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2015.10.14
Gender and Intersectionality in Taiwan and Austria - Joint Seminar
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna



21/22 – 24 October 2015
Program (as of 30 June 2015)
 

Wednesday, 21 October 15

18.00

Pick-up at hotel lobby, Pension Excellence

Astrid Lipinsky

18.15 – 20.00

Vienna Taiwan Lecture:
Poetics of Geography: The Post-Chinese Visions in Taiwan Film
SIN1 AAKH Campus Spitalgasse 2 Court 2 Entrance 2.3


H
sien-hao Sebastian Liao, National Taiwan University

20.15

Dinner at the restaurant “Franz”,  Florianigasse 19, 1080 Wien, www.lokal-franz.at

Short walk to restaurant from lecture hall

Thursday, 22 October 15

09.10 Uhr

Pick-up at hotel Excellence lobby; walk to the University Main Building, Universitätsring 1

Astrid Lipinsky

09.30 – 10.30

Guided tour of the University main building

 

Conference location: Elise-Richter-Saal, University main building

10.30 – 11.00

Registration & coffee

 

11.00 – 11.15

Welcome, opening of the conference

Conference conveners:
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, University of Vienna
Jens Damm, Chang Jung Christian University

Chair: Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna

Prof. Matthias Meyer, Dean of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies, University of Vienna

11.15 – 13.00

Panel 1: Gender & Intersectionality in Taiwan and in Austria – an Overview

Chair:
Hsien-hao Sebastian Liao, National Taiwan University 

 

Gender and Women Studies in Taiwan: From “New Feminism” to Intersectionality

Jens Damm, Chang Jung Christian University

 

Understanding the “Nature” of Sex/Gender/Sexuality – Intersectionality as a Methodology for Feminist Theory in Austria

Waltraud Ernst, Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz

 

Feminist He Zhen in Japanese Exile and the Journal Tianyibao (1907 – 1909): Women's Research in the Context of Modern Chinese Intellectual History

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, University of Vienna

13.00 – 14.00

Lunch Break, Lunch Buffet onsite

 

14.00 – 16.00

Panel 2: Gender & Ethnicities Approaches Globally

Chair:
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, University of Vienna

 

New Ethnicities: Women’s Voice as Intersectionality

Fu Yu-Wen, National University of Kaohsiung

 

Literary Situatedness and Dislocation – Negotiations of Culture, Ethnicity and Gender in Texts of Seher Çakir and Semier Insayif

Anna Babka, University of Vienna

 

“Kim Sakko” and the Women of Her Generation: Tales of Korean Women in Postcolonial Taiwan

Yoshihisa Amae, Chang Jung Christian University

16.00 – 16.30

Coffee Break

 

16.30 – 18.15

Panel 3:  Intersectionality in Film

Chair:
Jiagu Richter, University of Vienna

 

Intersectionality as a Metaphoric Device in Filmic Representation of Past Victimization

Agnes Schick-Chen, University of Vienna

 

 

Women as Victims of the White Terror - An Analysis of Newly Published Research

Chuang Hui-Tun, Chang Jung Christian University, Tainan

 

Filming Literature: An Asian-Western Comparison of „Letter from an Unknown Woman“

Isabella Wolte, University of Vienna

18.15 – 19.00

Film: Max Ophüls, Letter from an Unknown Woman 1948. Location: Vienna, 86 min

 

19.00

Dinner sponsored by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office, Vienna, for conference speakers

Restaurant Corner 101, Josefstädter Strasse, Wien

 

Friday, 23 October 15

Conference location: Elise-Richter-Saal, University main building

 

 

 

10.00 – 12.30

Panel 4: Intersectionality in migration & marriage / transnational issues

Chair:
Adina Zemanek, Jagellonian University Krakow, Poland

 

Normalizing Female Masculinity, Reconfiguring Lesbian Visibility: The Rise of the Zhongxing Gender Performance and its Transnational Politics

Hu Yu-Ying, Kaohsiung Medical University

 

Formation and Mobilization of Taiwan’s Inter-Religious Movement Against Homosexual Marriage: Tensions Between Traditional Culture and Modern Taiwanese Society

Julia Ritirc, University of Vienna

 

Married Women’s Surname Practice and Family in the Nineteenth Century Taiwan

Yi Jolan, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

 

Transnational Love Stories in „Cape No 7“. An Intersectional View on the Confucian family

Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna

12.30 – 13.30

Lunch Break, onsite buffet

 

13.30 – 16.00

Panel 5: Cross-nationality(ies)

Chair:
Margarete Grandner

 

“Pseudo-ethnicity”, Gender and Class: Intersectionality and Labour Market Integration of T’albukmin and Chosǒnjok

Sabine Burghart, University of Vienna

 

Intersectionality of Gender, Ethnicity and Religion: Hakka Women in Banda Aceh, Indonesia and Indonesian Female Workers in Taiwan Compared

Tsai Fen-fang. National Central University, Taiwa

 

The Representation of Indigenous Women in Taiwan

Rosa Enn, University of Vienna

16.00 – 16.30

Coffee break

 

16.00 – 17.30

Film Screening: Xu Jinglei “Yi ge mo sheng nu ren de lai xin (2004)

 

18.00

Dinner at Gangl, http://www.gangl.at/

 

Saturday, 24 October 15

Conference Location: Department of East Asian Studies/ Sinology, AAKH Campus Spitalgasse 2 Court 2 Entrance 2.3, Room SIN 1

9.00 – 11.00

Panel 6: Modernity: From Sexuality and Intersectionality Perspectives

Chair:
Astrid Lipinsky, University of Vienna

 

The Development of “Gender Studies” in the Graduate Schools of Philosophy in Taiwan in Recent Twenty Years

Ho Pei-ying,  National Taiwan University for Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan

 

Living in an Intermediate Zone? When Transphobia meets Homophobia, Xenophobia and Sexism

Elisabeth Greif, Johannes-Kepler Universität Linz

 

Homosexuality and AIDS and the Contradictions of Traditional Taiwanese Society: An Oral History Approach

Linda Arrigo, Taiwan

11.00 – 11.30

Coffee Break

 

11.30 – 13.00

Round Table:
Book Publication, Introduction to the Vienna Taiwan Studies Series2016 Joint Seminar in Taiwan



Astrid Lipinsky

 

Closing Remarks

Jens Damm

 

End of Conference



Further Information:http://www.tsc-conference.univie.ac.at/program/preliminary-program/

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