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) |
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| 9:15 am – 12:30 pm | Panel I |
| Discussants: Susan McKinnon (Virginia) Harriet Evans (Westminster) Suzanne Gottschang (Smith) Jacob Eyferth (Chicago) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |