Fall 2023
Co-presented by: Gender Studies Programme and Gender Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Exploring the role of trauma in underpinning sexualised drug use (‘chemsex’) among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in Singapore
Time: 12:00 - 13:15
Venue: Online Only
Speaker: Dr Rayner Tan (Visiting research fellow, Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore)
Moderator: Professor Suen Yiu Tung (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
Sexualised drug use (SDU) has been identified as a major risk factor for HIV, as well as other mental health comorbidities among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM). We conducted in-depth interviews with 33 purposively-sampled GBMSM with a history of SDU, and seeking treatment for it in Singapore. Participants firstly articulated the positive and desired aspects of SDU. Participants also described how SDU, in contrast, was used as a coping mechanism to deal with emotional and situational ‘precipitants’. Participants also articulated how such precipitants were underpinned by experiences of trauma, including those relating to HIV-related stigma, racism, sexual violence, death and loss, neglect, as well as internalised homophobia. Next, participants illustrated how such trauma were reinforced by ‘preconditions’, including the accessibility of substances, emphasis on sexual capital, and lack of access to mainstream support structures in the gay male community, alongside general barriers to care.
Speaker's Biography:
Dr Rayner Kay Jin Tan received his PhD from the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina Project China. He is currently a visiting research fellow at Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore, and a visiting research fellow at National Centre for Infectious Diseases in Singapore. Dr Tan has a background in Sociology and is a sociobehavioral researcher by training. His research interests revolve broadly about the social determinants of health, health of vulnerable and minority populations, sexual health and mental health.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13673213
Gender Pattern in Livelihood Choices and Economic Consequences for Rural Households in China
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 109, CUHK (In person)
Speaker: Professor Yuying TONG (Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Professor Lynne NAKANO (Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
Drawing on theories on the gender division of labor, life course, household labor allocation, as well as the implication of key household members. This study goes beyond migration and its consequences by examining both local and non-local livelihood choices from a gender perspective. The study first examines how rural people’s livelihoods have been changing and to what extent the gender gap has been enlarging or shrinking. It then investigates how household economy has been affected by these changes. China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) and China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) have been used for this study. Our study has pointed out a pessimistic trend for rural married women to close the gender gap with men in pursuing non-farming opportunities and expanding their space of work in China. For household economic consequence, our study focuses on household head’s livelihood choices. It shows that migration of household head is overall beneficial to rural household income growth comparing other livelihood choices, although the positive effect is contingent on the household life course and gender.
Speaker's Biography:
Yuying Tong is a Professor of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her current research interests focus on 1) Consequences of Migration to Rural Households: in this line of research, she examines migration consequences at both household and individual levels in China, especially from a gender perspective. 2) Migration Integration in Host Society: she studies both adult and children’s adaptation and integration in host societies, by taking into account the factors of members in host societies. 3) Family and Life Course: her focus on this line of research includes both individual key life event transitions and within family intergenerational effect in Mainland China, Hong Kong as well as East Asian area. Lastly, her research in Population Health and Well-being mainly examines the health consequences of migration and family transition, the intersection of health with her interests in migration and family studies.
Language: English (with some discussio in Putonghua if necessary)
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13673209
Emerging New Gendered Roles in Chinese Rural Families among Female Vocational College Students
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 109, CUHK
Speaker: Professor Anita KOO (Professor, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Moderator: Professor SUEN Yiu Tung (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
The rapid expansion of higher education and the labor market and the emergence of individualistic values allow rural Chinese youths to have more power and freedom in their individualized planning for future development and construction of their identities. This presentation, drawing mainly on data from in-depth interviews with vocational college students from rural households, explores their motivation for higher education and the meaning they attach to education and employment. Analyzing focus is put on the intricacies of educated young women’s gendered subjectivities under the rapid social, cultural, and economic transitions in rural communities. While investigating their strategies for economic empowerment and self-development, a new form of empowered gender subjectivity is identified. By aspiring to provide continuous financial, emotional and physical support for their parents through a smooth school-to-work transition, they aim to transform the devalued role of daughters in the patriarchal system to become valuable daughters for their natal families.
Speaker's Biography:
Anita Koo is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University. She researches on the impacts of structural inequalities on educational opportunities, youth development, and chances of social mobility among individuals from different classes and gender.Her present research focuses on the educational experiences, gendering process, life chances and the school-to-work transitions among those who study in vocational/professional programs in expanded higher education systems in Hong Kong and China. Her publications appeared in Sociology, Journal of Education Policy, Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Journal of Youth Studies, Chinese Sociological Review, etc.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13673207
Spring 2023
Co-presented by: Gender Studies Programme and Gender Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Gender Studies RPG & MA Outstanding Thesis Award Presentation Ceremony
Mini-Conference of Thesis of BSSc & MA in Gender Studies 2023
Date: 12 Apr 2023
Time: 11:30-14:00
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 123, CUHK (In person only. No online link available.)
Moderator: Prof. HAN Ling (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Commentor: Prof. WONG Ivy Wang (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Language: English unless indicated
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13660769
Please refer to this pdf file for abstracts of the presenting theses
Empathic Accuracy, Mental Depletion, and Relationship Satisfaction among Heterosexual Romantic Couples
Date: 22 Mar 2023
Time: 12:30-14:00
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 123, CUHK (In person only. No online link available.)
Speaker: Ms. TANG Xiaolei (MPhil Student, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. WONG Ivy Wang (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Language: English
Abstract:
Empathic accuracy refers to the extent to which people successfully infer others’ thoughts and feelings. With substantial research proved the close association between romantic couples’ empathic accuracy and their relationship satisfaction, scant research has explored factors which could affect one’s performance on empathic accuracy. Besides, no study has probed the effect of perceived self and partner’s empathic accuracy on relationship satisfaction. In the context of heterosexual romantic relationships, whether and how gender would alter the associations between these constructs also needs further inquiry.
The current study extends existing literature by 1) examining how perceived mental depletion and gender are related to people’s empathic accuracy in romantic relationships; 2) exploring how one’s own and partner’s actual and perceived empathic accuracy are related to one’s own and partner’s relationship satisfaction; 3) examining whether these association patterns differ for women and men.
Eighty-seven heterosexual couples (N=174, Agemean=29) completed a set of one-off questionnaires and a 14-day daily diary assessment. Data were analyzed using multilevel modeling. The results showed that higher mental depletion level was associated with lower empathic accuracy, and women and men did not differ in their performance on empathic accuracy. Both one’s own and partner’s actual EA level and the perceived EA level contributed to their relationship satisfaction and gendered association patterns were found.
Biography:
TANG Xiaolei is an MPhil student in Gender Studies (Psychology) at CUHK, and a lab member of the Gender Development Lab at CUHK. Her research interests include the role of gender/sexual identity in shaping people’s behaviors in different social contexts and the psychological well-being of gender/sexual minorities.
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13660767
Sajiao Gong: Intimacy Fantasy and Resignification of Femininity in Danmei Fiction
Date: 15 Mar 2023
Time: 12:30-14:00
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 123, CUHK (In person only. No online link available.)
Speaker: Ms. ZHENG Lin (MPhil Student, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. TAN Jia (Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Language: Putonghua
Abstract:
With the development of neoliberal subjects and the rise of feminist consciousness in China, how femininity should be understood and enacted in intimate relationships has become an urgent question for Chinese women. On the one hand, femininity is constantly celebrated as a virtue in the mainstream heteronormative culture, on the other hand, it is frequently stigmatized by misogynistic gender culture; On the one hand, femininity is seen as an essential strategy for women to manage intimacy, on the other hand, it is considered responsible for objectifying and exploiting women in intimate relationships. Meanwhile, modern intimacy seems to become increasingly rational, dull, flat, unattractive, and unworthy of pursuit in women's eyes. The reality of women's plight in intimate relationships goes hand in hand with the growing prevalence of female-dominated intimacy fantasies. As heterosexual female-dominated intimacy fantasies about male-male romance and erotica, danmei reflects women's desire and anxiety and explores alternatives for intimacy experimentally. The intersection and representation of masculinity and femininity in male protagonists have long been the focus of danmei studies. However, previous studies either regard the male protagonists as androgynous, gender-fluid female ideal subjects or focus on the modification of soft masculinity in male protagonists. Femininity, whose significance in intimate relationships has rarely been explored, is still mostly portrayed as a passive trait that needs to be wrapped in masculinity to be expressed without guilt. In recent years, the feminized gong(the inserter during sexual intercourse) has developed from a niche character set to a dominant genre in danmei novels. Through the analysis of 'sajiao gong', one of the representative character sets of the feminized gong genre, this study will examine how femininity is resignified through the cultural and discursive practices of the female online community and how the resignification attempts to respond to the current intimate relationship dilemma.
Biography:
Zheng Lin is a Mphil student from Gender Studies (affiliated with Cultural Studies Department) at the Chinese University of Hong kong. Her current project explores the intimacy imagination, gender narrative as well as production and consumption of commercialized original danmei novels. Her research interests include East Asian popular culture, gender and sexuality, fandom and participatory culture, and emotion and affect.
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13660765
[Cancelled] Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age
[Cancellation of Feb 22 Wed Seminar on Burnout Market Feminism]
We regret to inform you that our speaker has fallen ill and will no longer be able to present on that date. Therefore, the seminar has to be cancelled.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. We look forward to welcoming you at future events.
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 123, CUHK (In person only. No online link available.)
Speaker: Dr. TANG Ling (RGC Postdoctoral Fellow, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Moderator: Prof. HAN Ling (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
This talk is about my forthcoming DPhil-thesis-based book, currently under contract with MIT Press. Based on a one-year multi-sited ethnography with businesswomen in Shenzhen and Hefei and three-years' working experiences in an online educational platform economy, my book makes two main contributions. Theoretically, by introducing my concept of burnout market feminism, it solves the puzzle of why women in China thrive in business in the Internet age, at a time when there is a state crackdown on feminism. Burnout market feminism is a critical theoretical combination of Chinese feminist Xiaojiang Li’s market feminism and Korean-German cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han’s burnout society. Empirically, this book demonstrates the multiplicities and nuances of businesswomen's lived experiences and negotiations with patriarchy in different social-culture locations. I compare business ideas and business practices, especially in terms of the well-researched male-centred guanxi practices, with intimacy and family practices among three different groups of women.
