Photos of Prof. Kondo's visit

Prof. Dorinne Kondo, Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at the University of Southern California, U.S., paid a visit to Hong Kong and gave two public lectures in addition to a postgraduate seminar and faculty roundtable. Here are some pictures:

Public lecture on October 25:

Postgraduate Seminar on October 26:

Public Lecture on October 27:

Faculty Roundtable on October 29:

A huge thanks to Prof. Kondo for her lectures and sharings! Thanks also to friends who attended these activities.

Please stay tuned for our 2011 Lecture Series.

著名人類學教授Dorinne Kondo訪港公開演講 / Public Lecture by Dorinne Kondo, Professor of Anthropology from the U.S.

(The English version follows the Chinese one.)

美國南加州大學人類學及美國研究教授Dorinne Kondo將於十月來港公開演講。是次演講是香港中文大學性別研究學系主辦、利希慎基金贊助的性別研究公開講座系列2010的壓軸項目。

Kondo教授是《Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace》(1990) 一書的作者，該書曾奪得J.I. Staley Prize，對人類學科的貢獻得到肯定；而其另一書目《About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theatre》(1997) 亦曾獲研究獎項。此外，Kondo教授更是一名劇作家，她的第一部戲劇《Dis)graceful(l) Conduct》便曾奪得全國性的喜劇獎。

是次訪問，Kondo教授將作兩場公開演講。第一場題為 “Gender-, Race- and Genre-bending in Contemporary U.S. Theatre”，Kondo教授會討論當代非白人藝術家，包括美國黑人劇作家及演員Anna Deavere Smith及劇作家David Henry Hwang的作品，並分析這些作品如何動搖及重新定下戲劇的常規。

第二場演講題為 “Seamless: A Play Reading with Commentary”。Kondo教授將演繹她寫的劇本《Seamless》(天衣無縫)其中數場，並分析她在當中面對性別和種族表述的兩難，以及她作為一個帶着人類學學者的身份的劇作家，如何在戲劇世界中定位。

除兩場演講外，Kondo教授亦會舉行一場題為 “Gender, Race and the Trope of Performance in Anthropology and Cultural Studies” 的研究生研討會，及名為 “Gender, Race, and Corporeal Epistemologies” 的學者圓桌會議。

如有查詢，請致電2696-1026或電郵至genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk。公開講座歡迎公眾參加，有興趣人士可於網上登記：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm。

活動詳情：

公開講座（香港中文大學）

題目：Gender-, Race- and Genre-bending in Contemporary U.S. Theatre

日期：2010年10月25日（星期一）

時間：下午4時 - 6時

地點：香港中文大學何添樓B6演講廳

公開講座

題目：Seamless: A Play Reading with Commentary

日期：2010年10月27日（星期三）

時間：晚上7時30分 - 9時30分

地點：香港灣仔軒尼詩道15號溫莎公爵社會服務大廈2樓202室（灣仔港鐵站A2出口）

研究生研討會

題目：Gender, Race and the Trope of Performance in Anthropology and Cultural Studies

日期：2010年10月26日（星期二）

時間：下午2時30分 - 4時30分

地點：香港中文大學信和樓422室（會議室）

學者圓桌會議

題目：Gender, Race, and Corporeal Epistemologies

日期：2010年10月29日（星期五）

時間：下午4時 - 6時

地點：香港中文大學信和樓422室（會議室）

登記：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm

查詢：電郵: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk; 電話: 2696 1026; 傳真:2603 7223

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(English version)

Dorinne Kondo, Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at the University of Southern California, U.S., will visit Hong Kong in October as visiting scholar of the Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2010, organized by the Gender Studies Programme of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and sponsored by the Lee Hysan Foundation.

Professor Kondo is the author of Crafting Selves: Power, Gender, and Discourses of Identity in a Japanese Workplace (1990), the winner of the J.I. Staley Prize for a book having an impact on the field of Anthropology. Her second book About Face: Performing Race in Fashion and Theatre (Routledge, 1997) won the Cultural and Literary Studies Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. Professor Kondo is also a playwright and dramaturge. Her first play Dis)graceful(l) Conduct received a national comedy playwriting award.

Professor Kondo will give two public lectures during her stay in Hong Kong. In the first one, titled “Gender-, Race- and Genre-bending in Contemporary U.S. Theatre”, she will focus on the work of contemporary artists of color—African American playwright-actress Anna Deavere Smith and playwright David Henry Hwang—and analyze the ways their work destabilizes—and inevitably reinscribes—theatrical convention.

In the second lecture, titled “Seamless: A Play Reading with Commentary”, Professor Kondo will present selected scenes from her play SEAMLESS, analyzing the dilemmas of gender and racial representation she faces, and the implications of her position as an anthropologist “going native” as a playwright in the world of theatre.

Apart from the two public lectures, Professor Kondo will also hold a postgraduate seminar titled “Gender, Race and the Trope of Performance in Anthropology and Cultural Studies”, and a faculty roundtable focusing on “Gender, Race, and Corporeal Epistemologies”.

For enquiries, please call 2696 1026 or e-mail to genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk. Members of the public are welcome to register for the public lectures at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm.

Event Memo:

Public Lecture (CUHK)

Gender-, Race- and Genre-bending in Contemporary U.S. Theatre

Date: 25 October 2010 (Monday)

Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Venue: Lecture Theatre B6, Ho Tim Building, CUHK

Language: English (Discussion in English and Cantonese)

Public Lecture

Seamless: A Play Reading with Commentary

Date: 27 October 2010 (Wednesday)

Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Venue: Room 202, Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, 15 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, HK [Wan Chai MTR Exit A2]

Language: English (Discussion in English and Cantonese)

Postgraduate Seminar

Gender, Race and the Trope of Performance in Anthropology and Cultural Studies

Date: 26 October 2010 (Tuesday)

Time: 2:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Venue: Room 422, Sino Building, CUHK

Language: English

Faculty Roundtable

Gender, Race, and Corporeal Epistemologies

Date: 29 October 2010 (Friday)

Time: 4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Venue: Room 422, Sino Building, CUHK

Language: English

Registration

Public Lectures

http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm

Postgraduate Seminar and Faculty Roundtable

Email: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk

Enquiries

Tel: (852) 2696 1026

Fax: (852) 2603 7223

Email: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk

Photos of the July lecture

Despite heavy rain, Richa Nagar, Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota, gave a lively lecture to an enthusiastic audience for the Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2010, organized by the Gender Studies Programme of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and sponsored by the Lee Hysan Foundation.

Here are some of the pictures of the night:

Photos from the April lecture

Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2010, organized by the Gender Studies Department, CUHK and sponsored by Lee Hysan Foundation, held its second lecture on April 28 with Meltem Ahıska, Associate Professor at Boğaziçi University (Istanbul), Turkey. Here are some of the pictures of the night:

Public Lecture by Richa Nagar, Scholar of Gender Studies from India / 印度性別研究學者來港演講

(The Chinese version follows the English one.)

Richa Nagar - Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, Associate Dean for Faculty in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, is going to be the speaker for the upcoming lecture of the Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2010, organized by the Gender Studies Programme of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and sponsored by the Lee Hysan Foundation.

 

Prof. Nagar is a founding member of Sangtin Kisaan Mazdoor Sangathan (Sangtin Peasants and Workers’ Organization) in Sitapur district of Uttar Pradesh, India. She has co-authored Sangtin Yatra; and her academic researches on gender, race, and communal politics among South Asian communities in postcolonial Tanzania have resulted in numerous articles and essays. Since 1996, Prof. Nagar’s works have focused mainly on collaborative efforts that seek to reconfigure the political terrain and processes associated with “empowerment” projects aimed at “the poor.”

 

The coming lecture in July by Prof. Nagar is titled ‘From Feminist Fieldwork to Collaborative Praxis: Lessons from the Sangtin Movement in India’. Prof. Nagar will focus on her ongoing collaboration with the Sangtin organization in India. This movement of 5000 rural peasants and laborers began as a collective of nine authors who critically reflected on how caste, class, religion, and gender shape the lives of poor rural women, and shape the internal processes, effectiveness, and limitations of non-governmental organizations that work on their behalf.  The lecture will highlight the key moments in this journey, as well as the transformative dialogues triggered by the collaboration among rural and academic communities, NGOs, activist collectives, and donor agencies.

 

For enquiries, please call 2969-1026 or e-mail to genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk. Members of the public are welcome to register for the public lecture at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm.

