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The 1st Nordic - China Women & Gender Studies Conference
Re-Negotiating the Politics of the Public and the Private
Gender and Politics in China and the Nordic Countries

Date: 19-22 November 2002
Place: Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
All events will take place at the Fudan New Science Building, if not otherwise indicated.
Interpretation: Interpreters will provide simultaneous interpretation during all speeches and sessions.

Wednesday 20 November 2002
Place: Fudan New Science Building, if not otherwise indicated

8.45: Congregation in the hotel lobby, student assistants will accompany the participants to the Fudan New Science Building

9.30-10.00 Welcome
Chair: Cecilia Milwertz
Prof. Weng Tiehui, Vice President Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Dr. Jørgen Delman, Director of the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ms. Xu Peili, Vice Precident, Shanghai Women's Federation
Mr. Jorgen Gulev, Consul General, Danish Consulate General in Shanghai

10.00 - 10.50
Chair: Liu Bohong
keynote speaker Drude Dahlerup Professor, Department of Political Science, Stockholm University, Sweden. Feminist Movements between State, Civil Society and Market in an Era of Globalization.

10.50-11.10
Coffee/tea break

11.10 - 12.00
Chair: Pauline Stoltz
keynote speaker Jin Yihong, Professor, Jingling Women's Development Centre, Nanjing Normal University, China. Women in Local Administration and Management in Rural China

12.00-13.30 Lunch
Place: Zhengda restaurant

13.30 - 15.45: Session 1 – Domestic Violence
Chair: Gao Xiaoxian
Lu Ying, Associate Professor, Law School, Zhongshan University, Guangdong, China. Reflections on Violence Within the Family
Wang Xingjuan, Director, The Maple Women’s Psychological Counseling Center, China Domestic Violence – Private Sphere, Public Sphere
Song Meiya, Deputy Editor, China Women’s News, China. On the Penalty of Battered Women Convicted of Crime in China
Rong Weiyi, Associate Professor, Chinese People’s Public Security University, Beijing, China The Comparison of Chinese and Nordic Police in Intervention of Domestic Violence

15.45 - 16.15
Coffee/tea break

16.15 – 18.30: Session 2 – Politics and Economy
Chair: Merete Lie
Qi Wang, Research Fellow Center for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. The Changing Perceptions and Self-Perceptions of Women Cadres across the Public and the Private Divide
Wang Jie, Associate Researcher, the Institute of Sociology, Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences, China. The Cultural Characteristics of Modern Female Cadre
Gao Xiaoxian, Director, Shaanxi Women’s Federation, Shaanxi, China. State, Market and Culture: Health Care – Services for Pregnant and Post-Pregnant Women in Poor Areas
Marina Thorborg, Associate Professor, Intellectual History, Södertörn University, Huddinge, Sweden. Gender and Politics - Women and Economic Power

19.00 Dinner
Place: Dong Yuan Guesthouse

9.00 – 9.50
Chair: Qi Wang keynote speaker Chen Mingxia, Co-ordinator 'Domestic Violence - Research, Intervention and Prevention' Network and Professor, Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, China. Counter Family Violence Program and Social Gender View

9.50 - 10.05
Coffee/tea break

10.05 – 10.55
Chair: Bonnie McDougall
keynote speaker Peng Xizhe, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. China’s Social Policies and their Impacts on Chinese Women.

10.55 – 11.10
Coffee/tea break

11.10 - 12.00
Chair: Wang Jufen
keynote speaker Hege Skjeie, Professor, Department of Political Science, Oslo University, Norway State Feminism and the New Public Duties

12.00-13.30 Lunch
Place: Zhengda restaurant

13.30 - 15.45: Session 3 – Women as Private and Public Actors
Chair: Jin Yihong
Bu Wei, Associate Researcher, Institute of Journalism and Communication, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Hangzhou, China. The Interaction Between NGO’s and Mass Media: the Process of Domestic Violence from Private to Public Issue in China
Aili Nenola, Director, Christina Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland. Gender and Violence Studies in the Nordic Countries.
Sun Zhongxin, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China. Gender Related Discourses of Shanghai University Students
Li Hanlin, Deputy Director, Shanghai Woman’s Association Office. Investigation Report Regarding the Social Status of Female Enterprisers and Senior Managers in Shanghai

15.45 - 16.15
Coffee/tea break

16.15 – 18.00: Session 4 – Power in the Public and the Private Domain
Chair: Marina Thorborg
Ding Ning, Deputy Editor Beijing Publishing House, Beijing, China. Comparison between interviewing Abused Women and Answering Hotline – Privacy and Social Intervention in Chinese Society
Yu Rong, legal aid volunteer, the Centre for Women’s Studies and Legal Services, the Law Department, Peking University, Beijing, China. How do Lawyers Protect Survivors of Family Violence with Existing Laws
Chen Xiaomin, Professor, Department of Sociology, Jilin Agriculture University, Jiling, China. Case studies of Female Students' Political Insterest: Consciousness and Opportunities

18.10: Bus leaves from the Fudan New Science Building to the Hai Ou Hotel

19.00 Banquet
Place: Hai Ou Hotel

8.15-10.30: Session 5 - Politics, from the Local to the Global
Chair: Peng Xizhe
Huang Haiqun, Associate Professor, Women’s College of China, China. To Meet Challenges, To Overcome Barriers: An Analysis of Women’s Success in Politics
Yi Zhaoyin, Professor, Department of History, Shanghai Normal University. Shanghai, China. Research on Women’s Gender View on Campus.
Edeltraud Hanappi-Egger, Professor, Institute of Technology Design and Assessment, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria. The Role of New Information and Communication Technologies in the Public-Private Discussion.
Merete Lie, Professor Centre for Feminist and Gender Studies, Dept. of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Rethinking Gender in View of Globalisation

10.30 - 10.45
Coffee/tea break

10.45-11.45: Session 6 – Re-Negotiating the Public and the Private
Chair: Aili Nenola
Liu Bohong, Deputy Director, Women’s Institute of China, Beijing, China. Social Gender and Public Policy
Bonnie S. McDougall, Professor of Chinese, Scottish Centre for Chinese Studies, School of Asian Studies, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Discourse on Privacy by Women Writers in Late Twentieth-Century China

11.45-12.30
Summary of the Conference: Qi Wang
Closing remark: Professor Chen Yinzhang, Executive Director, Nordic Centre, Fudan University

12.30 –13.30 Lunch
Place: Zhengda restaurant

13.30: Bus leaves from Zhengda restaurant to the Women’s Federation in Yangpu District

14.00
Visit to the Women's Federation in Yangpu district with a presentation of its:

1. Training centre for female laid off workers
2. Psychological Counseling Hotline