Speaker's Biography:
Dr TANG Ling (She/They) is an artist academic who considers sociology as art and vice versa. As a Chinese feminist queer scholar, her research interests include platform studies, gender studies, sociology of business, and innovative methods. Besides academic writing, she takes creative writing, music, photography and film as her art media. Ling is currently based at the Academy of Film at HKBU doing her postdoctoral public sociology project Forest and Trees 见树又见林. Their songs can be found on music streaming platforms (e.g. Spotify, 网易云) with the name Lyn Dawn or 唐凌.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13660763
Penalty, Bonus, or Needs: Family Care Responsibilities and Work in Three Labor Regimes of Chinese Societies
Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building 123, CUHK (In person only. No online link available.)
Speaker: Prof. DAI Haijing (Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. HAN Ling (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
In the global care crisis for young children and the ageing, the gendered impact of family care responsibilities on employment and career development of family caregivers has aroused much academic and policy attention, but there still lacks systematic and holistic investigation into the workplace discrimination against caregivers in different social contexts and the current discussion and advocacy are often constrained in the western framework of meritocracy.
Through mixed-methods data and the lens of comparative research, this study investigates how employers evaluate and treat male and female employees with various family care responsibilities in three different labor regimes of Chinese societies – the neo-liberal Hong Kong market under a productivist welfare system, the market-driven private sector of Mainland China struggling with post-COVID economic decline, and the state-supervised public sector of Mainland China with socialist legacies.
We identified four sets of rationales among employers in the three labor regimes of China: a market meritocracy of competence, competitiveness, and efficiency; a moral virtuocracy of family care and responsibilities; a cultural schema of gendered division of labor; and structural resources and constraints embedded in labor protection and family welfare policies. The four sets sometimes corroborate but sometimes contradict one another in different employment contexts, based on which employers construct their evaluations of family caregivers in the labor market. At the core of the inquiries of the study are how the four sets of rationales interactively shape employers’ views and practices in different labor regimes in China, how the resulting struggles and dilemmas of employees with family care duties differ, and how social interventions that address the different sets of employers’ rationales produce varied outcomes in different contexts. Implications for thereotical development and policymaking are also discussed.
Speaker's Biography:
Haijing DAI is an associate professor of social work at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD degree in social work and sociology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research explores how gender and inter-generational dynamics in household division of labor, family care arrangement, and family life interact with socio-economic and welfare-system changes in Chinese societies, and how new patterns of stratification and inequality are constructed in these processes. Her articles have appeared in Social Service Review, British Journal of Social Work, Journal of Social Policy, The China Review, Social Forces, and Journal of Family Issues.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13660761
Tokophobia as Feminist Resistance? Female Netizens’ Reproductive Experiences and Discourses in China’s Cyberspace
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Dr. XIE Kailing (Lecturer, International Development, University of Birmingham)
Dr. ZHOU Yunyun (Associate Professor, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo)
Moderator: Prof. LAI Ruby Yuen Shan (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Social Policy, Lingnan University)
Abstract:
One of the unexpected consequences of China’s One Child Policy is a sharp increase of the number of well-educated women in (Xie, 2021). While globally woman’s educational attainment is negatively correlated to fertility rate, the social norm of heteronormative marriage and child-rearing remains a predominant way of life in China. Concerned about the ‘population crisis’ with its dropping birth rate and fast aging population, the Chinese state has turned to pro-natalist policy that encourage married couple to have more children since 2021, despite the lack of supportive maternity and child-care policies. China’s essentialist gender discourse naturalised motherhood that has leads to the so-called ‘widow-style childrearing’, with little input from the paternal side. How do young women react to such reproductive dilemma, with both fear for missing out and the anxiety of being overwhelmed? How do women gain knowledge, exchange ideas about their reproductive choices and experiences? In what way cyberspace communities provide alternative spaces for female-centred discussions that are often marginalised if not silenced? To investigate in these issues, we have compiled a dataset that consists of 3153 posts under the topic ‘What does reproduction mean to women?’ from Douban, a popular forum among China’s young female urbanites from March 2020 to June 2022. As an ongoing project, we are currently coding and analysing the dataset with the aim to understand the general themes, topics, values emerged from these discussions. In this talk, we will share our preliminary findings from the ongoing data analysis, but importantly the significance of such alternative public space online for China’s gender dynamics and feminist movements.
Speaker's Biography:
Dr Kailing XIE is a lecturer in the International Development Department at the University of Birmingham. Kailing takes a critical approach to International Development. Her work investigates the underlying social, cultural and political tensions underpinning China’s economic success through the lens of gender. She aims to uncover real people’s lived experience of different development projects against the backdrop of China’s rise on the global stage. Her recent monography, Embodying middle class gender aspirations: perspectives from China’s privileged young women, illuminates the centrality of heterosexual marriage as a primary institution in the organisation and reproduction of labour for the market economy, imbued with gendered inequality. Her article on ‘Premarital Abortion’ was awarded the 2017 Early Career Researcher Prize by the British Association of Chinese Studies.
Dr Yunyun ZHOU is a feminist researcher, a political sociologist, a Chinese Studies scholar, an ethnographic filmmaker, and associate professor based at the University of Oslo, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages. She positions herself as a fieldwork-based researcher working at the intersection of political sociology, gender studies and cultural studies. Her current research projects cover a range of topics concerning the latest development of Chinese politics and society, such as Chinese women's reproductive choices and discourses, social movements, and media representations. One of her recent publications focuses on the actors and mechanisms behind China's gender lobbying and legislation, which was published in Politics & Gender.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13659304
Fall 2022
Co-presented by: Gender Studies Programme and Gender Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
More information and registration links for individual seminars will be provided respectively on this website, please check back later. Thank you.
The interplay between intimacy and commodification: Exploring family and work lives of lesbians in China
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Hui Yeung Shing Building G04, CUHK (In person only. No online link available.)
Speaker: Prof. LO Iris (Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Moderator: Prof. SONG Jing (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
This study examines the ways in which Chinese lesbians' economic and intimate lives are closely intertwined amid neoliberal development in the urban landscape. Previous research on queer urban life has primarily drawn attention to commodified gay neighbourhoods and other sites for sexual consumption, which are often marketised as part of a liberal and queer-friendly urban landscape, in Euro-American contexts. Such a focus is not adequate, however, to capture the complex interplay between intimacy and commodification in contemporary societies. In this seminar, I will show how the market is experienced by Chinese lesbians as a site of queer agency and vulnerability and map the multiple connections between commodified relations and intimate relations. How do lesbians navigate their economic and intimate lives in a (heterosexual-)family-centred context? How do gender and sexuality intersect with the wider socio-cultural and neoliberal climate in shaping Chinese lesbians' economic and intimate lives?
Speaker's Biography:
Iris Lo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She received her PhD degree in Sociology from the University of Oxford. Her research areas include family, gender, sexuality, reproduction, work-family reconciliation, and social policy. She studies the extent and nature of changes to family and work lives and sociological questions around social inequality. She has published articles in top journals in her field, including Sociology, The British Journal of Sociology, Journal of Sociology, Archives of Sexual Behavior, Fertility and Sterility, and The International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13655658
Employing domestic workers and gender gap in domestic labor among working parents: An effective strategy?
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Hui Yeung Shing Building G04, CUHK (In person only. No online link available.)
Speaker: Prof. CHEUNG Adam (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Moderator: Prof. CHOI Susanne Yuk-ping (Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
This two-stage mixed-method study pulls the literature of domestic outsourcing and intensive parenting together to investigate the role of employing live-in domestic helpers in the time-use patterns of household labor among working parents in Hong Kong. Data from a representative household survey of working parents (N = 791) show that working mothers who hire live-in domestic help spent less time in housework. Yet, the reduction in housework time was partially offset by the managing tasks brought about by the use of live-in help. Working parents, especially mothers, with live-in helpers spent significantly more time on childcare than did working parents without such help. The study also draws on qualitative data from in-depth interviews (N= 20) to unpack the meaning of hiring help and its relationship with the notion and practices of parenting. Our study shows that employing domestic helpers rigidifies instead of closing the gender gap in domestic labor.
Speaker's Biography:
Adam Cheung is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Hong Kong Baptist University. His research interests include gender ideology, division of household labor, family relations, and domestic violence in Hong Kong and other Asian societies. His research appears in Journal of Marriage and Family, Social Science Research, Current Sociology, Journal of Family Issues, Demographic Research, Population Research and Policy Review, Violence Against Women, and other peer-reviewed journals. He received honorable mention in Early Stage Family Scholar Award from the Research Committee on Family Research (RC06) of the International Sociological Association.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13655653
Gender Research Centre Orientation Talk: Honour Based Violence: Minority Women as Agents of Change
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Cheng Yu Tung Building 209A, CUHK
Speaker: Dr. BAIG Raees Begum (Lecturer, Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. CHENG Sea Ling (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Abstract:
As a form of gender-based violence, honour-based violence is generally understood as power exertion by close relatives on victims, mostly women and girls, with the belief that they have brought dishonour and shame to the family and community. Mainstream media and political rhetoric in the West have represented Muslim women and girls as passive victims of honour-based violence. This Orientalist framing, often reproduced in transnational feminist discourses, vilifies cultural Others and perpetuates the impulse to “save Brown women”. As a result, young Muslim women have to grapple not only with the patriarchal forces that shape their everyday life, but also the victimizing discourse that circulate in the global arena.This seminar centers young Muslim women as agents of change in relation to honour-based violence. Based on the narratives of non-Chinese Muslim young women in Hong Kong, the discussion will illuminate how they reclaim the discourse on Islam, honour-based violence, and victimhood.This is also the book launch event for the Guidebook on Honour-based Violence - Experiences from Hong Kong, a consortium of cases on honour-based violence in Hong Kong and possible intervention guidelines for frontline professionals. The guidebook is the product of a 2-year project coordinated by Dr. Raees Baig with funding from Equal Opportunities Commission.
