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GI EVENTS
WEBINAR
Event date: 6-8pm, 29 June 2020
Venue: Zoom
Brought to you by the ANU Crawford School of Public Policy, the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute and the ANU Gender Institute
GI NEWS
GENDER INSTITUTE FUNDING
This call for applications for our grants aims as usual to support gender research and gender equity related activities at ANU. In this time of crisis, such work is needed more than ever.
Projects selected in this round will reflect and grow outstanding gender, sexuality and intersectional research at ANU and/ or support gender equity related projects, using online and remote methods of working. Projects that aim to influence gender-related public policy and/or include or support early career academics will be especially welcome, as will projects that initiate or consolidate national and international collaborations.
In line with expectations about the likely limits of events on campus, we will not be funding any travel or catering for events planned in 2020. Rather we will be seeking to develop the online presence of the ANU Gender Institute network as well as its local, national and international reach. Up to $5,000 can be requested by current members of the Gender Institute.
For full details please visit our website. This call closes on 6 July 2020.
The application cover sheet and full project description template are available for download from the grant information webpage. Applications must be submitted via the online portal.
Credits Mark Garry
ANU EVENTS
ANU/CANBERRA TIMES VIRTUAL MEET THE AUTHOR
Event date: 6-7pm, 15 July 2020
In this virtual Meet the Author live event, Julia Gillard and Quentin Bryce discuss Julia's new book, co-authored with Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Women and Leadership.
Almost every year new findings are published about the way people see women leaders compared with their male counterparts. The authors have taken that academic work and tested it in the real world. The same set of interview questions were put to each leader in frank face-to-face interviews. Their responses were then used to examine each woman's journey in leadership and whether their lived experiences were in line with or different from what the research would predict.
Women and Leadership presents a lively and readable analysis of the influence of gender on women's access to positions of leadership, the perceptions of them as leaders, the trajectory of their leadership and the circumstances in which it comes to an end. By presenting the lessons that can be learned from women leaders, such as Jacinda Ardern, Hillary Clinton, Joyce Banda and Christine Lagarde, Julia and Ngozi provide a road map of essential knowledge to inspire us all, and an action agenda for change that allows women to take control and combat gender bias.
The Honourable Julia Gillard AC was sworn in as the 27th Prime Minister of Australia on 24 June 2010, the first woman to ever serve as Australia's Prime Minister. As Prime Minister and in her previous role as Deputy Prime Minister, Ms Gillard delivered nation-changing policies including reforming Australian education at every level from early childhood to university education, creating an emissions trading scheme to combat climate change, improving health care, commencing the nation's first ever national scheme to care for people with disabilities, addressing the gender pay gap for social and community sector workers and delivering an apology to all those who had suffered through the practice of forced adoptions.
The Honourable Dame Quentin Bryce AD CVO has enjoyed a rich and distinguished career as an academic, lawyer, community and human rights advocate, senior public officer, university college principal, and vice-regal representative in Queensland and Australia. On 5 September 2008 Quentin Bryce was sworn in as Australia's twenty-fifth Governor-General, the first woman to take up the office. When her term concluded in March 2014, Prime Minister Tony Abbott announced her appointment as a Dame in the Order of Australia.
The meet the author event will be introduced and chaired by Professor Brian Schmidt AC FAA FRS, Vice-Chancellor and President of The Australian National University.
Please register for this event here
Signed copies by Julia Gillard of Women and Leadership will be available for sale at Harry Hartog bookshop, ANU
ANU NEWS
CALL FOR PAPERS 
COVID-19 has upended daily life with nations struggling to stop the spread of this deadly virus. The virus has changed so much – how we work, play, relate to one another, celebrate milestones, and mourn our dead. It has changed the basic rhythms and routines of life in 2020 and beyond. The virus has reconfigured so many things but has it changed everything? Which changes will endure? Which practises will revert to their pre-COVID-19 status quo? What does a post-COVID-19 future look like?
Inviting contributors to consider the post-pandemic world from a broad range of perspectives and disciplines. As the title of the symposium suggests, Australia is placed at the centre of our discussions but welcoming analysis that positions a post-COVID-19 Australia within international and global contexts. Comparative studies are also welcomed.
31 July 2020: Due date for submission of your 250-500 word abstracts via Eventbrite
22 October 2020: Interdisciplinary Virtual Symposium
Enquiries: admin.ausi@anu.edu.au | +61 02 6125 7459
PUBLICATIONS BY GI MEMBERS
IN THE MEDIA
Can anti-racism be taught in school? Helping teachers and students recognise and reject racism is important now more than ever.
That's the aim of a new evidence based program, Speak Out Against Racism (SOAR)
"We need to ensure schools are free from racism and that all children have the opportunity to thrive without the burden of racism and its harms," says the program's lead researcher ANU expert Naomi Priest.
Given the particular vulnerability of women during the pandemic, social assistance schemes under the government’s COVID-19 Economic Relief Plan (CERP) should prioritise women who have lost their livelihoods during the crisis, women experiencing domestic violence and survivors of gender-based violence.
