Taiwan Lecture SeriesThinking with/as Feminists: An Introduction to Key Terms
- Tuesday, 18. June 2024, 13:00 Uhr
- Institut für Sinologie, Raum 010.01.05, Voßstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg
- Prof. Dr. Paola Zamperini, Northwestern University (USA), Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
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About Paola Zamperini
Paola Zamperini is Associate Professor in Chinese Literature and Culture, and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Northwestern University, Chicago (USA). She has written and published extensively about representations of prostitution, female suicide, fashion theory and history, pornography, and spiritual resonance, in Chinese literature and culture and beyond, including the sinophone worlds in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet and elsewhere, e.g. Lost Bodies. Prostitution and Masculinity in Chinese Fiction. She has recently completed her manuscript Sinopornologies. Writing Sex in Late Imperial Fiction and is currently working on a monograph on gambling and gender, and another on fashion and desire in early modern literature.
Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Taiwan Lecture Series'
This year’s “Taiwan Lecture Series” is devoted to questioning “Sinophone Authenticities” from cross-sectional perspectives. Approaching the topic “In Search for Home – Authenticity and Chineseness in Taiwan and the Sinophone World”, it will consist of four sections, and offer views from art, politics, literature and gender studies. It will begin with a section “Contesting Home – Artistic Renderings” with Taiwan Sound and Visual Artist FENG Chi-han (Taiwan/Hong Kong), a second section on “Post-Chineseness in Taiwan Politics” with SHIH Chih-yu (National Taiwan University), a third on “Travel Writing and Taiwan Identities” with LIN Shu-hui (National Taiwan Normal University), and a last section on “Homing Feminism in the Sinophone World” with Paola ZAMPERINI (Northwestern University).