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03/07/2025 10:00:00

Friday March 7, 2025 
10:00am - 4:30pm

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The Department of Women and Gender Studies at the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder is hosting a one-day colloquium on feminist perspectives on Global China as part of our Department's 50th Anniversary celebration. 

The rise of China as a new global economic and political force has spurred the rapid growth of the field of Global China studies. Yet, research focused on gender and sexuality remains quite limited. This colloquium is a rare event that brings together an international group of scholars to help foster more robust feminist perspectives on Global China. Special attention will be paid to the implications of China’s engagement with the Global South, especially Africa and South Asia.

Panelists include: 

Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA
Marie Berry, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Denver
Yoon Jung Park, Georgetown
Mingwei Huang, Dartmouth
Sisasenkosi Mataruse, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Zimbabwe
Prolific Mataruse, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Zimbabwe
Vivian Lu, Rice
Ivy Gikonyo, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Pretoria, South Africa
Charlotte Goodburn, King’s College London
Soumya Mishra, King’s College London
Matthew Chin, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Virginia
Yiping Cai, UC Irvine
Eram Ashraf, Swansea ³Ô¹ÏÍø, UK
Xinlei Sha, Cornell
Justin Haruyama, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of British Colombia
Xianan Jin, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Exeter, UK
Colloquium organizer: Robert Wyrod, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies Department and International Affairs Program, CU Boulder

Detailed Colloquium Schedule, Friday March 7, 2025

10am
Welcome

10:15am
Panel 1: Framing Global China Research and Researchers

• Searching for China in Afro-Sino Gender and Sexual Relations
  • Robert Wyrod, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Colorado Boulder
• Feminist/Queer Reorientations of China-Africa Studies
  • Mingwei Huang, Dartmouth College
• Enfiguring Afro-Asian Capital and the Body Geopolitic
  • Vivian Lu, Rice ³Ô¹ÏÍø
• Gender and Chinese Investors Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa: Perspectives from the ‘Weaving the Future’ - Community Moms Empowerment Project in Zimbabwe
  • Sisasenkosi Mataruse and Prolific S. Mataruse, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Zimbabwe
• Becoming Postcolonial: Situated Knowledge Yet beyond Borders
  • Xianan Jin, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Exeter, UK
• Discussant: Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA

12pm, noon
Lunch break, refreshments provided

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Panel 2: Intimacies of Global China

• When Factory Comes to the Field: How Do Chinese Investments Change Local Women’s Lives?
  • Soumya Mishra, King’s College London, UK
• Chinese Workers, African Women, and Abandoned Children: The Gendered Impact of Chinese Labour Practices in Africa
  • Ivy Gikonyo, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Pretoria, South Africa
• The Dependence of Capital on Women’s Affective and Reproductive Labor in China-Africa Relations
  • Justin Lee Haruyama, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of British Columbia, CA
• Cultural Politics of Blame: HIV/AIDS Rumors, Race, and Gender
  • Xinlei Sha, Cornell ³Ô¹ÏÍø
• Discussant: Marie Berry, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Denver

2:30pm
Coffee break

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Panel 3: Perspectives from South Asia, the Caribbean, and Beyond

• Co-Producing Southern Feminist Knowledge on Global China
  • Yiping Cai, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of California, Irvine
• Disciplining Production and Reproduction in Special Economic Zones beyond China: Rural Migrant Women and Dormitory Labour Regimes in India and Uganda
  • Charlotte Goodburn, King’s College London, UK
• Gender and China's Belt and Road Initiative in Pakistan
  • Eram Ashraf, Swansea ³Ô¹ÏÍø, UK
• Intimacies of Travel: Afro-Asian Relations in Post-Independence Jamaica
  • Matthew Chin, ³Ô¹ÏÍø of Virginia
• Discussant: Yoon Jung Park, Georgetown ³Ô¹ÏÍø

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Closing Remarks