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SUMMARY:Memory, Gender and Change in China: Symposium
DESCRIPTION:This day long symposium is organised by WAGnet (Women and Gender in Chinese Studies network) and will take place on Friday 11th September 2015 at the Confucius Institute for Scotland.\n\nThe outline programme for the day is shown at the bottom of this page or you can download the WAGNet Symposium Programme.  ( https://www.confuciusinstitute.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/BannerProgramme.pdf )To listen to a podcast record of the day please click here.\nSymposium Themes from Speakers\n\nNew wave feminism\nLGBT communities\nCampaigns against violence against women\nDating and violence\nReproductive cultures\nTechnologies of intimacy\nPolitics of photographic representation of the female body\nSocialist masculinities\nMen’s role in family planning and contraception\nTransnational feminist organizing\n\nPROGRAMME SCHEDULE\n\n\n\nProgramme overview\nTitles and Participants\n\n\n0900-0915\nWelcome and introduction\nWelcome from the Confucius Institute for Scotland\nIntroduction to the day: Dr Sophia Woodman, University of Edinburgh\n\n\n0915-1030\nKeynote Address\nProf. Harriet Zurndorfer, Leiden University                    Men, Women, Money and Morality:  Gender and the Development of China’s Sexual Economy\n\n\n1030-1100\nTea/Coffee Break\n\n\n1100-1230Panel 1:\nTradition and change\nModerator: Prof. Fiona Moore, Royal Holloway, University of London\nSpeakers: Dr. Alison Hardie, University of Leeds\nDr. Wu Shengqing, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology\nDr. Xuelei Huang, University of Edinburgh\nDr. Francesca Bray, University of Edinburgh\n\n\n1230-1330\nLunch\n\n\n1330-1500Panel 2:\nSocialist heritage and contemporary resonances\nModerator: Prof. Francesca Bray\nSpeakers: Dr. Wang Xiangxian, Tianjin Normal University\nProf. Fiona Moore\nDr. Wang Xiying, Beijing Normal University\nDr. Derek Hird, University of Westminster\n\n\n1500-1530\nTea/Coffee Break\n\n\n1530-1700Panel 3:\nFrom global to local: reflections 20 years after the UN Fourth World Conference on Women\nModerator: Dr. Xuelei Huang\nSpeakers: Feng Yuan, Media Monitor Network for Women & Shantou University\nDr. Robin Runge, George Washington University Law School\nDr. Wei Wei, East China Normal University\nDr. Sophia Woodman\n\n\n1715-1815\nNetworking reception\n\n\n\nPlease note that the organizers intend that this Symposium generate a broad conversation on related themes, so participants are welcome to bring their own concerns and questions, as well as responding to what the speakers have to say.\nSPEAKER BIOGS\nFrancesca Bray ( http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/social_anthropology/francesca_bray ) is a historian and anthropologist of science, technology and medicine in China and elsewhere. One special focus of her research is gender regimes, another is agriculture, food and identity. Her most recent books are Technology, gender and history in imperial China: great transformations reconsidered (Routledge, 2013), and Rice: global networks and new histories (Cambridge, 2015).\nFeng Yuan has been working on gender and women’s rights issues in China since the mid-1980s. From 1986-2006, she worked as a journalist, and from the 1990s on co-founded several women’s NGOs, including Media Monitor for Women Network (1996-), Anti Domestic Violence Network/Beijing Fanbao (2000-2014) and Equality (2014-). She is also a guest professor at the Center for Women’s Studies at Shantou University.\nAlison Hardie has just retired as Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds, and remains a researcher with the White Rose East Asia Centre.Her research interest is the cultural history of the late Ming; she has written on women’s use of gardens at that time. She has recently completed a monograph on the poet, playwright and politician Ruan Dacheng, and is now working on political drama in the Ming-Qing transition.\nDerek Hird ( https://www.westminster.ac.uk/research/groups-and-centres/contemporary-china-centre/contact-us ) is a Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies at the University of Westminster. His research focuses on men and masculinities in China.His research focuses on men and masculinities in China. He has written on topics such as white-collar men, androgyny and domestic violence, and is currently researching the experiences of transmigrant Chinese men in London. He is the co-author of Men and Masculinities in Contemporary China (Brill 2013).\nHuang Xuelei ( https://www.ed.ac.uk/profile/xuelei-huang ) is Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research interests include early Chinese cinema, social and cultural history of late Qing and Republican China.Her research interests include early Chinese cinema, social and cultural history of late Qing and Republican China. Her publications include Shanghai Filmmaking: Crossing Borders, Connecting to the Globe, 1922-1938 (Brill 2014) and several essays in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Twentieth-Century China, etc.\nFiona Moore is Professor in Business Anthropology at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research interests include gender and ethnic diversity in multinational corporations and cross-cultural management.She is currently conducting a study of Taiwanese professional networks in Toronto.\nRobin Runge is an Associate Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School where she has taught Public Interest Lawyering and Domestic Violence Law since 2004, including in the clinical education program. Since 2007, Professor Runge has worked with civil society organizations and the judiciary in China to develop curricula and conduct trainings for Chinese lawyers and judges on domestic violence, and has consulted on local, regional and national policies and laws to respond to domestic violence in China. In 2014, she co-authored a report containing recommendations for China regarding its national anti-domestic violence law.\nWang Xiangxian is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Tianjin Normal University.Her research interests focus on gender and family planning, domestic violence, fatherhood and masculinity and feminist history. She is the author of several books including Introduction to the Second Sex (Tianjin People’s Press, 2010), Intimate Violence: A Case of 1,015 University Students (Tianjin People’s Press, 2009) and Gender in Everyday Life (Tianjin People’s Press, 2009). She has been active in organizing campaigns against intimate violence on campus.\nXiying Wang is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Development and Public Policy at Beijing Normal University. Her major research interests include gender studies, feminist theory and human sexualities, qualitative research methods, gender-based violence, sex education, and women living with HIV/AIDs.\nWei Wei is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Social Development, East China Normal University, Shanghai, China. His research focuses are LGBT communities and movements, urban queer spaces, Chinese masculinities and HIV/AIDS prevention. He is the author of two Chinese books: Going Public: The Production and Transformation of Queer Spaces in Chengdu, China (2012) and Queering Chinese Society: Urban Space, Popular Culture and Social Policy (2015).\nSophia Woodman ( http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/sociology/sophia_woodman ) is a Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science. Her research interests include citizenship, human rights and social movements in contemporary China, with a focus on the every day politics of citizens, including the gendered character of citizenship. A publication on these themes is Law, translation and voice: the transformation of a struggle for social justice in a Chinese village, published in Critical Asian Studies in 2011.\nHarriet T. Zurndorfer is an Affiliated Fellow of the Leiden Institute for Area Studies in the Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University in the Netherlands where she has worked since 1978. She is founder, and editor-in-chief of the journal Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China. She has been a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College (Oxford), Visiting Professor at the Sorbonne, and a participant in the London School of Economics-sponsored project Global Economic History Network (2003-06), and is currently researching a book on Chinese women’s inequality in the post-socialist era.\nThis symposium and the preceding two days of workshops are sponsored by the Confucius Institute for Scotland, the Universities China Committee in London and Women and Gender in Chinese Studies Network (WAGNet).\nTo register for the public symposium please click here.\n
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