Speaker's Biography:
Raees Baig (BSW, PhD HKU) is a lecturer in social work at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She specialises in the study of gender, race and global security in transnational communities. Her published journal articles mainly focus on gender-based violence and women’s empowerment in Muslim communities. Before joining the university, she worked for various local and international organisations, including the United Nations and Amnesty International.In 2018, Raees and her team launched the pioneer project “Muslim Girls and Gender Justice” to explore gender equality issues with non-Chinese communities in Hong Kong. Two books were published under the project, including “Break the Barriers-Inside Stories of Ethnic Minority Muslim Girls in Hong Kong”, and the latest “Guidebook on Honour-based Violence - Experiences from Hong Kong” focuses on imminent situations of honour-based violence in Hong Kong.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13655642
Daughters’ Dilemmas: Family Strategies of Highly Educated Rural-Urban Education Migrants in Hubei Province, China
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Prof. SIER Willy (Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Utrecht University)
Moderator: Prof. SUEN Yiu-tung (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
The increased participation of female students from rural backgrounds in China’s higher education system affects the gender dynamics in rural households. In this talk, I will discuss several case studies that illustrate the complex positioning of young women in rural households who become the first person in their family to graduate from university. How do they navigate decisions regarding career and marriage? How can they support their families while building lives they desire without treading on dominant gender ideologies?
Speaker’s Biography:
Willy Sier is an assistant professor in the anthropology department at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She lived in China for seven years as a language student and researcher and is interested in questions of mobility and identity. Her PhD-research focused on the role of higher education in the renegotiation of rural-urban relations in China. Her articles based on this project have appeared in Gender, Place and Culture, the European Journal of Development Research, Pacific Affairs, and Modern China (co-authored with M. Driessen).
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13654832
The Cultural Politics of Intimacy: A Methodological Experiment
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Prof. SUN Wanning (Professor, Media and Communication Studies, University of Technology Sydney)
Moderator: Prof. Susanne Yuk-ping Choi (Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
It is difficult to conduct ethnographic inquiries into how China’s rural migrant individuals make decisions about their bodies and their sexual capital. We therefore have little knowledge about how inequality impacts on the intimate lives of those who live in poverty and in the socio-economic margins. This presentation seeks to address this problem by examining the contradictions, connections, and coalitions between a range of discursive positions in media, popular culture, and public commentary. In doing some it identifies some useful ways in which cultural texts may be mined for valuable ethnographic insights.
Speaker’s Biography:
Wanning Sun is a Professor of Media and Communication Studies at University of Technology Sydney. A fellow of Australian Academy of the Humanities since 2016, she is currently a member of the ARC College of Experts (2020-2022). She is best known for her ethnography of rural-to-urban migration in China. Wanning Sun has produced a significant body of research on the cultural politics of inequality in China. Her work includes Maid in China: Media, Morality and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries (2009), Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media and Cultural Practices (2014), and her edited volume Love Stories in China: The Politics of Intimacy in the Twenty-First Century (2020). Her monograph Love Troubles: Inequality and Its Intimate Consequences will be published soon by Bloomsbury.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13654820&done=1
Spring 2022
Co-presented by: Gender Studies Programme and Gender Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
More information and registration links for individual seminars will be provided respectively on this website, please check back later. Thank you.
Mini-Conference of Thesis of MA in Gender Studies 2022
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Moderator: Prof. SONG, Jing (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Commentator: Prof. WONG, Wang Ivy (MA programme director, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13646280
Please refer to this pdf file for abstracts of the presenting theses
The Affective Practices of Love: Collective Body and Gendered Bodies on LIHKG in the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Movement
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Ms. WONG, Ka Hei Cecilia (Mphil. Student, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. Katrien JACOBS (Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
This study attempts to complicate the understanding of a heteronormative and subjective protest body on LIHKG in the Extradition Law Amendment Bill (Anti-ELAB) movement by beginning with the analysis on the affective discourse of我哋真係好撚鍾意香港 (We really fucking love Hong Kong). Yet, instead of delving into the question of who is loved and who is not, I ponder: how does a ‘coherent’ subjective protest body is imagined, outlined and fantasied through the affective-discursive practices of love? Under what circumstances, an individual body is loved or not? How do embodied individuals make sense of it? By attending to the discourse 今生只嫁前線巴，今世只娶後勤絲 ([I] will only marry off to frontline brother, [I] will only marry supporting sister), this study shows how the heterosexual love of conservative gender role is fantasised as the movement ideal between the valiant/ men/ effective and the non-violent/ women/ less effective while in which is full of fractures and openings; and teases out the ambiguous and dynamic relation between the imagined protest body and individual bodies through understanding how gendered individuals negotiate with the protest body in their communal and relational affective meaning-making process.
Speaker’s Biography:
WONG Ka Hei is a MPhil student in Gender Studies (home department in Cultural Studies) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Having digital activist work experiences in environmental campaigning organisations and trained in journalism, her research interests include digital activism, gender and sexuality, affect and emotion, and social justice issues.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13646278
Analyzing Female-Victim Intimate Partner Homicide in China via Hierarchical Models and Data Mining Methods
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Ms. GU, Yuxuan Gloria (Mphil. Student, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. ZHONG, Hua Sara (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
One of the more important topics in feminist criminology over recent decades has been the impact of varying levels of gender equality on levels of female-victim intimate partner homicide (FV-IPH). The current state of the literature is equivocal. This study proposes a theoretical account that integrates the traditional ameliorative and backlash theses and offers a possible explanation for some of the inconsistent findings. Specifically, the findings illustrate that: 1) the backlash processes are likely to dominate at lower to higher levels of the instrumental dimensions of gender equality; 2) the relationship between the cultural dimension of gender equality and levels of FV-IPH conforms to an inverted U, such that a backlash effect operates in the short-term but is followed by an ameliorative effect in the longer term. Moreover, due to the constraints of homicide data, historically, FV-IPH research in China is relatively scarce. By leveraging detailed information on 11310 homicide cases (using an innovative source of big data--sentencing documents retrieved from the "China Judgements Online" website), this study is a pioneering one that analyzing FV-IPH in mainland China, and presents researchers with an effective method of utilizing text-mining techniques and hierarchical models which explore the integration of structural gender equality and incidental level characteristics.
Speaker’s Biography:
GU Yuxuan Gloria is a year-2 MPhil student in Gender Studies Programme and the Department of Sociology at CUHK. Her research interests include gender-specific violence, crime and deviance, and computational social science. Her MPhil project aims to analyze female-victim intimate partner homicide in mainland China using big data and text-mining techniques.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13646273
Gendered Market Activities among Female Entrepreneurs in China: Case Study from Two Inland Provinces
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Ms. LI, Lulu (Ph.D. Candidate, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. SONG, Jing (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
In the past decades, China's market reforms have given rise to private business sectors as well as female entrepreneurship, but coastal and metropolitan areas are often regarded as having greater entrepreneurial opportunities than their inland counterparts. This study focuses on small inland cities, the commonly assumed lagging areas in China's entrepreneurial dynamics, and examines how women in these areas pursue entrepreneurial aspirations and deal with gendered obstacles. This study draws on 41 in-depth interviews with female entrepreneurs in Henan and Guangxi, and examines the gendered process of doing business. Based on how they are motivated and carry out market activities, the interviewees are categorized into four types: 1) Women who were “aspiring” to embrace market opportunities in small cities despite the lack of local resources. 2) Women who allowed their self-realization to be shaped by family concerns and embraced a “serendipitous” entrepreneurship journey without readily available local resources. 3) Women who were “confident” due to their access to local resources as well as their entrepreneurial ambitions. 4) Women who relied on local resources to try out self-employed opportunities. The findings illustrate how women pursue self-realization by discovering market opportunities and mobilizing local resources in different ways. The findings add to previous studies on professional and business women in more developed areas by shifting the focus to the generally more conservative social environment in inland cities, where women negotiate their unique forms of entrepreneurship under competing ideologies and values.
Speaker’s Biography:
Li Lulu is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies Programme and Sociology at CUHK. Miss Li’s research interests locate in gender, work and family in mainland China, especially the inland areas of China. Her PhD thesis focuses on the gendered work of female entrepreneurs in two inland provinces of China.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13646271
16 Mar 2022 (Wed)
Being Insurance Agents in Hong Kong: Career Choices and Social Mobility among Female Mainland Graduates
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Ms. ZHOU, Siyuan (Ph.D. Candidate, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. SONG, Jing (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
Insurance has been regarded as a highly professional yet service-based occupation in Hong Kong, which has attracted an increasing number of highly educated women who moved from mainland China to Hong Kong based on their cross-border human capital and social capital. Different from female migrant workers who usually take up low-end work in service and caregiving sectors, these highly educated women face new gendered opportunities and obstacles in Hong Kong’s expanding insurance business in the mainland market. This study focuses on female insurance agents who moved from mainland China to Hong Kong and worked under the Immigration Arrangements for Non-local Graduates (IANG). Based on ethnographic observations and in-depth interviews with 32 female insurance agents, this study examines how these women were recruited into the insurance industry, why they made this career choice, and how their work was carried out with mixed feminine and professional characteristics. The findings suggest that despite the seemingly gender-neutral process of recruitment, women tend to be selected into the insurance industry for their assumed feminine characteristics such as empathy and patience, and they may also opt into this workplace due to the evolving gendered social expectations of women’s work and life. These highly educated women struggled to mobilize their cross-border cultural and social capital to develop their professional career, which is meanwhile constrained by their doubly precarious status as female migrants. Their work experiences point to women’s ambiguous position as professional, skilled migrants involved in feminized service work.
