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03/07/2025 10:00:00

Friday March 7, 2025 
10:00am - 4:30pm

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The Department of Women and Gender Studies at the 91¸£ÀûÉç is hosting a one-day colloquium on feminist perspectives on Global China as part of our Department's 50th Anniversary celebration. 

The rise of China as a new global economic and political force has spurred the rapid growth of the field of Global China studies. Yet, research focused on gender and sexuality remains quite limited. This colloquium is a rare event that brings together an international group of scholars to help foster more robust feminist perspectives on Global China. Special attention will be paid to the implications of China’s engagement with the Global South, especially Africa and South Asia.

Panelists include: 

Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA
Marie Berry, University of Denver
Yoon Jung Park, Georgetown
Mingwei Huang, Dartmouth
Sisasenkosi Mataruse, University of Zimbabwe
Prolific Mataruse, University of Zimbabwe
Vivian Lu, Rice
Ivy Gikonyo, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Charlotte Goodburn, King’s College London
Soumya Mishra, King’s College London
Matthew Chin, University of Virginia
Yiping Cai, UC Irvine
Eram Ashraf, Swansea University, UK
Xinlea Sha, Cornell
Justin Haruyama, University of British Colombia
Xianan Jin, University of Exeter, UK
Colloquium organizer: Robert Wyrod, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies Department and International Affairs Program, 91¸£ÀûÉç

Detailed Colloquium Schedule, Friday March 7, 2025

10am
Welcome

10:15am
Panel 1: Framing Global China Research and Researchers

• Searching for China in Afro-Sino Gender and Sexual Relations
  • Robert Wyrod, 91¸£ÀûÉç
• Feminist/Queer Reorientations of China-Africa Studies
  • Mingwei Huang, Dartmouth College
• Enfiguring Afro-Asian Capital and the Body Geopolitic
  • Vivian Lu, Rice University
• Gender and Chinese Investors Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa: Perspectives from the ‘Weaving the Future’ - Community Moms Empowerment Project in Zimbabwe
  • Sisasenkosi Mataruse and Prolific S. Mataruse, University of Zimbabwe
• Becoming Postcolonial: Situated Knowledge Yet beyond Borders
  • Xianan Jin, University of Exeter, UK
• Discussant: Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA

12pm, noon
Lunch break, refreshments provided

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Panel 2: Intimacies of Global China

• When Factory Comes to the Field: How Do Chinese Investments Change Local Women’s Lives?
  • Soumya Mishra, King’s College London, UK
• Chinese Workers, African Women, and Abandoned Children: The Gendered Impact of Chinese Labour Practices in Africa
  • Ivy Gikonyo, University of Pretoria, South Africa
• The Dependence of Capital on Women’s Affective and Reproductive Labor in China-Africa Relations
  • Justin Lee Haruyama, University of British Columbia, CA
• Cultural Politics of Blame: HIV/AIDS Rumors, Race, and Gender
  • Xinlei Sha, Cornell University
• Discussant: Marie Berry, University of Denver

2:30pm
Coffee break

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Panel 3: Perspectives from South Asia, the Caribbean, and Beyond

• Co-Producing Southern Feminist Knowledge on Global China
  • Yiping Cai, University of California, Irvine
• Disciplining Production and Reproduction in Special Economic Zones beyond China: Rural Migrant Women and Dormitory Labour Regimes in India and Uganda
  • Charlotte Goodburn, King’s College London, UK
• Gender and China's Belt and Road Initiative in Pakistan
  • Eram Ashraf, Swansea University, UK
• Intimacies of Travel: Afro-Asian Relations in Post-Independence Jamaica
  • Matthew Chin, University of Virginia
• Discussant: Yoon Jung Park, Georgetown University

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Closing Remarks