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In cooperation with the Gender Research Centre, the Gender Studies Programme hosts a seminar one to two times each month. The seminar acts as a forum for presentations by international and local scholars working on gender-related issues, as well as for graduate students.

 

Wednesday Gender Seminars: Fall 2008 (poster)

Theme: Gender, body and embodiment (poster)

• Sep 3, 2008 “Researching the Irrelevant and the Invisible: Sexual Diversity in the Judiciary” by Professor Leslie Moran (poster)

• Sep 17, 2008 “Body, Activism and Embodiment” by Lina Chan Hau Ying and Christina Chan (poster)

• Oct 8, 2008 “Representation of Women in Noh and Japanese Cinema” by Dr. Yau Shuk Ting, Kinnia (poster)

• Oct 22, 2008 “Gender and Sport in the contemporary societies” by Leung Kwok-wai, Masa (poster)

• Nov 5, 2008 “Public Desires, Private Subjects: Lalas in Shanghai” by Lucetta Kam (poster)

• Nov 19, 2008 “Listening as emotional debt - notes on my (whose?) aural life” by Dr. Yeung Yang (poster)

 

Wednesday Gender Seminars: Spring 2008 (poster)

• Jan 30, 2008 “Private Emotion, Public Commemoration: Poems of Mourning by Widows in Late Imperial China” by Prof. Grace S. Fong (poster)

• Feb 13, 2008 “Love, Lies, and Loss: Young women’s experiences of abortion in China” by Wang Ya Jun, Ivy (poster)

• Feb 27, 2008 “Learning to Cook: Constructing Women’s Cooking Knowledge and Identities in Hong Kong” by Kwok Lai Yi, Eva (poster)

• Mar 12, 2008 “Development of the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival” by Pang Ka Wei, Janet (poster)

• Mar 26, 2008 “Ethical Problems in a Participatory Research: A Feminist Perspective” by Poon Yu Hin (poster)

• Apr 9, 2008 “Sex talks: Info intercourse between real and virtual world” by Luk Chi Hin, Solomon (poster)

 

Wednesday Gender Seminars Series on Pornography: Fall 2007 (Poster)

• Oct 3, 2007 “The Sadist Ethics of the Censorship of Pornography” by Verdy Leung W.Y (poster)(photo)

• Oct 17, 2007 “The Power of Pornography: Using Li Han-hsiang's Fengyue Films as a Case Study” by Yau Ching (poster)

• Oct 31, 2007 “Sexual Encounter of a Paranoiac Subject” by Lee Chi-leung (poster)

• Nov 14, 2007 “'Pls CUM.With/To me': The Erotic Consumption of Gay Porn” by siu CHO (poster)

• Nov 28, 2007 “XXXXXXX   XXXXXXX: Reading Same-Sex Porn from the Women's Point of View” by Wai Wai (poster)

• Dec 5, 2007 “RE/Searching Mainstream Pornography: The Moral Dilemma of Feminism” by Lee Wai-yee Jo (poster)

 

Wednesday Gender Seminars: Spring 2007

• Feb 7, 2007 "Trans-Boy Fashion, or How to Tailor-Make a King!" by Hung Ling (poster)
• Feb 14, 2007 "A review on the context of 1990's Taiwan tongzhi/ku'er fiction from the ten years debate invoked by E nu shu" by Wong Oi Lun (poster)
• Mar 6, 2007 (Tuesday) "Women Sexualities in 'Question': a Study of Love and Sex Mail Box" (in Cantonese) by Lee Wai Yee (poster)
• Mar 14, 2007 "To the City: Subjectivity and Femininity of Nursing Workers in Shanghai" by Zhang Xiao Lan (poster)
• Mar 21, 2007 "The Construction of Femininities: an Ethnographic Study of Hong Kong Junior Secondary School Girls" by Lee Wing Huen Dorothy (poster)
• Mar 28, 2007 "Chatting with Passion: Research on Cybersex in Mainland China" by Ren Jue (poster)
• Apr 11, 2007 " Poor Boys? Gendered English Learning Experiences and Achievement Gap among Hong Kong School Boys and Girls " by Lui Wai Shan, Lydia (poster)

 

Wednesday Gender Seminars: Fall 2006

• Chinese Opera and Gender Politics (poster)
• Sept 20, 2006 "Sex Work in the Time of AIDS in China: Structure, Identity and Strategy" by Dr. Susanne Choi (poster) (photo)

• Oct 4, 2006 “Cross-Dressing & Gender-Crossing of Leung Mo Sheung in HK Cinema” by Dr. Natalia Chan (poster) (photo)

• Oct 18, 2006 “Representations of monstrous, celestial and virtuous woman in The Legend"s" of White Snake” by Chan Chak Lui (poster) (photo)

• Nov 1, 2006 “The Gendered Dimension of Street Cultural Politics” by Mary Ann King (Gum Gum) (poster) (photo)

• Nov 8, 2006 “Subjectivity Under Erasure: History, Adolescent Masculinity, and Teacher-Student Sex” by Dr. Steven Angelides (poster) (photo) (powerpoint)

• Nov 14, 2006 (Tuesday) “Fe/male Impersonation in Beijing Opera: Generations“ by Dr. Li Siu Leung (poster) (photo)

• Nov 29, 2006 “Understanding the Boys’ Underachievement Discourse in the Context of Globalization” by Dr. Choi Po King (poster)