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GI FEATURED EVENT
CONVERSATION SERIES
Conversation 3: Sexual Harassment in the Workplace: what can we learn on prevention?
Date: 11am - 12:30pm 16 November
Location: Hedley Bull Building, Foyer and Lecture Theatre 2, ANU
Professor Rosalind Searle and A/Prof Louise Stone discuss their work to address sexual harassment in healthcare settings and the medical profession, and share their ideas about what constitutes best practice in this field.
Morning tea will be provided from 11 - 11:30am, with the discussion beginning at 11:30am. Please register for catering purposes. Catering is vegetarian and will include some GF options. Please contact us with any further requests.
This series is a collaboration between the Gender Institute and I.D.E.A, The College of Asia and the Pacific – 2022-2023.
Image Credit: Fitri D. Kurniasih
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GI EVENTS
MemoryHub@ANU INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM
Date: 9:00am-5:00pm, 15-16 November
Location: Crawford Building, ANU
Showcasing research on memory across a range of sites, geographies, temporalities and media, the MemoryHub@ANU aims to facilitate fresh perspectives grounded in Australia’s southern hemisphere location, its deep First Nations history, its unique environment, its relations with Asia and the Pacific, and memory in the region.
Prof Sandy Young from the University of Cape Town will give a keynote address titled Intimate Archives, Violence and Public Remembrance: Towards an Embodied Feminist Praxis on the lessons to be learned from creative practice about the relationship between representation and violence, and about self-reflexive modes of witness that galvanize political action.
See the program for more talks by Prof Jenny Wustenberg (Nottingham Trent University) as well as talks by colleagues from ANU and beyond.
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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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SCREENING AND PANEL
Date: 5:30-7:00pm, 29 November
Location: RSSS Auditorium ANU
The ANU Gender Institute and ANUCLAS, in collaboration with the Embassy of Argentina, are co-hosting a discussion to mark the International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women, with experts who will look at how gender violence appears in everyday settings and situations, and how to address it.
A panel discussion will be chaired by Sally Moyle. Panellists TBA.
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WORKSHOP
Date: 9am-5pm, 1 December
Location: Seminar room C, Coombs Extension, and Online
This one-day workshop focuses on the changing masculinities in the postcolonial Asia-Pacific, focusing on the extractive industry. Raewyn Connell will give the keynote address.
In this region, the historical relationships between colonisers and colonised have changed, and new interactions and social connections are occurring between locals and foreign employees, including non-Westerners and Westerners. Consequently, it might be necessary to analyse the masculinities of mining operations and mineworkers in ways that depart from the predominately linear and binary paradigms. How can we imagine masculinities that are characterised by hybridity, fluidity and adaptability, and bring to the forefront the experiences and views of local people and foreign workers who share the same space?
The keynote will be given by Raewyn Connell, who is internationally acclaimed as one of the founders of the research field of masculinities. Her book Masculinities (1995, 2005) is the best known in the field and her concept of ‘hegemonic masculinity’ has been particularly influential. Raewyn has written extensively about its applications to education, health, and the reduction of violence.
Sponsored by the ANU Gender Institute.
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GI MEMBERS -- RECENT PUBLICATIONS
By Annabel Dulhunty
The intersections between gender, mobility and power have been well established. While research has examined the inequity of (im)mobility, the role of restricted mobility as a form of domestic violence and the connection between freedom of movement and feminism, hardly any attention has been given to the relationship between physical mobility and women’s empowerment programming. By drawing on the literature on ‘disciplined’ mobility and feminist understandings of space and violence, this research argues that mobility and empowerment are complicatedly entwined.
Through qualitative field research in West Bengal, India, this article illustrates that empowerment programming is limited in what it can achieve due to the disciplining of mobility. Women’s mobility is disciplined through patriarchal control, evident in three key domains: first, through actively restricting women’s mobility; second, through surveillance and monitoring; and third, through women self-regulating their own behaviour. Through showing the difficulty of improving women’s wellbeing via empowerment programs, this research illustrates the pervasive violence of disciplined mobility.
