Miss Representation Screening and Panel Discussion

To mark Celebrate You Week this year, the YWCA of Canberra and ANU Gender Institute warmly invite you to the screening and panel discussion of Miss Representation. Miss Representation is a documentary film exposing how mainstream U.S. media contribute to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence. Through provocative interviews with politicians, journalists, entertainers, activists and academics, Miss Representation challenges the media's limited and often disparaging portrayals of women.

Following the film screening, join Siobhan Heanue, ABC News Canberra, as she facilitates a panel discussion about women and the media in Australia.

Gender Equity and Employment and Node Event: Who or what is the ideal academic?

This debate considers the constitution of the ideal academic in the contemporary university. Is the image of the ideal constant or has it changed to suit the prevailing mores of the 21st century? Is it still gendered or is it now imagined in neutral terms?

GI Graduate Network Afternoon Tea

The ANU Gender Institute invites you to join us at the GI Graduate Network Afternoon Tea. The Gender Institute has formed a graduate network for students working in the areas of sex, gender and sexuality at ANU. The aim of the group is for students to network across campus with those working on similar issues related to the work of the Gender Institute.

2:30-3:30pm, Phillipa Weeks Staff Library First Floor ANU College of Law, Fellows Road ANU

Identity Work as Material Practice: Men, Masculinities and the Private Military Contractor

Paul Higate’s research has been concerned with the gendered culture of the military, in particular military masculinities. Relatedly, he has worked on issues of SEA in peacekeeping missions, the transition from military to civilian life and most recently, Private and Military Security Companies.

YWCA event: Young Women’s Leadership Workshop

YWCA event: Young Women’s Leadership Workshop: Explore your leadership and be inspired by other women leaders.This workshop will explore women’s leadership, your leadership styles, feminist transformative leadership, challenges of women leaders, feminism and you, and understanding advocacy and influencing change. Hear from women leaders and advocates and have the opportunity to ask questions during a panel discussion. 75% of places reserved for women aged 30 and under.

Speakers:
- Hillary Charlesworth, Director of Centre for International Governance and Justice, and Professor of International Law and Human Rights in the College of Law, ANU
- Suzanne Mestou, Branch Manager of HSBC in Canberra
- Tu Pham, Former Auditor General for the ACT, Adjunct Professor ANZSOG Institute for Governance, University of Canberra

When: Friday, 18 May 2012, 9:00am to 4:30pm
Where: Australian Leadership Innovation Centre (ALiC),Yellow Edge
Level 2, Unit 8, 9 Sydney Avenue, Barton, ACT 2600
Register here. Visit our website www.ywca-canberra.org.au or contact us on 6175 9900

Colonial girlhood/colonial girls

Colonial Girlhood/Colonial Girls’ seeks to draw together international scholars for a multi-disciplinary examination of how colonial girlhood was constructed, and redefined, in both British and colonial texts and cultures.

Developing Leadership Skills from Leading Women Attorneys

The nation’s top business schools include leadership development as a key part of their core curriculum. Why? Because they recognize that without leadership training and skills, even the brightest, most competent business managers will likely fall short of attaining top leadership positions. In recent years, women lawyers have begun to realize that leadership training is equally necessary for their professional development and success. Join a distinguished panel of women attorneys who are recognized leaders in the profession as they discuss what it takes to become a leader. The panel will offer specific strategies that women lawyers can use to influence and inspire colleagues within their organization and achieve leadership roles.

Call for Papers: Sexualities, sexual rights, and HIV in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific

The HIV pandemic has activated the global circulation of discourses on sexuality and has been a key catalyst for rethinking development in terms of human rights, gender equality, and local participation. Rights advocacy has become integral to effective HIV prevention, stigma management, and treatment and care strategies in national programs of response. This workshop symposium explores the interaction between global and local discourses and changing meanings of sexuality, citizenship, and culture in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific with the aim to promote greater understanding of translational processes in diverse local contexts.

Framing Lives IABA Conference

The Humanities Research Centre and National Centre of Biography at the Australian National University, in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, present Framing Lives, the 8th Biennial Conference of the International Auto/Biography Association.

Engendering governance - from the local to the global

This final workshop of the series aims to bring together scholars interested in gender law's structuring of politics and governing, including the role that gender plays in the themes of representation and participation in both 'government' and 'governance'. Abstracts are due by
2 March 2012 for the 2012 CIPL Workshop.
This is the sixth in a series run by the Centre for International and Public law, and this workshop will also be supported by the Gender Institute

Conference: Paradoxes of Domesticity: Christian Missionaries and Women in Asia and the Pacific

This is an interdisciplinary, inter-regional conference that focuses on the encounters between Christian missionaries and women in Asia and the Pacific with the aim of understanding the "paradoxes of domesticity" that emerged.

Conference: Participatory Justice and Victims

Participatory Justice and Victims is a ground-breaking conference exploring the practices and politics of participation in justice processes by individuals and communities victimised by violence. It responds to persisting questions about justice that is accessible, attainable, and meaningful. The conference aims to challenge the boundaries between local, national and international spheres of justice.