Speaker’s Biography:
Ms. ZHOU Siyuan is a Ph.D. candidate in Gender Studies Programme and the Department of Sociology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include gender and work, migration, and female entrepreneurship. Her doctoral project is about “doing gender” and “doing business” between Hong Kong and mainland China among female IANG insurance agents.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13646269
9 Mar 2022 (Wed)
Single-Sex Schooling and Students’ Interpersonal Development
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Ms. SHI, Yun Sylvia (Ph.D. Candidate, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. WONG, Wang Ivy (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
Gender segregation increases gender-typed behaviors and affects mixed-gender interactions. Single-sex schooling, as one of the most prevalent institutionalized forms of gender segregation, may have important impacts on students’ psychosocial development. While there is heated debate about how single-sex schooling affects the development of gender cognitions and interpersonal relationships, prior studies have largely neglected these outcomes and were usually uncontrolled. This seminar will present recent research findings and new data on gender salience and mixed-gender peer relations of students from single-sex versus coeducational schools. Such findings have important implications because high gender salience leads to gender-stereotyping and more negative views towards other-gender peers, and good relationships with peers of different genders are pertinent for thriving in a mixed-gender world. It is argued that not only the academic performance but also the gender cognition and interpersonal outcomes should be considered in the evaluations of single-sex and coeducational schooling.
Speaker’s Biography:
Ms. SHI Yun Sylvia is a Ph.D. candidate in Gender Studies Programme and the Department of Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She studies gender from the perspective of developmental and social psychology. Her research interests include gender socialization, gender segregation and stereotyping, and gender variance. Her Ph.D. research project is about single-sex schooling and students’ gender cognition and social development.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13646261
16 Feb 2022 (Wed)
Politics of Dating Apps
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Prof. CHAN, Lik Sam (Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. WONG, Wang Ivy (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
Momo, Blued, and Rela. These are some of the most popular mobile dating apps in China today. In this talk, Lik Sam Chan argues that dating apps are not merely a platform for seeking romance or hooking up, but also, and more importantly, an arena where gender and queer politics manifest anew.
Drawing from an interdisciplinary body of literature on gender, queer, and technology studies, Chan foregrounds the interpretations of dating app users and examines how dating app users make use of the affordances of the technologies specific to their social position. He proposes “networked sexual publics” as a unifying concept to capture the dynamics of the emerging dating app culture and suggests ways for scholars and students to further investigate this global phenomenon.
Speaker’s Biography:
Lik Sam Chan is an assistant professor and the coordinator of the global communication undergraduate program at the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research takes an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, and mixed-methods approach to examine the intricate relationship between digital media, gender, and culture.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13644897
Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China
Time:12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Online via Zoom (Zoom link will be provided after registration.)
Speaker: Prof. SONG, Lin (Assistant Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, Jinan University)
Moderator: Prof. SUEN, Yiu-tung (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
This talk discusses Lin Song’s new book Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China (Hong Kong University Press 2021). The book demonstrates that the interactions between queerness and Chinese kinship not only animate transnationally influenced yet locally rooted queer cultures, but also critically shape contemporary Chinese cinematic, popular, and public culture more broadly. Contending that kinship relations must be understood as central to, rather than separate from, any articulation of queer selfhood and culture in China, the book challenges Euro-American centric queer culture’s frequent assumption of the separation of queerness from the blood family, and argues for an alternative approach of “queering Chinese kinship” to underline the vitality and complexity of queerness within Chinese kinship institutions.
Speaker’s Biography:
Lin Song is an Assistant Professor in communication at Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He holds a PhD in gender studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China (Hong Kong University Press 2021). His other works can be found in journals including Feminist Media Studies, Asian Studies Review, Convergence, and Continuum, and edited books Contesting Chineseness (Springer 2021), Queering Paradigms VII (Peter Lang 2018), and The Cosmopolitan Dream (Hong Kong University Press 2018).
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13644401
Fall 2021
Co-presented by: Gender Studies Programme and Gender Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
More information and registration links for individual seminars will be provided respectively on this website, please check back later. Thank you.
Combatting Image Based Abuse in Hong Kong
Time:12:45 - 14:15
Venue: Esther Lee Building LT4, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Prof.Thomas Crofts (Professor, School of Law and Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences, City University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. Yiu-tung Suen (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK)
Abstract:
Digital technologies have revolutionised the creation, discovery, gathering and sharing of information. Unfortunately, it has also enabled new forms of abusive behaviours which can violate a person’s sexual dignity and autonomy. These include using a device to view without consent a person’s private parts or a person engaging in a private act (voyeurism), or record images of a person’s private parts (‘upskirting’, ‘downblousing’), or to disseminate or threaten to disseminate intimate images (‘revenge pornography’). This seminar will examine how such behaviours have been dealt with in the criminal justice system in Hong Kong and how they should be dealt with. Drawing on recent reforms in other jurisdictions and general theories of criminalisation, the seminar will also examine the proposed new offences against such behaviour in the Crimes (Amendment) Bill 2021.
Speaker’s Biography:
Professor Crofts holds a joint appointment in the School of Law and the Department of Social and Behavioural Studies at City University. He is former Director of the Sydney Institute of Criminology at the University of Sydney. His research in criminal law, criminology and criminal justice centres on criminalisation and criminal responsibility with a particular focus on the criminalisation and criminal responsibility of children, comparative criminal law, criminal law reform and sexuality and the law.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13639563
10 Nov 2021 (Wed)
Understanding gender difference in perceptions toward transit services across space and time: A social media mining approach
Time: 12:30 - 14:15 
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Prof. Sylvia He. Associate Professor and Ms. Shuli Luo, PHD Candidate,
Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Moderator: Prof Ivy Wong, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Abstract:
Location-based social media data can offer useful insights on the spatial and temporal dynamics of public attitudes. In this study, we aim to investigate the gendered attitudes toward transit services in China, utilizing the case of Shenzhen. We collected 44,257 Weibo microblogs, a major source of social media data in China, and applied a series of text mining and visualization techniques to examine the gender differences among our focused themes. The microblogs reveal a distinct gender gap in terms of quantity, as nearly 74% are posted by women. While women tend to be more concerned about the comfort of transit environment (e.g., temperature, crowdedness, and safety, especially at night), men tend to be more interested in transit systems’ e-payment services and reporting traffic incidents. Overall, this study presents an innovative methodology framework for researchers and practitioners to gather customer service feedback and build more inclusive service systems.
Speaker’s Biography:
Sylvia He is associate professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Management at CUHK. Her research interests include transport planning and policy, urban and regional studies, spatial analysis/GIS, and urban analytics. She is Associate Editor of Travel Behaviour and Society (Elsevier, SSCI) and Asian Transport Studies (Elsevier). She is Honorary Secretary and Board Member of the Hong Kong Society for Transportation Studies, Board Member of the International Association for China Planning, and Fellow of the Regional Studies Association. She obtained her PhD in Policy, Planning and Development from the School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California.
Shuli Luo is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include GIS, transport geography, urban analytics, spatial big data, and social media data. Her works have been published in several leading journals in geography, planning and transport such as Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, Transport Policy, Journal of Transport Geography, and Population, Space and Place.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13640068
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Gender Shock and Gender Compromise: The Effects of Gender on the Lives of Elite Asian Women Scientists
Time:12:30 - 14:15
Venue: Online via Zoom
Speaker: Prof. Anju Mary Paul, Associate Professor, Sociology and Public Policy, Yale-NUS College
Moderator: Prof. Susanne Yuk-ping Choi, Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Abstract:
This talk draws on in-depth interviews with 40 Asian women scientists to examine the relative impact of their gender on their scientific training and careers in Asia and the West. The original concept of “gender shock” is used to describe the negative or positive experience of these women when they enter a social space or milieu that has a set of gender norms and values different from the one that they came from and are familiar with. I highlight how Asian women scientists are more likely to experience gender shocks at particular inflection points in their intersecting career and life courses, and how they react to negative gender shocks and ongoing gendered social pressures by making “gender compromises” in one or more domains of their lives. These corrective actions often (but not always) damaged or dampened their career trajectories, or took their life course in an unexpected direction.
Speaker’s Biography:
Anju Mary Paul is an international migration scholar with a research focus on emergent migrations to, from, and within Asia. Her award-winning first book – Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market (Cambridge University Press 2017) – explored the stepwise international labour migrations of Filipino and Indonesian domestic workers. Her forthcoming book, Asian Scientists on the Move: Changing Science in a Changing Asia (Cambridge University Press 2021) explores the increasing return migrations of Western-trained Asian scientists, the factors behind these returns, and how they are shifting the topography of the global scientific field.
Language: English
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13640064
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Gender Research Centre Orientation Talk: How Does The Political Right Make Gender 'Irrelevant'?
Time:12:30 - 14:15
Venue: Esther Lee Building LT4, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Prof. Susanne Yuk-ping Choi (Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Moderator: Prof. Yiu-tung Suen (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Abstract:
Right-wing groups have generally been considered gender-conservative or, in some instances, sexist. Given this background, it is a puzzle why young people, particularly women with relatively liberal gender attitudes, support these groups. This paper tries to answer this question by developing the concept of ‘gender irrelevance’, defined as the processes and strategies through which members of these groups render male dominance and gender segregation within their organizations trivial; sexist behaviours of some group members tolerable; and concerns about gender inequalities unimportant, secondary, and ultimately irrelevant in their decisions to support these groups. The paper further illustrates the strategies of ‘gender irrelevance’, which include the misrepresentation, naturalization, individualization, and universalisation of gender inequality and biases; the construction and deployment of the twin discourses of female privilege and male disadvantage; the tendency to compartmentalize gender biases; the argument of compromising gender; and criticism against an allegedly exaggerated, inconsistent, and double-standard feminism. We believe that the concept of ‘gender irrelevance’ has the potential to help us understand the global rise of the Right and anti-feminism political currents.
