Lü Pin: "Resilience Amidst Repression: The Chinese Feminist Movement in the Era of Escalating Authoritarianism"

Event Type

Lecture

Sponsor

Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Center for African Studies; Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies; Center for Global Studies; Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, European Union Center, The Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies, The Program in Arms Control & Domestic & International Security; and Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center.

Location

306 Coble Hall

Virtual

Date

Sep 12, 2023   12:00 pm  

Speaker

Lü Pin, PhD Candidate, Rutgers University

Registration

Registration

Contact

Anita Kaiser

E-Mail

arkaiser@illinois.edu

Views

70

Lunch provided with registration at https://go.illinois.edu/LuPin

Lü Pin is a prominent Chinese feminist activist and an emerging scholar specializing in Gender and Politics. Her journey in advocating for women's right began in the late 1990s. In 2009, she established Feminist Voices, a pioneering and largest new media platform dedicated to women's issues in China, which was banned in 2018. Since 2012, Lü Pin has been dedicated to empowering young feminists and supporting their activism throughout China. After relocating to the U.S. in 2015, she spearheaded the organizing of the diaspora Chinese feminist community. Presently, Lü Pin is pursuing her Ph.D. in Political Science at Rutgers University. 

This talk, hosted by the Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Program, is a part of the Illinois Global Institute Speaker Series "China and the World."