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Dear Colleagues and Friends of the Gender Institute,
We’re back! 2023 is off to a great start with two events in February that indicate something of the breadth and importance of our work. Our interdisciplinary working group researching coercive control is hosting a very timely talk by Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbons on victim-survivor perspectives on criminalisation. Equally timely is the Queer Displacements conference, which is exploring resistance and leadership in the context of the experience of LGBTQI+ forcibly displaced people. We also highlight below some of our members’ publications, a new online book club, and exciting young author Maria Thattil in conversation with Professor Kim Rubenstein.
In our next issue there will be plenty of news about International Women’s Day, but for now please save the date for the Susan Ryan Oration at ANU, on 2nd March at 3.30pm and the Pamela Denoon lecture, on 9th March in the early evening. More details to follow of these and other events.
Warmly,
Fiona
Professor Fiona Jenkins, Convenor of the ANU Gender Institute
GI EVENTS
Hosted jointly at ANU and Western Sydney University, with sponsorship from the Gender Institute, the 2023 Queer Displacements foregrounds the leadership of LGBTIQ+ forcibly displaced people and best and emerging practices of supports of these communities, all with a common goal of achieving belonging and ending displacement.
Events hosted at ANU include:
Date: 2–4pm, 15 February 2023
Location: ANU, Building 146, Research School of Social Sciences, Room 1.21, Lectorial Room
This workshop with Professor Churnjeet Mahn from the University of Strathclyde Glasgow, is designed for academics at all stages of their career, graduate students and anyone else using writing as a tool of resistance. Professor Mahn will explore what we can learn from looking at the history and experience of migration through a queer lens, by considering the histories and stories of queer migration, travel and displacement.
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Date: 6–7:30pm, 16 February 2023
Location: ANU, Building 146, Research School of Social Sciences, Room 1.28, Auditorium
This panel sees Renee Dixson (Chair of the Forcibly Displaced People Network), Professor Churnjeet Mahn and Marianna Polevikova (Chair of Ukrainian LGBTIQ+ NGO For Equal Rights) discuss current issues in the LGBTIQ+ displacements space combining academic, activist and lived experience perspectives.
The event will conclude with the book launch of Queer Sharing in the Marketised University ed by Churnjeet Mahn, Matt Brim, and Yvette Taylor.
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Date: 5–6:30pm, 15 February 2023 
Location: ANU, Building 146, Research School of Social Sciences, Room 1.28, Auditorium
Several Australian jurisdictions are presently in the process of criminalising coercive and controlling behaviours. Sponsored by the Gender Institute, Professor Kate Fitz-Gibbon's presentation will draw on the findings of a national survey of victim-survivors' views on the criminalisation of coercive control in Australia, to explore victim-survivor views on the role of law, including their views on the benefits of criminalising coercive control, perceived risks, as well as the (potential) impacts of criminalisation on justice and safety outcomes for victim-survivors of domestic and family violence.
The event will be introduced by Professor Lorana Bartels, who will present key findings from the recent ANU poll on coercive control, an initiative of the ANU Gender Institute’s working group on coercive control, helmed by Professor Carolyn Strange.
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Date: 6-7pm, 7 March 2023
Location: ANU, Building 153, Cultural Centre, Cinema
Maria Thattil, one of Australia's boldest young voices, will be in conversation with Kim Rubenstein on Maria's new book Unbounded. Manifesting a life without limits.
In Unbounded, Maria shares galvanising stories of what she has lived and learned through experiencing racism, sexism, financial hardship, intergenerational trauma, homophobia and mental health challenges.
The ANU Public Culture Network are hosting monthly discussions on books about activism & literature. The book club is convened by Kylie Message-Jones (ANU) and Evelyn Lambeth (University of Tasmania). The discussions are casual and regular attendance is not required.
Dates:
7–10pm, 6 March 2023: In the Shadow of the Palms, by Sophie Chao (2022).
7–10pm, 3 April 2023: We are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World, by Malala Yousafzai (2019).
7–10pm, 1 May 2023: We Rise, We Resist, We Raise Our Voices, by Innosanto Nagara (2018).
7–10pm, 5 June 2023: Talkin' up to the White Woman: Indigenous Women and Feminism, by Aileen Moreton-Robinson (2021). For any extra keen readers, Growing up Aboriginal in Australia, by Anita Heiss (2018).
For any questions, please reach out to Kylie.Message-Jones@anu.edu.au and Evelyn.Lambeth@anu.edu.au.
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GI MEMBERS – RECENT PUBLICATIONS
By Jade Soucy-Humphreys, Karina Judd and Anna-Sophie Jürgens
 Stereotypical representations of scientists are cognized in early childhood and refined throughout life. Popular media plays an important role in influencing our ideas of science by constructing images of social science reality. What has rarely been discussed in these contexts is what kind of scientific stereotypes are reinforced or challenged in popular TV shows for young audiences, particularly regarding female scientists in the context of gender stereotypes. This paper examines how female scientists are portrayed through humour in two popular animated entertainment series for children—Spongebob Squarepants and Adventure Time—and how their portrayal reinforces or challenges gender stereotypes in cultural representations of science
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By Marian Sawer and Sally Moyle
The Office for Women in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is currently in overdrive, trying to roll out the Albanese government's manifold commitments to women. While hurdles to the success of the strategy are abound, at last the way is open for policy action.
OPPORTUNITIES
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS
The Prime Minister's Prizes for Science recognises the achievements of scientists in Australia across diverse disciplines and career stages. Nominations are made by peers in the science, innovation and teaching communities.
Nominations close on 9 February 2023.
» Nominations and guidelines
APPLICATIONS OPEN
A fixed term position until May 2023 is open at the Gender Institute for an administrator to provide executive and administrative support to the Gender Institute Convenor and the Management Committee.
For any questions, please reach out to Fiona.Jenkins@anu.edu.au. Applications close on 19 February 2023.
TRAINING SESSIONS
The Respectful Relationships Unit are offering a range of sessions covering topics of responding to sexual violence, bystander intervention, and LGBTQIA+ ally training. Sessions are available to all ANU students and staff members.
WORKSHOP
She Leads are hosting an interactive group coaching session on goal setting. Participants will be taken through a process to first identify what is most important to you and then help you build your goals for the year.
For any questions, please reach out to sheleads@ywca-canberra.org.au.
» Details
MARKET STALL
The ANU Ally Network are hosting a market day stall on the 15 February 2023 between 10am-4pm. Come down to University Avenue and Kambri area anytime to learn about the ANU Ally Network and get involved!
For any questions, please reach out to ally@anu.edu.au.
» Website
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*
2023 Lancet Breastfeeding Series Australasia & Pacific launch event
Date: 12:30-2:30pm, 14 February 2023
Location: online
Join co-authors of the 2023 Lancet Series on Breastfeeding, and a panel of experts, as they unpack a new three-paper Lancet Series which explores how the immense value breastfeeding women generate for society is wasted by governments, and how the vulnerabilities of women, children and families are exploited by the formula milk industry.
Women Speaking Out: The Case of the Waratah Coal mine, climate change and human rights
Date: 7:30-8:30pm, 21 February 2023
Location: online
This event continues the popular Women's Climate Conversations online series hosted by the Women's Climate Congress.This conversation will explore the recent historic ruling of the Queensland Land Court to recommend against approval of Clive Palmer’s proposed Waratah Coal Mine – a new mega thermal coal mine on the Bimblebox Nature Reserve on Wangan and Jagalingou country in the Galilee Basin.
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Changemakers
Date: until 29 Jun 2024
Location: Museum of Australian Democracy
Changemakers celebrates the activists, icons and allies behind 120 years of women’s rights in Australia. The exhibition explores the remarkable stories of activists and trailblazers from many walks of life, from Edna Ryan’s campaign for equal pay in 1974 to Nyadol Nyuon’s advocacy for refugee women today.
* Events are held in a variety of locations - be sure to account for different time zones
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Calls
ARC Laureate Fellowship: PhD scholarship
A four-year full-time PhD scholarships starting July 2023 is available with the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship in Governance for Planetary Health Equity. The PhD scholar will be based in Canberra at the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse in the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance. Applications close 20 February 2023.
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Calls
ARC Laureate Fellowship: PhD scholarship
A four-year full-time PhD scholarships starting July 2023 is available with the Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship in Governance for Planetary Health Equity. The PhD scholar will be based in Canberra at the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse in the ANU School of Regulation and Global Governance. Applications close 20 February 2023.
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Articles | Reports
Ukrainian women have signed up for service on the frontlines, breaking down stereotypes of who can serve.
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