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GI EVENTS
SYMPOSIUM
Dates: 9-5pm October 24-25
Location: RSSS, ANU and Online
Keynote:
25 October 9-10am, Remembering for Our Futures:
Australian literary culture has a longstanding hostility towards First Nations stories and storytellers. In recent years there has been a radical shift in the recognition and centring of First Nations literatures in festival programs, publishing lists and prizes. These gains have been hard-won by First Nations writers, publishers and arts workers, but have not been evenly spread amongst all communities, and older, female emerging writers in particular have been excluded from popular literary spaces and opportunities. This conversation between three esteemed elders of First Nations literature will discuss the history and future of our storytelling cultures, and will consider what future work is needed to better support the First Nations female writers in our communities who are still being unheard.
Panel:
- Jackie Huggins,
- Jeanine Leane
- Jennifer Kamarre Martiniello
This symposium is brought to you by the ANU Gender Institute, Australia Council for the Arts, Overland, Australian Feminist Studies, Australian Literary Studies, Centre for Australian Literary Cultures, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics and the Association for the Study of Australian Literature.
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SEMINAR SERIES
Date: 6:00-7:00pm, 21 November
Location: Online
The ANU Gender Institute and Maternal Health Matters Inc. invite you to join us online for the first of four seminars that will explore the impact of maternity on women’s wellbeing and the transition to parenting.
Australia faces a challenge in achieving high quality maternity care in a safe, respectful environment so that women and birthing people emerge healthy & well. Perinatal wellbeing is a complex concept that is more than the absence of illness. Furthermore, an extensive eight nation study commissioned by the European Union concluded that the transition to parenthood was “a critical tipping point on the road to gender equality” (2006, p.11). This finding is of significance for women in Australia underlining the need for improved, 21st century maternal & child health services & support for young families.
This seminar series is brought to you by Maternal Health Matters Inc., and the ANU Gender Institute.
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ONLINE LECTURE
ONLINE LECTURE
Date: 10:30am, 10 November
Location: Online, password: 581644
As global forces fundamentally transform human societies, blurring the dichotomy of private and public spheres, ushering in unprecedented changes at remarkable rates, an urgent need to re-conceptualise gender has emerged in the extractive industries.
Join Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt for this exciting lecture based on her research that brings to the forefront women’s labouring bodies in both industrial and capitalized mines, and informal, artisanal and small-scale mining. It will focus on stories – of coal women, of tin women and so on – stories that complicate the question of gender in extractive industries, and help to illuminate the grey areas and unresolved questions.
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS FROM GI MEMBERS
It's Open Access Week - an opportunity for all of us to explore and promote the benefits of open access in research, academia, industry, and society!
The ANU Gender Institute has collaborated with Open Access to digitise important information about early studies of women in the Australian academy available through the ANU's Open Research repository.
Seven historical publications have been digitised which will enhance the resources available on the early studies of women in the Australian academy.
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By Leslie Barnes.
Focused on the experience and legacies of the Khmer Rouge marriage policy, this essay examines Cambodia’s culture of silence surrounding gender-based violence in the era of #MeToo and highlights a set of cultural responses that confront silence, countering it with a multifaceted mode of expression that aims to unite survivors across communities, generations, and experiences.
Spanning a range of media, including documentary cinema, the plastic arts, and classical Khmer dance, the “language” emerging in these responses is at once restrained and excessive, naming the experience of assault in the public sphere without creating an imperative to speak publicly. More importantly, it offers a multimedial, polyvocal means through which survivors of gender-based violence see their traumas recognized and shared by the broader collective.
These initiatives offer a culturally situated, restorative approach to addressing gender-based violence, past and present, that stands in productive contrast with the largely retributive #MeToo movement.
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ANU EVENTS
FUNDRAISER FOR CRISIS SERVICES
Date: 6pm, 25 October
Location: Food Coop, ANU
The ANU Women's Department is hosting 'Dinner & Delights' as an end of year celebration including dinner, performances and other special treats prepared by the Women's Collective.
The event is a fundraiser for Canberra Crisis Services (Canberra Rape Crisis Centre & ACT Domestic Violence Crisis Service).
To qualify for an ANUWD member ticket you need to be a current undergraduate woman or gender diverse student at the ANU. Otherwise you can access a non-member ticket.
