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November 6, 2025
【GAS Event】International Symposium "Dis-ease: Women and (Dis)order in China" (July 28, 2025)
From: Global Asian Studies (GAS) <gas@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Date: 2025/07/03
Dear members of SSJ-Forum,
We cordially invite you to GAS International Symposium on July 28 (Mon), 2025. This event will be held only in person and please register the form below.
International Symposium "Dis-ease: Women and (Dis)order in China"
・ Date and Time: July 28 (Mon), 2025, 10:00-16:50 (JST)
・ Venue: Main Conference Room, 3th Floor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, UTokyo
・ Registration: https://forms.gle/3HEGEoTaA6HvGGPHA
・ Language: English
・ Program:
10:00-10:20 Symposium Overview
Shu Yang, Associate Professor, Western Michigan University
10:20 -11:50 Panel 1: Bad Body
"The Question of Deaf Women: Interpreting Modern Chinese Deaf History from the Gender Perspective"
Shu Wan, University at Buffalo, PhD Student
"Dynamic Fantasy on Place: Women's Body in The Construction of Yangzhou City Identity from High Qing to Republican Era"
Jingwen Zhang, University of California, Los Angeles, MA Student
"The Virtuous (and Un-Virtuous) Womb"
Janice Kam, Singapore University of Social Sciences, Senior Lecturer
"Female Hysteria in Modern China: Wandering Womb or Rampaging Piglet"
Shu Yang, Western Michigan University, Associate Professor
Open Forum
11:50 -13:20 Lunch Break
13:20 -14:50 Panel 2: Mad Medicine
"Curing the Subaltern Female: Translingual Practice of Medicine in Mary H. Fulton's Inasmuch: Extracts from Letters, Journals, Papers, etc."
Yun Zhu, Temple University (Philadelphia), Associate Professor
"Can Xue on the Couch: Psychiatric Criticism and the Medical Gaze"
Shannon Gilbert, University of Cambridge, PhD Student
"Interrogating Disease, Technology, and Gender in Chinese Science Fiction: Feminist Biopolitics in Tang Fei's 'Addiction' and 'Waste Material'"
Xi Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Associate Professor
"Queering the Posthuman: Disease, Identity, and Love in Chi Ta-Wei's The Membranes"
Xuying Yu, Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Associate Professor
Open Forum
14:50 - 15:10 Snacks
15:10 -16:40 Panel 3: Erratic Emotion
"Pathologies of Exit: Madness, Illness, and the Gendered Politics of Withdrawal in Wartime Shanghai"
Yuhan Zhang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, PhD Student
"Desire, Dis-ease, and Disordered Gazes during the COVID Lockdown: Female Spectatorship of Farewell My Concubine"
Wei Guo, University of Göttingen, MA Student
"Gender and Artistic Practices in Post-Mao China"
Jia Li, University of Tokyo, PhD Student
Open Forum
16:40 - 16:50 Closing Remarks
Yuki Tanaka, Associate Professor, University of Tokyo
Organizers: Shu Yang (GAS Affiliate and Associate Professor at Western Michigan University), Yuki Tanaka and GAS Initiative at Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
Contact: yuki@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Best Regards,
Global Asian Studies (GAS)
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (IASA) at the University of Tokyo
Approved by ssjmod at 02:10 PM