Speaker’s Biography:
Susanne YP Choi is Professor at the Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and co-Director of the Gender Research Centre. Her lead-authored book Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family and Gender in China won the International Sociological Association’s Sociology of Migration 2018 Best Book Award. Her other works were published in top international journals such as American Journal of Sociology, Journal of Marriage and Family, and British Journal of Sociology. Susanne serves as an editorial board member of Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and a member of the International Advisory Board of Asian Population Studies, and an international advisory board member of Bristol University Press’ Gender and Sociology Series.
Language: English (Presentation)+English/Cantonese/Mandarin (Q&A and discussion)
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13640235
Situations and health needs of men who have sex with men who are “pre-exposure prophylaxis tourists”
Time:12:30 - 14:15
Venue: Esther Lee Building LT4, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
(Participants are welcome to attend in person or via Zoom)
Speaker: Prof. Johnson Wang ( Assistant Professor, Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK)
Moderator: Prof. Yiu-tung Suen (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK)
Abstract:
A growing number of local men who have sex with men (MSM) are obtaining pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) from other countries/regions and using it in Hong Kong, they are referred as “PrEP tourists”. We conducted a 3-month longitudinal study to understand situations of 110 local PrEP tourists obtaining PrEP from Bangkok. This presentation will talk about the issues (e.g., high prevalence of sexual risk behaviors and sexually transmitted infections, not taking up the required HIV and renal function testing regularly, combine PrEP with other medication that may affect their safety) and health needs of this group.
Speaker’s Biography:
Prof. Johnson Wang obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Public Health from JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is working as Assistant Professor in JC School of Public Health and Primary Care. Prof. Wang received the Early Career Award by the International Society of Behavioral Medicine in 2016. He is the Associate Director of the Community Research Program on AIDS. His research interests include inter-disciplinary behavioral health and mental health research.
Language: English (for presentation) + English/Cantonese/Mandarin (for QA and discussion)
Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=13638777
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Past Wednesday Gender Seminar
2021
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More Information |
| Spring | / | 20/1/2021 |
A "Phoenix" Rising from the Ashes: China's Tongqi, Marriage Fraud, and Resistance |
Prof. Eileen Yuk-Ha TSANG, Assistant Professor, Department of Social and Behavioural Science, CityU | Prof. Susanne Yuk-Ping CHOI, Professor, Department of Sociology; Co-Director, Gender Reseaerch Centre, CUHK | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 3/3/2021 | The Profile of Risk in Cervical Cancer Prevention in Southwest China | Ms. WU Yuehan, candidate of PhD in Gender Studies (subject discipline: Anthropology), The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. HUANG Hsuan-Ying, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, CUHK | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 17/3/2021 | Family Matters: Gender and Motivations in Women's Online Entrepreneurship | Ms. TANG Lin, PhD Candidate in Gender Studies Programme & Department of Sociology, CUHK | Prof. SONG Jing, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 24/3/2021 |
蕭紅女性書寫研究The Research of Xiao Hong’s Female Writing |
Ms. PENG Yiyi, PhD Candidate, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK | Prof. HOYAN Hang Fung Carole, Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, CUHK | Mandarin | Poster |
2020
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More Information |
| Spring | / | 19/2/2020 |
Queering the Legitimacy of Motherhood: Cross-Border Reproductive Travel and Lesbian Family Building in Contemporary China |
ZHONG Xinle, Mphil. in Gender Studies Programme (Anthropology), The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. CHENG Sealing, Associate Professor in Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 26/2/2020 | Desire for Sale: Live-streaming and DIY Pornography among Chinese Gay Micro-celebrities | Dr. Lin Song, Postdoctoral Fellow in Communication, University of Macau | Prof. Jing Song, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 4/3/2020 | 耽美真人CP與自我規訓式審查 | WANG Yiming, Mphil. in Gender Studies Programme (Cultural Studies), The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. TAN Jia, Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Putonghua | Poster |
| Spring | / | 11/3/2020 | Women, Heroines, and Women's Sphere: Tianyi and Late Qing Feminist Discourse | SHENG Zhifan, Mphil. in Gender Studies Programme (Chinese Language & Literature), The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Prof. WONG Nim Yan, Assistant Professor in Department of Chinese Language & Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Putonghua | Poster |
| Fall | / | 23/9/2020 | 'To Shine' or 'To Die'?: 'Womenomics' and Women's Worth to the Economy in Neoliberal Japan | Prof. HO Swee Lin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore | Prof. SONG Jing, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 14/10/2020 | Email Order Brides under China's Global Rise | Prof. LIU Monica, Assistant Professor, Department of Justice and Society Studies, University of St. Thomas | Prof. HAN Ling, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 21/10/2020 | Premanital Abortion: Reproductive Politics in Post-Socialist China | Prof. LAI Yuen Shan Ruby, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University | Prof. LING Minhua, Associate Professor and Associate Director, Centre for China Studies, CUHK | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 28/10/2020 | Envisioning the City: Arts-based Reseach with Domestic Workers, Asylum-Seekers and Ethnic Minorities | Speaker 1: Prof. Julie HAM, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong University
Speaker 2: Ms. Merina SUNUWAR, Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong University |
Moderator: Prof. WONG Wang Ivy, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 11/11/2020 | Marriage as Filial Duty, Personal Choice or Social Expectation?: Exploring Differences in the Experiences o Single Women in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Tokyo | Prof. Lynne Y. Nakano, Professor, Department of Japanese Studies, CUHK | PROF. DAI Haijing, Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, CUHK | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 18/11/2020 | "Little Bees Just Have to Keep Moving": Temporary Work. Gendered Skills. and Excessive Mobility in Real Estate Sales Promotion in Urban China | Prof. Yang Zhan, Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University | Dr. Joseph Man Kit CHO, Lecturer, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK | English | Poster |
2019
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More Information |
| Spring | / | 9/1/2019 |
Same-Sex-Attracted Me and Global and Local Discourses in Chengdu and Taipei |
Phil Freestone, Ph.D. candidate, University of Reading | n/a | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 20/1/2019 | Gendered Patterns in the Interplay between Career and Family for Chinese Female Entrepreneurs | Li Lulu, M.Phil. candidate in Gender Studies (Affiliate Department: Sociology), CUHK | n/a | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 23/1/2019 | Hong Kong and the Early Gay Liberation Movement | Danial Tsand, Honourary Research Fellow, University of Hong Kong, and former Fulbright Research Scholar, CUHK | n/a | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 27/1/2019 | 紀錄片放映及映後座談：你的樣子如何(Face Matters) | 譚少薇教授 | n/a | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 6/3/2019 | Bisexuality and Mental Health: Why are Bisexual Individuals Even More Vulnerable to Poor Mental Health Than Lesbian and Gay Individuals? |
Dr. Randolph Chan, Assistant Professor, Education University of Hong Kong |
n/a | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 13/3/2019 | Family, State and the Pathways of Chinese Intranational Sexual Migration: A Tempo-Spatial Analysis | Muyuan Luo, Ph.D. Candidate, Gender Studies/Sociology, CUHK | n/a | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 20/03/2019 | Queering Superhero Masculinity: A Melodramatic Reading of Marvel Cinematic University | Chi Shing Lee, M.Phill Student, Gender Studies/Cultural Studies, CUHK | n/a | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 10/04/2019 | Now We Hear Them: A Qualitative Ethnographic Study of Older Lesbians and Bisexual Women in Hong Kong | Dr. Denise Tse-Shang Tang, Assistant Professor in Cultural Studies, Lingnan University | n/a | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 11/09/2019 | The performative effects of diagnosis: thinking gender, sexuality, and intimacy through diagnostic logics and politics | Dr. Sebastian MOHR, Senior Lecturer of Gender Studies and Director of the Centre for Gender Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden. | Dr. YU Ting-Fai, Lecturer in Gender Studies, Monash University, Malaysia Campus | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 02/10/2019 | Refusing obliquely: On siren eun young jung and the three moments of performing in anomaly | Prof. Soo Ryon Yoon, Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University. | Dr. Wong Yuk Ying Sonia, Lecture, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. | English | Poster |
