GAS International Symposium “Dis-ease: Women and (Dis)order in China”

We cordially invite you to International Symposium on July 28 (Mon), 2025. This event is held only in person. Please register using the form below.

 

Date and time: July 28 (Mon), 2025, 10:00-16:50 (JST)

 

Venue: Main Conference Room, 3th Floor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, UTokyo

 

Title: Dis-ease: Women and (Dis)order in China

 

Registration: https://forms.gle/3HEGEoTaA6HvGGPHA

 

Language: English

 

Program: 

10:00-10:20 Symposium Overview
Shu Yang, Associate Professor, Western Michigan University
10:20 -11:50 Panel 1: Bad Body

“The Question of Deaf Women: Interpreting Modern Chinese Deaf History from the Gender Perspective”
Shu Wan, University at Buffalo, PhD Student

“Dynamic Fantasy on Place: Women’s Body in The Construction of Yangzhou City Identity from High Qing to Republican Era”
Jingwen Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles, MA Student

“The Virtuous (and Un-Virtuous) Womb”
Janice Kam, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Senior Lecturer

“Female Hysteria in Modern China: Wandering Womb or Rampaging Piglet”
Shu Yang, Western Michigan University, Associate Professor

  Open Forum
11:50 -13:20 Lunch Break
13:20 -14:50 Panel 2: Mad Medicine

“Curing the Subaltern Female: Translingual Practice of Medicine in Mary H. Fulton’s Inasmuch: Extracts from Letters, Journals, Papers, etc.”
Yun Zhu, Temple University (Philadelphia), Associate Professor

“Can Xue on the Couch: Psychiatric Criticism and the Medical Gaze”
Shannon Gilbert, University of Cambridge, PhD Student

“Interrogating Disease, Technology, and Gender in Chinese Science Fiction: Feminist Biopolitics in Tang Fei’s ‘Addiction’ and ‘Waste Material’”
Xi Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Associate Professor

“Queering the Posthuman: Disease, Identity, and Love in Chi Ta-Wei’s The Membranes”
Xuying Yu, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Associate Professor

  Open Forum
14:50 – 15:10 Snacks
15:10 -16:40 Panel 3: Erratic Emotion

“Pathologies of Exit: Madness, Illness, and the Gendered Politics of Withdrawal in Wartime Shanghai”
Yuhan Zhang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, PhD Student

“Desire, Dis-ease, and Disordered Gazes during the COVID Lockdown: Female Spectatorship of Farewell My Concubine”
Wei Guo, University of Göttingen, MA Student

“Gender and Artistic Practices in Post-Mao China”
Jia Li, University of Tokyo, PhD Student

  Open Forum
16:40 – 16:50 Closing Remarks
Yuki Tanaka, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo

Organizers: Shu Yang (GAS Affiliate and Associate Professor at Western Michigan University), Yuki Tanaka and GAS Initiative at IASA

Contact: yuki@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp