Gender Studies
60th Anniversary Symposium
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJoin us for a two-day academic symposium celebrating sixty years of the Fairbank Center's world-leading research on China.
Sinophone Studies: New Directions
CGIS South CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesListen again: “Sinophone” is arguably one of the most provocative concepts of world literary studies since the turn of the new millennium. In 2007, we held the Yale-Harvard joint international […]
China Humanities Seminar: Perceptions of China’s Sexual Economy
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Harriet Zurndorfer Abstract: This lecture focuses on men and women engaged in China’s sexual economy, which is dominated by the exchange between wealthy and politically influential men and unmarried young women who trade their femininity and sexuality for material wealth and financial security from these men. Drawing on analyses of the popular 2009 television […]
Living on the Edge: Korean Brothels in Colonial Taiwan
Speaker: Jin Jungwon, Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica; HYI Visiting Scholar Chair/Discussant: Elizabeth Remick, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Tufts University Harvard-Yenching Institute lunch talk, co-sponsored with the Korea Institute Despite its wide practice, the sex trade and sex industry in Taiwan and Korea had never been put under governmental control before […]
Lin Wei-ping – Gender, Gambling, and the State in the Militarized Islands between China and Taiwan
Speaker: Lin Wei-ping, National Taiwan University; HYI Associate Discussant: Michael Szonyi, Harvard University https://harvard-yenching.org/events/gender-gambling-and-state-militarized-islands-between-china-and-taiwan
Gender Studies Workshop: Gender and Friendship in China
CGIS South Room S354 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United States12:45-1 p.m. Welcoming remarks First Panel Moderator: Wai-yee Li, Harvard University 1-1:30p.m. Zhou Yiqun, Stanford University: “Hermits and Their Wives in Early Chinese Texts” 1:30-2p.m. Hu Ying, University of California Irvine: “Strange Friends: Reconceptualizing Gender and Community” 2-2:30p.m. Ellen Widmer, Wellesley College: “Intercultural Mutuality: Mary Hannah Fulton (1854-1927) and Zhang Jujun (1879-1964)” 2:30-3p.m. Discussion 3-3:30p.m. […]
2019 Gender Studies Workshop: Images, Objects, and Gender in China
CGIS South S020, Belfer Case Study Room 1730 Cambridge St., Cambridge, MA, United States12:45-1 p.m. Welcoming remarks First Panel Moderator: Catherine Vance Yeh 1-1:30p.m. Jeehee Hong, “ ‘Gender’ and Affect in Song Faces” 1:30-2p.m. Mao Wen-Fang, “The Object and the Beauty in Painting: the Metaphorical Viewing and Lyrical Interpretations of Portrait Texts in the Modes of ‘San hao三好’ (three good things) and ‘Lang yu li郎與麗’ (gentleman […]
*** POSTPONED *** Gender Studies Workshop: Gender and Performance
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium (S010) 1730 Cambridge St, Cambridge, MA, United StatesTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED Participants: Xu, Peng, Swarthmore College Megan Ammirati, University of California Davis Emily Wilcox, University of Michigan Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Duke University Catherine Yeh, Boston University Matthew Sommer, Stanford University David Wang, Harvard University Claire Conceison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ted Hui, Harvard University Commentator: Wai-Yee Li, Harvard University
Gender Studies Workshop – Acting the Part: Gender and Performance Onstage
Presented via Zoom WebinarRegistration RequiredRegister at: https://harvard.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_LZDsfUQ1Rwm2YW8IYxGS-A Gender as a form of performance is nowhere more clearly articulated than on the theater stage (and in opera-based films). On stage, the […]
Fairbank Center Panel Discussion – Transnational Aging in the Chinese Diaspora
https://youtu.be/6RwE94ZhjFo https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/transnational-aging-in-the-chinese-diaspora Panel Participants:Sara L. Friedman, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana UniversityRussell King, Professor of Geography, University of SussexSarah Lamb, Barbara Mandel Professor of Humanistic Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology, Brandeis UniversityAndrea Louie, Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State UniversityNicole Newendorp, Associate Director and Lecturer, Social Studies, Harvard UniversityKen Chih-Yan Sun, Assistant […]
Gender Studies Workshop: Gender, Family, and Law
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Bettine Birge, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern CaliforniaYing Zhang, Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Chinese Studies, The Ohio State UniversityMara Yue Du, Assistant Professor and Himan Brown Faculty Fellow, Cornell UniveristyXiaoping Cong, Professor of History, University of HoustonModerator:Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History […]