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FEATURED ANU EVENT
PANEL DISCUSSION
Event date: 1-3pm, TOMORROW Friday 21 May
Location: Australian Centre on China in the World, Lotus Hall, ANU
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia, Interphobia & Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) celebrates LGBTQIA+ people globally, and raises awareness for the work still needed to combat discrimination.
To mark IDAHOBIT 2021 the ANU Ally Network has invited experts and advocates from different fields to reflect on the hot button policy and social issues facing LGBTIQA+ communities in a post marriage equality Australia and in the midst of a global pandemic. The panellists will offer expertise and experiences across a range of topics, including conversion practice reform, education, religious discrimination and trans and intersex peer support, with a discussion facilitated by Joel Radcliffe (Manager, ANU Respectful Relationships Unit) followed by a Q&A.
Panellists include:
- Ghassan Kassisieh - Legal Director, Equality Australia
- Professor Mary Lou Rasmussen - College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
- Dr Timothy Jones - Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
- Alistair Ott - Engagement Coordinator, A Gender Agenda
» Register
Brought to you by the ANU Respectful Relationships Unit (ANU Ally Network Conveners)
GI EVENTS
LIVE EVENT & ONLINE FORUM
Event date: 9.30-11am, Friday 28 May
Location: Auditorium, ANU RSSS Building, 12 Ellery Crescent & online
In March and June 2021, UN Women is convening the Generation Equality Forum (GEF), co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France. This landmark Forum brings together global partners, activists and allies to define and commit to concrete actions that will accelerate gender equality.
You are invited to join us to mark the global Generation Equality Forum here in Canberra, or online via a livestream. Focussing on the coalition theme of Economic Justice and Rights, representatives from the Mexican and French Governments will share their insights from the GEF in Mexico and plans for the forthcoming GEF in Paris. Our panel of experts will highlight what is working, and how we build new economic and social systems that include, and work, for everyone.
Speakers include:
- Delphine O, Ambassador, Secretary General of the Generation Equality Forum
- Julie-Ann Guivarra, Australia’s Ambassador for Gender Equality
- Bettina Baldeschi, CEO IWDA
Brought to you by UN Women Australia, the Embassy of Mexico in Australia, the Embassy of France in Australia, CARE Australia, the International Women's Development Agency and the ANU Gender Institute
ANU EVENTS
HRC SEMINAR SERIES
Event date: 4.30pm, 25 May
Location: virtual event
Writing in 1946, Frankfurt School critic Siegfried Kracauer expressed dismay in response to what he saw as a new vogue for ‘horror sheerly for the sake of entertainment’ in Hollywood.
This seminar looks at several films—retroactively classed as film noirs—implicated in the vogue for ‘terror’ and ‘horror’ that disturbed Kracauer in the post-war moment: The Spiral Staircase (1946), directed by Robert Siodmak, adapted from Ethel Lina White’s novel Some Must Watch (1933), Otto Preminger’s Laura (1944), based on Vera Caspary’s 1942 novel of the same name, and Max Ophuls’ Caught (1949), adapted from Libbie Block’s Wild Calendar (1945). Focusing on continuities and discontinuities between these films and the works of popular fiction on which they were based, this seminar reassesses the darkness of noir narratives in the context of shifting conceptions of liberalism, femininity, and forms of agency in mid-twentieth-century American culture.
Morgan Thomas researches ideas of the ‘poor’ image in modern and contemporary art, with a primary focus on visual culture in mid-century and postwar America. She has taught on a variety of topics in modern and contemporary art history, museum studies, post-colonial studies, and film and media studies.
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ANU/CANBERRA TIMES MEET THE AUTHOR SERIES
Event date: 6-7pm, 16 June
Location: Cinema, Kambri Cultural Centre, ANU
Bri Lee, best-selling and award-winning author of Eggshell Skull, will be in conversation with Virginia Haussegger on Bri's new book, Who Gets to Be Smart: Privilege, Power and Knowledge, a forensic and hard-hitting exploration of knowledge, power and privilege.
Interrogating the adage, 'knowledge is power', and calling institutional prejudice to account, Bri once again dives into her own privilege and presumptions to bring us the stark and confronting results. Far from offering any 'equality of opportunity', Australia's education system exacerbates social stratification. The questions Bri asks of politics and society have their answers laid bare in the responses to the Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation, COVID-19, and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020.
Bri Lee is an author and freelance writer. Her first book, Eggshell Skull, won Biography of the Year at the ABIA Awards, the People's Choice Award at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, and was longlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize. Her journalism has appeared in publications such as The Monthly, The Saturday Paper, Guardian Australia and Crikey.
Virginia Haussegger AM, a passionate women's advocate and communication specialist, is the former Chair and Founding Director of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation, at the University of Canberra, where she is an Adjunct Professor. Virginia is an award-winning broadcast journalist and social commentator on women, power and the challenges of 21st-century leadership.
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This event is in association with Harry Hartog Bookshop and books will be available for purchase on the evening in the Cultural Centre foyer. Pre-event book signings will be available from 5.30pm, and available again after the event until 7.30pm
TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
The ANU Ally training calendar for 2021 is live. The training provides participants with an overall understanding of why LGBTIQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer) inclusion is important for staff and student wellbeing and for ANU as a whole.
» Students and contract staff can register here.
» ANU academic and professional staff can register here.
SURVEY
ANU Ally wants to ensure that the network is supporting its members in the right way and most importanly driving meaningful allyship and inclusion across ANU.
» If you're a LGBTIQ+ community member, or a passionate ally, who wants to become a more active member of the network and access increased support and networking opportunities, please fill out this form.
Applications for the 2022 Humanities Research Centre Visiting Fellowship Program – on the theme of 'Mobilities' – are now open.
Migration, asylum, tourism, transport, urban mobility, career mobility, social mobility, emotion and affect – the theme for 2022 registers the growing use of ‘mobility’ and ‘mobilities’ as key descriptive and theoretical terms in the humanities and social sciences, and offers an invitation to scholars to think about the concept in creative and interdisciplinary ways. In line with the suggestive multivalence of the word itself, proposals might consider ‘mobility’ socio-politically, physically, or mentally, as a local or global phenomenon, in different cultures and different historical periods – or they might want to investigate the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic has affected our social, physical, and psychological mobility, and the way we are likely to act and think about mobility and immobility in the future.
Applications close 31 July 2021
» More information
PUBLICATIONS BY GI MEMBERS
We’re told that this budget, more than most, delivered for women.
In this co-authored piece Sally Moyle argues that while welcome, and an advance on what’s gone before, the 2021 budget remains a long way short of true gender-responsive budgeting, which is about the entire budget process and everything the government does.
» Read here
Amid the brouhaha concerning Christian Porter and the sexual conduct of men in parliament who are the products of private boys’ schools, we have not heard much about class as a dimension of the problem that needs to be remedied.
In this OpEd Margaret Thornton argues that we cling to the myth that Australia is classless. Indeed, no Australian anti-discrimination legislation outlaws discrimination on the ground of class, although it is one of the most marked manifestations of inequality in our society.
» Read here
GI MEMBERS IN THE MEDIA
A new government report tells the well-known story that in Australia, women make up just 13 per cent of those working in science and technology. And a recent UNESCO report shows the proportion of engineering graduates can be up to nearly 50 per cent in some Arab States and Latin America — whereas it's not much more than 20 per cent in Australia.
Getting more women into STEM isn't just about helping them get their share of higher-paying jobs — it's about making sure we get the society we need, experts say.
» Read full article
Mahananda Dasgupta was the first woman to get a tenured position in physics at the ANU and went on to hold an ARC Laureate Professorship. Professor Dasgupta was a member of the Gender Institute Management Committee from 2012-2013.
Joanna Sikora is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the ANU, researching gender segregation in STEM.
Both belong to the Gender Institute’s science, maths, engineering and computing node.
