender Studies\, HKU \nModerator: \nAlvin Wong\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Comparative Literature\, HKU \nAll are welcome. Please register at https://forms.gle/GEmmFLhhzig8tG7t8 and the Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event.
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/gender-diversity-democracy-the-atlanta-shootings-and-the-intersections-of-race-and-gender-a-hong-kong-perspective/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210421T123000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210421T140000
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SUMMARY:Futures of Leadership: Reflections on Feminist Leadership in Post-Pandemic Asia
DESCRIPTION:Women’s Studies Research Centre \nGenderPlus Seminar Series  \nFutures of Leadership: Reflections on Feminist Leadership in Post-Pandemic Asia \nDate: Wednesday\, 21st April 2021\nTime: 12:30-2pm\nDelivery via Zoom \nRegister here: https://hku.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_f-hBWQRNTziRbKvAaYA-CA \nJoin us for a panel discussion on what leadership means in a post-pandemic world. Our panelists will draw on a range of disciplinary perspectives and will reflect on contemporary understandings of leadership\, leadership as an individual and institutional endeavour\, emergent leadership values and models and the futures of leadership in Asia. \nOur Panelists \nDr. Staci Ford is an Affiliate Associate Professor in the HKU Faculty of Arts. She teaches in the Department of History as well as in American Studies and Gender Studies. She is a cultural historian who writes about gender as it intersects with and is informed by cultural\, national\, transnational\, and generational formations. She is the author of Troubling American Women: Narratives of Gender and Nation in Hong Kong and Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting’s An Autumn’s Tale. She is currently writing about Transpacific “new” manhood(s) and  leadership through visual and media cultures\, self-help genres\, Diversity & Inclusion curricula\, and memoir. \nJane Horan\, EdD. is a researcher\, consultant and executive coach working with multinationals on developing inclusive workplaces and with individuals to find purpose at work. She is the author of three books: I Wish I’d Known That Earlier in My Career: The Power of Positive Workplace Politics\, a business book used by corporate universities globally\, How Asian Women Lead: Lessons for Global Corporations to show new perspectives on leadership and careers\, and Now It’s Clear: The Career You Own to find what matters most at work. \nPuja Kapai is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law\, Convenor of the Women’s Studies Research Centre and Director of the Social Justice Summer Internship programme at the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She is an expert in international human rights law\, minority rights\, and intersectional legal studies\, focusing in particular on the rights of communities marginalised on grounds of gender\, race\, religion\, sexuality\, and citizenship specifically in the areas of education\, poverty\, democratic participation\, language rights\, hate speech and gender- and race-based violence and discrimination. Her research has had a far-reaching impact\, influencing the development and implementation of new policies and measures to ensure equal protection and fulfilment of the rights of ethnic minorities. Professor Kapai is a frequent Keynote Speaker on issues of minority rights\, migrants\, gender justice and children’s rights in Hong Kong and overseas. She has appeared before various treaty bodies of the United Nations to share her expertise. Most recently\, she was invited to present at the United Nations Forum on Minority Issues in 2019 on the educational rights of ethnic minority girls and at the Asia-Pacific Regional UN Forum on Minority Issues in 2020\, she presented a regional overview of laws against hate speech. Professor Kapai received the International Women of Courage Hong Kong Award 2015\, HKU Faculty of Law’s Outstanding Teaching Award 2016 and its Knowledge Exchange Award 2017 and the American Chamber of Commerce’s Women of Influence Professional Woman of the Year Award 2019. \nDr. Elizabeth LaCouture is an Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Hong Kong. She is the founding director of the Gender Studies Programme at HKU. Elizabeth is a historian of women and gender in China and East Asia. She is the author of Dwelling in the World: Family. House\, and Home in Tianjin\, China\, 1860-1960. Her current research examines gender\, race and beauty in the Chinese world. Elizabeth seeks to develop inclusive pedagogies and inspire students of all genders to become feminist leaders.
