| DATE: | Friday-Saturday, April 29-30, 2005 |
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| TIME: | Friday 2:15 - 8:30 p.m. Saturday 9:30 a.m. - 5:45 p.m. |
| PLACE: | Museum Theater, Berkeley Art Museum, 2621 Durant Avenue |
| FORMAT: | Conference |
| SPONSOR: | Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures, IEAS, Center for Chinese Studies, Comparative Literature, Consortium for the Arts, Women's Studies, International and Area Studies, Dean of Humanities, Townsend Center, Center for Race and Gender, Dean of Social Sciences, Institute for Tongzhi Studies |
Friday, April 29, 2005
2.15pm
Welcome: Judith Butler, UC Berkeley
2:30 - 3:45pm
Keynote: Josephine Ho, Center for the Study of Sexualities, Taiwan
"Queer Existence under Global Governance: A Taiwan Exemplar"
Yanhai Wan, AIZHIXING Institute of Health Education, Beijing
"AIZHI and New Gay and Lesbian Organizing in China"
Respondent: Lisa Rofel, UC Santa Cruz
4:00 - 5:45pm
Zien Cui, Beijing Film Academy
"The Communist International of Queer Film"
Nguyen Tan Hoang, UC Berkeley
"I Got this Way from Eating Rice: Gay Asian Documentary & the Re-Education of Desire"
Guo-Juin Hong, Duke University
"Memorandum on Happiness: Taiwan's Tongzhi Movement in Mickey Chen's Documentaries"
Dinner Break
7:00 - 8:30pm
Film Premieres:
"Women's 30 Minutes" (dir. Shi Tou, Beijing)
"Star Appeal" (dir. Zien Cui, Beijing)
Saturday, April 30, 2005
9:30 - 10:00am
Coffee and Refreshments
10:00 - 11:00am
JiaZhen Ni, Gender/Sexuality Rights Association Taiwan (G/SRAT)
"AIDS prevention and sexual stigma"
Xiaopei He, University of Westminster, UK
"New AIDS activism in China"
Break/Film
"K.I.P." and "The Calling" (dir. Nguyen Tan Hoang, USA)
11:30 - 12:30pm
Ping Wang & Yu-Rong Chen, G/SRAT, Taiwan
"The Three Obstacles to Queer Rights"
Chung To, Chi Heng Foundation, Hong Kong
"Activism and the Internet"
Institute for Tongzhi Studies and Community outreach (open mic)
Lunch Break
2:00 - 3:15pm
Shi Tou, artist, activist, Beijing
"Tongzhi Public Space"
Respondent: Tze-lan D. Sang, University of Oregon
Karen Tongson, University of Southern California & Lynne Chan aka JJ Chinois, artist, NY
"A Conversation"
Break/Film
"Pirated!" and "Forever Bottom!" (dir. Nguyen Tan Hoang, USA)
3:45 - 4:45pm
Naifei Ding, National Central University, Taiwan
"Imagining Sex: Concubinage, the 'New Woman,' and Universal Chastity"
David Eng, Rutgers University
"Freud in China"
5:00 - 5:45pm
Roundtable
An exhibition of selected works of the Beijing artist Shi Tou will be open to the pubic throughout the weekend within the Berkeley Art Museum (adjacent to the Museum Theater).
Organizers: Roy Chan, Tamara Chin, Virginia Eleasar, Petrus Liu
