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Peripheral Futures Screening: WE ARE HERE and THE RETURNING TIDE: THIRTY YEARS ON

  • Termin in der Vergangenheit
  • Wednesday, 3 June 2026, 18:00 - 21:00
  • Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies, Seminargebäude, CATS Auditorium (R. 010.01.05), Voßstraße 2, 69115 Heidelberg

    Screening of WE ARE HERE (2015) and THE RETURNING TIDE: THIRTY YEARS ON with film directors Shi Tou, Xu Xiaotong, and Yang (Iris) Yu

    Screening: We Are Here and The Returning Tide: Thirty Years On

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      Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies
      Seminargebäude
      CATS Auditorium (R. 010.01.05)
      Voßstraße 2
      69115 Heidelberg

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    Agenda

    • 18:00 | Introduction

    Film Screenings

    • 18:15 | We Are Here 我们在这里 (2015), 58 Min
      What happens when 300 lesbians from around the world attend the largest United Nations conference? How did two busloads of lesbians headed to an underground nightclub help spark the birth of a lala (LBT) movement in China? At the 1995 Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, the first-ever lesbian tent at a UN NGO Forum was created. At the tent, ideas were shared, connections were made, and identities were affirmed ... with a growing emergence of energy for change.
       
    • 19:15 | The Returning Tide 人在路途中 (2025), 73 Min
      The film revisits more than twenty feminist activists from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China to trace the lasting impact of the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women held in Beijing across East Asia. It follows the connections forged during the conference, examines gender mainstreaming frameworks, and explores the rise of grassroots, queer movement and digital rights alongside the backlash these activists now face. The film shows how these activists continue their work despite changing historical conditions and political uncertainties. Through these intertwined stories, the film continually asks what sustains such struggles and how feminist movements persist, transform, and evolve across generations and regions.

    20:30 | Joint discussion with the film directors Shi Tou, Xu Xiaotong and Yang (Iris) Yu (all online)

    Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Peripheral Futures – Reading History from the “Margins”'

    Where is future created? Based on some of the research done in the Thematic Research Network “Denk(t)räume–(Re)thinking and Building Futures” and at CAPAS, the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at Heidelberg University, this event series takes the question of building futures from the margins as its starting point for a review of some of the seminal literature in global history. The aim is to foreground marginalized sources (material peripheries, e.g., the “un-disciplined" knowledge produced by the arts), positions (socio-political pheripheries, e.g., that of indigenous protesters), and regions of the world (spatial peripheries, e.g., parts of the world that do not make headline news) as well as specific times (chronological pheripheries: questioning why there may be a privileging of specific periods in time while neglecting others). 

    In taking what is read as “marginal”, its voices and sources seriously, and by including artistic and activist resources, this series offers an intervention to established academic reasoning: at a time when apocalyptic narratives and authoritarian visions of the future dominate public discourse, the events focus on different forms of “critical hope” that can emerge in times of crisis: analytically grounded, socially engaged, and convinced that a diverse, collectively shaped future arises from the productive tension between different worldviews, the event series sets out to test out transcultural perspectives on and alternative approaches to the writing of histories (of and for the future).

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