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ANU EVENTS
CANBERRA TIMES MEET THE AUTHOR SERIES
Date: 6pm, 21 November
Location: Harry Hartog, ANU
Amy Thunig will be in conversation with Zoya Patel on Amy's new book Tell Me Again, which has been called the most inspirational and important memoir of 2022. Tell Me Again explores the importance of culture and extended family networks in the face of poverty, disadvantage and discrimination and the power of stories to shape and sustain us, even when they involve hardship and struggle.
For years, Amy Thunig thought she knew all the details about the day she was born, often demanding that the story of her birth be retold. Years later, heavily pregnant with her own first child, she learns what really happened that day. It's a tale that exemplifies many of the events of her early life, where circumstances sometimes dictated that things be slightly different from how they might seem - including what is meant by her dad being away for 'work' and why her legal last name differs from her family's.
Amy narrates her journey through childhood and adolescence, growing up with parents who struggled with addiction and incarceration. She reveals the importance of extended family and community networks when your immediate loved ones are dealing with endemic poverty and intergenerational trauma.
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KEYNOTE ADDRESS FOR KOREA UPDATE 2022
Date: 4:30-5:30pm 22 November
Location: Molongolo Theatre, ANU, and Online
Queer and trans activists in South Korea—alternatively referred to as iban, sexual minority, or LGBTQ+ activists—have made important political and policy gains, and their visibility has grown significantly over the last two decades. They continue to face, however, deep-seated hetero-sexism and dismissiveness from liberals as well as intense political hostility especially from religious conservatives.
The fraught space of evangelical Christianity in particular has been an especially crucial site for queer politics, both as a key source of antipathy as well as a wellspring of support and allyship. Tracing a transnational account through these contentious political spaces of queer and trans activisms in South Korea and the Korean diaspora in the United States.
In this keynote Judy Han discusses how they have crisscrossed and intertwined with each other as well as adjacent movements and social forces. Considering these lines of engagement and relationality through a spatial lens, she suggests a more capacious and ambivalent conceptualisation of linearity.
Ju Hui Judy Han is a cultural geographer (PhD, UC Berkeley) and assistant professor in Gender Studies at UCLA.
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Embodiment and Inequity - How can biosocial methods advance health and social equity?
WORKSHOP
Date: 10-12:30 29 November
Location: RSSS, ANU
In recent years there has been an explosion of biosocial research studies that bring together novel biological markers with measures of social factors and phenotypes. These have brought increased attention to studying the ways in which social forces and social factors such as racism, sexism, and other forms of oppression become biologically embedded and embodied – as well as critiques of the potential for biological determinism, reductionism, and the theoretical and biological assumptions made in some biological research.
This workshop will feature international experts in biosocial research who focus on health inequalities and the embodiment of structural oppression, including racism and sexism and their intersections. Each international guest will present, followed by a panel of ANU experts in discussion to reflect and consider implications for research, policy and practice.
International Guests:
- Dr Tarani Chandola is a Professor of Medical Sociology. He is the director of the Methods Hub in the Faculty of the Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong. He joined the Department of Sociology in August 2021.
- Dr David H. Chae
is Associate Professor in the Department of Social, Behavioural, and Population Sciences and Associate Dean for Research at Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
- Dr Jourdyn Lawrence is a social epidemiologist and Health and Human Rights Fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard.
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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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IN CONVERSATION
Date: 6pm - 7:30pm, 30 November
Location: ANU
The Global Institute for Women’s Leadership (GIWL) is pleased to host a panel on the recent book by Dr Barbara K. Trojanowska (with “Foreword” by Cynthia Enloe), ‘Finding Gender Equality in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: From Global Promises to National Accountability’ (Rowman and Littlefield International 2022).
In this panel, you will hear from researchers and practitioners and participate in a live Q&A session, followed by a networking opportunity.
Dr Trojanowska is a researcher and women’s rights advocate. Her research and policy interests lie at the intersection of women’s rights instruments, global security, and contentious politics. She has published award winning scholarship for international journals as well as research-based reports for government agencies and not-for-profit organisations.
Dr Trojanowska will be in conversation with Dr Elise Stephenson, a research fellow at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership, and a 2022 Fullbright Scholar. Dr Stephenson is a researcher with extensive experience across diplomacy, national security, government, entrepreneurship, and diversity and inclusion.
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RESOURCES
The first budget of the Albanese Government has signaled welcome changes in direction, particularly in moving toward an evidence-based Women’s Budget Statement and investment in projects that will work to mitigate climate change. It will take time for these initiatives to show changes in women’s economic wellbeing and safety, and this is recognised with costs, for example in child care, climate change and paid parental leave, being acknowledged as an investment in the future.
Check out the National Foundation for Australian Women's budget analysis here.
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Transgender Awareness Week is a one-week celebration of the wonderful trans and gender diverse community. It’s the perfect time to extend our knowledge of gender diversity and highlight the importance of being a trans ally.
“Every year, Trans Awareness Week finishes with the whole community observing Trans Day of Remembrance. It's a chance to celebrate the trailblazers throughout history that have fought for trans rights and honour the ones who have lost their lives due to violence and discrimination. It's important to note that this sort of violence still exists and isn't just an ugly footnote in history – and that's exactly the reason why Trans Awareness Week is so, so important.” From Minus18
Resources for Queer Youth and those supporting Queer Youth:
Minus18 – Champions for LGBTQIA+ youth
A Gender Agenda – works with and on behalf of intersex, trans and gender diverse community in Canberra
Meridian – Health, community and social support services for Canberra’s LGBTIQA+ communities
ANU Advisor to Staff (ANU staff) - staff.adviser@anu.edu.au
Student Safety and Wellbeing team (For students) - student.wellbeing@anu.edu.au
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*
Hear from three Aboriginal women about their experience with family violence, facilitated by Dunghutti and Wiradjuri woman Casey Keed.
Across party lines – why gender diversity matters between political rivals
Date: 5:30-7pm 22 November
Location: ACT Legislative Assembly
A unique, tri-partisan panel of female politicians sharing experiences and advice that have shaped their strategic decision making. With ACT Deputy Chief Minister and Labor Member for Ginninderra, Yvette Berry, ACT Opposition Leader and Liberal Member for Kurrajong, Elizabeth Lee, and ACT Greens Member for Ginninderra, Jo Clay.
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.
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Canberra SpringOUT Pride Festival
Date: 29 October - 30 November
Location: 85 Northbourne Avenue
The Canberra SpringOUT Pride Festival with over 40 events run in Canberra each year with events sponsored and coordinated by the local community.
* Events are held in a variety of locations - be sure to account for different time zones
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Calls | Opportunities
Invitation to nominate for the WEL NSW Executive Committee
If you are a feminist who loves campaigning, is interested in making the democratic political process work for women and can bring expertise and skills in policy analysis, communications, media marketing, fundraising and team building we really want to meet you. Send your expression of interest with accompanying brief CV to wel@welnsw.org.au and we will contact you to start the conversation.
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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HRSD provides culturally and contextually grounded technical assistance to advance human rights, gender equality, social inclusion, youth development and cultural development – together termed human rights and social development. Applications close: 6 December
National Centre’s 2022 competitive grants round
The National Centre has a vision of a community in which all children are safe and victims and survivors of child sexual abuse across the lifespan are supported to heal and recover. To support this vision, we are looking to fund a range of short- medium and longer-term projects on the research to quality improvement continuum which align with the critical challenges that we believe must be addressed to achieve change. Applications Close 16 December.
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Articles | Reports
A lack of convenient transport options coupled with gendered roles has made many suburban women (and their children) car-dependent, whether they like it or not. And, more often than not, the demands of household chores and child rearing fall more heavily on women.
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