Without a focus on violence against women and girls, the government’s COVID-19 response risks contradicting the CERP’s promise to “leave no one behind,” writes Khin Khin Mra
» Read here
PUBLICATIONS BY GI MEMBERS
ARTICLES
In this chapter Amanda Laugesen considers what she calls ‘feminist linguistic activism’ in Australia in the 1970s and 1980s. She firstly considers the international feminist and academic concern with the gendered nature of language. Some of the concrete efforts made to shape language use, through style guides and the use of titles such as ‘Ms’, are examined in an effort to assess what changes were made, or at least attempted, in terms of shaping official public language, such as the language of government. Finally, she considers criticisms made at the time of such change, and the subsequent debates that continue to the present around so-called political correctness.
» Read here
A thread that runs through all of Patrick White's works is the refusal of the either/or, of the rigid division between oppositions. As Jacques Derrida has illustrated, dualisms such as mind/body operate by constructing one term as the negative of (but necessary pre-condition for) the other. This inequitable valuation of the constituent terms of the dualism results in a discriminatory conception of the 'normal', ensuring the social dominance of positionings such as masculine, heterosexual. These hierarchized dualisms suppress ambiguous spaces between opposed categories so that any overlapping region between the pair, for example, between masculine and feminine, becomes impossible and a space of taboo in social experience.
White's central concern in The Twyborn Affair is the sexually ambivalent person's struggle for identity; in other words, a recognition of the overlapping space between the masculine and the feminine, writes Jyoti Nandan.
» Available here
RESEARCH PROJECTS | SURVEYS
Margaret Thornton, Fiona Jenkins, Anne Macduff and Kate Ogg (all of the ANU) are conducting research on the gendered impact of working at home as a result of the lockdown. They are interested in the experiences of men and women in regard to the conduct of household and caring responsibilities, as well as supervising schooling, in conjunction with paid work.
» Respond to the survey here
This research project is about how work – paid and unpaid – is changing due to the social and economic disruptions caused by COVID-19/Coronavirus. Specifically, how COVID-19 is affecting how men and women are managing paid work, housework and caring responsibilities for children, older people and other family members. The aim is to understand the issues and challenges faced during this period to inform research and policy.
» Complete the online survey questionnaire here
The purpose of this research project is to examine work-family balance and a variety of related well-being outcomes in working fathers. Specifically, this study will look at fathers’ experiences of managing the competing demands of work and family life and how this might impact aspects of parenting such as stress, guilt, and satisfaction.
You are invited to participate in this research project if you are a father with one or more children aged 12 years or under who works or studies at least 15 hours per week.
» Participate in the survey here
RESOURCES
Protecting human rights requires more vigilance than ever in a time of crises. The Australian Human Rights Institute has created this portal to share news, reflections, and policy advances on COVID-19 across the human rights spectrum.
Having an overview of the pandemics’ trajectory and its human rights impacts is crucial in keeping governments and businesses accountable during these unprecedented times. It is also important to keep a record of the disparities and deficiencies that emerge, as this will inform better practices and response mechanisms for the future.
» Find out more here
Explore women’s stories from around the globe with the Women’s Studies Archive. Focusing on the evolution of feminism throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the Archive provides materials on women’s political activism, such as suffrage, pacifism, civil rights, as well as resources on women’s voices, from female-authored literature to women’s periodicals.
» Note that you need to apply for a Library card to access this eResource
The Gender Institute acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as First Australians and traditional custodians of the lands upon which we live, meet and work. We pay our respect to their elders past and present as well as emerging leaders and celebrate their expansive and ongoing contributions to the ANU and the Institute. We thank them for their continued hospitality on country.
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Calls | Opportunities
Youth InterACT Scholarships
Available to support young people to stay engaged and connected, they provide funding of up to $500 for young people to participate in an activity, event or program. Deadline 26 June
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The Gender Institute newsletter is published weekly on Thursday. If you would like your news or event included, please email details by midday on Wednesday to our administrator. Anything received after this time will not be included until the following week. Items for inclusion on our website can be sent at any time.
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Events
Women of the World (WOW) Global 24
With the overarching theme of “Women and Girls in a Time of Crisis”, WOW Global 24 will analyse the issues, explore solutions, spotlight what is already being done, and hear from women, girls and people of all genders who are working towards a better, post Covid-19 world
Event dates and venue: 6-9pm, 27 June & 9am-4pm, 28 June ONLINE
More information: Facebook
Using FI concepts to understand the Coronavirus pandemic
The Australian Human Rights Institute & The Feminist Institutionalism International Network (FIIN) are running a series of webinars to discuss the usefulness of feminist institutionalist concepts and methods for understanding shifts in gender rules, practices and outcomes due to the pandemic
Event date & venue: 9-10.30pm, 30 June 2020 ONLINE
Registration: Eventbrite
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Articles
The new austerity: why it will hurt women more than men
With record levels of government debt many experts are anticipating a new raft of austerity measures that will be more severe than anything previously imposed on Australians. But who will bear the brunt of such fiscal belt tightening? Women
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