Following on from the 2013 Dragon Tails conference, Julia Martínez and I are organising a Symposium on Chinese Women in Southern Diaspora History. The symposium will be held at the University of Wollongong.
Date: Friday, 5 December 2014
Time: 9.00am to 3.30pm
Venue: Building 24, Rooms 201 and 202, University of Wollongong
Speakers include:
- Pauline Rule — Being a Chinese wife and mother in colonial Victoria, 1856–1900
- Sandi Robb — Daughters of the Flowery Land: Chinese women in Queensland 1860–1920
- Kate Bagnall — Family politics: Chinese wives in Australia, 1902 to 1920
- Sophie Couchman — Chinese-Australian brides, photography and the white wedding
- Julia Martínez — University education of Chinese women in the 20th century
- Sophie Loy-Wilson — Daisy Guo’s Shanghai: Narrating the lives of Chinese Australian women in Shanghai before and after 1949
- Paul Macgregor — Mrs Fabian Chow of Shanghai — journalist, radio star and goodwill ambassador: an Australian Chinese colleague of the Soong sisters
Professor Jan Ryan from Edith Cowan University will also be providing her reflections on Chinese women’s history.
The symposium is open to the public and there is no registration fee. If you would like to attend, please RSVP to Julia Martínez (juliam@uow.edu.au) by 31 October 2014 for catering purposes.
Download a pdf of the symposium programme.