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GI EVENTS
WEBINAR | DIALOGUE
Date: 7pm AEST, Thursday 9 September
Location: online event
This Dialogue will show how and why breastfeeding – as the desirable norm for feeding human infants and children – is where healthy and sustainable food systems really begin and the challenges that must be addressed for this to be the universal social norm.
Amongst a host of current challenges; acknowledging the fact that women’s role in achieving optimal breastfeeding is essential yet billions of women are unable and unavailable to breastfeed due to the lack of social protection like maternity entitlements and childcare services in workplaces, these will be a cross-cutting focus on the social support needed by women.
Speakers:
- Julie Smith, Chair, Honorary Associate Professor, Research School of Population Health, ANU, and Fellow, Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, ANU Crawford School of Public Policy
- Penny Van Esterik, Professor Emerita, York University, Toronto and Adjunct Professor, University of Guelph
- Phillip Baker, Co-chair, and Research Fellow, Institute for Physical Activity and Nutrition (IPAN), Deakin University
- Arun Gupta, Central Coordinator, Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India (BPNI)
- Vandana Prasad, Technical Advisor, Public Health Resource Society (PHRS), New Delhi
» Register now
Supported by the ANU Gender Institute; ANU Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions; BPNI/IBFAN South Asia; Australian Breastfeeding Association; WBTI Australia; Alive & Thrive Southeast Asia
ANU EVENTS
WEBINAR
Date: 4pm, Tuesday 31 August
Location: online event
Previous research has documented that gender equality in many dimensions has deteriorated in former socialist countries. This study focuses on the effect of controlling means of production on having male offspring in the context of post-socialist economic transition in China.
Fangqi Wen is currently a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Sociology at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. She received a PhD in Sociology from New York University in 2019. Later this year, she will join the faculty in the Department of Political and Social Change at Australian National University.
» Link to Zoom Meeting
https://anu.zoom.us/j/81384325598?pwd=Y0NDSFQwck5PZHY5dmZRNEs1cE1WQT09
Meeting ID: 813 8432 5598 | Password: 276173
Hosted by the ANU School of Demography
NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK WORKSHOP
Date: 10.30am-12.30pm, Saturday 28 August
Location: online event
This event introduces LGBTIQA+ students to the amazing ways in which plants share genetic information through pollination. By showcasing this diversity, we hope to break down commonly taught misconceptions about what is ‘natural’. The real natural world is full of amazing adaptations. Nature loves diversity.
Aimed at LGBTIQA+ students 16 and over, this online event will give participants a renewed appreciation that all the world’s beauty and resilience comes from its incredible diversity.
These events aim to provide positive role models and open participants’ eyes to the diversity of people working behind the scenes in Australia’s labs.
» Register now
Auslan available. Hosted by the ANU Paleoworks team and supported by the Australian Government
CONFERENCE
Date: 10.30am-3pm, Wednesday 8 September
Location: online event
The Japan Update is the ANU flagship conference on Japan. The Update will focus on the impact of COVID-19 on Japanese society and prospects for recovery, including the effects of the pandemic on equality, gender and ageing issues, and how recovery in Japanese society will look.
Topics will include the mental health and suicide effects of COVID-19, gender and social gaps in the social safety net and progress in opening up to immigration.
» Register now
Hosted by the Australia-Japan Research Centre (AJRC) and the ANU Japan Institute
CHL HDR SYMPOSIUM 2021
Date: 9.00am-5.30pm, Thursday 9 September
Location: online event
A unique graduate event in CHL’s history, this symposium will showcase the strength and diversity of research conducted by their HDR students through traditional, experimental and creative modes of presentation.
Engaging with intellectual debates from across Anthropology, Archaeology and Natural History, Gender, Media and Cultural Studies, Linguistics and Pacific and Asian History, the School weaves interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches necessary to understanding the lifeworlds within Asia and the Pacific. Such work, conducted in collaboration with partners throughout the world and the region, contributes unique perspectives and insights.
Speakers, Presenters and Posters:
Aileen Marwung Walsh; Ayesha Masood Chaudhry; Bruma Rios Mendoza; Christina Sanderson; Dinith Adikari; Elena Williams; Elvin Xing Yifu; Geoff Piggott; Hendri Kaharudin; Hipolitus Wangge; Lisa Hilli; Mamta Sachan Kuman; Matthew Adeleye; Michael Dunford; Saidalavi P.C.; Salvatore Simarmata; Suliljaw Lusausatj; Talei Luscia Mangioni; Yia Jia Poh; Zara Maxwell-Smith
Keynote by Dr Eva Nisa
» Register now
Hosted by the School of Culture, History & Language at the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
ANU NEWS
WORK OPPORTUNITY
Are you passionate about Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access for staff and students? Do you have experience contributing to dynamic projects and supporting committees? Are you creative and imaginative in designing implementation plans?
The Student and University Experience Portfolio is seeking to fill two continuing positions from this recruitment process and are looking to create a merit list for future vacancies in the Portfolio. The positions will work in the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Student and University Experience, overseen by the Senior Adviser to the Deputy Vice-Chancellor.
PUBLICATIONS BY GI MEMBERS
This essay is a contribution to a special issue of the new Paris-based journal Condition humaine/Conditions politiques reflecting on politics and anthropology at this time of global crisis. Answering questions posed by the editors, Margaret Jolly charts the changing confluence of feminist and decolonial currents, in anthropological and historical studies of the Pacific over the several decades of her research.
» Read it here
In this chapter in Critical Sexual Literacy: Forecasting Trends in Sexual Politics, Diversity and Pedagogy, Margaret Jolly discusses how s exual literacy embraces diverse sexual knowledges circulating in oral and embodied form - from adults to children, between peers, witnessing or emulating the sexualities of others and, increasingly, viewing images circulating in connected virtual and digital worlds.
» Access it here
RESOURCES
INTERNATIONAL NGO
When mothers are heard and respected, informed and supported, they become key partners. And as partners, they must be consulted and involved in development projects, particularly those that directly impact them and their families. MMM advocate for the recognition and support of mothers as changemakers.
They work to:
- Empower mothers to understand and freely exert their rights and responsibilities
- Demand respect, autonomy and dignity for mothers in their diversity
- Emphasise the essential role of a mother in a child’s education and development
- Include maternity in gender equality
- Overcome stigma and discrimination
- Improve maternal and child healthcare
- Reduce unpaid-work hardships
- Promote shared family care work with fathers
- Push for a better work-life balance
- Champion the role of mothers in peace and security
» Learn more
FRIDAY 27 AUGUST 2021
Despite being in lockdown, we can still support this important day with friends and family. Wear it Purple Day is an annual LGBTIQA+ awareness day especially for young people, based in Australia. Supporters wear purple to celebrate diversity and young people from the LGBTIQA+ community.
Wear it Purple Day 2021’s theme is focused on the important and necessary conversations we have in our daily life; that centre around sexual orientation and gender identity. It aims to remind people that the issues we reflect on Wear it Purple Day should not only be considered on that particular day… but every day.
» Find out how to celebrate | Resources
The ANU 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 respects 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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Events*
Self-doubt, Confidence and Visibility, WomenWise™
Tania Rishniw, Deputy Secretary, Department of Health, will share her wisdom and insights on managing
self-doubt, building your confidence and visibility.
Date: 5.30-7.30pm, 15 September
Location: Rowdy Inc: Level 2, City Walk Centre, 2 Mort St
Registration: $70, call Barb on 0419 609030 or email barb@barbaralivesey.com
An opportunity to participate in building a women’s movement for change on this urgent global issue and to bring your voice to the public declaration and action plan that will be produced at the conclusion of the Congress.
Date: 29 November – 1 December
Location: Albert Hall, 100 Commonwealth Ave & online
Tickets & Registration: Humanitix
Women in Leadership Summit 2021
Featuring inspiring keynotes, career-focused case studies, jam-packed panel discussions and interactive workshops for an all-encompassing experience.
Date: postponed to 22 – 25th February 2022
Location: Seymour Centre, Chippendale NSW & online
Tickets: Konnect Learning
* Events are held in a variety of locations - make sure to account for different time zones
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Calls | Opportunities
Minoru Hokari Memorial Scholarship
$5000 for HDR or ECR research in Australian Indigenous history. Closes 30 September 2021.
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Articles
Working mothers on the brink as pandemic burdens collide
Research has established that, in part due to prevailing norms in many families and lower employer tolerance for men working flexibly, working women are taking on most of the extra home duties, care and home-schooling. Women’s mental health has deteriorated to a far greater extent than men’s – in some cases drastically.
The brutal reality of childcare closures for parents
Parents with young children, particularly mothers, are currently taking one for ‘Team Australia’. We owe it to them to recognise the challenges they’re facing and do what we can to help them make it through. The alternative is to see gender equality set back by a decade.
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