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CUHK Hosts Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2011Public is Welcome
The Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies, organized by the Gender Studies Programme of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and sponsored by the Lee Hysan Foundation, will be held for the third straight year. World renowned scholars have been invited to share their research experiences and these sharings result in a series of five lectures to be held between January and November. Topics include psychoanalysis, architecture and Turkey, photography and postcolonial cultural politics.
The first lecture of the series, ‘Incest Trauma under the Light of Psychoanalysis: Reality, Fantasy or Construction?’ by Dr. Peng Jen-yu, Gender Studies Scholar from Taiwan, will be held on 26 January. Dr. Peng will share insights about how the theme of incest has become a weapon to oppress the victims’ subjectivities. The remaining four lectures will be conducted by Prof. Meltem Ö. Gürel, Assistant Professor of Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Bilkent University, Turkey; Ms. Xing Danwen, an independent artist from Beijing and Prof. Trinh T. Minh-ha, Visiting Scholar of CUHK and Professor of Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Department of Rhetoric University of California, Berkeley, USA. Members of the public are welcome to register for the public lectures. Details are as follows:
| Venue: | Room 202, Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, 15 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, HK (Wan Chai MTR Exit A2) |
| Registration: | http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gender/publiclecture.htm |
| Enquiries: | (Email) genderstudiesPLS@cuhk.edu.hk; |
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(Tel) 2696 1026; (Fax) 2603 7223
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| Public Lecture 1: | Incest Trauma under the Light of Psychoanalysis: Reality, Fantasy or Construction? |
| Speaker: | Dr. Peng Jen-yu, Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica in Taiwan |
| Date: | 26 January 2011 (Wednesday) |
| Time: | 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. |
| Language: | Putonghua (Discussion in Putonghua and Cantonese) |
| Public Lecture 2: | Women and the Modern Domicile in Turkey in the Mid-20th Century |
| Speaker: | Prof. Meltem Ö. Gürel, Assistant Professor, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Bilkent University, Turkey |
| Date: | 27 April 2011 (Wednesday) |
| Time: | 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. |
| Language: | English (Discussion in English and Cantonese) |
| Public Lecture 3: | Dialogue with Xing Danwen: Relationships between Photography, Reality and Human Existence |
| Speaker: | Ms.Xing Danwen, Independent Artist from Beijing |
| Date: | 27 July 2011 (Wednesday) |
| Time: | 7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. |
| Language: | Putonghua (Discussion in Putonghua and Cantonese) |
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| Lectures by Visiting Scholar: | Walking with the Unmourned & The Politics of Forms and Forces |
| Speaker: | Prof. Trinh T. Minh-ha, Professor, Department of Gender and Women’s Studies and Department of Rhetoric University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| Date: | Oct/Nov 2011 (exact date to be announced) |
| Language: | English (Discussion in English and Cantonese) |
CUHK Public Lecture Series on Gender Studies 2011
Public Lecture 1: Incest Trauma under the Light of Psychoanalysis: Reality, Fantasy or Construction?
Dr. Peng Jen-yu
