Organizer

CRF Project “Making Modernity in East Asia: Technologies of Everyday Life, 19th – 21st Centuries” (RGC CRF The University of Hong Kong C7011-16G), Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong


Program

June 8, 2019

Venue: HKU, Faculty of Social Sciences, Jockey Club Tower, Dept. Sociology, Room 929

9:00 am – 9:15 am Welcome Note: The Gyno-Tech Project


Jacob Eyferth (Chicago)
Suzanne Gottschang (Smith)
Gonçalo Santos (HKU)

9:15 am – 12:30 pm Panel I


Discussants:
Susan McKinnon (Virginia)
Harriet Evans (Westminster)
Suzanne Gottschang (Smith)
Jacob Eyferth (Chicago)

9:15 am – 10:15 am Helen Schneider (Virginia Tech) SG/SM
Institutionalizing Social Motherhood: Chinese Child Welfare, Women Experts, and International Aid, 1937 1949

10:15 am – 11:15 am Yige Dong (Johns Hopkins) SG/JE
Red Housekeeping” in the Socialist Factory: Care Work in China’s Urban Commune Movement, 1958 1962

11:30 am – 12:30 pm Jacob Eyferth (Chicago) SM/HE
Reproducing Life, Producing Surplus Value: How Women’s Handloom Weaving (and Pig-Raising, Firewood-Gathering, Food-Scavenging) Paid for China’s Industrialization

2:00 pm – 5:30 pm Panel II


Discussants:
Susan McKinnon (Virginia)
Harriet Evans (Westminster)
Suzanne Gottschang (Smith)
Jacob Eyferth (Chicago)
Gonçalo Santos (HKU)

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Sunhye Kim (Harvard) JE/HE
Paid Mother and Unpaid Mother: Reproductive Labor in the Transnational Korean Gestational Surrogacy Industry

3:00 pm – 4:00 pm Gonçalo Santos (HKU) HE/SM
“Why does she need to be cut open?” Cesarean Technologies, Generational Time, and the Morality of Childbirth Medicalization in Contemporary China

4:15 pm – 5:15 pm Shoan Yin Cheung (Cornell) SG/GS
Fear and Control in the Bedroom: Risk, Responsibility, and Contraceptive Choice in Urban Japan

5:15 pm – 6:15 pm Nicholas Sternsdorff-Cisterna (Dedman) GS/JE
Motherhood and the politics of risk after the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant



June 9, 2019

Venue: HKU, Faculty of Social Sciences, Jockey Club Tower, Dept. Sociology, Room 929

9:30 am – 1:00 pm Panel III


Discussants:
Susan McKinnon (Virginia)
Harriet Evans (Westminster)
Suzanne Gottschang (Smith)
Gonçalo Santos (HKU)
Jacob Eyferth (Chicago)

9:30 am – 10:30 am Jing Xu (Washington) SM/SG
“No Comparison, No Harm:” Social Comparison, Social Media, and Anxious Mothers in Contemporary China

10:30 am – 11:30 am Yishan Zhong (HKU) SG/HE
More Work for Mother: Mobile Communication Technology and Chinese Intensive Mothering

11:45 am – 12:45 pm Jiyeon Kang (Virginia) GS/JE
Between Technologized and De-technologized End-of-Life Care

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Plenary Discussion & Plans for Publication
  Chairs: Jacob Eyferth (Chicago) Suzanne Gottschang (Smith) Gonçalo Santos (HKU)
2:00 – 2:30       Susan McKinnon (Virginia), Final Comments
2:30 – 3:00       Harriet Evans (Westminster), Final Comments
3:15 – 5:00       General Discussion / Plans for Publication