2018
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More Information |
| Spring | / | 14/2/2018 | How Filipina migrant women in Hong Kong understand their same-sex relationships? | Zoe Yimin DUAN (MPhil student of Gender Studies, home department: Anthropolgoy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) | Sealing CHENG (Associate Professor, Department of Anthorpology, The Chinese University of Hogn Kong) | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 28/2/2018 | The Lexicon of BL Fan Culture: A Chinese Case | Kaixuan ZHANG (PhD student in Gender and Cultural Studies, CUHK) | Professor Peichi CHUNG (Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Reiligious Studies, CUHK) | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 7/3/2018 | Blurring the public-private boundary? Urbanization paths and gender ideology in post-reform China | Xiangmei LI, Ph.D candidate in Gender Studies Programme and Social Work Department, CUHK | Jing SONG, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 14/3/2018 | A Study on the Relationship between Hegemonic Masculinity and Male Makeup Practice in Hong Kong |
Tsz Chun CHAN, MPhil student in Gender Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Yiu Tung SUEN, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 21/3/2018 | Food, Masculinity and Sexuality in Ang Lee’s “Father Knows Best” Trilogy | Shuk Shun CHAN, MPhil student in Gender Studies, subject discipline: English Literary Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Michael O'SULLIVAN, Associate Professor, Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 28/03/2018 | Life and Death of the Mad-Youth: A Literary Perspective | Judy Lok Ying WU, MPhil student in Gender Studies (subject discipline: Literary Studies), The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Eli Park SORENSEN, Assistant Professor, Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 11/04/2018 | Gendering Cohabitation in China: Perception and Transition of Intimacy | Weiwen Lai, student of MPhil in Gender Studies (subject discipline: Sociology), The Chinese University of Hong Kong | SONG Jing, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 14/04/2018 | Yvo and Chrissy - Film Screening and Q&A with Director | Xiaopei He, Film Director | Sealing Cheng, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, The CHinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 19/09/2018 | De-Gendering the Law? | Prof. Jens M. Scherpe (Universities of Cambridge, Hong Kong and Aalborg) | Prof. Suen Yiu Tung (Director of Sexualities Research Programme, CUHK) | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 24/10/2018 | Masculinity in Exile: A Choreography of Gender and Intimacy for Asylum-seekers in Hong Kong |
Prof. Sealing Cheng (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, CUHK)
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Prof. Tseng Hsun Hui (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK) | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 31/10/2018 | Male Victims of Sexual Violence: Trauma in Survivors Narratives | Christian Veske-McMahon | n/a | English | Poster |
| Fall | / |
14/11/2018 |
Exploring the Global Politics of Pride: LGBTQ+ Activism, Assimilation and Resistance |
Dr. Daniel Conway |
Prof. Suen Yiu Tung (Director of Sexualities Research Programme, CUHK) |
English | Poster |
| Fall | / |
28/11/2018 |
神與性：神學和社會學的想像 |
堵建偉先生 黎明博士 |
n/a | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | / |
05/12/2018 |
Queer Mobility and Immobility: Mainland Chinese Women Before and After Leaving China |
Prof. Lucetta Y. L. Kam, Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University |
n/a | English | Poster |
2017
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More Information |
| Spring | / | 25/1/2017 | Sex, Disability and the Ethics of Engagement | Don Kulick, Professor, Uppsala University | TSENG Hsun-hui , Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 15/2/2017 | Touching Intimacy: Bodywork, Affect and the Caring Ethic in Erotic Gay Massage in Taiwan | Bo-wei CHEN, Assistant Professor, Nanhua University, Taiwan | Benny Lu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 22/2/2017 | Book Launch: Masculine Compromise: Migration, Family and Gender in China (University of California Press) |
Susanne Y P CHOI, Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Yinni PENG, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University |
Yiu Tung SUEN, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 1/3/2017 | Libertine Monks and Women: Sexual Fantasies in Late Imperial Chinese Vernacular Erotica | WAI Cheuk Yee, MPhil Student in Gender Studies (subject discipline: Religious Studies) | SONG Jing, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 8/3/2017 | Protection and Restriction: The Inner Sphere at War and Peace in Song Dynasty Depicted in Vernacular Stories and Random Jottings | NG Cheug Wing, Chloe, Mphil Student in Gender Studies (subject discipline: Chinese Language and Literature) | TSENG Hsun-hui , Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 15/3/2017 | The Economics of LGBTI Discrimination: Why Discrimination is Costly | M. V. Lee Badgett, Professor of Economics and Director of the School of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts | Yiu Tung SUEN, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 22/3/2017 | Young Chinese Females' Viewing of Sexually Explicit Video: Femininity, Sexuality, and the Politicized Experience | ZHOU Yanmengqian, MPhil student in Gender Studies (subject discipline: Communication), CUHK | TSENG Hsun-hui , Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 29/3/2017 | How Can Women's Movements Change Society? (And How to Study Them) | Jo Reger, Editor, Gender & Society | na | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 13/9/2017 | 雙性人·人類始祖? | 細細老師 | 孫耀東教授 (性別研究課程助理教授) | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | / | 04/10/2017 | Language and Embodied Sexuality | Brian W. King, Assistant Professor in English, City University of Hong Kong | SUEN Yiu Tung, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 11/10/2017 | Sex Work AND Documentary Ethics | Nicholas de Villiers, Associate Professor of English and Film, University of North Florida, USA | TSENG Hsun Hui, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 18/10/2017 | 點解仲結婚? 論香港、台灣及內地非異性婚姻的法律規管及改革 | 趙文宗博士 | n/a | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | / | 15/11/2017 | Beauty Queens and Their College Going Kids: Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong and Women’s Empowerment | Ju-chen Chen, Lecturer of Department of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong | SONG Jing, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, the Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 29/11/2017 | The Causes and Consequences of LGBTQ Youth Homelessness: A Case Study of Atlanta, Georgia USA | Professor Eric R. Wright, Chair of the Department of Sociology & 2nd Century Initiative (2CI) Professor of Sociology and Public Health, Georgia State University | SUEN Yiu Tung, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
2016
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More information |
| Fall | / | 28/9/2016 | Dealing in Desire | Kimberly HOANG, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago | Hsun-hui TSENG, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 12/10/2016 | Gender and HIV | Mandy Cheung, Program Director, AIDS Concern Hong Kong | SUEN Yiu Tung, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | / | 2/11/2016 | Sexual Prejudice and Heterosexism: School Experience of Sexual Minority Students in Hong Kon | Diana Kwok, Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Education University of Hong Kong | CHO Man Kit, Lecturer, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK | English | Poster |
| Fall | 16/11/2016 | Institutionalising gender equality: constraining social change? | Amy Barrow, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, CUHK | SUEN Yiu Tung, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK | English | Poster | |
| Fall | / | 23/11/2016 | Intimacy Jet Lag: Situational Singles in the Transnational Taiwanese Family | Hsiu-hua SHEN, Associate Professor, The Institute of Sociology, National Tsing-hua University | Hsun-hui TSENG, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 20/1/2016 | Speaking the “L” Word Worldwide: Online Chinese Fans’ Queer Gossip about the Post-L Word “Shane” | Jing (Jamie) ZHAO, PhD Candidate, Gender Studies Programme and Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Angela Wai-Ching WONG, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 03/2/2016 | Making Authentic National Heroes: Gender and Nationalism in Post-socialist China | LIN Zhenru, MPhil student, Gender Studies Programme and Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | TSENG Hsun-hui, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 16/03/2016 | Queering Chinese Kinship: Queer Subjectivity and Kinship Values in Contemporary Mainland China | SONG Lin, PhD Candidate, Gender Studies Programme and Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Michael O'SULLIVAN, Associate Professor, Department of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 30/03/2016 | Searching for the Ideal Laborer: Sex, Class, Age, and Rural-Urban Divide in Xinjiang's Cotton Fields |
LIN Fangfei, PhD Candidate, Gender Studies Programme and Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | HUANG Yu, Adjunct assistant professor, Anthropology Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Putonghua | Poster |
| Spring | / | 13/04/2016 | 《母體的懷想：歸屬、回憶、身份》－土耳其新藝術電影初探 | Shirley KWOK Kit Ling, MPhil student, Gender Studies Programme and Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Angela Wai-Ching WONG, Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Putonghua | Poster |
2015