For an equity ticket please contact the Women's Officer at sa.womens@anu.edu.au
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The Anti-Cookbook: Nourishing Resistance Launch Party and Community Gathering
COOKBOOK LAUNCH
Date: 11am-1pm, 26 October
Location: Thrive Kitchen Garden, behind Fenner Hall, ANU
Anthropology students have created a cookbook in the Food for Thought course and are having a launch party! It will be fun and festive with a DJ, gardening workshop, and kitchenware/clothing/book swap.
If you have extra kitchen stuff or cookbooks (or any books) that you were planning to donate, please bring them along and we will donate it for you after the swap. We are also collaborating with the CASS Greenies committee to run a food drive for OZHarvest so if you have some food to spare please bring that along too.
There are plenty of picnic tables at this new kitchen garden so feel free to bring your lunch and sit out to enjoy the tunes and hopefully the good weather.
PANEL
Date: 7-8:30pm, 26 October
Location: Burgmann College
Join the BIPOC Department, Women’s Department, and Queer* Department for an insightful panel on Intersectionality and Allyship. The event is open to all students, academics and the general public who are interested in upgrading their allyship.
Refreshments and snacks will be provided.
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SCREENING AND Q&A
Date: 6-8pm, 24 November
Location: RSS Auditorium, ANU
As part of an agreement between the Spanish and Australian governments, known as Plan Martha, a number of single Spanish women migrated to Australia in the 60s to work as house servants for two years, or so they were told...
Come and learn about Australian migration history from the lived experiences of these women. A Q&A session with director Dr Natalia Ortiz (UNSW) will follow the screening.
This event is supported by the ANU Spanish Program and the SLLL Transnational Research Network.
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HDR WORKSHOP
Date: 2-4pm, 1 November
Location: Milgate Room, AD Hope, ANU.
Few axioms of sexuality’s history are as generally accepted as the rise of a relentless ‘will to know’ about sex in the modern West.The late nineteenth century’s much-studied psycho-medical construction of homosexual identity in Europe often serves as corroboration for this axiom. On closer examination, however, it turns out to be based on the extrapolation of evidence for a few familiar countries, which are allowed to tell the story of the continent or even of ‘the West’ as a whole.
Wannes Dupont is currently Assistant Professor of History at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He conducted research as a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University and as a postdoctoral fellow of the Flemish Research Foundation at the University of Antwerp. His research focuses on the European and global sexual past, queer history, reproductive politics, and the intersections of biopolitics and religion.
Places are limited so registration is essential.
This workshop is open to HDR candidates working across HASS disciplines, and will be of particular interest to those working on topics related to gender, sexuality, or modern Europe. It is supported by the Research School of Humanities and the Arts External Visitor scheme.
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LECTURE
Date: 12:30 - 1:30pm, 3 November
Location: 128, AD Hope, ANU and Online
Today, as pluralism and the civil integration of sexual minorities have become hallmarks of Western countries’ liberal identity, we must recall that the opposite was the case when the notion of ‘the West’ emerged out of the ruins of World War II. During the 1940s and -50s, North America was in the grip of simultaneous ‘Red’ and ‘Lavender’ scares that involved the active persecution of communists and queers at scale. These scares reflected the need for moral restoration after a period of drastic social changes.
Wannes Dupont (NUS Yale Singapore) addresses how Europe also saw an unprecedented wave of homophobia between 1945 and 1965. It demonstrates how local dynamics resonated with transnationally circulating concerns to bolster a widespread fear of ‘homosexual seduction’.
This seminar is supported by the Research School of Humanities and the Arts External Visitor scheme, and is part of the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics CuSPP: Cultures of Screen, Perfomance and Print Seminar Series.
» Zoom Meeting
SCREENING AND PANEL
Date: 6pm, 3 November
Location: NFSA, ANU
The Steinach Film is an innovative 1922 silent documentary about the discovery and significance of the sex hormones by endocrinologist Professor Eugen Steinach’s team in 1910s Vienna. This German-Austrian co-production was also produced in an international version, and only a few copies exist around the world today, including the one to be screened from the NFSA collection. It begins by exploring themes of sexual difference in animals and humans, before delving into scientific experiments on laboratory rats undertaken by Steinach’s team, seeking to ‘feminise’ and ‘masculinise’ animals via castration, testicle and ovary implantations, and hormone manipulation.
