Gender Studies Program, CUHK

World-renowned Filmmaker, Feminist and Postcolonial Theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha to Lecture in HK and CUHK

2011-09-14T15:47:00.005+08:00

Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2011

World-renowned Filmmaker, Feminist and Postcolonial Theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha to Lecture in HK and CUHK
Now Open for Public Registration

World-renowned filmmaker, feminist and postcolonial theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha will visit Hong Kong in late October and early November as visiting scholar of the Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2011, organized by the Gender Studies Programme of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and sponsored by the Lee Hysan Foundation.

Born in Vietnam and currently Professor at the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Department of Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley, Professor Trinh is a prolific and influential filmmaker, writer, composer, cultural critic and feminist. Her wide repertoire of works include scholastic publications (such as Woman, Native, Other: Post-coloniality and Feminism (1989)), poetry collections, large-scale multimedia installations in USA, Japan, France and China, and many films that have been honoured in more than forty-two retrospectives around the world. She has also lectured extensively in the States, Europe, Asia and Australia on film, art, feminism and cultural politics.

Professor Trinh will lecture twice in Hong Kong. The first lecture, titled “The Politics of Forms and Forces” and held at CUHK, will analyse power relations in light of forms and forces in cinema. In the second lecture, titled “Walking with the Unmourned”, Professor Trinh will connect the notion of walking with the struggles around the world, in particular the transnational struggles of women in the U.S., Argentina, Mexico, and China.

Apart from the two public lectures, Professor Trinh will also hold a workshop titled “D-Story, D-Film – (Cinematic, Digital, Transcultural) Screening of the film NIGHT PASSAGE followed by discussion”, as well as a seminar on the idea of “The Boundary Event” from her latest book, Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism and The Boundary Event, published in 2010.

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

Event Memo:

31 OCT Public Lecture (CUHK)

The Politics of Forms and Forces

Date: Monday, 31 October 2011

Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm

Venue: Li Koon Chun Hall, 3/F Sino Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Chair: Gina Marchetti, Associate Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, The University of Hong Kong

Abstract:

Power relations lay at the core of normative representations. In the tuning in with the forces of a life event, one can say that form is attained only to address the formless. Reality in its social and historical dimension is not a material for artistic reflection or political commitment; it is what powerfully draws one to cinema and yet cannot be captured without dissolving itself in its fragile essence when one approaches it without subtlety and vulnerability.

2 NOV Public Lecture

Walking with the Unmourned

Date: Wednesday, 2 November 2011

Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm

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

Chair: Stella Kao, College Lecturer of Cultural and Media Studies/Creative Studies, HKU SPACE Community College

Abstract:

"What is it that makes both talks and silences stained with shame? Sometimes the mind freezes and the heart goes on fasting: name, nation, identity, citizenship disappear. With every step, the world comes to the walker, and all around, on the immense screen of life, every event speaks." In the dense jungle of events, doings, and happenings, history comes in interrelated fragments to be sniffed out, tracked, swallowed, held on, or vomited while walking for survival. The spirit of the walk has led the writer to a whole tradition of independent walkers in ancient Asia, at the same time as it provides her with a link to the struggles around the world, more specifically to the transnational struggles of women in the U.S., Argentina, Mexico, and China.

1 NOV Workshop

D-Story, D-Film – (Cinematic, Digital, Transcultural) Screening of the film NIGHT PASSAGE followed by discussion

Date: Tuesday, 1 November 2011

Time: 3:30pm – 6:30pm

Venue: Room 422, Sino Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Abstract:

Night Passage (98 minutes, color, 2004, directed by Trinh T. Minh-ha and Jean-Paul Bourdier) is a D-film on friendship and death. Made in homage to Miyazawa Kenji's classic novel, Milky Way Railroad (or Night Train to the Stars), the story revolves around the spiritual journey of two young women and a little boy, into a world of rich in-between realities. Their journey into the land of ‘awakened dream’ and out is experienced as a passage of appearances, from a death to a return in life that occurs during a long ride on a night train. At each stop of the train, the travelers set out in the dark and come across an inner space of longing, in which their ears and eyes meet with people and events at once too familiar and oddly strange. Every encounter opens a door into the transcultural, and every intervention offers an experience of non-illusory, two-dimensional time-space spectacles.