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/futures-of-leadership-reflections-on-feminist-leadership-in-post-pandemic-asia/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events
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DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210413T183000
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SUMMARY:Missing Opportunities: A Review of Gender Diversity on Hong Kong Boards
DESCRIPTION:Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity\, Faculty of Arts \nKnowledge Exchange Series – Women & Leadership \nMissing Opportunities: A Review of Gender Diversity on Hong Kong Boards \nSpeaker: Mohan Datwani\, Solicitor \nDeputy Chief Executive\, The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS)\, and Member\, Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) \nModerator: Jackie Wang\, PhD Candidate\, Department of History\, School of Humanities\, HKU \nDate: 13 April 2021 (Tuesday) \nTime: 5:00 PM \nDelivery: via Zoom \nDetails and registration: \nAll are welcome. Please register and the Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event. \nhttps://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=74190 \nIn February 2021\, The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries published a review report: “Missing Opportunities: A Review of Gender Diversity on Hong Kong Boards.” The report\, which was co-authored by Peter Greenwood FCG FCS and Mohan Datwani FCG FCS(PE)\, found that only one-in-seven directors of listed companies in Hong Kong are women. Accordingly\, a  ‘Call to Action’ was issued for the regulatory imposition of a 30% target for women on boards of listed companies over a six-year period. In this seminar\, the speaker will present the myriad of perspectives gathered from different stakeholders in the writing of the report; detail how Hong Kong compares to other markets; and highlight the importance of addressing gender diversity in board membership. \n(https://www.hkics.org.hk/publication_details.php?menu_id=6&sub_menu_id=0&nid=2462) \nMohan Datwani FCG FCS(PE) is a Solicitor\, Accredited Mediator\, and Governance Professional\, who has had a distinguished career in the legal profession\, as a Global Partner of a leading U.S. international law firm\, and General Counsel of a listed company. He is currently the Deputy Chief Executive and a Fellow of The Hong Kong Institute of Chartered Secretaries (HKICS) and The Chartered Governance Institute (CGI)\, which represents Chartered Secretaries and Chartered Governance Professionals. At HKICS\, he uses his applied business and legal skill sets to promote good governance by setting technical standards and networking with aligned stakeholders\, including regulators. He also contributes to international thought leadership projects and research in collaboration with CGI\, as part of a global governance profession\, and serves on a number of Government boards\, including that of the Equal Opportunities Commission. \nJackie Wang is a PhD Candidate in the Department of History\, School of Humanities\, HKU. Her research interests include gender and business history\, specifically researching female entrepreneurs in modern China from a transnational perspective. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor’s in Politics\, Philosophy\, and Economics (PPE) and earned dual Master’s degrees in International and World History from Columbia University and The London School of Economics (LSE). \nThis event is organized with the support of the HKU Gender Studies Programme\, and the Gender Plus Seminar Series of the Women’s Studies Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. \nFor enquiries\, please contact Georgina Challen: gchallen@hku.hk \nVisit our website: https://www.cged.arts.hku.hk/
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/missing-opportunities-a-review-of-gender-diversity-on-hong-kong-boards/
LOCATION:zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events
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SUMMARY:Women\, Language and the Media: Understanding the Issues and Taking Action to Create a Gender Equal Narrative
DESCRIPTION:Committee on Gender Equality and Diversity\nKnowledge Exchange Series – Gender & Language \nWomen\, Language and the Media: Understanding the Issues and Taking Action to Create a Gender Equal Narrative \nSpeaker: Lisa Moore\, The Women’s Foundation\nModerator: Li Chong\, German Programme\, School of Modern Languages and Cultures\, HKU \nDate: 2 February 2021 (Tuesday)\nTime: 5:00 PM\nDelivery: via Zoom\nRegistration is required. The Zoom link will be sent to you prior to the event. \nMedia is a powerful tool for both perpetuating harmful gender norms and changing them. Join us to explore the critical role media and language play in shaping societal attitudes towards women and gendered expectations at home\, at work and in broader society. How do we harness the power of media to change gender attitudes and stereotypes? How do we address the way society normalises language and behaviours that