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” “Dynamic Fantasy on Place: Women’s Body in The Construction of Yangzhou City Identity from High Qing to Republican Era” “The Virtuous (and Un-Virtuous) Womb” “Female Hysteria in Modern China: Wandering Womb or Rampaging Piglet” |
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.” “Can Xue on the Couch: Psychiatric Criticism and the Medical Gaze” “Interrogating Disease, Technology, and Gender in Chinese Science Fiction: Feminist Biopolitics in Tang Fei’s ‘Addiction’ and ‘Waste Material’” “Queering the Posthuman: Disease, Identity, and Love in Chi Ta-Wei’s The Membranes” |
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” “Desire, Dis-ease, and Disordered Gazes during the COVID Lockdown: Female Spectatorship of Farewell My Concubine” “Gender and Artistic Practices in Post-Mao China” |
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