Upcoming events:
Public Lecture Series 2009
Visiting Scholar Scheme: Raewyn Connell, PhD, FASSA
Biography :
Raewyn Connell is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and University Professor at the University of Sydney. Professor Connell is a very experienced researcher and theorist in the social sciences and has written or edited 21 books and more than 150 scientific papers. She has been involved also with practical applications of research in education, health, AIDS prevention, etc. She was an advisor to United Nations agencies on questions about men and gender and has been involved all her life in the labour movement, in attempts to democratise education, and in the struggle against war. Her books include Making the Difference: Schools, Families and Social Division (1982), Gender and Power: Society, the Person and Sexual Politics (1987), Masculinities (1995), Gender (2002), and Southern Theory: The Global Dynamics of Knowledge in Social Science (2007). Both Masculinities and Gender have been translated into Chinese.
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Public Lecture: Gender and Sexuality in the New Global Capitalism:
Are We Heading for Another Feudal Age?
Date / 日期 :
Friday, 23 October 2009
2009年10月23日星期五
Time / 時間 :
3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
下午3點30分至5時30分
Venue / 地點 :
LT3, Esther Lee Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
香港中文大學利黃瑤碧樓三號演講廳
Speaker / 講者 :
Raewyn Connell, PhD, FASSA
University Professor
University of Sydney, Australia
Raewyn Connell 博士，澳洲社會科學學院院士
澳洲悉尼大學
大學教授
Abstract / 講座內容 :
It is a common belief that economic modernization causes greater equality between women and men. Yet as older gender regimes are eroded, new forms of exploitation of women seem to emerge: in factory labour, prostitution, and family life. Men (especially the men of privileged social groups) control most of the new institutions of global capitalism. Violence against women is still endemic, globally, and women are targeted in new forms of civil conflict. Is modernity, therefore, the prelude to a new feudalism in gender relations? This public lecture will discuss evidence about these questions from different parts of the world, and will offer a new view of how gender relations are changing globally.
Chair / 主持 :
Ho Sik Ying, Petula, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Social Work and Social Administration
University of Hong Kong
Dr. Ho Sik Ying, Petula is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong. Dr. Ho is one the few recognised experts in the relatively uncharted territory of gender and sexuality studies in Hong Kong and China. Dr. Ho's main research and teaching interests are in the area of homosexuality, gender and sexuality issues. Besides her 2 theses, Dr. Ho has published numerous peer reviewed papers in journals including Sex Roles: A Journal of Sex Research, Journal of Sex Research, Violence Against Women, Sexualities, Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, Women’s Studies International Forum, making important contributions to the development of a dynamic theory of gender and sexuality in the international arena that will help problematize feminist theories and resist Western hegemonies through empirical case studies that make connections between discourses, cultural practices, political economy, and social change.
何式凝博士
香港大學社會工作及社會行政學系副教授
何式凝，香港大學社會工作及社會行政學系副教授，近期的研究興趣涉及性, 性別角色與性本質的課題, 並希望利用所學能參與性教育的培訓工作, 促進弱勢社群的社會服務。除了教學與研究，喜愛主持電台的「phone-in」節目，建立另類社群，更期望能在游水、做愛與跳舞中發現工作以外生活的多姿多彩。
Public Lecture: The Role of Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality
公開講座：性別平等與「他」何干？
Date / 日期 :
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
2009年10月28日星期三
Time / 時間 :
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
晚上7點30分至9時30分
Venue / 地點 :
Auditorium, 1/F, Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, 15 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai,
Hong Kong (Wan Chai MTR Exit A2)
香港灣仔軒尼詩道15號溫莎公爵社會服務大廈一 樓禮堂 (港鐡灣仔站A2出口)
Abstract / 講座內容 :
It is often assumed that gender equality is "women's business", and men have no role in reforming gender relations. But men are crucial to gender reform, and their role is increasingly debated. In 2004, the United Nations adopted a policy document about how men and boys can be involved in achieving gender equality. Raewyn Connell, who helped to write this document, will discuss the issue of social justice in gender relations, the changing place of men in debates about gender equality, the relation between men and women's movements, and the new research about men and masculinities.
Chair / 主持 :
Anita K.W. Chan, PhD
Associate Professor
The Hong Kong Institute of Education
Dr. Anita K.W. Chan came to gender studies when she was an undergraduate. From then, she developed deep interests in gender issues in the fields of education and family studies. In 2005, she joined the Institute of Education as she believes a gendering perspective is important in teachers’ education, which helps nurture a younger generation who can uphold equality and respect differences. Her current research projects cover topics like gender and educational leadership, cultural constructions of motherhood, and changing gender relationships in Hong Kong families. She is the co-editor of the book Gendering Hong Kong Society: A Reader (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press)
陳潔華博士
香港教育學院副教授
陳潔華在大學本科生時開始接觸性別研究，從此便和它結下不解之緣。她的碩士和博士論文主要是探討教育中的性別議題，例如中學女生、小學老師和校長如何在學校和職場中建構性別身份。2005年她加入香港教育學院，因她相信培育準老師和在職老師建立性別視野，才能令年青一代尊重差異和追求平等。陳現時的研究涉及教育領導中的性別議題、家庭關係的轉變和現代母職的建構和實踐。曾編輯的書本有《香港性別論述—從屬、不公、差異、越界》（香港：牛津大學出版社）。
