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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 Chinas 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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