Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Kultur-, Sozial- und Bildungswissenschaftliche Fakultät - Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften

Vergangene Termine

  • 2017-05-28T10:00:00+02:00
  • 2017-05-28T11:00:00+02:00
Mai 28 Sonntag 2017

Zeit: 10:00

Most research on teenage sexuality focuses on the implications of Thai social ideology with regard to gender roles, Buddhism and the sexual double standard but does not critically question the very concept of adolescence. This work addresses this gap through the analysis of the controversial Thai television series _Hormones the Series (HTS)_. Drawing on scholarship that re-defines both sexuality (Foucault) and adolescence (Lesko) as cultural constructs, this research analyzes representations of adolescent girls in _HTS._ In doing so it discusses: 1) How adolescence is constructed, and how the concept of adolescence is gendered. This discussion is embedded in the existing body of research on Thai social ideologies as well as recent developments in Thai government policy. 2) Can the hegemonic discourse on adolescence be understood as a discourse surrogate for broader social, political and nationalistic concerns? The analysis is then based on the hypothesis, that the valuation of teenage girls' sexual innocence has to be understood as a recent discursive construct that reflects middle-class values. It comes to the conclusion that, on a deeper level, counter-hegemonic depictions of sexually active teenage girls in _HTS_ still favor moralizing messages, tied to a hegemonic, conservative discourse on femininity and sex. However, despite its conservative bent, Hormones consistently tells its stories from the point of view of the female teenage protagonists. As such, it shifts the perspective on an area that is usually silenced in the discussion around teenage sexuality: the ways in which teenagers negotiate conservative normative requirements.

  • 2017-05-12T14:00:00+02:00
  • 2017-05-12T19:00:00+02:00
  • INV 118, R. 217
Mai 12 Freitag 2017

Zeit: 14:00

INV 118, R. 217

  • 2017-04-20T18:00:00+02:00
  • 2017-04-20T20:00:00+02:00
  • IAAW, Raum 217
April 20 Donnerstag 2017

Zeit: 18:00

IAAW, Raum 217

Vortrag von Prof. Radha S. Hegde (NYU) The materiality of the diasporic experience is embedded within overlapping geographies and transnational processes that are increasingly mediated. Scripts of authentic Indianness travel across media platforms and politics strategically linking and delinking the diasporic to the nations of residence and origin. This talk will discuss the changing nature of the diaspora and national affiliations as defined and transformed within global assemblages of capital, media, publicity and nationalism.