Fwd: CONF Visualising Gender in East Asia, Uni of Newcastle, 24-04-2009

[Aaron Gerow]

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> Visualising Gender in East Asia, Symposium at University of Newcastle
> April 24, 2009
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> From: Andrea Germer <Andrea.Germer at newcastle.ac.uk>
>
> Inaugural Symposium
> of the East Asian Studies Section
> School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University
>
> "Visualising Gender in East Asia"
>
> Date: Friday 24 April 2009, 11am-17:30pm.
> Venue: Research Beehive, Old Library Building, Newcastle University  
> Organized by Andrea Germer and Sabrina Yu
>
> Visual media have come to play an increasingly important role in  
> constructing and transmitting meanings and ideologies of gender  
> differences, gender roles, sexualities and ethnicised images of  
> gender, while they also call all these categories into question.   
> Gender in East Asia abounds with a multitude and distinctiveness of  
> visual representations. Whether in the images of geisha, foot  
> binding, the samurai or the cinematographic performances of martial  
> arts, gendered visual representations have historically served as  
> Western means to orientalise East Asian cultures. These and other  
> icons have, however, also been produced in local media of East  
> Asian countries in ways that challenge, deconstruct or re-confirm  
> imaginations of gender and sexuality in East Asia. These self- 
> definitions of gender identities have been further complicated by  
> processes of transnationalisation of East Asian visual cultures  
> because globalising media are producing images for both national  
> and transnational audiences. How do we interpret visual images of  
> East Asian men and women from the past and the present, and how can  
> we facilitate dialogues between Eastern and Western notions of  
> gender and sexuality?
>
> Focusing on a range of visual forms in China and Japan including  
> cinema, television, internet, fashion and photography, this  
> symposium provides a forum for discussing the interactions of  
> gender, visuality and ethnicity. It brings together scholars from  
> film studies, history, Japanese and Chinese Studies to explore the  
> political, social and cultural implications of visualizing gender  
> in East Asia.
>
>
> Programme
> 10:45 - 11:00am Tea and coffee
> 11:00 - 11:15am Opening (Elizabeth Anderson, Head of School)
> 11:15 - 11:30am Introduction (Andrea Germer and Sabrina Yu)
> 11: 30 - 12:50pm
> Andrea Germer (Newcastle), Gendering Visual Propaganda in Wartime  
> Japan
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> Valerie Pellatt (Newcastle), Fashioning Gender: Changing Clothes in  
> 20th Century China
>
> 1 - 2 pm Lunch
>
> 2 - 3: 20pm
> Dolores Martinez (SOAS), Mommy Dearest: Gender in the Japanese  
> Horror Film and its Remakes
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> Griseldis Kirsch (SOAS), Inversion of Gender Roles in Japanese TV  
> Dramas? The Case of Densha no Otoko
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> 3:20 - 3:50pm  Tea and coffee
>
> 3:50 - 5:10pm
> Julian Stringer (Nottingham), Leslie Cheung: Star as Autosexual
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> Sabrina Yu (Newcastle), The Power of Unseen Sex: Internet  
> Reinvention of Lust, Caution (2008)
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> 5:10 - 5:30pm Closing roundtable
>
> Attendance is free, but please register at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ 
> niassh/EastAsia/questionnaire.htm
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> Dr. Andrea Germer
> Lecturer in Japanese Studies
> Year Abroad Officer Japan
> Acting Head of East Asian Studies
> School of Modern Languages
> Old Library Building
> Newcastle University
> Newcastle upon Tyne
> NE1  7RU         UK
> email: andrea.germer at ncl.ac.uk
> Tel: (++44)(0)191 222 7524