Date: 10 June 2019
Time: 2:30pm – 4:30pm
Venue: G24, Fung King Hey Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Speaker: Prof. Harriet Evans (University of Westminster, London School of Economics)
Discussant: Prof. Pang Laikwan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
About the Speaker
Harriet EVANS is Professor Emerita of Chinese Cultural Studies (University of Westminster) and Visiting Professor of Anthropology (London School of Economics). She has written extensively on the politics of gender and sexuality in China, and on political posters and visual culture of the Mao era. Her Beijing from Below: Stories of Marginal Lives in the Capital’s Center, will be published by Duke University Press. She is Chair of Trustees of the London-based The Rights Practice and is a keen advocate of initiatives to bring academics and activists together to use their collective influence to promote gender and sexual rights in China and elsewhere.
Conducted in English. All are welcome.
Enquiry: cuccs@cuhk.edu.hk
Please register by 8 June 2019: https://forms.gle/ponVaRcaTMd7X9P98
Organized by the Centre for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies