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週三性別座談會Fall 2017

The Causes and Consequences of LGBTQ Youth Homelessness: A Case Study of Atlanta, Georgia USA

Date: 29th November, 2017 (Wednesday)

Time: 12:30 - 14:00
Venue: Room 422, Sino Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Speaker: Professor Eric R. Wright,
Chair of the Department of Sociology & 2nd Century Initiative (2CI), Professor of Sociology and Public Health, Georgia State University

Moderator: Professor SUEN Yiu-Tung
Light refreshments will be provided.

Abstract: Over the past decade, youth homeless has increased significantly in many urban areas and emerged as a major social policy challenge in the U.S. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth have been found to be over represented in this population. Using field survey data from the 2015 Atlanta Youth Count and Needs Assessment (AYCNA), Dr. Wright examines the background and experiences of homeless LGBTQ youth to better understand both why they are especially vulnerable and what the consequences of homelessness are for their health and social well-being. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of ideas to improve strategies for engaging and serving homeless LGBTQ youth as well as recommendations for a
multidimensional measurement approach to understand increasingly varied sexual and/or gender identities of urban youth.

Speaker Bio: Eric R. Wright is a 2nd Century Initiative (2CI) Professor of Sociology and Public Health and Chair of the Sociology Department at Georgia State University. He holds a BA in sociology from Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon and an MA and PhD in sociology and human sexuality from Indiana University Bloomington. As a medical sociologist, his research interests center on social and public policy responses to mental health and illness, substance use and addictions, sexual health, and HIV/STI prevention. In addition, Dr. Wright is actively involved in conducting research to understand and ameliorate social and health problems and disparities in minority and other vulnerable communities, including homeless youth and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people (LGBTQ). He has extensive experience in working with community organizations as well as local and state government to better understand community needs and improve the effectiveness of social-, health-, and healthcare- related programs and policies.

Please register at: goo.gl/RQrRNX

Free Admission

Beauty Queens and Their College Going Kids: Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong and Women's Empowerment

Date: 15th November, 2017 (Wed) 

Time: 12:30 - 2:00pm

Venue: Room 109, Sino Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Language: English

Speaker: Dr. Ju-chen CHEN, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Moderator: Prof. SONG Jing, Assistant Professor of the Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Abstract: Foreign domestic workers in Hong Kong are often homogenized, exoticized, and stigmatized as people who live without purpose beyond remitting money home. My research, however, shows that, on Sundays, their only day off, they don’t just idling on the streets but actively juggle between personal chores, association board meetings, birthday parties, church volunteer works, sports events, and beauty pageants. This talk addresses aspirations of the nearly 200,000 Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong with a focus on active beauty pageant participants. Starting from examining the puzzling phenomenon of Filipino domestic workers “squandering” their time and money in beauty pageants, I will then turn to discussing the seemingly futile efforts of sending their children to colleges. Reflecting upon their pursuits of the beauty queen titles and children’s education attainment, new questions and understanding regarding women’s empowerment dawned on me. I would wrap up this talk by sharing these perspective and concerns.

Speaker's Biography: Dr. Ju-chen CHEN is lecturer at Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her scholarly interests cover a few topics and geographic locations: female migrant workers in China and their desperate efforts to obtain better houses for their sons; Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong and the wishes they realize through participation in beauty pageants; and independent musicians and music event organizers in Hong Kong and Taiwan with a focus on their non-accumulative lifestyles. Ju-chen is interested in the relationship between gender and migration and she uses aspiration as the keyword to analyze the pursuits of her various research subjects.

Free registration: https://goo.gl/wZ2JFK

Gender and Employment in Rural China (Book Launch)

Date: 8th November, 2017 (Wed)
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
Venue: Room 109, Chen Kou Bun Bldg., CUHK
Language: English

Speaker: Prof. Song Jing, Assistant Professor of the Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Moderator: Prof. TSENG Hsun-hui, Assistant Professor of the Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Abstract: With China’s rapid advancements in urbanization and industrialization, there has been significant labor movement away from agriculture in the rural regions. Using four village case studies, the book examines how this restructuring process affects the rural population and how their various perceptions and reactions towards the market reforms have changed along with the employment transition. Given the changes of family life and the diversification of development models, this study illustrates different gendered employment patterns in light of China’s move towards decentralization of its rural economy. The findings suggest mixed trends of multiple job-holding situations and individualized work negotiated within rural families and communities, within which gender gaps and relations are reshaped by the shifting urban-rural divide, the changing local-migrant economic activities, and the varying structures of market risks and private sectors.

Speaker’s Biography: Jing Song is an Assistant Professor in Gender Studies Programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include gender and family, work and employment, migration and urbanization, and market transition in China. She has published in China Quarterly, Urban Studies, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Housing Studies, Population, Space and Place, Journal of Sociology, Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Chinese Journal of Sociology etc.