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More information |
| Fall | / | 14/10/2015 | Creating a New Women's World: The Women's Press and the Emergence of a Gendered Public Identity in 1910s China | Yun ZHANG, Lecturer at the Division of Humanities and Program Coordinator for the Global China Studies Program, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Jing SONG, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme,The Chinese University of HongKong | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 28/10/2015 | Gender and University Experiences in China : Preliminary Findings from a Panel Study of High School Graduates in Urban Nanjing | Gina LAI, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University | Jing SONG, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 4/11/2015 | Gendered Rhetoric in Buddhism and Nuns' New Religious Practice in Taiwan | Chang Shen SHIH, Assistant Professor of Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts | Hsun-hui TSENG, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Mandarin | Poster |
| Fall | / | 2/12/2015 | Between Tradition and Modernity: 'Leftover'Women in Shanghai | Yingchun JI, Eastern Scholar Professor, School of Sociology and Political Science, Shanghai University | Jing SONG, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 25/03/2015 | Manipulating Simone de Beauvoir: A Case Study of the Chinese Translations of the Second Sex | Nicki Liu Haiping | Dr. CHO Man Kit | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 01/04/2015 | 明末清初文人階層之男色研究 --- 以陳維崧與徐紫雲二人關係為中心 | Li Chun Wai | 葉漢明教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 08/04/2015 | Happy Together? Chinese Young Gay Men Negotiate Dating Relationship | Zhang Kecheng | Prof. Choi Yuk Ping | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 15/04/2015 | Intertwined Repertoire : Gendered Power Dynamics of the Dai-Lue Ethnic Minority | Mai Yee Yan | Prof. Choi Yuk Ping | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 22/04/2015 | 雌雄以外 --- 論晚明男風小說中的性別書寫 | 葉雅詩 | 陳煒舜教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 29/04/2015 | William Wordsworth and women : A Tale of Imbalanced Exchanges | LUO Tianshuo | Dr. CHO Man Kit | English | Poster |
2014
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More information |
| Fall | / | 24/09/2014 | The Way He Looks : Dialogue with Director Daniel Ribeiro on Films, LGBT Teens and (Dis)ability | Daniel Ribeiro | Prof. Lim Song Hwee | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 15/10/2014 | Desires that Matter : Negotiating Sexual Identities in the Field | Dr. Francisca Yuenki Lai & Dr. Lucetta Yip Lo Kam | Dr. Yiu-tung Suen | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 29/10/2014 | The Hidden Side of the Tongzhi Movement: Narratives from Older Gay Men in Hong Kong | Dr. Travis Kong Shiu Ki | Dr. Travis Kong Shiu Ki | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 26/11/2014 | Transgender Trouble in Hong Kong | Prof. Day Wong | Dr. Cho Man Kit | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 19/02/2014 | Transgender Identities: Is sex reassignment surgery a necessary condition for gender recognition? | Pui Kei Eleanor Cheung | Prof. HUANG Yu | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 05/03/2014 | How Feminism Became a Mortal Sin in Russia | Svetlana Ilinskaya | Prof. HUANG Yu | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 12/03/2014 | 休閒體育的性/別化：中國城市業餘排球參與中的男性性別特質 | 李曉雋 | 蔡玉萍教授 | Putonghua | Poster |
| Spring | / | 26/03/2014 | 廣州相親角個案研究 | 周健聰 | 蔡玉萍教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 02/04/2014 | Hello Kitty: 性別消費在香港 | 勞家鳳 | 林大偉教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
2013
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More information |
| Fall | / | 07/10/2013 | 家計會．性．現代性 | 曹文傑 | 李明英小姐 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | / | 16/10/2013 | 「喜愛夜蒲」: 比較香港高學歷與低學歷女性的夜蒲經驗 | 王詩文 | 朱順慈教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | / | 30/10/2013 | 日常科技中的性別政治 | 任珏 | 王丹凝博士 | Putonghua | Poster |
| Fall | / | 13/11/2013 | Intimacy, Politics and Betrayal - Friendship Among Adolescent Boys in Hong Kong | Dr. Choi Po King | Prof. Michael O'Sullivan | English | Poster |
| Fall | / | 27/11/2013 | 打造中國特色新公民 : 國家運動員與主體能動交錯下的亞運禮儀小姐 | 胡嘉明博士 | 葉漢明教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 30/01/2013 | 所謂「核輻射安全水平」— 探討一段「專家知識」如何暴虐人民與生態的血淚史 | 文思慧博士 | 葉漢明教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 06/02/2013 | The Art of Seduction: The Performance of Female Sexuality/Sensuality through Sensual Dances Among Hong Kong and Japanese Women | Chow Shuk Yee | Prof. Lynne Nakano | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 20/02/2013 | 搭建「傷殘女性主義」與分析傷殘家庭紀錄片《金猛》 | 黃彩鳳 | 黃慧貞教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 06/03/2013 | 幻想之愛與酷兒欲望：中國網絡中的耽美文化研究 | 周舒燕 | 黃慧貞教授 | Putonghua | Poster |
| Spring | / | 13/03/2013 | 'Will you be my Valentine?’ Women and Cultural Violence in Asia | Prof. Tejaswini Niranjana | Prof. Wu Ka Ming | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 20/03/2013 | 治療剩女：大陸和台灣電視劇的剩女再現之比較研究 | 凌綺 | 朱順慈教授 | Putonghua | Poster |
| Spring | / | 10/04/2013 | 中國互聯網與同志話語 | 張欣 | 朱順慈教授 | Putonghua | / |
| Spring | / | 17/04/2013 | The Moderating Role of Gender Identity in the Experience of Workplace Ostracism | Ji Mingshuang | Prof. Ngo Hang-yue | English | / |
2012
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More information |
| Fall | / | 03/10/2012 | 一孩家庭結構與性别平等意識 | 張佳羽 | 吳逢時教授 | Putonghua | / |
| Fall | / | 17/10/2012 | 同女好孕酷兒－臺灣女同志媽媽多元演繹的親職身分與酷兒家庭 | 張瑛姿 | 彭麗君教授 | Putonghua | / |
| Fall | / | 31/10/2012 | How Work-Family Interface Affects an Intimate Partner: A Test of Crossover Effects in Chinese Dual-Earner Couples | Liu Huimin | Prof. Fanny M. Cheung | English | / |
| Fall | / | 14/11/2012 | 基督教右派在華人社會的性別/政治策略影響—以香港和臺灣為例 | 楊鳯麟 | 蔡寶瓊教授 | Putonghua | / |
| Fall | / | 28/11/2012 | An Intimate Engagement: Mrs. Little's Resident Travel Writing in China | Bai Ruixia | Prof. Pang Laikwan | English | / |
| Spring | / | 01/02/2012 | 《香港廿二春：師奶列傳》 | 何式凝 | 蔡寶瓊教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 15/02/2012 | Family and Sexuality in China:The case of functional marriage | LUO Ming | Prof. CHOI Susanne Y.P. | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 29/02/2012 | 重寫才子佳人──論孟稱舜戲曲中的性別思考 | 胡凱琪 | 華瑋教授 | Putonghua, Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 14/03/2012 | 「斷頭與精怪美人」及「紮腳英雌」：藝術旦后余麗珍的越界藝術──1957-1961粵劇戲曲片研究 | 陳曉婷 | 黃慧貞教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 28/03/2012 | Reconstructing Homeland: Gender, the Environment and the State in Three Earthquake-hit Villages, Sichuan, China | Li Xueli | Prof. Siumi Maria Tam | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 11/04/2012 | 老化身體與陽剛氣質 | 陳銳才 | 許焯權教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
2011
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More information |
| Fall | 演出‧性/別身體系列 performing the sexed/gendered body | 12/10/2011 | 月事‧說 (Menstruation Twitters) | 「她說：HerStory」劇團 | 陳澤蕾博士 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | 演出‧性/別身體系列 performing the sexed/gendered body | 19/10/2011 | 跨性別音樂劇‧美人魚之夢 | 黑天使音樂劇團 | 蔡寶瓊教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | 演出‧性/別身體系列 performing the sexed/gendered body | 26/10/2011 | AUTUMN GEM 秋瑾 – A Documentary on Modern China's First Feminist | Adam Tow and Rae Chang | / | English | / |
| Fall | 演出‧性/別身體系列 performing the sexed/gendered body | 16/11/2011 | 身體自主──丸仔行為藝術的性別思索 | 丸仔 | / | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | 演出‧性/別身體系列 performing the sexed/gendered body | 30/11/2011 | 同志能撐半邊天！──性向於視覺藝術場域的隱身與現形 | 阿三 | 陳澤蕾博士 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 23/02/2011 | Wives as Breadwinners: A Study of Spousal Relations in Urban Northeast China | Lu Ming | Prof. Siumi Maria Tam | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 09/03/2011 | The System VS The Individual – Postmodern Sex and Love in Murakami Haruki’s Norwegian Wood | Tsang Yat Him | 蔡寶瓊教授 | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 16/03/2011 | 主體性的再思：從香港MTFs（男變女變性者）的性別體現談起 | 陳文彥 | 蔡寶瓊教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 23/03/2011 | Jane Austen's "Selfless" (Sub)version of Stereotypes | Chan Ka Man, Meg | 蔡寶瓊教授 | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 06/04/2011 | The Construction of Masculinity in Men's Fashion Magazines in Mainland China | Zhao Jiang | Prof. Saskia Witteborn | English | Poster |
2010
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More information |
| Fall | The In/visible “Flâneuse”: Nüshu, Women’s Script & Feminist Art Practice 藝術世界中的女性踪跡：「女書」和其她 | 06/10/2010 | Visual arts and feminisms: (wo)men artists and life drawing為什麼沒有偉大的女性藝術家──從人體素描說起 | Prof. LO Yuen-yi | / | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | The In/visible “Flâneuse”: Nüshu, Women’s Script & Feminist Art Practice 藝術世界中的女性踪跡：「女書」和其她 | 20/10/2010 | Nüshu, women’s script: a contextual reading「女書」──她的文化和寓言 | Prof. LO Yuen-yi | / | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | The In/visible “Flâneuse”: Nüshu, Women’s Script & Feminist Art Practice 藝術世界中的女性踪跡：「女書」和其她 | 10/11/2010 | (Her) research praxis: “practice the difference”「自說自話」和「東拉西扯」：不一樣的（她的）實踐 | Prof. LO Yuen-yi | / | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | The In/visible “Flâneuse”: Nüshu, Women’s Script & Feminist Art Practice 藝術世界中的女性踪跡：「女書」和其她 | 24/11/2010 | The in/visible flâneuse: art in the age of modernity: a feminist perspective（不）可見的城市漫游者：當代女性（主義）的藝術創作 | Prof. LO Yuen-yi | / | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 20/01/2010 | 中國公民的性別化影像參與：放映《我們的娃娃》 | 黃彩鳳 | 彭麗君教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 10/02/2010 | Make It Fresh: Ang Lee's Subversive Re-invention of Transnational Canons | Anita Chi-Kwan Lee | Dr Julie Chiu | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 24/02/2010 | Persisting Orientalism, Fragmented Souls - A Critical Thinking on the Return to Hijab through the Case of Tunisia | Chi Zeyu, Eva | Prof. Wong Wai Ching, Angela | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 03/03/2010 | The Body, Performance and Labor of Life Models in Hong Kong | Chan Hau Ying, Lina | Dr. CHAN Chak Lui, Sam | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 10/03/2010 | 性別節座談會 Gender Festival Seminar: 性別關係與性暴力 | Anti480成員 | 黃慧貞教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 24/03/2010 | Performing as Other Women | Yang Jing, Allison | Prof. Saskia Witteborn | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 07/04/2010 | "Rape" Talk: An Analysis of Hong Kong Undergraduates' Conversations and Perception about Sexual Violence | Lee Shuk Ling, Candy | / | English | / |
