FIRESIDE CHAT: “Apparatuses of Footbinding: Tracing a Genealogy of Violence against Asian Women”
Event Details
Fireside Chat with Michelle Lee “Apparatuses of Footbinding: Tracing a Genealogy of Violence against Asian Women” Thursday, May 16, 2024 7:00 p.m. ET Virtual Event |
Event Details
Fireside Chat with Michelle Lee
“Apparatuses of Footbinding: Tracing a Genealogy of Violence against Asian Women”
Thursday, May 16, 2024
7:00 p.m. ET
Virtual Event | Free
How can re-figuring the body uncover alternative epistemologies of racialized and gendered violence? This talk seeks to explore this question by examining the visual cultures of footbinding as a paradigm of violence against Asian women that continues to haunt despite repeated claims of its end. By juxtaposing contemporary visual arts against archival images from the era of Western colonial expansion in China beginning in the 19th century, Michelle Lee examines the episteme of footbinding through its various apparatuses (i.e. stereograph, print media, written travelogues, medical reports, and visual arts.) to construct a specific genealogy. In doing so, Lee argues that framing the particularities of footbinding as one mode of violence against Asian women out of many can elucidate the ways Asian women have not only endured very specific forms of discriminatory violence, but also how their visibility has been dependent on their susceptibility to violence.
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Time
(Thursday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT-04:00)
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