Date : 2024-02-04

Time : 2024-02-04

Venue : LT2, UG/F, Sino Building

All the seminars will be conducted in English and be held from 12:30pm to 2:00pm in-person at LT2, UG/F, Sino Building, unless specified

February 7

How Did East Asia Overtake South Asia on Gender?

Speaker: Dr. Alice EVANS (Senior Lecturer, Department of International Development,

School of Global Affairs, Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, King's College London)

Moderator: Prof. Susanne Yuk-ping CHOI (Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Co-Director, Gender Research Centre, CUHK)

February 21

Gender Inequality in Academia: Career Development and Promotion Timelines in a University in Hong Kong

Speaker: Prof. Sara Hua ZHONG (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Moderator: Prof. Haijing DAI (Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

February 28

When Digital Platforms Become Migrant Destinations: A Case Study of Rural Women’s Creative Entrepreneurship in the Digital China

Speaker: Ms. Danchen LIU (MPhil. Student, Gender Studies Programme and Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Moderator: Prof. Ling HAN (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

March 6

Urban and Rural Context of Gender Inequality and Adolescent Dating Violence in China: Tilting Toward a Feminist Poststructural Perspective

Speaker: Prof. Nicole Wai-ting CHEUNG (Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Moderator: Prof. Jing SONG (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

March 13 (Zoom)

Complicating the Migrant Maternal Imaginary: Valuation and Parenting Experiences of College-Educated Chinese Stay-at-Home Mothers in Singapore

Speaker: Prof. Zheng MU (Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The National University of Singapore)

Moderator: Prof. Jing SONG (Associate Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

March 27

Scripting Everyday Technologies in Intimacy: Gendered Media Practice in Transnational Eldercare

Speaker: Ms. Jeanny Jiying HUANG (MPhil. Student, Gender Studies Programme and Department of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Moderator: Prof. Ling HAN (Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

April 3

Mini-Conference of UG/MA Theses in Gender Studies