Shu-chen Chiang, Associate Professor
of Foreign Languages and Literatures at National Chiao Tung University
(交大外文系), obtained her Ph.D. in Comparative
Literature from the University of Rochester in 1995. Her research interests
include Modern Chinese Literature, Southeast Asian Literature in English
and Australian Literature & Film.
Haejoang Cho, a Cultural Anthropologist by training
and a feminist in standpoint, is a full professor at the Department of
Sociology, Yonsei University, Seoul. Cho received her B.A. in history from
Yonsei University and PhD in cultural anthropology from the University
of California, Los Angeles. Her earlier research focused upon gender studies
with a special interest in modern Korean history. Cho's PhD dissertation
examined the division of labor between men and women in a diver's community
on Cheju Island, Korea. Her current work focuses on cultural studies in
the global/local and post-colonial context. Youth, gender, class, education,
nationalism, consumer culture, late capitalist society and popular culture
are the diverse, related topics of her current research. Cho's major publications
include 'Women and Men in South Korea' (1988), 'Reading Texts, Reading
Lives in the Post-Colonial Era 1,2,3' (1992, 1994, 1994), 'Children Refusing
School, Society Refusing Children' (1996), and 'Introspective Modernity
and Feminism' (1998). Cho is also a founding member of the feminist social
activist group Alternative Culture (Ttohana ui Munwha). Cho practically
implements her research interest in youth issues in Korean society with
her directorships of the Yonsei University based Center for Youth and Cultural
Studies, and at the new Youth Factory for New Culture in Seoul.
J. Neil C. Garcia teaches creative writing
and literature at the University of the Philippines Diliman. He is the
author of two poetry collections (Closet Quivers, 1992; and Our Lady of
the Carnival, 1996), and the critical studies Philippine Gay Culture: the
Last 30 Years (1996) and Slip/pages: Essays in Philippine Gay Criticism
(1998). He is currently working on an ethnography of the beauty parlor
in Sampaloc, an old district of Manila.
Angelina Nachimuthu received her Ph.D. degree
at the University of Hyderabad, India in July 1999. Her doctoral research
was on the representations of India in American Missionary Fiction. She
was a visiting Fulbright researcher at the South Asian Regional Studies
Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 1996-1997. Her
research interests also include Cross-cultural encounters, Indian writing
in English, Feminist Literature and Native American Literature. Currently
she is doing research on Kirin Narayan, an anthropologist and author of
a novel, Love, Stars, And All That as well as working as a technical writer
at ZyXEL Communication Corporation, Hsinchu.
Amie Parry is now associate professor of English
at National Chio-tung University, Taiwan, working in queer studies and
literary cultural studies. She is completing a book project.
Seo Dong-Jin, MA, in Sociology, Yonsei University,
Seoul, Korea
Now, Doctoral Candidate in Sociology, Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea
Co-Editor of Cultural Critic Journal-The Review
Executive director and Programmer in Seoul Queer Film & Video Festival,
Lecturer in Sonkonghoi University and Korean National University of
Art
Main concerns : Cultural Studies(Popular Culture, Cultural Policy,
Intimacy and Body, Sexuality etc.), Queer Theory, Social Theory and Critical
Thoughts.
* Publications - Books： "The Critique
of Methodology in Revolutionary Movements", Byori, Seoul, 1988. "Rock,
The Revolt of Youth - The Social history of western popular music", Saekil,
Seoul, 1994. "Who's afraid of Sexual Politics", Munyemadang, Seoul, 1996
(* all books are written in Korean) (** Chapters in book and articles
are left out)
(* now contribute to some journals and magazine regularly)
Wang Ping is now secretary-general of Gender/Sexuality
Right Association , Taiwan (GSRAT). With degrees in Architecture and landscape
planning, she is a full time activist in women's movement and gays and
lesbians movement.
Antonia Chao received her PhD in anthropology
from Cornell University (US). She is now assistant professor of sociology
at Tunghai University, Taiwan. She has been carrying out research on Taiwan's
lesbian identity-formation and queer politics since the early nineties.
Her other research project deals with the relationship between Chinese
diaspora, the civil society, and state power in the fifties Taiwan.
Wuo Young-ie is now secretary-general of Information
Center for Labour Education, Taiwan (ICLE). He has a MA degrees in architecture
of UC Berkeley; an ex-novelist, now full time labour organiser.
Moderator 主持人：
Kuan-Hsing CHEN 陳光興
（Center for Asia-Pacific / Cultural Studies,
Tsing Hua U；新竹清大亞太／文化研究室）
Sponsors主辦單位：
Inter-Asia Cultural Studies: Movements（國際學術期刊）
Cultural Studies Association, Taiwan（文化研究學會）
Center for Asia-Pacific / Cultural Studies, Tsing Hua U（新竹清大亞太／文化研究室）
Time時間：November 28th, 1999, 2:00pm--
一九九九十一月二十八日下午二時起
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