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THE BUDGET AND GENDER JUSTICE
Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Gender Institute,
The Australian government budget announced last week, like the various schemes introduced to catalyse an economic recovery from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic has been widely criticised for perpetuating gender injustice. This has been argued vis a vis the specific proposals in the higher education 'job ready package' and more broadly apropos the disproportionate sums dedicated to construction and a 'gas-led' recovery as against the neglect of child care, and economic sectors where women are concentrated in health, education and service delivery. Several commentators on the ABC Insiders program on Sunday 11 October - Laura Tingle, Shayne Wright and Katherine Murphy described it as a 'blokey budget'. We encourage you to pursue some of the most important debates about the gender injustice of the budget through the following link. Watch this space.
Warmly,
Margaret
GI EVENTS
SEMINAR SERIES
Event date: 10am-12.30pm, 23 October
Female-Identifying Researcher at ANU?
Interested in building your creativity, communication & confidence?
Want to look at your research from a new perspective?
The ANU Gender Institute, the ANU Medical School and the ANU School of Art and Design present Imperfect Bodies of Research: an interdisciplinary, integrative workshop series for female-identifying researchers. These are a series of cross-disciplinary workshops for female-identifying researchers that target creativity, confidence, risk-taking and well-being.
The workshops commenced in February but, as a result of the global situation, we’ve had a few spots in the program open up.
Interested? Numbers are limited, so please express your interest ASAP, by emailing lillian.smyth@anu.edu.au
WEBINAR 3
Event date: 5.30-6.30pm (AEDT), 27 October
Over many years there has been growing discussion across the women, peace and security space about “emerging issues” - mass displacement, climate change, pandemics, humanitarian crises and violent extremism - and their growing impact on peace and security globally, and in our region. These issues are no longer “emerging” and the unequal, gendered impacts are influencing the lives, livelihoods and security of women and girls everyday.
What needs to change to redefine our traditional understandings of security, to address these “emerged” issues, to respond to the gendered impacts and to provide practical and sustainable approaches to address them?
At the point of the 20th anniversary of UN SCR 1325, what needs to change and shift in our response to the WPS agenda; for civil society, especially for diverse women and girls, nation states and multilateral organisations. This webinar will focus on pandemics, climate change and humanitarian crises.
Beth Eggleston is passionate about approaching humanitarian action differently. After surviving the bureaucracy of large international NGOs and the United Nations, Beth co-founded Humanitarian Advisory Group in 2012, a social enterprise that aims to harness humanitarian passion with entrepreneurial energy and innovation.
Dr Sara E. Davies is Professor of International Relations at Griffith University and an Adjunct Fellow at the Monash University Gender Peace and Security Centre. Her research focuses on Global Health Diplomacy, Human Security, and the Women, Peace and Security agenda.
Dr Ludmilla Kwitko has worked on women, peace and security and gender equality, international aid and development issues over the last 30 years. She is currently Associate Professor (Honorary) at the Gender Institute, College of Asia and the Pacific, ANU. She is also a Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Australia Board member.
Proudly co-sponsored by the The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Australia and the ANU Gender Institute
ANU EVENTS
DISCUSSION GROUP
Event dates: 10am, 15 October; 10am, 22 October; 10am, 29 October
Science Society ANU will be hosting weekly Women* in STEM coffee catch ups throughout this semester at 10am every Thursday to chat and mingle with others who love science.
Please note that this event is autonomous and welcomes all ANU STEM students who identify as women, woman-aligned or experience gendered oppression as a result of being perceived as a woman
» In line with the University's COVID-19 safety plan, please complete the very brief pre-registration form before attending this event.
LECTURE
Event date: 5.30-6.30pm, 23 October
Sophie Cottin: Counter-Revolutionary feminism and its impact on humanity.
In the period 1816-20, Claire d’Albe was in fact the best selling novel in France, followed closely by Cottin's Élisabeth ou les Exilés de Sibérie (1806). Despite her being amongst the most popular authors of the early nineteenth century, Sophie Cottin is now largely forgotten. Yet, does an author have to be canonical to have changed humanity?
Cottin’s first novel quickly gained her a reputation, engendering fascination and raising eyebrows. During the Revolutionary decade and afterwards, when it was dangerous to speak out and when women were expected to be confined to the domestic sphere, Cottin exhibits a specific brand of counter-revolutionary feminism and a feminine mal du siècle which made her a great influence on later writers, and a valuable source of information on a turbulent period of history.
Christie Margrave is a Lecturer in French Studies in the College Arts & Social Sciences at the Australian National University. Her area of research expertise is 18th- and 19th-century French literature, and she has published on women's writing, ecocritical literature, and literature from the French colonies
» Register here
This event is part of the Books that Changed Humanity series by the ANU Humanities Research Centre
ONLINE CONFERENCE
Event dates: 10-13 November
Know My Name Conference celebrates all women as artists, activists, researchers, intellectuals and mentors now and into the future. Foregrounding First Nations perspectives and diverse voices, the event will bring together leading and emerging Australian and international voices from arts and academia to share ideas, insights and creative practice.
Through keynotes, performances, panels, discussions and artist-led approaches, the conference will consider historical and contemporary experiences of gender and feminism in the arts to imagine new futures.
Nan Goldin: one of the most important and influential artists of our time, over the last 45 years Goldin has revolutionised the art of photography through her frank and deeply personal portraiture and has created some of contemporary culture’s most indelible images.
Genevieve Grieves: a proud Aboriginal woman of the Worimi nation of Australia, Grieves is an educator, curator, filmmaker, artist, oral historian, researcher, and writer with 20 years’ experience in the arts and culture.
Jennifer Higgie: Australian-born writer, editor-at-large of frieze magazine and presenter of the podcast Bow Down: Women in Art History.
Griselda Pollock: Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory & History at the University of Leeds and the 2020 Laureate of the Holberg Prize, awarded for her contribution to feminism and art history.
» Program and tickets available here
Image credit: Sue Ford Faces 1976, National Gallery of Australia, purchased 1984 © Sue Ford/Copyright Agency
Presented by the National Gallery of Australia, in collaboration with the Australia Council for the Arts, ANU School of Art & Design, University of Melbourne and UNSW Art & Design
PUBLICATIONS BY GI MEMBERS
Chay Brown reports on the development of Central Australian Minimum Standards for the Men's Behaviour Change Programs. The Central Australian Minimum Standards (CAMS) articulate the expectations for Men’s Behaviour Change Programs (MBCP) operating in the Central Australian context. The CAMS was developed out of recognition that the Northern Territory has the highest rates of domestic, family, and sexual violence (DFSV) in Australia.
» Read here
Everyday Revolutions, edited by Angela Wollacott, brings together new research on the cultural and social impact of the feminist and sexual revolutions of the 1970s in Australia. It is unique in its focus not on the activist or legislative achievements of the women’s and gay and lesbian movements, but on their cultural and social dimensions. It is a diverse and rich collection of essays that reminds us that women’s and gay liberation were revolutionary movements.
» Access here
RESOURCES
PODCAST
On 7 October, Australia's Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins and International Bar Association's Senior Legal Advisor Kieran Pender came together to discuss how Australia and Australians can effectively address the scourge of sexual harassment in our workplaces.
» Listen here
POETRY PODCAST
Between the Leaves is a feminist poetry podcast that celebrates the lived experience of women and gender diverse people. The series is hosted by award-winning Mununjali poet Ellen van Neerven, author of Throat (2019); and Hermina Burns, author of two poetry collections, Bite of Bluebottle and Against Separation Creek.
In episode one, Ellen and Hermina share a selection of poems that pay homage to the work that women and gender diverse people do, the hidden histories of unpaid labour, and the real meaning of work.
» Listen here
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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Events
Sex and Gender Dimension in Frontier Research
The goal of the workshop is to raise awareness on how gender dimension, in the way research is designed, conducted and administered, influences the quality and usefulness of the results
Event date: 16 November
Registration: EUSurvey
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Articles
Many of the women featured in the film describe the sweep of second wave feminism as an awakening, like coming out of a fog, a feeling they’d been hoodwinked into this great con of domesticity, child rearing and menial work. And when those realisations kicked in, they kicked in hard, manifesting in anger, rage and a determined will to shake the cage.
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Calls | Opportunities
Inviting submissions for a Catalyst special section, “The Domestication of War” to gather critically and theoretically engaged feminist interventions that study the latent and enduring violence of militarization which is so deeply rooted in the fabric and technologies of everyday life that it emerges effortlessly from objects, spaces, infrastructures and scientific practices. Deadline 15 January 2021.
Call for Papers - Complexities of Care and Caring
This special issue of Signs invites reassessments across disciplines, broadly questioning and complicating feminist histories, debates, and politics of care and caring. Deadline 15 December 2021.
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