Jialin Christina Wu - CRH

Jialin Christina Wu
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Education
EHESS (Paris) and UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Doctoral Candidate in History (Joint PhD Programme)
France & Belgium
October 2010 – Present
Research Fellow (Doctoral Researcher, Aspirant), F.R.S.-FNRS
Dissertation Title: "Youth in Movement: Scouts and Guides in British Malaya (1910 – 1966)"
Supervisors: Laura Lee Downs (EHESS, EUI) and Paul Servais (UCLouvain)
Thesis Committee: L.L. Downs (EHESS & EUI, Florence), P. Servais (UCLouvain), M.E. Chessel (EHESS), M.
Dumoulin, (UCLouvain), J. Darwin (Oxford U.), T. Harper (Cambridge U.) & J.M. Yante (UCLouvain)
Date of defence: 28 April 2015
EHESS (Paris)
Masters in Research (History), Highest Distinction (Mention Très Bien)
France
October 2009 – June 2010
National University of Singapore (NUS)
Bachelor of Arts in History (Hons.)
Singapore
August 2005 – May 2009
University Scholars Programme (USP)
Education at Other Institutions
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Summer Semester 2007/2008.
Germany
February – August 2008
Yale University (New Haven)
Yale Summer Session 2007, USP Representative (NUS-In-Yale).
USA
June – July 2007
Scholarship, Grants and Awards
Fonds de la recherche scientifique-FNRS
Doctoral Research Fellowship (Aspirant).
Belgium
October 2011 – September 2015
National University of Singapore
Dean’s List and Senior Honour Roll (University Scholars Programme).
Baden-Württemberg-Stipendium für Studierende
Scholarship of the Foundation Baden-Wüttemberg.
University Scholars Programme
Full Sponsorship for Yale Summer Session 2007 (NUS-In-Yale).
Singapore
Academic Year 2008 – 2009
Germany
March – July 2008
Singapore
June – July 2007
Languages
English: Native language.
Mandarin (Chinese): Native language.
French: Fluent.
German: Basic (speaking, listening, reading).
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Dissertation and Master’s Thesis in French
Exchange Programme in Germany, 8 Months
Publications
Edited Volumes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1. Jialin Christina Wu and Paul Servais (eds.), Altérité rencontrée, perçue, représentée: Entre Orient et
Occident du 18e au 21e siècle (Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia-L’Harmattan, 2014).
Journal Articles (Peer-Reviewed). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1. "A Life of Make-Believe: Being Boy Scouts and ’Playing Indian’ in British Malaya (1910 – 1942)", in
Gender & History (Special Issue: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges), Issue 26, No. 3 (November
2014): pp. 589 – 619.
2. "’First Unto God and then to the Queen’: Frederick Ney’s Empire/Commonwealth Youth Movement from the Inter-War Period to the 1960s", in Études Canadiennes/Canadian Studies, No. 75
(December 2013): pp. 33 – 48.
3. "Écrits sur le corps: Genre, colonialisme et espace public dans l’affaire Maria Hertogh (1950) –
(Masters ayant concourru pour le Prix Mnémosyne)", in Genre & Histoire, No. 8 (Spring 2011),
Online since 31 October 2011.
Book Chapters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1. (Forthcoming) "A Malayan Girlhood on Parade: Colonial Femininities, Transnational Mobilities and
the Girl Guide Movement in British Malaya", in Richard Ivan Jobs and David Martin Pomfret (eds.),
Transnational Histories of Youth in the Twentieth Century (London: Palgrave Macmillian, 2015).
2. "Plus qu’un pique-nique glorifié: L’alimentation des Scouts et des Guides à Singapour à l’époque
coloniale", in Jialin Christina Wu and Paul Servais (eds.), Altérité rencontrée, perçue, représentée: Entre
Orient et Occident du 18e au 21e siècle (Louvain-la-Neuve: Academia-L’Harmattan, 2014): pp. 117 –
138.
3. "Under the Skin: Colonial-Local Anxieties of the Domestic Realm in the Maria Hertogh Controversy",
in Bruce Lockhart (ed.), Studies in Malaysian & Singapore History: Mubin Sheppard Memorial Essays,
Monograph. 42 (Petaling Jaya: Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society [MBRAS], 2010): pp.
115 – 160.
Workshop/Conference Papers
1. (Forthcoming) "Contested Narratives of Marriage at the ’Age of Independence’: British Malaya
(1950)", in Marriage’s Global Past: Workshop for the Special Issue of Gender & History, University of
Cambridge, United Kingdom, 7 – 9 April 2016.
2. (Forthcoming) "To Whistle Under All Difficulties: Rover Scouts of the ’Clan de l’Étape’ in the
Concentration Camp of Miranda de Ebro (1941 – 1943)", in France and the Second World War in Global
Perspective, 1919 – 1945, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom, 2 – 3 July 2015.
3. (Forthcoming) "Disciplining Native Masculinities: Colonial Violence in the ’Land of the Pirate and
the Amok’ in Violence, Colonialism and Empire in the Modern and Contemporary World, British Academy,
London, United Kingdom, 29 June – 1 July 2015.
4. (Forthcoming) "Narratives of the Maria Hertogh Controversy in British Malaya (1950)", in Society for
the History of Childhood and Youth (SHCY): Eighth Biennial Conference, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada, 24 – 26 June 2015.
5. (Forthcoming) "The Maria Hertogh Controversy: A Case-Study of Trans-Imperial Scandals and
Subjectivities in (De)-Colonial Southeast Asia (1950)", in Among Empires: The British Empire in Global
Imperial Context, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 27 – 29 May 2015.
6. "Torn Between Two Worlds": Contested Narratives of the Age of Marriage Bill in British Malaya",
in Re-dessiner le changement social dans et par-delà les crises: Re-designing social change within & beyond
crisis. Colloque International IACCHOS, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 30 March – 1
April 2015.
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7. "Performing Colonial Knowledge: Masculinity, Indigeneity, and ’Playing Native’ through the Scout
Movement in British Malaya" in (De-)Colonizing Knowledge: Figures, Narratives, and Practices, Freie
Universität Berlin, Germany, 16 – 17 February 2015.
8. "Playing Indians: Colonial Circulations and Indigeneous Boyhood in British Malaya", in Journée des
rencontres doctorales: Queen Mary, London et PRI britannique, EHESS, Paris, France, 6 – 7 June 2013.
9. "A Life of Make Believe: Colonial Circulations and Constructions of Indigenous Boyhood Through
Scouting in British Malaya", in Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges: Workshop for the Special Issue
of Gender & History, Brown University, Providence, USA, 16 – 17 May 2013.
10. "Youths in Movement: Youth Movements and their Impact Beyond Frontiers in Southeast Asia", in
"A Transnational Age" Workshop, University of Hong Kong, 21 – 24 June 2012.
11. "A Malayan Girlhood on Parade: Indigenous Girls, Colonial Femininity and the Girl Guide Movement
in British Malaya", in Colonial Girlhood/Colonial Girls Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia,
13 – 15 June 2012.
12. "Écrit sur le corps: Genre, colonialisme et l’espace public dans l’affaire Maria Hertogh (1950)", in
Femmes et genre en contexte colonial/Women and Gender in Colonial Contexts, Centre Mahler, Université
Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne (Cemaf et Centre d’Histoire du XIXe siècle), École Normale Supérieure,
(ENS Lyon, LARHRA) and New York University (NYU Paris), Sciences Po, Paris, France, 19 – 21
January 2012.
13. "Under the Skin: Colonial Tensions over Race, Sexuality and Religion in the Maria Hertogh Controversy (1950)", in 2nd International Conference of the Netherlands Association for Gender Studies and
Feminist Anthropology (LOVA): Ethnographies of Gender and Conflict, University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands, 6 – 8 July 2011.
14. "Colonial Pressures at Post-Colonial Transitions: British and Dutch Interventions in the Maria
Hertogh Controversy (1950)" in Colonial Circulations: Colonialism in Comparative Perspective, University
of Bristol, United Kingdom, 4 – 5 July 2011.
15. "In their Footsteps: Cultural Transmissions through Scouting and its Reappropriations in British
Malaya", in Empire State of Mind: Articulations of British Culture in the Empire, 1707-1997, Lingnan
University, Hong Kong, 25 – 27 May 2011.
16. "Diagnosing Passion in the Tropics: ’Amok’ and Colonial Classification in British Malaya", in Scientising the Other: Science, Medicine and the Study of Human Difference, 1800 – 1950, Churchill College,
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, 22 June 2010.
Teaching Experience
UCLouvain (Louvain-la-Neuve)
Teaching Assistant, "L’Outre-mer et ses relations avec l’Europe"
Belgium
September 2013 – September 2014
Instructors: Paul Servais and Michel Dumoulin.
Level: First year Masters students in History, 22.5 Hrs (10 ECTS Credits).
Duties: Lesson planning, preparing coursework, evaluating written assignments & presentations.
Research Seminar Papers Presented
1. "La construction du savoir colonial. ’Jouer aux Indiens’ dans le mouvement scout en Malaisie
britannique", in Séminaire du Laboratoire de Recherches Historiques [LaRHis]: Les réseaux en histoire:
enjeux et méthodes, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 27 November 2014.
2. "Écrit sur le corps: Genre, colonialisme et espace public dans l’affaire Maria Hertogh (1950)", in Le
genre en situation colonial et post-colonial: séminaire mensuel de NYUF et Centre d’Histoire du XIX siècle,
New York University [NYU Paris], France, 24 April 2013.
3. "La jeunesse en mouvement: Le Scoutisme des deux côtés du miroir colonial (1910 – 1973)", in La
protection sociale en temps de crise: France-Îles britanniques aux XIXe – XXe siècles, EHESS, 17 May 2011.
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