Programme Schedule

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Conference chairpersons: Ms. To Kit Lai(Executive Committee member, Ziteng), Ms. Chan Shun Hing(Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University)
9:00 – 9:15	Registration
9:15 – 9:30	Opening Speech	Prof. Kwan, Department of Applied Social Studies, City University of Hong Kong ZiTeng
Discussion Session 1	Sex, Body and Sex Workers	Commentator: Mr. Leung Man To(cultural critic)
9:30 – 9:50	The Long Road toward Decriminalization of Sex Work in Taiwan	Ms. Jo Ho Professor and Coordinator of the Center for the Study of Sexualities, National Central University, Taiwan Mr. Karl Ning Professor, Graduate Institute of Philosophy, National Central University, Taiwan
9:50 – 10:10	Comment and floor discussion
10:10 – 10:30	“I am a sex worker! – Building up the identity of sex workers through cultural means”	Ms. Carol Leigh Co-founder of Bay Area Sex Worker Advocacy Network (Bayswan), US
10:30 – 10:50	Comment and floor discussion
10:50 – 11:00	Tea Break
Discussion Session 2	Reclaiming Sex Workers’ Rights – Organising in a Marginalised Trade	Commentator: Mr. Lee Cheuk Yan(General Secretary, Hong Kong Confederation of Trade Unions)
11:00 – 11:15	Advocating for a Prostitution Reform Bill in New Zealand	Ms. Kate Dickie Regional Coordinator (Auckland), New Zealand Prostitutes Collective
11:15 – 11:30	Decriminalisation, a best practice model, the Australian experience	Ms. Janelle Fawkes Chairperson of Scarlet Alliance
11:30 – 11:50	Comment and floor discussion
11:50 – 12:05	Trade union organising and steering its way into the trade union movement in Britain	Ms. Catherine Stephens London Branch Secretary, International Union of Sex Workers
12:05 – 12:20	Comment and floor discussion
12:20 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30– 13:35	Recap of morning sessions
13:35– 13:50	Promoting the civil rights of prostitutes in Italy	Ms. Pia Covre Co-founder of the Committee for the Civil Rights of Prostitutes
13:50– 14:05	Sex Worker Activism and Government Repression by the US	Ms. Melissa Ditmore Liaison Prostitutes of New York (PONY)
14:05– 14:25	Comment and floor discussion
Discussion Session 3	Restricted Zone – Prostitution in HK	Commentator: Mr.Chiu Man Chung (Lecturer, School of Law, Charles Darwin University, Australia)
14:25 – 14:45	“My life as a sex worker – at the crossroad between legalisation and decriminalisation”	Ziteng member
14:45 – 15:00	Comment and floor discussion
15:00 - 15:20	Get Out of the Quandary of Community Sex Work with Creativity	Ms. Mary Ann King Wanchai District Councillor
15:20– 15:40	“Legal reform in the sex industry – Possibilities and Constraints”	Ms. Ho Sau Lan Legislative Councillor
15:40– 16:00	Comment and floor discussion
16:00– 16:15	Tea Break
Discussion Session 4	Sex Industry in China	Commentator: Ms. Yim Yuet Lin(staff at Ziteng)
16:15– 16:35	“Control of the sex industry in China – Problems and solutions”	Mr. Pan Suiming Professor, Department of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Research in Gender and Sexuality, People’s University of China
16:35– 16:55	What do I see in the health clinic?	Zhang Ning Director, Jiaozhou Skin Diseases and STDs Prevention Clinic, Qingdao
16:55 - 17:15	Voices of sex workers in Cambodia	Ms. Pry Phally Phuong Senior Program Officer, Womyn's Agenda for Change/ Oxfam Hong Kong
17:15 - 17:35	Comment and floor discussion
17:35– 17:40	Closing recap & The way ahead	ZiTeng