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QUEERING EAST ASIA IN THE UK: A POSTGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM
CENTRE FOR WOMEN’S STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF YORK
This one-day colloquium is held for East-Asian postgraduate students,
researchers and others in the UK. We invite those who are interested in
gender and queer-related topics inside this geo-political region of East
Asia-- Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong-- and who currently study,
work or live in the UK. In addition to create a space for people interested
in LGBTQ issues in the East Asia region to come together and exchange
ideas, we also want to hold a session at the end of the day in order to
start a support network for one another. The colloquium is on November 26th
(Saturday), to be held at King’s Manor College in central York.
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Song Hwee Lim, Department of East Asian Studies,
University of Leeds: "Que(e)rying East Asia: Practice, Position, Politics"
The proposed topics for the day are (but certainly not limited to):
 * Discussion Panels- any themes related to gender and LGBTQ
studies in East Asian contexts * Workshops or open discussions on various
issues related to academic work, for example, the dis/empowerment of
western LGBTQ discourse in the East-Asian contexts, difficulties in
translations or translatability of East-Asian cultures, societies and other
specifics etc. * Presentation of Postgraduate students’ work-in-progress *
Sharing of ideas, perspectives and studying resources, intellectual tips
and suggestions to help address existing problems or difficulties
Please feel very free to contact Terri He ([log in to unmask]) or Yi-han
Wang ([log in to unmask]) to find out more about the conference as well as
discuss ideas for proposed panels/papers/sessions for the day. Deadline for
proposal & registration: 28 Oct. 2005
For registration, please go to <http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~tch500/> to
download the form.
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