4 NOV Seminar

The Boundary Event

Date: Friday, 4 November 2011

Time: 4:30pm – 6:30pm

Venue: Room 422, Sino Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Abstract:

The boundary event, which has been the focus of previous research published in my new book, Elsewhere, Within Here: Immigration, Refugeeism and The Boundary Event (2010), is here at once material and immaterial. On the one hand for example, the wall event: a scar in the environmental landscape, a visual statement of one’s relationship with one’s neighboring communities across the region. On the other hand, the boundary event needs not be material. It could be an event in time and in duration. Twilight, for example, figures prominently in my work as the fragile moment of a multiple encounter between day and night, between East and West. Realities change according to the shift of light, and meanings given to the same symbol may differ radically during daytime or nighttime. Between the diurnal and the nocturnal then, there is the third term.

Enquiries

Tel: (852) 2696 1026

Fax: (852) 2603 7223

Email: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk

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中大性別研究公開講座系列2011

著名電影創作人、女性主義及後殖民理論家Trinh T. Minh-ha（鄭明河）訪港演講

歡迎公眾報名參加

由香港中文大學（中大）性別研究課程主辦、利希慎基金贊助的性別研究公開講座系列2011將會於10-11月舉行壓軸項目，邀請著名電影創作人、女性主義及後殖民理論家Trinh T. Minh-ha（鄭明河）教授訪港，舉行一連串學術活動。

鄭明河教授生於越南，現在是美國柏克萊加州大學性別及女性研究學系及修辭學系教授。鄭教授集電影製作人、作家、文化評論家、女性主義者及後殖民理論學者於一身，著作豐富，除了學術書籍（例如《Woman, Native, Other: Post-coloniality and Feminism》(1989)），還出版詩集，拍攝電影（包括《Reassemblage》(40分鐘，1982)），在中國、美國、日本等地舉行大型媒體裝置展覽，並於各國演講，範圍包活電影、藝術、女性主義及文化政治。

是次訪問，鄭教授將作兩場公開演講。第一場題為 “The Politics of Forms and Forces”，鄭教授會探討電影形式的政治及權力關係。第二場演講題為 “Walking with the Unmourned”，鄭教授會把步行這一概念和世界各地女性的跨國抗爭結合。

除兩場演講外，鄭教授亦會舉行一場電影放映會，放映並討論其2004年的作品《Night Passage》，以及舉行一場題為 “The Boundary Event” 的研討會。

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（中文大學）

題目：The Politics of Forms and Forces

日期：2011年10月31日（星期一）

時間：下午6時30分 - 8時30分

地點：香港中文大學信和樓3樓李冠春堂

主持：Gina Marchetti 香港大學比較文學系副教授

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

公開講座

題目：Walking with the Unmourned

日期：2011年11月2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）

主持：高靜衷香港大學附屬學院媒體及文化研究/創意研究講師

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

工作坊

題目：D-Story, D-Film – (Cinematic, Digital, Transcultural) Screening of the film NIGHT PASSAGE followed by discussion

日期：2011年11月1日（星期二）

時間：下午3時30分 - 6時30分

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

研討會

題目：The Boundary Event

日期：2011年11月4日（星期五）

時間：下午4時30分 - 6時30分

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

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

查詢：電郵: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk; 電話: 2696 1026; 傳真:26

北京獨立藝術家邢丹文來港演講

2011-07-17T11:13:00.001+08:00

由香港中文大學（中大）性別研究課程主辦、利希慎基金贊助的性別研究公開講座系列2011已於1月及4月舉行了兩場講座，邀請了台灣和土耳其的學者來港分享性別研究的經驗和成果。

第三場講座將於7月27日舉行，邀請了北京獨立藝術家邢丹文來港。邢丹文是多元活躍的當代藝術家，擅於透過照相機觀察與挑戰中國的社會、人性、女性身份等問題，並曾於巴黎、紐約和倫敦舉辦展覽。是次講座題為「與邢丹文對談：攝影、現實及生存的關係」。透過與主持對談，邢丹文會闡述其藝術探討的主題和概念，包括記憶與存在、想像與現實、真與假等等，以及細說她作為一位女性怎樣探討當代中國的現狀和如何在本土和國際的藝術圈中自我定位。歡迎公眾參加，有興趣人士可於網上登記。詳情如下：

