Wednesday Gender SeminarCo-presented by Gender Studies Programme & Gender Research Centre, The Chinese University of Hong KongEnvisioning the City: Arts-based Research with Domestic Workers, Asylum-Seekers and Ethnic MinoritiesDate: 28 Oct 2020 (Wed)Time: 12:30 - 2:00pmVenue: Online Zoom Seminar (Link to Zoom webinar will be sent to you after registration)Speakers: Prof. Julie HAM (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong University), Ms. Merina SUNUWAR (Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, Hong Kong University)Moderator: Prof. WONG Wang Ivy (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/webform/view.php?id=10901924Language: EnglishAbstract: This seminar explores the use of affective frameworks in analyzing two arts-based projects with domestic workers, asylum-seekers and ethnic minorities. First, we discuss the role of emotion in analysing relational rhythms in Visualizing the Voices of Migrant Women Workers, a participatory video project involving over 40 domestic workers, asylum seekers and ethnic minority participants. Second, we consider the practice and presence of enchantment in the project Sustainable Sunday Couture: Domestic Workers Upcycling Fashion which featured upcycled gowns designed by Elpie Malicsi, a Filipino domestic worker based in Hong Kong. We analyse the use of transformation in catalyzing affective, intellectual, and ethical disruptions for public audiences and the new potentialities that may contribute to the respect and recognition of domestic workers’ creative contributions to the culture of Hong Kong. We conclude with a discussion of shifting participatory methodologies in the current global context.Speaker's Biography:Dr. Julie Ham is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong. Her research on gender, labour and migration has been published in Culture, Health & Sexuality; Emotion, Space and Society; Sociology; Theoretical Criminology; Critical Social Policy; Work, Employment and Society; Sexualities; British Journal of Criminology; Criminology and Criminal Justice; and Anti-Trafficking Review.Ms. Merina Sunuwar is a Nepalese Hong Konger. She holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences from the University of Hong Kong and is currently a Research Assistant in the Department of Sociology. Her work has been published in Emotion, Space and Society. She is interested in issues of gender and migration, and works with diverse groups of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong.