News
Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Gender Institute,
I’m delighted to announce that Sally Moyle, who has recently retired from her role as CEO of Care Australia, will be working with the Gender institute on curating some new initiatives relating to gender and public policy. Sally is an Honorary Associate Professor with the ANU and as many of you will know, she brings an enormous wealth of experience from previous roles addressing gender issues both domestically and in international development, including as the former Principal Sector Specialist for Gender Equality at DFAT. Please join me in welcoming Sally – we are very excited by her ideas and the chance to work with her.
In other important news for the Gender institute this week, ANU has signed an agreement with the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, based at King’s College London, to create a node of the Institute here. We look forward to being closely involved with this great initiative. I am presently in the UK and will be meeting with the director of GIWL next week to talk about some of the gender research our members do, including the amazing range of work on gender equity and women’s leadership that has been supported by the Gender Institute.
Finally, we open our second grants round for 2019 this week, with funding available for several projects. We are particularly encouraging submissions for an outstanding Signature Event to be held in 2020.
Best wishes,
Fiona, Gender Institute Convenor
Event date: 10.30-13.00pm 18 October 2019
Event venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Hedley Bull 130 Garran Road, ANU
To mark the 8th year the Gender Institute has been active in fostering research, teaching and engagement on gender issues, both at ANU and beyond, please join us for morning tea on Oct 18th.
This will be followed by a celebration of the exceptional achievements of students and staff at ANU. You are warmly invited to hear from a panel comprised of some of the inspiring women promoted to full Professor at ANU at the start of 2019. Additionally, our annual prizes will be awarded by Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmitt, in recognition of outstanding research on gender among ANU students in 2018.
We will also share a brief report on the work of the Gender Institute.
Schedule
Morning tea: 10.30-11
Welcome from convenor and report: 11-11.15
Panel: 11.15-12.15
Prizes: 12.15-12.45
Closing remarks: 12.45-12.55
Please check out the
Gender Institute website for more details in the coming week!
APPLICATIONS FOR
GRANT ROUND 2 2019 NOW OPEN
Applications are now open for
ANU staff and
students to apply for support for events and initiatives that are accessible to and benefit the wider ANU community. Applications can be made in the following categories (it is acceptable to use multiple categories within a grant application):
- Workshops for postgraduate students (up to $4000)
- Writing workshops for early career researchers (up to $4000)
- Distinguished lecture by a renowned scholar (up to $4000)
- Signature event for subsequent year (up to $10,000)
- Gender equity research and innovative initiatives within ANU (up to $10,000)
- Seed funding for cross-disciplinary, collaborative research to be developed for major funders (up to $4,000)
- Workshop, conference or symposium on gender and/or sexuality (up to $4000)
Grant round 2 2019 closes on
December 6 2019.
Please read the
funding guidelines before submitting an application. The
application form must be submitted via the
online portal.
Please direct all enquiries to
Gender Institute administrator by email.
NETWORK
The ANU LGBTIQ+ Alumni Network's mission is to foster community and build stronger connections between, ANU LGBTIQ+ alumni and students, staff, faculty, parents, and straight allies. The Network will achieve this mission in a variety of ways, including sponsoring social and networking events on campus and around the world, participating in community service and student mentoring programs, and serving as the voice of LGBTIQ+ alumni to the University.
Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Chief Minister Andrew Barr launched the Network at an event on 31 August 2018 - Wear it Purple Day. Chief Minster Barr is also the Network's inaugural patron, as an ANU alumnus and in recognition of his ongoing work in advancing LGBTIQ+ rights and inclusion in the ACT and Australia.
A calendar of events and opportunities is being developed online. You can stay connected with the Network and keep informed about its plans and activities by joining the Network's
Facebook Group or emailing
alumni@anu.edu.au and asking to be added to the email list.
2019 MITCHELL ORATION
Event date: 6.00-7.30pm, 12 September 2019
Event venue: Molonglo Theatre, Level 2, JG Crawford Building 132, Lennox Crossing, ANU
The year 2019 marks two important milestones in the field of reproductive health: 50 years since UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, began operations, and 25 years since the landmark International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo.
Dr Natalia Kanem will discuss the remarkable gains in sexual and reproductive health and rights since 1969, and point to the remaining economic, social, institutional and other barriers that prevent women, girls and young people from making their own decisions and fulfilling their potential. Dr Kanem will share her vision for the pursuit of rights and choices worldwide, present findings from UNFPA’s
State of the World Population Report 2019, and offer some examples of progress and challenges in a number of Pacific countries.
This lecture forms part of the Mitchell Oration series, which was created to provide a forum at which the most pressing development issues can be addressed by the best minds and most influential practitioners of our time.
Please register for the event here
This event is hosted by the Development Policy Centre, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy. With generous support from the Harold Mitchell Foundation in partnership with the United Nations Information Centre, Canberra
SEMINAR
Event date: 12.00-1.00pm, 13 September 2019
Event venue: The Finkel Theatre, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, 131 Garran Road, ANU
While CRISPR-Cas9 has dominated the science headlines in recent years, there has been a broad social and moral consensus that it is too soon to move to clinical use of genome editing in human reproduction. Nevertheless, Chinese scientist He Jiankui reported the use of CRISPR in the births of two girls last year. In this paper, Professor Mills explores the question of what social and ethical effects such early adoption of innovative technologies in the context of human reproduction may have, focusing on scientists, women and future children. Professor Mills argues that responsible innovation in human reproductive technologies requires thinking beyond standard concerns with individual consent, autonomy and risk to broader ideas about shared life-worlds and intersubjectivity.
Professor Catherine Mills is located in the Monash Bioethics Centre at Monash University, where she previously held an ARC Future Fellowship. Her research addresses ethical issues in genomics and innovative reproductive technologies. In current projects, she examines the moral responsibilities of women in pregnancy, as well as the ethical, social and legal implications of inheritable genomic modification of humans.
This event seminar is run by the John Curtin School of Medical Medical Research, ANU
LECTURE
Event date: 2.00-3.30pm, 16 September 2019
Event venue: SDSC Reading Room 3.27, Hedley Bull Centre (130), Garran Road, ANU
Reproductive health is a threat to the security of women around the world. This seminar offers three arguments as to why reproductive health should be recognised as an international security threat. First, global health security performs a normative function: this should be harnessed to elevate reproductive health as a policy concern. In so doing, the concept of global health security needs to be rethought from its common statist conception. Such an engagement refocuses the nature of threat (state denial of reproductive rights) and referent object (women accessing reproductive health services) in global health security. Second, a security frame directly confronts the security dilemma that underpins current cycles of advancement and backlash on reproductive health issues, specifically with relation to reproductive rights, resistance, and denial. Reproductive health presents a security dilemma for its advocates and users: reproductive health services is vital for women’s mortality and morbidity; yet provision can further threaten the lives of women and the people who advocate for services. Such a dilemma should be recognised and named. Third, reproductive health is a missing pillar of the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Ending this oversight is crucial given how reproductive health limits women’s meaningful participation in politics and society.
Sara E. Davies is an Associate Professor at the School of Government and International Relations, Griffith University, Australia. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Gender Peace and Security Centre, School of Social Sciences, Monash University.
This event is hosted by the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU
LECTURE
Event date: 5.30-6.30pm, 17 September 2019
Event venue: Finkel Lecture Theatre, John Curtin School of Medical Research 131 Garran Road, ANU
Organisations are under pressure to increase the representation of women in senior management roles and narrow gender salary gaps. Some countries are increasing regulatory requirements that monitor organisations’ gender diversity composition and practices; organisations that fail to display gender diversity may be criticised in the public press. In the face of these pressures, many organisations are stepping up their gender diversity efforts. This burst of activity is generating visible increases in women’s representation in senior management roles, but a closer look highlights hidden inequities and emerging challenges. What will the future look like for businesses embracing gender diversity at the top?