Registration: https://goo.gl/GJVa6c

「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

日期：2017年10月18日

時間：下午12時30分至2時

時間：下午12時30分至2時

講者：趙文宗博士

主持：曹文傑博士

語言：廣東話

講者簡介：香港大學榮譽法律學士，華威大學（University of Warwick）法學博士，香港城市大學法律碩士，中國人民大學法律碩士，蘇格蘭士嘉夫格賴特法律碩士。曾任職香港樹仁大學法律與商業學系系主任。現為樹仁大學、倫敦大學伯貝克學院（Birkbeck, University Of London）及清華大學合辦之研究中心主任，及平等機會委員會委員。

講座簡介：
過去七百二十日，自香港W一案以來，「非異性婚姻」能否合法化成為大中華地區法律機器自由度的測試劑。有人堅持法院不可踰越立法機關建構新法規，有人夢想有案例自然有權利，有人相信應先從政策開始更新現實界。趙文宗先回顧過去兩年大中華地區四宗地標判決，再討論更新現行政策法律的戰略、步驟及可能。

 網上報名：https://goo.gl/8suUyV

Sex Work AND Documentary Ethics

Date: 11 Oct 2017 (Wed)

Time: 12:30-14:00

Venue: Room 109, Chen Kou Bun Bldg., CUHK

Speaker: Nicholas de Villiers, Associate Professor of English and Film, University of North Florida, USA

Moderator: TSENG Hsun Hui, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, CUHK

Language: English

Abstract: Dr. Nicholas de Villiers discusses his recently published book, Sexography: Sex Work in Documentary (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), examining a transnational selection of documentaries about sex work. His talk addresses the ethical questions raised by ethnographic documentary and interviews with sexually marginalized subjects. He provides an overview of the complementary approaches of Foucauldian critique of confessional discourse, critical ethnography of sex work (and sex worker rights activism), and theories of reflexive documentary.

Speaker Bio: Nicholas de Villiers is associate professor of English and Film at the University of North Florida, USA. He is also currently a visiting scholar at Taiwan National Central University's Center for the Study of Sexualities. He is the author of Opacity and the Closet: Queer Tactics in Foucault, Barthes, and Warhol​ (Minnesota, 2012) and Sexography: Sex Work in Documentary (Minnesota, 2017). He has published journal articles in Paragraph, Symploke, Jump Cut, and positions: asia critique, and serves on the editorial board of Screen Bodies

Registration: https://goo.gl/4aG8BV

Language and Embodied Sexuality

Date: 4 Oct 2017 (Wed)

Time: 12:30-14:0020171004s

Venue: Room 109, Chen Kou Bun Bldg, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Speaker: Brian W. King, Assistant Professor in English, City University of Hong Kong

Moderator: SUEN Yiu Tung, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Language: English

Abstract: Embodiment has long been of interest to scholars of Language in Society, and yet theoretical discussions of the inseparability of language and the body have been paradoxically minimal until quite recently. Focusing on the processes by which sexualized bodies are understood, this talk outlines the ways in which language and sexuality scholarship can contribute to knowledge of the connectedness of the social and the soma during social interaction. Bodies are both subjective and social; in one sense we have subjective, embodied knowledge of what it means to live in our sexualized bodies and ‘speak from’ them, and in another sense our bodies are also observed from outside and ‘spoken about’ as sexual. What are the implications for language use, intelligibility and sexual agency? The talk also reviews and builds upon recent scholarship that productively troubles reified notions of bodily stability and fluid identities during traversals of online and offline spaces.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Brian W. King’s primary research interest is language use in communities, in particular discursive performances of gender and sexuality, sexual embodiment, computer-mediated communication, sexuality education, and the social construction of space/place. His work is located within sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. At present he sits on the editorial boards for the journals Gender & Language and Journal of Language and Sexuality and is the Reviews Editor for the journal Language in Society. He recently hosted the 9th International Gender and Language Association Conference (IGALA 9) at City University of Hong Kong, where he has been a faculty member in the Department of English since 2012.

Registration: https://goo.gl/jWr592

雙性人·人類始祖？

日期: 2017年9月13日（三）

時間: 12:30—14:00

地點: 香港中文大學陳國本樓109室

講者: 細細老師

主持: 孫耀東教授 (性別研究課程助理教授)

語言: 廣東話

講者簡介： 細細老師，乃香港的註冊中醫，註冊社工，臨床催眠治療師，並在香港中文大學性別研究碩士畢業！ 細細老師營

辦 “細細老師身心診療室”，此乃一所全人照顧的性別友善診所，致力協助社會低下階層的身心健康，以中醫為治病手法，配合心理輔導，全面協助病人和性小眾脫離身心困境。 細細老師亦是第一位在香港現身的雙性人，是關愛雙性人組織 “藩籬以外－認識及關愛雙性人” 的創辦人！ 她是 “雄激素不敏感綜合癥” 患者，出生時下體不男不女，兒時被指定為男性，曾為此經歷了近廿次性器官重建手術，36歲時偶然被發現身體內存在子官和陰道，詳細檢查後終診斷為雙性人！及後因男性性器官恐有患癌風險，唯有切除所有雄性性器官，並手術重塑性器官，把陰道出口開通，現以女性身份生活！

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