2009
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More information |
| Fall | Activism: Embodied Experience | 07/10/2009 | La Revolutionnaire 【Active Improvement Version】社會紀錄片放映：《革命‧女》【積極改進版】 | Chan Po Ying & Kong King Chu | 蔡寶瓊教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | Activism: Embodied Experience | 14/10/2009 | Women and Power at the Song Court | Professor Patricia Ebrey | Prof. Hsiung Ping-chen | English | Poster |
| Fall | Activism: Embodied Experience | 28/10/2009 | HERstory-Jeritan《女移工》 | Ho Wing Yin 何穎賢 | 黎明茵教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | Activism: Embodied Experience | 04/11/2009 | 司法‧警權‧身體 | 王浩賢與謝柏齊 | 莊耀洸律師 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | Activism: Embodied Experience | 18/11/2009 | 《嘉咸‧女情》 | 李維怡 | 陳嘉銘 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | Activism: Embodied Experience | 02/12/2009 | 基層婦女的環保事業 – 回顧與展望 | 綠慧公社成員 | 黃慧貞教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 21/01/2009 | Potential of Teleopoiesis: Multiple Marginalities and Literary Activities of Indonesian Female Domestic Workers in Hong Kong | Shiho Sawai | Prof. Lynne Nakano | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 04/02/2009 | Elite Schoolgirls: The Construction of “Ideal Female Subject” in the Globalization Context 精英女校生︰建構全球化處境下的「理想女性個體」 | So Yam Wah, Alison 蘇欽華 | 蔡寶瓊教授Prof. Choi Po King, Dora | Cantonese and English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 18/02/2009 | Discourse of Gender/Sexuality among Hong Kong Secondary School Teachers 香港中學教師的性別與性態論述 | Cheng Pui Kwan, Cathy 鄭佩群 | 蔡寶瓊教授Prof. Choi Po King, Dora | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 04/03/2009 | Hover between Return and Subversion -- the Maternal Writing of Tie Ning's Novel徘徊於「呼喚」與「顛覆」之間——鐵凝小說的母性書寫 | Yin Ying, Cherry 殷櫻 | 黃慧貞教授 | Putonghua | Poster |
| Spring | / | 18/03/2009 | The Imbalanced Sex Ratio at Birth and Women’s Rights: Relevant Laws, Policies in China and Some Comparative Legal Implications | Zhang Jiayu, Irene 張佳羽 | Prof. Michael. C. Davis | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 01/04/2009 | Female Persona in Pan Yuliang’s Painting: Gender/Body Politics in Early Modern Chinese Painting潘玉良的繪畫中的女角：中國摩登繪畫中的性別╱身體政治 | Chau Tsz Kin, Raphael 周子堅 | Prof. Frank Vigneron | Cantonese | Poster |
2008
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More information |
| Fall |
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03/09/2008 |
Researching the Irrelevant and the Invisible: Sexual Diversity in the Judiciary |
Professor Leslie Moran | Dr. Chiu Man-chung Andy | English | Poster |
| Fall | Gender, Body and Embodiment 主題：性別‧身體‧身體政治 |
17/09/2008 | A Dialogue: Christina and Lina -- Body, Activism and Embodiment 二人對話：陳巧文與陳巧盈 ─ 身體經驗與示威行動 |
Christina Chan and Lina Chan 陳巧文與陳巧盈 |
/ | Cantonese | N/A |
| Fall | Gender, Body and Embodiment 主題：性別‧身體‧身體政治 |
08/10/2008 |
Representation of Women in Noh and Japanese Cinema |
Dr. Yau Shuk Ting, Kinnia 邱淑婷博士 |
Dr. Lynne Nakano | English | Poster |
| Fall | Gender, Body and Embodiment 主題：性別‧身體‧身體政治 |
22/10/2008 | Gender and Sport in the Contemporary Societies 性別與運動 ─ 當今社會現象 |
Leung Kwok-wai, Masa 梁幗慧 |
蔡寶瓊教授 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | Gender, Body and Embodiment 主題：性別‧身體‧身體政治 |
05/11/2008 |
Public Desires, Private Subjects: Lalas in Shanghai |
Lucetta Kam 金曄路 |
/ | Cantonese and Mandarin | Poster |
| Fall | Gender, Body and Embodiment 主題：性別‧身體‧身體政治 |
19/11/2008 | Listening As Emotional Debt - Notes on My (Whose?) Aural Life | Dr. Yeung Yang 楊陽博士 |
Madeleine Slavick | English | Poster |
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More information |
| Spring | / | 30/01/2008 |
Private Emotion, Public Commemoration: Poems of Mourning by Widows in Late Imperial China |
Prof. Grace S. Fong 方秀潔教授 |
Prof. Tung Yuan Fang | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 13/02/2008 | Love, Lies, and Loss: Young Women’s Experiences of Abortion in China 愛上他，騙了她，想念它 ─ 中國城市未婚年輕女性墮胎經歷調查 |
Wang Ya Jun, Ivy 王雅隽 |
Prof. Lynne Nakano | English | Poster |
| Spring | / | 27/02/2008 |
Learning to Cook: Constructing Women’s Cooking Knowledge and Identities in Hong Kong |
Kwok Lai Yi, Eva 郭麗兒 |
Prof. Choi Po King | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 12/03/2008 | Development of the Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival 香港同志影展的發展 |
Pang Ka Wei, Janet 彭家維 |
Prof. Natalia Chan 洛楓 |
Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 26/03/2008 |
Ethical Problems in a Participatory Research: A Feminist Perspective |
Poon Yu Hin 潘宇軒 |
蔡寶瓊教授 Prof. Choi Po King, Dora |
Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 09/04/2008 | Sex talks: Info Intercourse between Real and Virtual World 引人入性：現實與虛擬世界間之訊色流動 |
Luk Chi Hin, Solomon 陸志軒 |
Prof. Helen Grace | English | Poster |
2007
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More information |
| Fall | Pornography 色情系列 |
03/10/2007 |
The Sadist Ethics of the Censorship of Pornography |
Verdy Leung W.Y 梁偉怡 |
林藹雲Lam Oi Wan | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | Pornography 色情系列 |
17/10/2007 | The Power of Pornography: Using Li Han-hsiang's Fengyue Films as a Case Study 色情電影 ─ 色情的力量：以李翰祥風月片為案例 |
Yau Ching 游靜 |
洛楓 Natalia CHAN |
Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | Pornography 色情系列 |
31/10/2007 |
Sexual Encounter of a Paranoiac Subject |
Lee Chi-leung 李智良 |
張歷君 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | Pornography 色情系列 |
14/11/2007 | 'Pls CUM.With/To me': The Erotic Consumption of Gay Porn 男男色情 ─ 「快來吧！」男同志色情的情慾消費 |
siu CHO 小曹 |
梁學彬 先生 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | Pornography 色情系列 |
28/11/2007 |
XXXXXXX XXXXXXX: Reading Same-Sex Porn from the Women's Point of View |
Wai Wai 煒煒 |
黃結梅 Day Wong |
Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | Pornography 色情系列 |
05/12/2007 | RE/Searching Mainstream Pornography: The Moral Dilemma of Feminism 再會主流色情 ─ 重尋主流色情：女性主義的道德矛盾 |
Lee Wai-yee Jo 李偉儀 |
趙文宗博士 | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 07/02/2007 |
Trans-Boy Fashion, or How to Tailor-Make a King! |
Hung Ling 洪凌 |
/ | English and Putonghua | Poster |
| Spring | / | 14/02/2007 | A review on the context of 1990'sTaiwan tongzhi/ku'er fiction from the ten years debate invoked by E nu shu 從《惡女書》的十年論爭回顧九O年代台灣同志/酷兒小說發展 |
Wong Oi Lun 黃愛倫 |
/ | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 06/03/2007 |
Women Sexualities in 'Question': a Study of Love and Sex Mail Box |
Lee Wai Yee 李偉儀 |
/ | English and Putonghua | Poster |
| Spring | / | 14/03/2007 | To the City: Subjectivity and Femininity of Nursing Workers inShanghai 走向城市：上海護工的主體性與女性特質Hong Kong |
Zhang Xiao Lan 張小蘭 |
/ | Putonghua | Poster |
| Spring | / | 21/03/2007 |
The Construction of Femininities: an Ethnographic Study of Hong Kong Junior Secondary School Girls |
Lee Wing Huen Dorothy 李泳萱 |
/ | Cantonese | Poster |
| Spring | / | 28/03/2007 | Chatting with Passion: Research on Cybersex in MainlandChina 網絡激情：中國大陸網絡性愛現象研究 |
Ren Jue 任珏 |
/ | Putonghua | Poster |
| Spring | / | 11/04/2007 |
Poor Boys? Gendered English Learning Experiences and Achievement Gap amongHong Kong School Boys and Girls |
Lui Wai Shan,Lydia 呂惠珊 |
/ | Cantonese | Poster |
2006
| Term | Theme | Date | Title | Speaker | Moderator | Language | More information |
| Fall | Chinese Opera and Gender Politics 中國戲曲與性別政治 |
9/20/2006 | Sex Work in the Time of AIDS in China: Structure, Identity and Strategy 性工作在中國：結構、身份與策略 |
Dr. Susanne Choi 蔡玉萍博士 |
/ | English | Poster |
| Fall | Chinese Opera and Gender Politics 中國戲曲與性別政治 |
04/10/2006 | Cross-Dressing & Gender-Crossing of Leung Mo Sheung in HK Cinema 假鳳虛凰：梁無相的本色 |
Dr. Natalia Chan 陳少紅博士 |
/ | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | Chinese Opera and Gender Politics 中國戲曲與性別政治 |
18/10/2006 |
Representations of monstrous, celestial and virtuous woman in The Legend"s" of White Snake |
Dr. Sam Chan Chak Lui 陳澤蕾博士 |
/ | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | Chinese Opera and Gender Politics 中國戲曲與性別政治 |
01/11/2006 | The Gendered Dimension of Street Cultural Politics 街頭性別觀察 |
Mary Ann King (Gum Gum) 金佩瑋 (甘甘) |
/ | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | Chinese Opera and Gender Politics 中國戲曲與性別政治 |
08/11/2006 | Subjectivity Under Erasure: History, Adolescent Masculinity, and Teacher-Student Sex | Dr. Steven Angelides | / | Cantonese | Poster |
| Fall | Chinese Opera and Gender Politics 中國戲曲與性別政治 |
14/11/2006 | Fe/male Impersonation in Beijing Opera: Generations 輪流轉：京劇的酷異舞台 |
Dr. Li Siu Leung 李小良博士 |
/ | English | Poster |
| Fall | Chinese Opera and Gender Politics 中國戲曲與性別政治 |
29/11/2006 | Understanding the Boys’ Underachievement Discourse in the Context of Globalization 理解全球化下「男生失利」的論述 |
Dr. Choi Po King 蔡寶瓊博士 |
/ | Cantonese | Poster |
ZHONG Xinle is a Mphil. student in Gender Studies, CUHK, affiliating with the Department of Anthropology, CUHK. Her research interests focus on gender, sexuality, and technoscience studies. Her Mphil. thesis investigates queer women's family building in China along with the rise of the global fertility business.
Gender Research Centre Orientation Talk: Honour Based Violence: minority women as agents of change