公開講座：與邢丹文對談：攝影、現實及生存的關係

日期：2011年7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）

主講語言：普通話

主持：霍少霞香港理工大學通識教育中心講師

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 Ö. Gürel, Scholar of Architecture from Turkey / 土耳其建築設計學者Meltem Ö. Gürel 來港演講

2011-04-11T08:33:00.003+08:00

（中文版在英文版之後）

Meltem Ö. Gürel, Assistant Professor at the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Bilkent University, Turkey, will visit Hong Kong in April to give a public lecture titled “Women and the Modern Domicile in Turkey in the Mid-20^th Century” for the Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2011, organized by the Gender Studies Programme of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and sponsored by the Lee Hysan Foundation.

Dr. Gürel is currently Head of the Department. She taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she received her Ph.D. in Architecture. She has published in Journal of Architectural Education, The Journal of Architecture, Gender, Place and Culture, Journal of Design History, The International Journal of Art & Design Education and elsewhere. Her research interests include cross-cultural histories of modernism with an emphasis on society, gender and culture as they have influenced the built environment, as well as the domestic domain, interior space and interior design/architecture education.

In the lecture, Dr. Gürel will show how women were national assets representing the country and playing a critical role in spreading and normalizing modernization and Westernization. Conceptualizing domestic space as a domain where gender roles are formed and performed, she will argue that while mediating powerful discourses on the structures of patriarchy, the construction of women’s identity empowered them as significant actors in shaping the modern domicile.

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: Women and the Modern Domicile in Turkey in the Mid-20^th Century

Date: 27 April 2011 (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]

Chair: Sandy Ng, Assistant Professor,

School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic 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Bilkent大學室內建築及環境設計學系的助理教授Meltem Ö. Gürel，將於四月份應邀來港演講。該講座為「性別研究公開講座系列2011」的活動之一，由香港中文大學性別研究學系主辦，利希慎基金贊助。

Gürel博士於伊利諾大學厄巴納－香檳分校 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 獲得博士學位並曾留校任教。1994年起，她於Bilkent大學室內建築及環境設計學系任教，現時為該系的系主任。她的研究興趣包括室內空間、室內設計教育及現代主義的跨文化歷史，並專注研究社會、性別和文化怎樣影響居住環境。其著作多見於論文期刊，包括《Journal of Architectural Education》、《The Journal of Architecture》、《Gender, Place and Culture》、《Journal of Design History》、《The International Journal of Art & Design Education》等。

是次講座題為「二十世紀中期土耳其女性與現代家居」。Gürel博士將會展示在土耳其西化和現代化的過程中，女性如何成為代表國家的重要資產，及她們扮演著的重要角色。 Gürel博士提出家居空間作爲性別角色操演的場域，女性在其中的身份建構固然體現有關父權結構的論述，但亦同時造就了女性作爲建設現代家居的關鍵人物。

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：二十世紀中期土耳其女性與現代家居 (Women and the Modern Domicile in Turkey in the Mid-20^th Century)

日期：2011年4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：英語

主持：吳敏儀香港理工大學設計學院助理教授

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

性別及精神分析學者彭仁郁來港演講

2011-01-03T11:11:00.001+08:00

性別研究公開講座：當亂倫創傷遇上精神分析──原初幻想或建構的真實？

Gender Studies Public Lecture: Incest Trauma under the Light of Psychoanalysis: Reality, Fantasy or Construction?

過去兩年，由香港中文大學性別研究課程主辦，利希慎基金贊助的性別研究公開講座系列成功邀請各地不同學者來港分享性別研究的經驗和成果。踏入第三年，中大性別研究課程將繼續主辦性別研究公開講座系列2011。

首場一月的講座邀請了台灣中央研究院民族學研究所助研究員彭仁郁博士。彭氏留學法國，2006年取得法國巴黎狄德羅大學心理病理學暨精神分析學博士。其博士論文在2008年獲法國「研究世界」博士論文獎，並於次年3月改寫成書出版《亂倫試煉》。2009年8月進入台灣中央研究院民族學研究所任助研究員。著有譯著多種，包括《恐怖的力量》等。