Carol T. Kulik is a Professor of Human Resource Management at the University of South Australia Business School, and a senior researcher within the Centre for Workplace Excellence. Professor Kulik’s research focuses on the effective management of workforce diversity. Her current projects are investigating strategies for closing the gender gap in salary negotiations, reducing stereotype threat among mature-age workers, and motivating organisations to invest in diversity management.
Please register for the event here
This event is hosted by the College of Business and Economics, ANU
MEETING
Event date: 3.00-5.00pm, 19 September 2019
Event venue: Smiths Alternative, 76 Alinga Street, Canberra
Join The PARSA Queer community for a chill afternoon tea at Smith’s Alternative, with hot chocolate, tea and cake. Meet your fellow postgraduate queers. Free, autonomous event open to queer* identifying and questioning postgraduate students.
This is a free event.
Registration here is required for catering purposes.
SEMINAR
Event date: 3.00-4.30pm, 23 September 2019
Event venue: SDSC Reading Room 3.27, Hedley Bull Centre (130), Garran Road, ANU
Military sexual assault (MSA) is defined as attempted or completed sexual assault while the victim-survivor was serving in the US military, whereas military sexual trauma (MST) is used by the US Department of Veteran Affairs (DVA) as a diagnostic tool to describe the psychological trauma resulting from sexual assault or harassment – and, to determine potential associated DVA health care benefits. According to conservative estimates by the DVA, one in four servicewomen has some experience with MST. While the experience of sexualised violence in the military is similar to that of civilian victim-survivors, there are also aspects that are unique to the military experience.
This seminar aims to tease out the distinctiveness of experience of sexualised violence in the US military context. To do so, it explores the film
The Invisible War (Dick & Ziering, 2012) alongside scholarly literature on the phenomenon of sexualised violence in the military (MSA/MST) specifically as well as (feminist) research on sexualised violence more generally. The aim is to identify what we know about the military sexual violence (MSV) in the US case, as well as to ascertain the continuities and discontinuities with ‘regular’ sexualised violence to begin to understand what makes MSV distinct.
Annick T. R. Wibben is Anna Lindh Professor of Gender, Peace & Security at the Swedish Defence University. Previously she was Professor of Politics and International Studies at the University of San Francisco (2005‒2019), and co-Investigator (with James Der Derian) of the Information Technology, War and Peace Project [infopeace.org] at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University (2001‒2005).
This event is hosted by the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
SEMINAR
Event date: 12.30-2.00pm, 25 September 2019
Event venue: McDonald Room, Menzies Library, 2 McDonald Place, ANU
This study aims to examine how middle-class Muslim women are dealing with the contradictory gender expectations arising from their economic and domestic roles. Amidst this emerging trend, Muslim women are breaking into areas that are new for women, even into occupations of which negative public perceptions exist.
In developing their businesses, Muslim women actively engage in almsgivings and charitable activities to assist the community, while making their harmonious family life public. With the heightened importance of publicly performed Muslim piety among middle-class Indonesians, this paper argues that strategically utilising Islamic discourses plays an important role in mitigating a potential gender role tension and also in facilitating women’s economic activities.
The paper shows that middle-class Muslim women exemplify appropriate discourses to support income-generating activities with reference to Islam. Consequently, community perceptions of these Muslim businesswomen are becoming positive, indirectly fostering the women’s expanding entrepreneurial and business initiatives in increasingly Islamising Indonesia. Utilising such discourses to assist Muslim women’s agency is essential in achieving middle-class women’s economic empowerment in Indonesia.
Minako Sakai is Associate Professor in Southeast Asian Social Enquiry and Indonesian Studies and leads the Asia Pacific Development and Security Research Group at UNSW. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at the College of Asia and Pacific, ANU for collaborative research. Associate Professor Sakai works on inter-linked research themes, religion and regional identity (Islam), civil society and social change in Asia, especially Indonesia.
Please follow this link to the original event page.
This event is hosted by the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics and Indonesia Project, Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU
SEMINAR
Event date: 6.00-8.00pm, 13 November 2019
Event venue: Theatrette (2.02), Sir Roland Wilson Building (120), McCoy Circuit, ANU
The Australian Studies Institute and PwC are pleased to present as part of their
Inspiring Women Reflect series the
Hon Dame Annette King, New Zealand High Commissioner to Australia, in conversation with the
Hon Ros Kelly AO.
HON DAME ANNETTE KING commenced duties as the New Zealand High Commissioner to Australia in December 2018. Prior to taking up this position, she served as Deputy Leader of the New Zealand Labour Party and Deputy Leader of the Opposition from 2008 to 2011 and from 2014 until 2017. She was a Senior Cabinet Minister in the Fifth Labour Government of New Zealand and was the MP for the Rongotai electorate in Wellington from 1996 to 2017. Her portfolios included Health, Police, Transport and Justice.
HON ROS KELLY AO has worked across the political, private and not for profit sectors. Ros was a member of the Australian Government for 16 years serving as a Minister in a number of portfolios. She was the first woman ALP cabinet minister in the House of Representatives. After leaving politics, Ros worked at the interface between mining and the environment. Ros was Chair of the National Breast Cancer Foundation from 2005 to 2010 and a Director of Thiess from 1998 to 2012. Ros currently serves as an advisor to Women On Boards UK and as a Commissioner of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the Chair of the Commonwealth War Graves Foundation. Ros was made an Officer (AO) of the Order of Australia in 2004 for services to the environment, mining, women's health and the Australian Parliament.
Please register for the event here
This event is hosted by the Australian Studies Institute, ANU
CONFERENCE
Event date: 14-15 November 2019
Event venue: Sir Roland Wilson Building, Building #120, McCoy Circuit, ANU
Questions of sexuality and refugee or migration status remain on the margins of queer and refugee movements, policy and support services.
The first of its kind in Australia, this conference aims to bring together academics, practitioners and LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum and refugees to discuss pertinent issues of queer forced displacement and foster dialogue between official and unofficial groups invested in research and practice for coordinated solutions and better support of affected populations.
The Humanities Research Centre invite proposals for papers and panels that will respond in diverse and interdisciplinary ways to the questions of an intersection of sexuality with a refugee status, including situations when queer people fall through the cracks of common refugee or migration pathways.
Queer people with the lived experience of seeking asylum are especially encouraged to apply.
For further details on each of the topic listed above, please see the
conference call for papers.
This conference is committed to putting the lived experience of queer asylum at the centre of the conversation. Please consider supporting LGBTIQ+ people from refugee backgrounds to attend the conference:
https://chuffed.org/project/queer-displacements
This conference is supported by the Humanities Research Centre, ANU College of Arts and Social Science. It is co-funded by the ACT Government Office for LGBTIQ+ Affairs and the Gender Institute
LECTURE
Event date: 5 December 2019
Event Venue: Lecture Theatre, Australian Centre on China in the World, Building 188, Fellows Lane, ANU
This lecture draws on interviews conducted with staff and students who have made complaints within universities that relate to unfair, unjust or unequal working conditions and to abuses of power such as bullying and harassment. Making a complaint requires becoming an institutional mechanic: you have to work out how to get a complaint through the system. It is because of the difficulty of getting through that complaints often end up being about the system. The lecture considers how complaints are often 'managed' by institutions in order to limit damage or to avoid a crisis. These institutional tactics for managing complaints can be understood as forms of bullying and harassment. The lecture explores the significance of how complaints happen behind closed doors and shows how doors are often closed even when they appear to be opened.
Sara Ahmed is an independent feminist scholar and writer. Her new book
What's the Use? On the Uses of Use is forthcoming with Duke University Press in 2019. Her recent publications include
Living a Feminist Life (2017),
Willful Subjects (2014),
On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (2012) and
The Promise of Happiness (2010). She also blogs at
www.feministkilljoys.com.
This talk is a keynote lecture as part of the HRC's Annual Conference, 'What We Talk About When We Talk About Crisis: Social, Environmental, Institutional', being held at the ANU 5-6 December. This lecture is free and open to the public.
