活動

#國際會議

Organized by Institute for Women’s Studies, Keimyung University
Co-organized by Women’s Studies Center, Peking University
and GRC & GSP, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
8-9 December 2016, Keimyung University, Daegu, The Republic of Korea

About the conference:
This conference on “The Future of Feminist Politics in the Age of Globalization” aims for the fundamental reorientation of feminist politics in the context of East Asian women’s experiences. Though China and Korea have gone through different historical paths in political and economic development processes, women in both countries share increasingly common interests and problems largely due to the rapid economic developments in this region that may be characterized as globalization and neoliberalism. Though gender equality is now firmly accepted as part and parcel of natural human rights especially among highly educated young women whose number is rapidly increasing, rapid economic developments and accompanying social changes are transforming social and cultural terrains for feminist politics in this region drastically. The characters of these transformations that have been also going on in most of western developed countries require reexamination of the previous feminist political strategies based on identity politics that have been so effective in securing gender equality. In this conference, feminist scholars from four countries will discuss the future directions of feminist politics based on this reexamination, focusing on Eastern Asian women’s experiences.

Conference Language: Chinese, English, and Korean