是次講座題為「當亂倫創傷遇上精神分析──原初幻想或建構的真實？」。彭氏將會深入探討亂倫主題及精神分析理論千絲萬縷的關係，特別是亂倫主題怎樣被挪用為壓迫受害者主體自由的凶器。此次演講會結合亂倫暴力「受害者」的經驗與精神分析理論／實踐來尋找重新看待真實心理創傷的角度。

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：當亂倫創傷遇上精神分析──原初幻想或建構的真實？

日期：2011年1月26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：陳寧（塵翎）作家、傳媒人、文化評論人

Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2011: Psychoanalysis, Architecture and Turkey, Photography, Postcolonial Cultural Politics

2011-01-03T11:02:00.006+08:00

Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2011: Psychoanalysis, Architecture and Turkey, Photography, Postcolonial Cultural Politics / 性別研究公開講座系列2011：精神分析、土耳其建築、攝影、後殖民文化政治

Organizer: Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sponsor: Lee Hysan Foundation

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

Inquiries: email: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk; tel: 2696 1026; fax: 2603 7223

Registration:

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

26.01

講題：當亂倫創傷遇上精神分析──原初幻想或建構的真實？

講者：彭仁郁 台灣中央研究院民族學研究所助研究員

日期：二〇一一年一月二十六日（星期三）

時間：晚上七時三十分至九時三十分

27.04

Topic: Women and the Modern Domicile in Turkey in the Mid-20^th Century

Speaker: Meltem Ö. Gürel Assistant Professor, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Bilkent University, Turkey

Date: Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Time: 7:30pm – 9:30pm

27.07

講題：與邢丹文對談：攝影、現實及生存的關係

講者：邢丹文 北京獨立藝術家

日期：二〇一一年七月二十七日（星期三）

時間：晚上七時三十分至九時三十分

Oct/Nov. Visiting Scholar

TRINH T. Minh-ha 鄭明河

Professor

Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Department of Rhetoric

University of California, Berkeley, USA

Born in Vietnam, Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer and music composer. Her works include: ten books, including Elsewhere Within Here (Immigration, Refugeeism and The Boundary Event, 2010); The Digital Film Event (2005), Cinema Interval (1999), Framer Framed (on film, 1992), When the Moon Waxes Red, (on representation, gender and cultural politics, 1991), Woman, Native, Other (on post-coloniality and feminism, 1989), En minuscules (poems, 1987), and in collaboration with Jean-Paul Bourdier, Habiter un monde (Paris, 2006), Drawn from African Dwelling (1996), African Spaces - Designs for Living in Upper Volta (1985); seven films • Night Passage (98 mins narrative, 2004) • The Fourth Dimension (87 mins digital film, 2001), • A Tale of Love (108 mins, 35mm, 1995), an experimental narrative, • Shoot for the Contents (102 mins, 1991), a film on culture, art and politics in China, • Surname Viet Given Name Nam (108 mins, 1989), a film on identity and culture through the struggle of Vietnamese women, • Naked Spaces - Living is Round (135 mins, 1985), and •Reassemblage (40 mins, 1982); and four large-scale multi-media installations, • Nothing But Ways (in collaboration with L M Kirby, 1999, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco), • The Desert is Watching (in collaboration with Jean-Paul Bourdier, 2003, Kyoto Art Biennale), • L'Autre marche (The Other Walk, June 2006 until 2009 at the new Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, France, also in collaboration with J-P Bourdier), and • Old Land New Waters (2007, 2009, Okinawa Prefectural and Fine Arts Museum; 2008, Guangzhou Triennial, Guandong, China).

The recipient of numerous awards and grants (including the "Trailblazers" Award at MIPDOC, Cannes; AFI National Independent Filmmaker Maya Deren Award; fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment of the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Film Institute, The Japan Foundation, and the California Arts Council), her films have been honored in over forty two retrospectives in the US, the UK, Brazil, Canada, Italy, Korea, Spain, the Netherlands, Slovenia, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Japan, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Jerusalem, and were exhibited at the international contemporary art exhibition Documenta 11 (2002) in Germany. Trinh Minh-ha has traveled and lectured extensively—in the States as well as in Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand—on film, art, feminism, and cultural politics. She taught at the National Conservatory of Music in Dakar, Senegal (1977-80), at universities such as Cornell, San Francisco State, Smith, Harvard, Ochanomizu (Tokyo), Ritsumeikan (Kyoto), Dongguk (Seoul), and is Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley.

