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PGSF7 Schedule
(Subject to change)

 

Venue: Exhibition Zones, 1/F, An Integrated Teaching (AIT) Building, School of Architecture, CUHK

 

Day 1: Friday, 23 January 2015

 

Time Zone F Zone B
09:30-10:00 Registration
10:00-10:30 Welcoming Ceremony
10:30-12:10

Panel 1:Gender Politics and Sexuality
Chair:Dr. Maria TAM
(Department of Anthropology, CUHK)

Discussant: Dr. Lynne NAKANO (Department of Japanese Studies, CUHK)

Panel 2: Creativity and Bodily Performance
Chair: Dr. Sidney CHEUNG
(Department of Anthropology, CUHK)
Discussant: Dr. Paul O’CONNOR

(Department of Anthropology, CUHK)
 

GARCIA RODRIGUEZ Diego , Lund University

Queering Indonesian Islam: The Development of Progressive Islam and The Negotiation of LGBT and Muslim Identities in Java

GRIGORE Irina, The University of Tokyo

Becoming bodies: absorbing a traditional dance in northern Japan
 

MAI Yee Yan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Gendered Power Dynamics of the Dai-Lue Ethnic Minority from Religious Context to Domestic Sphere

IDETA Keiji, The University of Tokyo

Practice in-between “Image” and “Body”: from a practice of classical ballet company in Thailand
 

TANG Ling, Hong Kong Baptist University

Gendered guanxi in Urban China: Unmarried Women in Market-driven Enterprise 

Hayley McLAREN, Hitotsubashi University

Japanese tattooing in the public sphere: An emergent redistributed actor
   

Edi RIYANTO, Monash University

Jogja Hip Hop Foundation And The Politics Of Yogyakarta Kraton 
   

John Michael SKUTLIN, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Modified Bodies: Body Modification as Identity and Performance in Tokyo’s Goth Clubs 
12:30-13:55 Lunch
14:00-15:25

Panel 3: Border Crossing and Transnational Contact
Chair: Dr. CHEN Ju-chen
(Department of Anthropology, CUHK)

Discussant: Dr. WU Ka Ming (Department of Cultural Studies, CUHK)

Panel 4: Health, Illness and Healing
Chair. Dr. Teresa KUAN
(Department of Anthropology, CUHK)
Discussant: Dr. TIAN Xiaoli

(Department of Sociology, HKU)
 

CHAN Carol, University of Pittsburgh

Some Non-Migrants are Failed Migrants Too: Stories of Staying or Being “Left Behind” in Central Java, Indonesia

Venera KAHLIKOVA, University of Pittsburgh

The Medicinal Plants Discourse: Seeking and Selling Health in the Indian Himalayas
 

Tom LETTICE, University of Oxford

An Investigation into Discrimination Against Zainichi Koreans in Japan Applying for Part-time Jobs

XIA Bing, Renmin University of China

Subjective Construction of Yuezibing: Illness Narratives of Two Elderly Women Who Once Lived in China’s Collective Past
 

QAKEN Janargul, Peking University

The Oral History Research about the Eastward Migration of Kazakh People in Xinjinag Barkol 

ZHENG Fei, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Social Construction and Social Uses of Depression in China
 

Annemarelle VAN SCHAYIK, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Undesired Mainland Chinese Students in Hong Kong

RAO Yichen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Coming of Age with Internet Addiction in China - An Anthropological Study of Institutional Encounter and Subject Formation
15:30-15:55 Tea Break
16:00-17:40

Panel 5: Risk, Morality and Modernity
Chair: Dr. Joseph BOSCO
(Department of Anthropology, CUHK)
Discussant: Dr. Gonçalo SANTOS

(Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, HKU)

Panel 6: Emerging Field Practices and Innovative Theories
Chair: Dr. Danning WANG
(Department of Anthropology, CUHK)
Discussant: Dr. QIU Jack Linchuan

(School of Journalism and Communication, CUHK)
 

Cody SACHA, Australian National University

Exemplary Agriculture: food safety risk, public morality, and organic farming in contemporary China. 

Gabriele DE SETA, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

The Digital Folklorist: Reflections on an ethnography of vernacular media objects on the Chinese Internet 
 

Adam LIEBMAN, University of California, Davis

Competing Conceptions of the Environment: Understanding the Negative Treatment of Waste-Product Recyclers in Kunming, China

LIAO Ming Chung, National Taiwan University

Marx’s Coat and the WOW’s equipment 
 

PAN Jie, Hong Kong University

Food Business and Food Ethics - A Case study from the perspective of Economic Anthropology 

XU Lufeng, China University of Political Science and Law

Lotus Village: Rumor, Memory and the Birth of a Modern Temple——An Experimental Fieldwork in Chinese Rural Society 
 

SONG Hanyu, Nanjing University

Educated but Anxious: CSA Participants in Chengdu, China
ZHONG Yuling, Sun Yat-sen University Human Body Sensory in Digital Mobile Society
 

ZHANG Xiajie, East China Normal University

The Power as Knowledge in Safety Standard of Milk 
 
18:00 Dinner at Da Pai Dong in Fo Tan

 

Day 2: Saturday, 24 January 2015

 

Time Zone F Zone B
9:00-10:40 Panel 7: Politics of History and Space
Chair: Dr. Sharon WONG
(Department of Anthropology, CUHK)
Discussant: Dr. Joseph BOSCO (Department of Anthropology, CUHK)
Panel 8: Domination and its Remedies
Chair: Dr. CHENG Sealing
(Department of Anthropology, CUHK)
Discussant: Dr. ZHU Xiaoyang (Department of Sociology, Peking University)
  Abdul Haque CHANG, University of Texas at Austin 
The Indus Delta: Rethinking the Raison D’etre of the Last Frontier 
HONG Danielle, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)
Politics of Labour: The Road to Legal Reparation For Bangladeshi Construction Workers In Singapore 
  Hope Reidun ST. JOHN, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Urban (R)evolutions: Museums, Spectacle, and Development in Reform Era China
MIURA Junko, University of Tokyo
The Loss of Freedom to Move Identification of Protracted Refugees in Thailand 
  TAO Anli, East China Normal University
The Rebirth of Yu-Huang Pavilion: An Unorthodox Taoism in Multi-Ethnic Area 
Dylan Eugene SOUTHARD, Osaka University
Collaboration or Appropriation? Development Monks and State Localism in Northeast Thailand 
  WANG Wenjing, University of Pittsburgh
Degrees and Kinds of Inequality: A comparative study between two early complex societies in Neolithic China
WANG Chunyu, National Taiwan University
The Anti Petroleum Complex Movement in Pengerang, Malaysia 
    SUMONMARN Singha, Mahidol University
Becoming a Rescuer: social specific habitus and social networking in Thai political violence
10:40-11:00 Tea Break
11:00-12:40 Panel 9: Meanings of Life and Identity in the Global Age
Chair: Dr. Veronica MAK
(Department of Anthropology, CUHK)
Discussant: Dr. CHEE Wai-chi (Hong Kong Studies, HKU)
Panel 10: Agrarian Change and Foodscapes
Chair: Dr. HUANG Yu
(Department of Anthropology, CUHK)
Discussant: Dr. CHAN Yuk Wah (Department of Asian and International Studies, CityU)
  HUANG Shan, University of South Carolina
Independence At Large: Contemporary China’s Wenyi Youth and Their Cultural Practices
Brendan A. GALIPEAU, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Tibetan Conspicuous Production in Northwest Yunnan, China
  Fabio LEE PEREZTohoku University
Life Stories of Culture-trotters: Anthropology of Cosmopolitan Individual 
KAO Min-ya, National Taiwan University
The "Local knowledge" of Cultivation: Exploring the Production of Tree-cultivated Shiitake in a Taiwanese Village 
  YANG Yang, Sun Yat-sen University
Youth transmigrants through AIESEC GIP in Guangdong: How they flow, what they experience and what make the experience happen
PHAM Yamoi, Binghamon University
Capturing without catching: Edible-nest swiftlet ranchers, regulators and scientists in Malaysia 
  ZHAO Jiaqi, Sun Yat-sen University
Zen, Mind, and Life: The Experience and Self-identity of Young Groups of Zen Meditation in China
LI Pin-yi, National Taiwan University
Encountering Turkey: A Local Anthropological Writing of Turkey Eating Culture in Taiwan
  KWONG Miu Ying, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Death is not the End: Senses of Symbolic Immortality in Guangdong China 
YOSHIMURA Ryu, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Cooperatives and Immigrants: Expandability and Function of Agricultural Cooperatives brought by Japanese Immigrants in Brazil
12:45-13:00 Closing Ceremony
13:15-14:15 Lunch
14:30-evening Field Trip in Wan Chai