[Air-L] Join: Digital Feminisms in Asia: Cultural Studies Postgraduate Symposium|14 Nov 2025|Hong Kong

[WONG, Ka Hei]

Dear all,

You are cordially invited to an afternoon of critical dialogue at the Digital Feminisms in Asia: Cultural Studies Postgraduate Symposium at The Chinese University of Hong Kong on 14 November 2025, amid the current global wave of anti‑feminism.

Register Now: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=3806239

The symposium opens with a keynote titled “Against On‑Demandness and Objective Neutrality: Feminist Media from the Asian Diaspora” by Prof. Feng‑Mei Heberer (New York University).

Following the keynote, two RPg panels will showcase the latest research on the critical intersections of media, technology, and feminisms across Hong Kong, China, South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, and India. These presentations will be discussed by Prof. Lucetta Kam (Hong Kong Baptist University) and Prof. Ling Han (The Chinese University of Hong Kong).

Symposium Details
Date: 14 November 2025
Time: 2:00 – 6:30 p.m.
Venue: SWH 1 (G/F), Fung King Hey Building, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Register (by 10  November 2025):
https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=3806239

Programme:
Opening Keynote: Against On-Demandness and Objective Neutrality: Feminist Media from the Asian Diaspora
Speaker: Prof. Feng-Mei Heberer (Department of Cinema Studies, New York University)
Abstract: On-demandness is a defining feature of digital media. It manifests in the often taken-for-granted expectation of instant accessibility and nonstop service. This talk features feminist media practices from the Asian diaspora, from onscreen performance to on-set production, to explore how on-demandness is also key to the imperial legacy of Asian gendered racialization. In dialogue with the media work of Asian diasporans, I ask how we may reframe the function of digital media in ways that intervene in often violently neutralizing discourses and theories of digitality.
Moderator: Prof. Jia Tan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Panel 1: Platform Governance and Feminist Activisms
Discussant: Prof. Ling Han (Gender Studies Programme, The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Papers:

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Algorithmic Necropolitics and the Post-Biological State: Governing Digital Futurity in Japan’s Moonshot Research & Development Program

Maari Sugawara, City University of Hong Kong

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Crossing Borders, Making Histories: Transnational Feminist Practices of Young Chinese Women

Sugyeong Son, Seoul National University

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Simulating the Unseen: Lisa's Crazy Horse Show and Its Controversy in Chinese Digital Feminism

Chengsi Wang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Survival, Companionship, and Visibility with Platforms: (Re)producing Solidarity in Hong Kong Queer Spaces

Roland Cheng, University of Toronto & University of Hong Kong

Panel 2: Anti-Gender Politics and Queer Feminisms
Discussant: Prof. Lucetta Kam (Department of Humanities and Creative Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Papers:

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‘Let Games be Games!’: Why Have Feminism and Inclusivity Become Growingly Incompatible with Video Game Culture?

Jamie W.T Tse, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Trans-(lat)ing law: Trans legal activism and livestreaming culture in Hong Kong

Cecilia Ka Hei Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Recognising the Stranger—Queer unhomeliness and the woman as Other in Postcolonial Indian queer cinema.

Radhika Vang Jensen, Hong Kong Baptist University

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Love on Hold: Queer Temporality and the Politics of Affection between Queer Women and Their Heterosexual Mothers in Javanese Muslim Families

Dayu Ajeng Anggrahita, Universitas Gadjah Mada

More details: https://rih.cuhk.edu.hk/news-and-events/dfinasia_rpg_symposium/

The Digital Feminisms in Asia Network website is available here: https://rih.cuhk.edu.hk/news-and-events/df-in-asia/

We look forward to seeing you there for an engaging afternoon of feminist dialogue.

For enquiries, please contact Cecilia Ka Hei Wong (Symposium Convenor) – ceciliawongkh at link.cuhk.edu.hk<mailto:ceciliawongkh at link.cuhk.edu.hk> or Issac Li (Symposium Coordinator) – issacli at cuhk.edu.hk<mailto:issacli at cuhk.edu.hk>

Warm regards,
Cecilia
Convenor
Digital Feminisms in Asia: Cultural Studies Postgraduate Symposium



Cecilia Ka Hei Wong (she/ her)
PhD Candidate
Cultural Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Recent publication:
Feminist activist-creator practices of exposing: Navigating gender hate, algorithmic moderation, and state regulation in Hong Kong (Forthcoming in Dec 2025). In T. Bidav, & S. Mehta (Eds), Global South Creator Cultures. Routledge. In press.

Navigating gender hate in manospheres: women’s affective dissonance and refusal on LIHKG in the 2019 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill movement<https://bit.ly/3UZRW5c>. 2024. Communication, Culture and Critique.

The Pepe the Frog Image-Meme in Hong Kong: Visual Recurrences and Gender Fluidity on the LIHKG Forum<https://bit.ly/3wz0OW3>. 2023. Journal of Digital Social Research.