Public lectures

"Walking with the Unmourned"

"The Politics of Forms and Forces"

Seminar

"The Boundary Event"

Workshop

"D-Story, D-Film" – (Cinematic, Digital, Transcultural) Screening of the film NIGHT PASSAGE followed by discussion

Photos of Prof. Kondo's visit

2010-11-18T20:25:00.008+08:00

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.

2010-10-01T17:52:00.003+08:00

(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

2010-08-14T21:57:00.005+08:00

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

2010-08-14T21:50:00.006+08:00

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

2010-06-09T10:25:00.002+08:00

(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

2010-03-31T22:31:00.004+08:00

（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

2010-02-19T16:22:00.003+08:00

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

2010-01-06T14:29:00.002+08:00

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

Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies, 2010

2009-12-27T15:28:00.007+08:00

PUBLIC LECTURE SERIES ON GENDER STUDIES 2010

Organizer: Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Sponsor: Lee Hysan Foundation

Venue: Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, 15 Hennessey Road, Wanchai, Hong Kong (Wanchai MTR Exit A2)

Time: Wednesdays, 7:30pm - 9:30pm

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

Inquiries: Email: genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk; Tel: 2696 1026; Fax: 2603 7223

Public Lecture in January

Date: 2010年1月27日

Speaker: 畢恆達，台灣大學建築與城鄉研究所副教授

Topic: 我（ ）塗鴉

Abstract:

自有人類就有塗鴉（graffiti），它主要可以分成大眾塗鴉與街頭社群塗鴉二大類。大眾塗鴉的塗鴉者是常民、大多數匿名、以文字或簡單的線條書寫與畫圖、係偶發的行動。依據其塗鴉內容，又可以再區分為到此一遊、愛情、色情/性愛、青少年、政治/社會塗鴉等。另一大類為街頭塗鴉，係受到紐約地下鐵塗鴉風潮的影響，其特質包括塗鴉者為特定人士、有形成團體或次文化、塗鴉為有計畫的重複性行動、通常有特定的美學形式。

塗鴉也有性別差異。女性較少塗鴉。男性塗鴉，有較多的色情文字、政治課題或競爭，也比較會使用毀謗、負面、敵意字眼來貶低不同種族、膚色、性傾向，或性別的人。至於街頭塗鴉次文化裡的危險與考驗，提供的是「男性氣概」而不是女性認同。

Bio:

畢恆達小時候是乖乖牌，一路從國中順利考上高中、大學；在「男生應該讀理工」的社會共識下，進入台大土木系。由於不想當與混凝土混一輩子的土木工程師，研究所時，選擇最接近人文社會科學的都市計劃組，隨後出國留學，進入紐約市立大學主修環境心理學。紐約的留學生活裡，身邊的同學不是黑人、女人，就是同志、窮人，開始從邊緣的角度看待世間事物；其間大量閱讀女性主義著作，將理論與經驗連結起來。回台灣任教之後，帶著性別之眼，閱讀生活周遭以及社會事件中的性別意涵，並投入性別與空間的研究領域：從住宅空間、公共街道、廁所、運動，一直到男性研究。

Public Lecture in April

Date: APRIL 28, 2010

Speaker: Meltem Ahiska, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Boğaziçi University [Istanbul], Turkey

Topic: The Gendered Grammar of Occidentalism: Modes of Addressing Violence Against Women in Turkey (西方主義的性別文法：關於土耳其針對女性暴力的不同論述)

Abstract:

Incidents of violence against women, mostly in the form of killings of women by family members, together with ongoing forms of domestic violence, rape and sexual assault, have become more visible in Turkey in the recent years. The issue of violence against women surfaces as a grave problem in media, and a wide range of actors including politicians, journalists, civil society organizations and academics address the question in various ways. The most widespread and dominant way of explaining this disturbing social question have been by reference to “tradition” and creates a “tradition effect” in Dicle Koğacıoğlu’s terms in a very important article on the issue. Interestingly what is rendered as tradition and regarded as “backward” is also connected to ethnicity and a certain conception of the “East”. In other words, the question is usually posed as belonging to Kurdish people who are labelled as Eastern and regarded as an obstacle to Westernization as a synonym of modernity. In discussing this question, which is also politically charged due to the severe conflicts with the Kurdish, I employ the framework of Occidentalism that I developed before. I take Occidentalism as a historical and dialogical construction of modernity in Turkey in relation to the so-called “East” and “West”. I 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.

