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Activities: Seminars & Lectures
Formal
and informal seminars are offered by visiting scholars and members of the
Gender Research Centre on their current research interests.
Please
check our announcement for the latest seminar.
Please
check our Wednesday Seminar Series of upcoming
seminars.
"Cosmopolitanism with
Chinese Characteristics: Gender and
Consumption in
Contemporary China"
(6 April 06). Public lecture by
Professor
Lisa Rofel (Department
of Anthropology, University of California at
Santa Cruz)(Co-presented by
the Gender Research Centre and the Gender Studies Programme.)
"Feminising the Indonesian nation: constructing the
boundaries of the Singapore state" (August 2005).
Seminar by Dr Michele Ford, Flinders University, Australia and Dr Lenore Lyons, University
of Wollongong, Australia (Co-presented by Southeast Asia Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong the Gender Research Centre
and the Gender Studies Programme.)
Abstract
"The Gender of Memory: Women in China’s Rural Collective Past" (April 2005).
Public lecture by Prof. Gail Hershatter, Professor,
Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz. (Co-presented by
the Gender Research Centre and the Gender Studies Programme.)
"Feminist
Geography: A Quiet Revolution"(May 2004). Public lecture
by Prof. Nora Chiang, Profressor, Department of Social Science, National
Pingtung University of Science and Technology. (Co-presented by the
Gender Research Centre and the Gender Studies Programme.)
"Women's Biographies As Family Romance"
Public lecture by Susan L.Mann, Profressor, Department of History,
University of Californa, Davis. (Co-organized by the Gender Research
Centre and the Department of History.)
"Personal Narratives in the Time of Human
Rights: Telling Stories of Forced Prostitution During the Pacific
War" (September 2002). Public lecture by Sidonie Smith,
Director of Women's Studies and Professor of English, University of
Michigan. (Co-organized by the Gender Research Centre and the Gender
Studies Programme.)
"Empowerment and Participatory Action Research:
A Settings Approach to Reproductive Health in China" (31
May 2000). Public lecture by Cordia Chu, Director, Institute of
Environment, Health and Development for the Asia-Pacific, Griffith
University, Australia.

"Asian
American Women in North America: The Myth of Model Minority"
(17 April 2000). Public lecture by Huma Ahmed Ghosh, Assistant Professor,
Department of Women's Studies and Asian Studies, San Diego State
University, USA.
"Discourses of Culture and Gender: College
Graduates and Labor Exchanges in Dalian" (16 March 2000).
Public lecture by Lisa Hoffman, Honorary Research Associate, Department
of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Co-organized by
Cultural Relations and Identities in East Asia Research Programme, Hong
Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies.
"Dancing on the Bar: Sex, Money and the Uneasy
Politics of Third Space" (28 January 2000). Public
lecture by Lisa Law, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Gender Relations Project,
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National
University, and Visiting Scholar, Gender Research Programme. Co-organized
by Gender Studies Program and Department of Anthropology.
"Livelihood Strategies of Women in Asia"
(26 January 2000). Public lecture by Vivienne Wee, Visiting Associate
Professor, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong
Kong.

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