On the 20th of September we are happy to welcome Jinyan Zeng to Human Rights Lunch Online! On this presentation, Jinyan Zeng shows short film clips of documentary films made by women including herself and about women living under political violence, market exploitation, and gender pressure. Through reflecting on themes and processes of documentary filmmaking and distribution, Jinyan Zeng highlights the unique way of women’s expression in social contestation, artistic representation, and intellectual debate.

Dr. Jinyan Zeng 曾金燕 works at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden. She is a scholar and documentary filmmaker. Her research focuses on gender and sexuality, culture and politics, intellectual identity and activism, and ethnicity, with a particular emphasis on the Chinese speaking world. Among various publications, she has authored Feminism and Genesis of Citizen Intelligentsia in China (in Chinese, 2016, City University of Hong Kong Press), co-edited Feminist Activism in the Post-2010s Sinosphere (with Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen, Forthcoming 2024, Bloomsbury), and co-directed documentary film Outcry and Whisper (2020, with Wen Hai and Trish McAdam).

Human Rights Lunch Online is a digital seminar series organised by the Lund University Human Rights Profile Area. The seminars are open to researchers, staff, students and external actors.