Bio:

Meltem Ahıska is Associate Professor of Sociology at Boğaziçi University. She 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 Demcoratisation Process (‘Milletin Bölünmez Bütünlüğü’ : Demokratikleşme Sürecinde Parçalayan Milliyetçilik(ler)). She has contributed to Waiting for the Barbarians: A Tribute to Edward Said with a chapter entitled ‘Orientalism/Occidentalism: The Impasse of Modernity.’ Her articles and essays on Occidentalism, social memory, gender and related issues have appeared in various publications including Defter, Toplum ve Bilim, New Perspectives on Turkey, and The South Atlantic Quarterly. She has published a book of poems, and co-curated exhibitions, the most recent being ‘The Person You Have Called Cannot Be Reached at the Moment: Representations of Lifestyles in Turkey, 1980-2005.’ Her book, Occidentalism in Turkey: Questions of Modernity and National Identity in Turkish Radio Broadcasting by I.B.Tauris of London is forthcoming.

Public Lecture in July

Date: JULY 28, 2010

Speaker: Richa Nagar, Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies, Associate Dean for Faculty, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, USA

Topic: From Feminist Fieldwork to Collaborative Praxis: Lessons from the Sangtin Movement in India (從女性主義田野調查到協作實踐：印度Sangtin運動的啓示)

Abstract:

Much “cutting-edge” knowledge produced in academic institutions of the global north often proves to be of little value to the socioeconomically marginalized communities of the global south, even when those communities are themselves the focus of the study. This problem is tied to a series of difficult issues that are built into the dominant systems of knowledge production and distribution, including questions of who defines the research question and methodology, who evaluates the results, to whom is the researcher accountable, and who controls the distribution of the knowledge produced.

Professor Nagar will address these questions by focusing 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.

Bio:

RICHA NAGAR is Professor of Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies and Associate Dean for Faculty in the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota. She 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 (in Hindi), Playing with Fire: Feminist Thought and Activism through Seven Lives in India, A World of Difference: Encountering and Contesting Development, and she has co-edited Critical Transnational Feminist Praxis. Richa’s academic research on gender, race, and communal politics among South Asian communities in postcolonial Tanzania and her subsequent work have resulted in numerous articles and essays. Since 1996, her research, organizing, and creative writing (in Hindustani) have focused mainly on collaborative efforts that seek to reconfigure the political terrain and processes associated with “empowerment” projects aimed at “the poor.” Richa was a resident fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford in 2005-2006 and was named a Scholar of the College in 2008.

Visiting Scholar Programme in October:

Linda McDowell, FBA

Professor of Human Geography

School of Geography and the Environment

University of Oxford, UK

Bio:

Linda McDowell is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St John’s College. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and an honorary fellow of the Gender Institute at the London School of Economics. Her main research interest is the interconnections between economic restructuring, new forms of work in the labour market and in the home and the transformation of gender relations in contemporary Britain. She has written several books about these issues, including Capital Culture (1997), Redundant Masculinities? (2003) and Hard Labour: the forgotten voices of Latvian migrant ‘volunteer’ workers (2005). Her most recent book Working Bodies (2009) is about interactive service sector employment and workplace identities. Her book about the development of feminist geography, Gender, Identity and Place (1999) has been translated into Spanish, Chinese and Korean. She is currently working on a project about recent EU migrants to Greater London as well as a study of South Asian women’s involvement in workplace disputes in the UK and is planning a new book about women migrants’ working lives in Britain between 1946-2006.

PUBLIC LECTURE

Date: OCTOBER 27, 2010

Topic: Transforming Lives: Gender, Identity and Employment Change (生命轉化：性別、身份與就業的轉變)

Abstract:

In this lecture, I want to explore the changing connections between gender, identity and labour market participation over the last century or so, through a focus on three generations of women's lives and through my own empirical studies over the last decade. I show how both women's and men's lives have changed as women's employment opportunities have expanded, especially with the rise of service sector work since the 1970s, altering the connections between class and gender in the UK.

