Gender and Sexuality Research Symposium: Masculinities, Modernity and Heteronormativity in the UK and South China

Tuesday 10 June 2014, 10.00AM to 18:00

Location

Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Heslington West, University of York

Speakers

• Stevi Jackson, University of York --- Gender, Families and Modernity in Comparative Perspective: Theoretical and Methodological Issues 
• Jieyu Liu, SOAS University of London --- Changing Family Relations in Urban China 
• Travis Kong, University of Hong Kong --- On the Edge: Chinese Men Negotiating Thrill and Control in Commercial Sex - 
• Sik Ying (Petula) Ho, University of Hong Kong --- The worst thing a man can do? Hong Kong Chinese Men's perceptions of bad behaviour in intimate relationships 
• Xiaodong (Wes) Lin, University of York --- ‘Filial son’, the Family and Identity Formation among Male Migrant Workers in Urban China 
• Hongwei Bao, University of Nottingham --- Becoming Gay: Negotiating Sexuality in Urban China 
• Denise Tse-Shang Tang, University of Hong Kong --- Perspectives of Same-Sex Sexualities and Self-Harm Among Service Providers and Teachers in Hong Kong 
• Sik Ying (Petula) Ho and Denise Tse-Shang Tang, University of Hong Kong --- A critique of the Minority Stress Model: Prejudice, Social Stress, and Self-Assessment among Sexual Minority People in Hong Kong 
• Paul Johnson, University of York --- Homosexuality, Heteronormativity and Human Rights: Europe and Beyond 
• Howard Chiang, University of Warwick --- In the Shadow of Empires: Imperial Citationality and the Queering of Marriage in Sinophone Communities 

Booking

Places are limited, please book your place at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and-sexuality-research-symposium-masculinities-modernity-and-heteronormativity-in-the-uk-and-tickets-11616058945

Dr Sam de Boise

Dr. Sam de Boise has been awarded a four year postdoctoral position in the School of Music, Theatre and Art at Örebro University, Sweden. He will be leaving the department of Sociology at York at the end of July. The postdoc will be looking to build on his doctoral thesis (Masculinities, Music Emotion and Affect) and recent research into gender and music and aims to explore inequalities through cross cultural differences in music use in the UK and Sweden. He wishes to thank all of his colleagues and friends for their help and support during his time at York.