These themes and the film’s historical context will be explored in the accompanying panel discussion with Birgit Lang, Professor of German Studies at the University of Melbourne, and Katie Sutton, Associate Professor of German and Gender at the ANU, who together hold an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on film and photography in early 20th century sexual science.
Please see event website for note on content.
This screening is part of the SCIENCE. ART. FILM. series presented by the National Film and Sound Archive, Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science and ANU Humanities Research Centre.
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RESOURCES
Last week, the RRU launched the Sexual Violence Prevention Toolkit.
This toolkit aims to provide support with cultural change and the prevention of sexual violence within the ANU community.
This toolkit is for staff and students who have taken up representative positions in the area of sexual violence prevention, as well as staff in key leadership positions across the academic and professional spheres.
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SURVEY
The National Council of Single Mothers & their Children are conducting a survey of single mothers’ post-separation finances, including how money might be used by their ex-partner to control or abuse. Your involvement in the research will help to identify experiences of financial safety and how government policies and programs help or hinder financial safety. NCSMC are looking for single mothers with or without experiences of financial abuse.
The information you give will be completely anonymous, meaning it cannot be traced back to you. Your name will not be linked to anything you say as it will only be your responses to the questions which are used in the research.
» Survey | Contact
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, present and 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*
All About My Sisters Screening
Date: Encore Screening 6pm, 21 October
Location: Dendy Cinemas, Canberra
All About My Sisters is the story of a Chinese family working through their collective trauma stemming from the One Child Policy and a cultural preference for boys. Wang Xiong, the young female director explores her own family history and participates in the film, attempting to heal family rifts, from behind the camera.
Tech Women Meetup Canberra
Date: 5pm, 26 October
Location: IBM Australia
In this event, Women@IBM will have an interactive panel session hosted by Deanna Gibbs, where we will discuss some of the challenges faced by women working in the public sector. Panel members will share their experience and perspectives on how to address them.
Reclaim the Night
Date: 6pm, 28 October
Location: Parliament House Lawns
The global event that takes place on the last Friday in October where Women and their supporters take to the streets of Canberra in a peaceful march to raise awareness of sexual violence.The event will involve speeches from a number of individuals and performances
Sexual Health and Family Planning ACT: Safer Girls Safer Women
Date: 9:30am, 10 November 2022
Location: Marie Ray Teaching Centre, ANU, and Online
The Safer Girls Safer Women Project is a three year project to develop a national framework and best practice guidelines for sexual health, respectful relationships and consent education.
BRAZEN HUSSIES - Film and Toora Inc Q&A Fundraiser
Date: 7:00pm, 24 November
Location: Palace Electric Cinemas
Brazen Hussies shows us how a daring and diverse group of women joined forces to defy the status quo, demand equality and create profound social change - contributing to one of the greatest social movements of the 20th Century.
* Events are held in a variety of locations - be sure to account for different time zones
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Calls | Opportunities
Together with Sport Integrity Australia, the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation (University of Canberra) is offering a PhD scholarship to investigate cyber-trolling of elite female athletes. We are looking for a candidate with a legal or policy background that is interested in regulatory policy, employment law, human rights and/or media law. EOI's Close 30 October.
ANU Australian Studies Institute 2023 International Fellowships
The ANU Australian Studies Institute have just announced an exciting new international Fellowship program for ANU academic staff. Six international Fellowships will be awarded in collaboration with three of the world’s foremost Australian Studies Centres. Applications close 30 October 2022.
Australian Gender Economics Workshop 2023: Call for Papers
AGEW invites the submission of research papers on any topic related to gender economics. Both applied and theoretical papers that meet high standards of methodological rigour are invited. Papers should apply an economic framework and gender should be a core element of the analysis. Submission Deadline: 30 October 2022
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Ministerial Advisory Council on Women (MACW)
The MACW brings together women with a diversity of experience and expertise to assist the Government develop and implement policies that are relevant to women in the ACT and represents a wide range of women's views. Applications close: 14 November
The ACT Women’s Awards celebrates the achievements of women, non-binary, transgender and female identifying people in the ACT. There are 3 award categories: ACT Woman of the Year, ACT Young Woman of the Year, ACT Senior Woman of the Year. Nominations close: 28 November
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Articles | Reports
Jayne Jagot’s meteoric rise to the High Court delivers the first majority-female bench in history and a fresh, compassionate perspective.
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