Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist. "The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver
Women’s/Gender Studies Across Asia: Tales of Epistemic Struggles, Institutional Transformations, Volatilities and Transformations | A Public Lecture
Women’s/Gender Studies Across Asia: Tales of Epistemic Struggles, Institutional Transformations, Volatilities and Transformations | A Public Lecture
Details
The UP Asian Center, in partnership with the UP Department of Women and Development Studies and the UP Center for Women and Gender Studies, will hold the lecture "Women’s/Gender Studies Across Asia: Tales of Epistemic Struggles, Institutional Transformations, Volatilities and Transformations" on 14 March 2025, 4:30 PM, PHT (GMT+8), at the Audio-Visual Room, CSWCD, UP Diliman. The event is free and open to the public.
ABOUT THE LECTURE
This Women's Month 2025 Lecture Talk features case studies from Afghanistan, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, based on expert interviews with leading gender studies scholars across the region. Women's and gender studies in South and Southeast Asia developed out of different motivations and socio-political processes. The institutionalization at universities and research centers has been uneven and is still characterized by challenges in terms of autonomy, agenda setting, sustainable resources, and interdisciplinary knowledge transfer into the academic mainstream. "Gender" is often instrumentalized in socio-cultural as well as geopolitical conflict configurations and interventions and leads quite frequently to a socio-political othering of women's rights activists and gender researchers.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
ANDREA FLESCHENBERG DE RAMOS PINÉU, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin
ANDREA FLESCHENBERG DE RAMOS PINÉU, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany. She is the project coordinator of co2libri (2021-2025). From 2011 to 2017, she was a DAAD Long Term Guest Professor at the Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan. Her research interests lie at the intersection of political science, peace and conflict studies, new area studies, and gender studies, covering issues such as gender and politics, social movements, transitional justice, political institution-building in volatile contexts, forced migration, critical research ethics, and research methodologies. She is the co-editorial manager of the journal International Quarterly for Asian Studies
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The Asian Center, University of the Philippines Diliman offers M.A. degrees in Asian Studies with four fields of specialization: Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and West Asia. The UP Asian Center also has an M.A. program in Philippine Studies that allows students to major in Philippine society and culture, Philippine foreign relations, or Philippine development studies. It also offers a Ph.D. program in Philippine Studies in conjunction with the College of Arts and Letters and the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy. For an overview of these graduate programs, click here. As an area studies institution, the Asian Center also publishes Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia, the latest issue of which can be downloaded at the journal's website.
