Date: 14 November 2025 (Friday)
Time: 2:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Venue: SWH 1 (G/F), Fung King Hey Building, CUHK
Register by 11 November 2025: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=3806239
Amid the current global wave of anti-feminism, this symposium brings together postgraduate researchers and scholars to explore digital feminist practices, gender politics, and queer activisms in Asia.
The symposium opens with a keynote lecture by Prof. Feng-Mei Heberer (Department of Cinema Studies, New York University) titled Against On-Demandness and Objective Neutrality: Feminist Media from the Asian Diaspora. Prof. Heberer will discuss how feminist media practices from the Asian diaspora challenge the notion of on-demandness and intervene in discourses of digitality and racialization.
Two thematic panels will follow:
Panel 1: Platform Governance and Feminist Activisms
Discussant: Prof. Ling Han (Gender Studies Programme, CUHK)
Presentations by Maari Sugawara (City University of Hong Kong), Sugyeong Son (Seoul National University), Chengsi Wang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), and Roland Cheng (University of Toronto & University of Hong Kong).
Panel 2: Anti-Gender Politics and Queer Feminisms
Discussant: Prof. Lucetta Kam (Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Presentations by Jamie W.T. Tse, Cecilia Ka Hei Wong (both from CUHK), Radhika Vang Jensen (Hong Kong Baptist University), and Dayu Ajeng Anggrahita (Universitas Gadjah Mada).
Join us for an afternoon of critical dialogue on digital feminisms and the future of feminist and queer scholarship across Asia.
Co-Organisers:
Research Institute for the Humanities and Centre for Cultural Studies, CUHK
For enquiries:
Cecilia Ka Hei Wong (Symposium Convenor) – ceciliawongkh@link.cuhk.edu.hk
Issac Li (Symposium Coordinator) – issacli@cuhk.edu.hk