 

Event Memo:

Public Lecture:     From Feminist Fieldwork to Collaborative Praxis: Lessons from the                             Sangtin Movement in India

 

Date:                       28 July 2010 (Wed)

 

Time:                      7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

 

Venue:                    Rm 202, Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, 15 Hennessey Road, Wanchai, HK (Wanchai Metro Exit A2)

 

Language:               English

 

Chair:                      Marie-Paule Ha, Associate Professor

Department of History, The University of Hong Kong 

 

Registration:            http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm.

 

Enquiries:                Email: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk; Tel: 2696 1026;

Fax: 2603 7223

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由香港中文大學性別研究學系主辦，利希慎基金贊助的性別研究公開講座系列2010，將於七月份舉行第三場公開講座。是次講座會由美國明尼蘇達州大學性別、女性及性態研究學教授Richa Nagar演講。

 

Nagar教授研究印度及南亞性別研究議題多年，現任美國明尼蘇達州大學文學院副院長。她在印度北方邦創立了Sangtin協會服務區內農民及工人，並藉此經驗以印度文及英文出版《Sangtin Yatra》一書。她曾研究在後殖民時期的坦桑尼亞，當地南亞裔人口的性別、種族及社區政治，並發表多項研究成果。自1996年，Nagar教授的著作集中探討以低下階層為目標的增權計劃 (Empowerment projects) 及協作實踐的角色。

 

是次講座題為「從女性主義田野調查到協作實踐：印度Sangtin運動的啓示」。Nagar教授會分享她在印度協助創立Sangtin協會的過程。Sangtin協會有5000多名鄉郊的農民和工人會員，其創立源自九位女性反思社會等級、宗教和性別等因素怎樣影響鄉郊貧窮婦女的生活和服務她們的非政府組織的運作。講座會討論鄉郊社區、學術機構、非政府組織、行動主義團體和撥款機構之間的多元對話。

 

如有查詢，請致電2696-1026或電郵至genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk。公開講座歡迎公眾參加，有興趣人士可於網上登記：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm。

 

活動備忘：

公開講座：從女性主義田野調查到協作實踐：印度Sangtin運動的啓示

(From Feminist Fieldwork to Collaborative Praxis: Lessons from the Sangtin Movement in India)

日期：2010年7月28日（星期三）

時間：晚上7時30分至9時30分

地點：香港灣仔軒尼詩道15 號溫莎公爵社會服務大廈202室(港鐵灣仔站A2出口)

語言：英語

主持：夏愛儀　香港大學歷史系副教授

登記：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm

查詢：電郵: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk; 電話: 2696 1026; 傳真:2603 7223

Public Lecture by Meltem Ahıska, Scholar of Sociology from Turkey / 土耳其社會學學者Meltem Ahıska 來港演講

（中文版在英文版之後）

Meltem Ahıska, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Boğaziçi University (Istanbul), Turkey, will visit Hong Kong and be the speaker for the upcoming lecture of the Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2010, organized by the Gender Studies Programme of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and sponsored by the Lee Hysan Foundation.

Dr. Ahıska is the author of The Magical Door of Radio: Occidentalism and Political Subjectivity (Radyonun Sihirli Kapısı: Garbiyatçılık ve Politik Öznellik) and the co-author of ‘The Indivisible Unity of the Nation’: Fragmenting Nationalism(s) in the Democratization Process (‘Milletin Bölünmez Bütünlüğü’ : Demokratikleşme Sürecinde Parçalayan Milliyetçilik(ler)). She has also contributed to Waiting for the Barbarians: A Tribute to Edward Said with a chapter entitled ‘Orientalism/Occidentalism: The Impasse of Modernity’, and various publications on Occidentalism, social memory, gender and related issues. Her new book, Occidentalism in Turkey: Questions of Modernity and National Identity in Turkish Radio Broadcasting by I.B.Tauris of London, is forthcoming as well.

The coming lecture in April by Dr. Ahıska is titled ‘The Gendered Grammar of Occidentalism: Modes of addressing violence against women in Turkey’. She will take Occidentalism as a historical and dialogical construction of modernity in Turkey in relation to the so-called “East” and “West”, and argue that Occidentalism has established a performative grammar of power, which can be put into service for explaining away, and legitimizing gender discrimination and violence by using the terms of a projected Westernism.

