December 4, 2014

5-7pm, Rockbund Art Museum (Downtown Shanghai)

Introduction of the HERA-project and workshop agenda by Prof. Dr. Jeroen de Kloet

Keynote by Josephine HO: “Sex and Women in the Metropolis: A Communitarian/Narrative View”

Discussant: Dr. Yiu Fai CHOW – HERA-member

December 5, 2014

Workshop Venue: Meta-Gallery, Wuyuan Road (former French Concession)

10-11.30am

Keynote by Fran Martin, The University of Melbourne (Australia): “Precarious Autonomy: Chinese Women Students (Re)negotiating Gender through Educational Mobility”

Chair: Melissa Butcher
Discussant: Lucetta Yip Lo KAM, Hong Kong Baptist University (Hong Kong SAR, China)

12-1.30pm

Panel: Shengnü (leftover-women) and ‘New’ Asian Women

Chair: Wayne Modest (Tropenmuseum/Research Centre, Amsterdam)

Leta Hong FINCHER, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong SAR, China):“Single Chinese Women Subverting the ‘Shengnü’ Label”

Melissa BUTCHER, Birkbeck College (University of London) (until March 2015: The Open University): “Being Single – Approaching Autonomy, Respectability and Precarity”

Lena SCHEEN, New York University Shanghai (China): “Shanghai Lalas and Leftover Ladies: An Ethnographic Study of Female Professionals”

3-4.30pm

Panel: Love & Desire

Chair: Christiane Brosius

WU Xiaoyan & CAI Luoyi: “Another Source of Power: Love and Desire Liberated from Shame —— VAGINA MONOLOGUES in China”

SHEN Yifei, Fudan University (China): “Hot-mom: Motherhood and Feminism in the Process of Individualisation”

Discussant: Jinzhao LI, Beijing Foreign Studies University (China)

4.45-6.15pm

Screening of the documentary film “Women” by Walker Lee (Shanghai)

December 6, 2014

10-11.30am

Public Keynote Lecture

Shilpa PHADKE, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai, India): “I’m Not a Feminist But…! Young Women in Urban India and Gender Politics in a Time of Globalisation”

Chair: Christiane Brosius
Discussant: Wayne Modest

0-1.30pm

Panel: Art & Activism

Evie WU, Nvai (China): “LBT Movement in Shanghai”

Sheba CHHACHHI, Independent Artist (Delhi, India): “Public Intimacies”

Kevin MAY, NGO Worker (China): “Gender and Change”

Chair: Melissa Butcher

6-8pm, Fei Contemporary Art Centre (FCAC)

Producer: Li Xiaofei

Curator: Chow Yiu Fai

Word of thanks: Christiane Brosius