exacerbate gender inequalities and a culture of violence against women? This talk will overview these issues and share practical ways to advance gender equality in Hong Kong. \nLisa Moore is Director of Research\, Advocacy and Communications at The Women’s Foundation (TWF). She oversees TWF’s independent\, collaboratively produced research on critical\, under-discussed gender issues. She also leads advocacy efforts that aim to challenge and transform existing attitudes and behaviours that are preventing women and girls from fully participating in society through cross-sector campaigns as well as sector-specific actions. Additionally\, she manages communications strategy and execution to drive TWF’s presence and impact in the wider community. Prior to TWF\, Lisa served as a Teaching & Research Fellow for Morningside College at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Lisa holds a BA in Ethnic Studies from the University of Richmond and a MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University and Nanjing University. \nThis event is organized with the support of The Women’s Foundation\, the HKU Gender Studies Program\, and the Women’s Studies Research Centre at the University of Hong Kong. \nAll are welcome \nLink for registration: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=73275 \nEnquiries: Georgina Challen – gchallen@hku.hk
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/women-language-and-the-media-understanding-the-issues-and-taking-action-to-create-a-gender-equal-narrative/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20201124T163000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20201124T180000
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SUMMARY:Seminar: Unsettling the City: Queer Assemblages in Authoritarian-Era Seoul
DESCRIPTION:Korean Studies\, School of Modern Languages and Cultures HKU has the pleasure of inviting you to the seminar: \nUnsettling the City: Queer Assemblages in Authoritarian-Era Seoul\n도시공간의 재해석: 독재시대 서울의 퀴어아상블라주\nTodd A. Henry\nDepartment of History\nUniversity of California\, San Diego \n24 November 2020 at 4:30 PM\nVia ZOOM https://bit.ly/3l7a2xH \nThis paper traces the development of Seoul’s queer spaces under capitalist authoritarianism to expand our understanding of this period of South Korean history as well as the Western-centric concepts used to study minority populations. To date\, most research on the authoritarian era has focused on the processes that explain the causes and\, to a lesser degree\, the costs of rapid industrialization as well as the contested development of democracy. Whether as leaders or detractors of these processes\, well-educated\, heterosexual\, and cisgender men typically dominate these stories\, often at the expense of women\, the proletariat\, and other subalterns. Building on studies of feminism and service work\, I shift the focus to the understudied livelihood of queer citizens\, whose fragmented pasts form the basis of my research. Linking the political limitations of authoritarianism to the restrictive norms of heteropatriarchy\, I highlight the place of actors whose non-normative gender and sexuality made it difficult\, if not impossible\, for them to claim a stable identity and/or public space in promoting their interests. By examining their work as fashion designers\, cabaret performers\, and streetwalkers\, I reveal how queer labor created vibrant but scattered assemblages of queerness in the consumer spaces of Seoul (but did not lead to the development of a “gayborhood”). I also show that such unofficial networks tended to develop at the dynamic nexus of tailor shops\, bars\, tearooms\, and theaters in entertainment zones (Myŏngdong and Ch’ungmuro)\, red-light districts (Chongno and Miyari)\, transportation hubs (Seoul Station and Ch’ŏngnyangni)\, and camp towns (It’aewŏn). After tracing the dispersed nature of the city’s queer assemblages during the 1960s and 1970s\, I end my talk with the rise of “gay (transgender) bars\,” which\, I contend\, brought together laboring subcultures of fashion\, music\, dance\, and sexuality in a single space. But\, when the AIDS crisis hit in the 1980s\, these bars became an intense target of government surveillance\, forcing its labor force to disperse once again. \nTodd A. Henry is Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, San Diego. His first book\, Assimilating Seoul (University of California Press\, 2014; Korean translation\, 2020)\, won a 2020 Sejong Book Prize in History\, Geography\, and Tourism. He is the editor of Queer Korea (Duke University Press\, 2020; Korean translation 2021)\, and he is currently working on a project that centers understudied\, “queer” dimensions of authoritarian development in Cold War South Korea. \nPoster: https://korean.hku.hk/news/images/20201124.pdf
URL:https://genderstudies.hku.hk/events/unsettling-the-city-queer-assemblages-in-authoritarian-era-seoul/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Gender Studies Co-sponsored Events
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