SURVEY
The WWDA Youth Network has partnered with the Australian Women Against Violence Alliance (AWAVA) to run a survey to find more about young women and non-binary people’s experiences of sexual and gender-based violence.
This survey is designed to capture the experiences of young women and non-binary people (aged 16-32) with seeking help after experiencing gender-based violence. This includes both disclosures that are made to the police and actual service help you did or did not receive.
Learning more about how young women and non-binary people report and seek support after violence and abuse will help us understand what needs to change.
» Participate
RESOURCES
VIDEO
The 2021 budget was touted as a 'budget for women' - but no amount of marketing can disguise the hard truth: this budget delivers scraps for women’s safety. $1.1 billion in funding has been committed to women's safety - in reality that resourcing is being stretched across 5 years. And it’s a long way from the $1 billion per year that experts say is needed to properly resource any national plan to address violence against women and their children. What’s more, of the new funds announced for women's safety next year - a significant amount is expected to go towards continuing existing services, rather than adding the increased capacity that’s needed.
Victim-survivors of gender-based violence deserve more, and we must continue to demand it - starting right now, as members of the Senate consider whether to approve the Morrison Government’s budget measures. The Senate crossbench have bargaining power to negotiate, and to advocate for more funding of the critical services victim-survivors of gender-based violence rely upon for their safety.
» In this video, advocates of violence prevention react to the budget and what it will mean for women’s safety.
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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Calls | Opportunities
WWDA LEAD Art Prize
Open to all women, girls, feminine identifying and non-binary people with disability in Australia. WWDA will accept all visual artistic mediums, including paintings, drawings, collages, craft, sculptures, photograph and videos. Deadline 23 July.
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This PhD scholarship at Macquarie University will support a PhD focused on one or a combination of the following topics: gender bias in careers; epistemic injustice; the ethics of cumulative harm. Deadline 31 July.
» further details
Run by the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, and recognise excellence in scholarship in one or more fields of the social sciences. Deadline 31 August.
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Events*
Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University
In Poor Queer Studies Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite education toward poor and working-class people, places, and pedagogies.
Event date: 11am-12pm, 27 May
Location: virtual event
Registration: Eventbrite
Finding compassion in public discourse and policy making
This online conversation hosted by the Women's Climate Congress will examine compassion as a motivator to overcome our currently adversarial public discourse and set humanity on a safer path
Event date: 12-1pm, 1 June
Location: virtual event
Registration: Trybooking
De Beauvoir: New Perspectives for the 21st Century
This conference aims to bring together De Beauvoir scholars who draw on insights from fields such as critical phenomenology, post-colonial and feminist studies, (French) social theory, intellectual history and literary studies.
Event date: 2-4 June
Location: virtual event
Registration: KU Leuven website
Re-Tracing the Revolution; memory, amnesia and the archives of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Australia 1965-1975
In this talk Catherine Dwyer will be discussing how the Brazen Hussies film was made and the various official and unofficial archives sources she accessed to bring the film to life. In doing so she will examine what it means to re-examine the past and to uncover the too easily forgotten story of how women changed the world.
Event date: 2-3pm, 9 June
Location: virtual event
Registration: Zoom
Transgender people have always existed. However, how we understand trans and gender diverse identities has changed drastically over the course of the last century. In this talk Adrien McCrory will examine the ways researchers can identify transgender lives and experiences in archival sources, with a focus on criminal histories.
Event date: 2-3pm, 9 June
Location: virtual event
Registration: Zoom
The 7 Stages of Grieving
A vibrant and insightful account of what it means to be an Aboriginal woman in contemporary Australia.
Event date: 23-26 June
Location: Canberra Theatre Centre, London Circuit
Tickets: Canberra Theatre website
2021 She Leads Conference
For women at all stages of their career to inspire and equip them to build leadership skills, share stories, and grow their capacity to thrive in their community or workplace while supporting other women.
Event date: 23 July
Location: Kambri Cultural Centre, ANU
Tickets: YWCA Canberra website
* Events are held in a variety of international locations. Make sure to account for different time zones
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