*CUHK PUBLIC LECTURE

Date: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 2010

Topic: Migration and Memory (遷移與記憶)

Abstract:

In this lecture I explore the histories of migration into the UK over the last sixty years, looking at the ways in which women migrants became part of the British labour force in different decades. I want to explore the changing reasons for migration and the consequences for migrant women in the changing circumstances of postwar Britain and the transformation in gender relations. I shall draw on oral histories undertaken with women of different origins who came to the UK to work in different sectors of the economy over these six decades.

*CUHK Postgraduate Seminar

Date: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2010

Topic: Sex, Emotion and Money: Gender, Financial Crises and Interactive Employment (性、情、錢：性別、金融危機與互動就業)

Abstract:

Here I want to look back critically at the work I published as Capital Culture (Blackwell 1997), to assess its relevance to the recent financial crisis in western economies (from 2007 onwards), exploring the significance of gender to the events and then to draw wider conclusions about the significance of gender in the types of interactive service employment that dominate in western economies.

*CUHK Faculty Roundtable

Date: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2010

Topic: Gendering Labour Studies (勞動研究的性別視角)

Abstract:

Through a set of introductory remarks, I should like to explore the connections between social class and other social divisions, arguing that a labour studies that focuses on the connections between gender and ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, age etc provides better explanations of labour market change than a singular focus on class.

*Details of the venues and time of CUHK events will be confirmed later.

Photos: Public Lecture given by Prof. Raewyn Connell

2009-11-22T20:58:00.005+08:00

Renowed Australian sociologist Prof. Raewyn Connell visited Hong Kong at the end of October, 2009. On 28th October, she gave a public lecture in Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, Wanchai, titled "The Role of Men and Boys in Achieving Gender Equality".

Here are some of the photos of the public lecture:

Prof. Connell giving her talk.

Questions from the audience:

Prof. Connell stayed behind after the public lecture to chat with the audience and sign her books for them.

More photos have been uploaded to our Facebook account.

Photos: CUHK Public Lecture by Prof. Raewyn Connell

2009-11-22T20:43:00.011+08:00

Renowned Australian sociologist Prof. Raewyn Connell visited Hong Kong at the end of October. She gave a public lecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on 23rd October titled "Gender and Sexuality in the New Global Capitalism: Are We Heading for Another Feudal Age?".

Here are some photos of the talk:

Prof. Connell giving her talk.

The audience listening to Prof. Connell carefully.

Questions from the audience.

More photos have been uploaded to our Facebook account.

性別研究講座系列：《社會變動與家的流轉》相片

2009-10-09T18:53:00.014+08:00

由台灣輔仁大學心理學系教授兼系主任夏林清博士主講的《社會變動與家的流轉》順利於7月15日舉行，多謝各位支持。是次講座為性別研究公開講座系列2009的第三場講座。

現附上當晚講座的部份照片，其餘照片可於中大性別研究課程的Facebook瀏覽：

Welcome!

2009-08-30T10:11:00.000+08:00

Welcome to the official blog of Gender Studies Programm, The Chinese University of Hong Kong!

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.

Events (For registration, please click here)
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）。

Gender Studies Program, CUHK

World-renowned Filmmaker, Feminist and Postcolonial Theorist Trinh T. Minh-ha to Lecture in HK and CUHK

北京獨立藝術家邢丹文來港演講

Public Lecture by Meltem Ö. Gürel, Scholar of Architecture from Turkey / 土耳其建築設計學者Meltem Ö. Gürel 來港演講

性別及精神分析學者彭仁郁來港演講

Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2011: Psychoanalysis, Architecture and Turkey, Photography, Postcolonial Cultural Politics

Photos of Prof. Kondo's visit

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.

Photos of the July lecture

Photos from the April lecture

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

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

「我（ ）塗鴉」講座剪影

著名性別研究學者畢恆達應邀來港演講

Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies, 2010

Photos: Public Lecture given by Prof. Raewyn Connell

Photos: CUHK Public Lecture by Prof. Raewyn Connell

性別研究講座系列：《社會變動與家的流轉》相片

Welcome!

「我（）塗鴉」講座剪影