The Conference aims to bring together international visiting scholars and activists as well as local scholars and activists to discuss developing issues related to sexual politics. The term "super-slim" in the title refers to a special mode of feminine napkin that emphasizes its compact size and its super absorbency, two qualities that pertain to our conference; the adoption of the term as the title of the conference also manifests our intention to articulate the most taboo aspects of female sexuality.
The First International Super-Slim Conference On Sexual Politics had Cindy Patton (Emory University) as its keynote speaker and was held in 1997 on three afternoons dating Dec. 13--"Queer Theory and Asian Politics"; Dec. 20--"Gender Politics of Feminist Utopias"; & Dec. 21--"Cyberspace and Social Movement." Papers presented at the first conference include:
- Cindy Patton, "Stealth Bombers of Desire: The Globalization of "Alterity" in Emerging Democracies"
- Fran Martin, "Locating Queer: Denaturalization and the Confucian Law"
- Amy Perry, "From Girl Nation to Queer Nation: Homo-erotic Desires in Feminist Utopias"
- Nai-Fei Ding, "A Land Where Cats Don't Sing: The Politics of Herland"
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The Second International Super-Slim Conference on Sexual Politics had Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (City University of New York) as its keynote speaker and was held on October 3rd, 1998. Papers presented include:
- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, "Affect and Queer Performativity"
- Naifei Ding and Jen-Peng Liu, "Reticent Poetics Queer Politics"
- XiaoHong Zhang, "Queer Family Romance"
- YinBin Ning, "Notes for a History of Ideas on the Emancipation of Sexuality"
- Antonia Chao, "Flowers of Pain: Pervert Politico-Sexual Fantasies in the Nationalist/Communist Fray"
- Josephine Ho, "From Left to Queer: The Queering of American Homosexual Movement"
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The Third International Super-Slim Conference on Sexual Politics was held on November 27th, 1999 and featured scholars in the area of transgender studies. Papers include:
- Judith Halberstam (University of California, Davis), "Male Fraud: Counterfeit Masculinities and the Case of Brandon Teena"
- Gayatri Gopinath (University of San Diego), "Queer Diasporas: The Transnational Trajectories of Deepa Mehta's Fire"
- Jose Neil Cabanero Garcia (University of Phillipines), "Performativity, the Bakla, and the Orientalizing Gaze"
- Antonia Chao (Tung-Hai University), "US Space Shuttles Going to the Moon: Global Metaphors and Local Strategies in Building up Taiwan's Lesbian Identities"
- Amie Parry (National Jiau-Tung University), "A Search for the Lost Dialectics of the Invisible Po: Chen XueŠö anti-realism and anti-reticence"
- Naifei Ding and Jen-Peng Liu (National Central University & National Tsing-Hwa University), " Reticent Poetics Queer Politics II: Alligator Skin, Lesbian Stuffing, Half-Man Half-Horse Qiu Miaojin"
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The Fourth International Super-Slim Conference on Sexual Politics was held on November 26th, 2000.
- Naifei Ding (National Central University), "Stone Butch Blues, Red Stone Femmes"
- Amie Parry (National Jiau-Tong University), "Narcissism and a Catechism: Flashing Objects in Taiwan's Contemporary Music Cultures"
- Jen-Peng Liu (National Tsing-Hus University), "Deprivation and Turbulence: An Essay on Mourning in Hachioji Testament"
- Atonia Chao (Tung-Hai University), "Banjia/Moving House: A Materialistic Analysis of Taiwan's Lesbian-Transgender Identity Formations from the 1950s to the Present"
- Yin-Bin Ning (National Central University), "An Inquiry intoTransgender Aesthetics: The New Sexy Men and Teenagers"
- <Roundtable Discussioin> Jia-Wen Jiang, Hsiau-Jing, Huei-Tse: "From Gender Education to Transgender Education to Transgender Human Rights"
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Fifth International Super-Slim Conference on Politics of Gender/Sexuality
"The Age of Transgender" was held on Dec, 14, 2003
- Keynote Speech
Leslie Feinberg (Author, Stone Butch Blues, Transgender Warriors
"Sex and Gender Oppression: Finding the Path to Liberation")
- Papers
Josephine Ho, "Trans-Sexuality: Bisexual Formations and the Limits of Categories"
Dennis Lin, "The ¡¥Faggot' Menace in Cyberspace"
Yu-Hsin Chen, "From Upgrading to Body-Constructing: The Transgender Metaphor in The Bicentennial Man"
Jen-Peng Liu, Amie Parry, Naifei Ding, "Realism's Fantasy Structures and Fantasy's Realist Effects: Rereading T/P Narratives"
- Cross-Region Panel Discussion
"Transgender Movement and Transgender Subjects"
- Panelists
Leslie Feinberg (USA)
Minnie Bruce Pratt (USA)
Junko Mitsuhashi (Japan)
Hsu-Kuan (Taiwan)
A-Chiong (Taiwan)
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Sixth International Super-Slim Conference on Politics of Gender/Sexuality
"Body/Gender" was held on November 27, 2004
- Papers
Anne Bolin, "Testy and Docile Bodies: Her-stories of Compliance and Defiance in Women¡¦s Bodybuilding"
Nai-Fei Ding, "Concubinage and Feminist Imaginaries"
Jen-Peng Liu, "In the Shadow of the "School": Politics of Anime Representation of Machine Bodies and Violent Pleasures"
Amie Parry, "Alternative Embodiments in Tolkien¡¦s Trans-species Fantasy: Unequal Love and the Contradictions of Fellowship"
Jamison Green, "Bodies Moving Beyond Gender Boundaries"
Ya-Fei Hsu, "Shifting Bodies and Gender/Sexuality Markings: Constructing Ownership of the Body"
- Panel Discussion
"Gender-Transgressive Bodies"
- Panelists
Jamison Green (USA)
Anne Bolin (USA)
Rieng (Taiwan)
Sander (Taiwan)
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Seventh Internatioanl Super-Slim Conference on Politics of
Gender/Sexuality
"Taking Pornography Seriously" was held on March 17, 2007.
- Papers
Laura Kipnis, "How to Look at Pornography"
Yin-Bin Ning, "Taking Pornography Seriously"
Dennis Lin, "The Proscription of Online Male Queer Obscenity in Taiwan"
Ashley Hsu-liang Wu, "Outlet or Dead-end?: The Development and Curtailment of Taiwan Gays, Transgender, and Other Sexual Minorities under Internet Surveillance"
Katrien Jacobs, "Post or Perish: The New Media Schooling of the Amateur Pornographer"
- Panel Discussion
"Porn and Selfhood"
- Panelists
Cheng-Hong Wang (Taiwan)
Linda Huang (Taiwan)
Laura Kipnis (USA)
Katrien Jacobs (HK)
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