Reconsidering homophobia globally: A perspective from Hong Kong

2021 年 11 月 2 日 iacs 0

Date: Tuesday, 05 Oct 2021 Time: 10:00 – 12:00 Venue: Room A-302, Liberal Arts Building 1, NCU ZOOM LINK :https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85339453171?pwd=eU42bmp5akZHTjZYMDZFbTNuRFVvdz09 (Password:j8QfL8) Moderator: Naifei Ding Chair of International Master’s Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies(UST), NCU Professor, English Department, NCU *Lecture in English*   Reconsidering homophobia globally: A perspective from Hong Kong This paper reconsiders existing frameworks of homophobia in queer Asian studies by highlighting how they are complicated by globalising processes. Specifically, it formulates a class critique that fosters productive tensions between global queering discourses and a Chinese homophobic order affecting Hong Kong and other ethnic Chinese societies. Based on field research on ….繼續閱讀

The Orientalist Gaze on Japanese Rope Bondage

2020 年 11 月 16 日 iacs 0

Title:The Orientalist Gaze on Japanese Rope Bondage Shin Nawakiri/Shibaru.life (小林繩霧/縛.生) 2020 Nov. 25(Wed)2-5 PM Room A114, Liberal Arts Building I, NCU   演講摘要: BDSM is an umbrella term covering various non-normative sexual practices, some of them eroticizing sensations or emotions including pain or inequality of power. Among many such practices, “shibari” or “kinbaku”, a subculture that use rope for erotic purposes, was developed in Japan and eventually gained world-wide recognization in the last decade. Among the earliest western authorities of shibari was a person named Hans Meijer. In a magazine interview, he related shibari to Oriental philosophy, ki (chi), yin ….繼續閱讀