For enquiries, please call 2696 1026 or e-mail to genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk. Members of the public are welcome to register for the public lecture at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm


Event Memo:

Public Lecture: The Gendered Grammar of Occidentalism: Modes of addressing violence against women in Turkey

Date: 28 April 2010 (Wed)

Time: 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.

Venue: Rm 202, Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, 15 Hennessey Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong (Wan Chai MTR Exit A2)

Language: English

Chair: Meaghan Morris, Chair Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University

Registration: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm

Enquiries: Email: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk;

Tel: 2696 1026; Fax: 2603 7223

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土耳其伊斯坦堡Boğaziçi 大學社會學系副教授Meltem Ahıska將會應邀來港出席性別研究公開講座系列2010四月份的講座。是次系列由香港中文大學性別研究課程主辦，利希慎基金贊助。

Ahıska博士是 《The Magical Door of Radio: Occidentalism and Political Subjectivity》 (Radyonun Sihirli Kapısı: Garbiyatçılık ve Politik Öznellik) 一書的作者，並曾合著 《‘The Indivisible Unity of the Nation’: Fragmenting Nationalism(s) in the Democratization Process》 (‘Milletin Bölünmez Bütünlüğü’ : Demokratikleşme Sürecinde Parçalayan Milliyetçilik(ler))，以及在《Waiting for the Barbarians: A Tribute to Edward Said》一書中撰寫一章，題為‘Orientalism/Occidentalism: The Impasse of Modernity’。她的著作廣泛涉獵西方主義、社會記憶、性別及相關議題。她的最新著作，由倫敦I.B.Tauris出版的《Occidentalism in Turkey: Questions of Modernity and National Identity in Turkish Radio Broadcasting》快將出版。

是次講座題為「西方主義的性別文法：在土耳其不同論述如何回應針對女性的暴力」。Ahıska博士將會討論西方主義如何在土耳其令性別歧視及性暴力合理化。

如有查詢，請致電2696-1026或電郵至genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk。公開講座歡迎公眾參加，有興趣人士可於網上登記：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm。

活動備忘：

公開講座：西方主義的性別文法：在土耳其不同論述如何回應針對女性的暴力 (The Gendered Grammar of Occidentalism: Modes of addressing violence against women in Turkey)

日期：2010年4月28日（星期三）

時間：晚上7時30分至9時30分

地點：香港灣仔軒尼詩道15 號溫莎公爵社會服務大廈202室(港鐵灣仔站A2出口)

語言：英語

主持：墨美姬教授 嶺南大學文化研究系講座教授

登記：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm

查詢：電郵: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk; 電話: 2696 1026; 傳真:2603 7223

「我（ ）塗鴉」講座剪影

台灣大學建築與城鄉研究所副教授畢恆達於2010年1月27日訪港並主講「我（ ）塗鴉」公開講座（講座主持：蘇珏）。

講座剪影：

著名性別研究學者畢恆達應邀來港演講

承接去年的成功，香港中文大學性別研究學系繼續得到利希慎基金的贊助，主辦性別研究公開講座系列2010，於來年邀請四位學者來港分享性別研究的經驗和成果。

首場一月的講座將會邀請台灣大學建築與城鄉研究所副教授畢恆達。畢教授對台灣的性別研究發展有莫大貢獻，除了創立性別與空間研究室，更是台灣多個性別研究計劃的主持人。他的研究著作深入探討兩性與不同空間的互動，包括住宅空間、公共街道、廁所等，其中《找尋空間的女人》(1996)及《空間就是權力》(2001)均入選台灣的十本好書。

是次講座題為「我（ ）塗鴉」。畢教授早於留學美國期間，對街頭塗鴉產生濃厚興趣，曾著書專論台灣的街頭塗鴉文化。畢教授於是次講座會探討不同形式塗鴉，以及塗鴉和性別的關係。

如有查詢，請致電2696-1026或電郵至genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk。公開講座歡迎公眾參加，有興趣人士可於網上登記：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm。

活動備忘：

公開講座：我（ ）塗鴉
日期：2010年1月27日（星期三）
時間：晚上7時30分至9時30分
地點：香港灣仔軒尼詩道15 號溫莎公爵社會服務大廈202室(港鐵灣仔站A2出口)
語言：普通話
主持：蘇珏　設計及文化研究（香港）工作室成員
登記：http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm
查詢：電郵: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk; 電話: 2696 1026; 傳真:2603 7223