Day 1 – Thursday 12th of December 2024
09:00-09:30 – Introduction
09:30-11:00 – Panel 1 – Women in East Turkestan’s 20th Century Anti-Colonial Struggles
Chair: Eleanor Hart
Dilnur Reyhan: “Rizwangul – an Anti-Colonial Heroine in the Story of Uyghur Feminist Nationalism”
Nabijan Tursun: “20th Century Uyghur Women’s Revolution: Between the East Turkestan Republic and the People’s Republic of China”
11:00–11:30 – Coffee break
11:30-13:00 – Panel 2 – Differentiated Gender Construction and Performance in Pre-Socialist East Turkestan
Chair: Kevin Kind
Aysima Mirsultan: “The Status of Uyghur Women as Reflected in Pre-Modern Uyghur Legal Documents”
Eric Schluessel: “Sacred and Demonic Masculinities in Kashgari Stories of the Prophets”
13:00-15:00 – Lunch
15:00-17:30 – Panel 3 – Lesser-known narratives and practices: Uyghur women’s resilience and ingenuity across contexts
Chair: Léo Maillet
Anonymous speaker: “Hüner: knowledge, gender and the state in Uyghur craftsmanship”
Gulnisa Nazarova: “The Silent Voices: Uyghur Women’s Migration Narratives from the 1950s-1960s”
Rebecca Clothey: “The Role of Women in Uyghur Cultural Preservation in Diaspora: An Empowerment Framework”
17:30-19:00 – Film screening of On Set with Nikah
21:00 – Dinner for the participants
Day 2 – Friday 13th of December 2024
09:30-11:00 – Panel 4 – Negotiating Gender Norms and State Policy as Uyghur Women under PRC rule
Chair: to be confirmed.
Ablimit Baki Elterish & Feride Ibrahim: “Gender, Family and Money for Uyghur Women in Kashgar”
Crystal Whetstone & Murat Yılmaz: Accounting for the Colonized: Uyghur Women’s Unpaid Social Reproduction in “Non-colonizing” China
11:00–11:30 – Coffee break
11:30-12:45 – Panel 5 – Yerlik/Indigenous Multi-vectored Oppression: Defying Traditional and Colonial Heteropatriarchal Norms Under the PRC
Chair: Michaela Muselíková & Belén Habboob.
Sam Tynen & Sonya Imin: “Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality under Chinese Colonialism: Intersectional Marginalization of LGBTQ+ Uyghur Women in Ürümchi from 2016-2017”
12:30-14:30 – Lunch
14:30-16:00 – Panel 6 –Colonial Control through Islamophobic Narratives and State Imposition of Feminine Gender Ideals
Chair: Dilnur Reyhan.
Samantha L. Botica Fuentes: ““I am empowered to you if I can become almost invisible”. Islamophobia and Uyghur Gender roles in Weibo.”
Tim Grose: “‘Training Modern Civilized Messengers’: Secular Femininity and ‘Good’ Motherhood in Contemporary Colonial Xinjiang”
16:00 -16:30 – Coffee break
16:30-18:15 – Panel 7 – Commodifying the “New Frontera”: the Creation and Dissemination of a Colonial Gaze
Chair: James Millward & other to be confirmed.
Melissa Shani Brown & David O’Brian: “The Beauty of Xinjiang”: Gendering the Sinocolonial Tourist Gaze”
18:15-18:30 – Concluding remarks
Stand UGR 