A webinar that will set the stage for a series of in-depth conversations and consultations to produce a Feminist Plan for Sustainability and Social Justice to influence policy debates on how to shape a more equal and sustainable post-COVID world

This panel will address the gender implications of salary freezes, pay reductions and other cost cutting measures in public institutions.

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Please register to join us online at the registration tab above to learn more about how to progress breastfeeding policy, through applying these innovative global initiatives and tools in Australia.

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This workshop invites HDR students across the campus to engage with feminist scholars from the humanities at ANU in order to think critically about the mobilisation of feminist methodologies in their own research.

The 2020 Pamela Denoon Lecture will be given by Antoinette Braybrook on the topic 'Making First Nations women safe and strong'

What was it like to be involved in the heady days of ‘second wave’ feminism in Australia, when the role of women at home and at work changed decisively?

In this workshop, we explore ways of practically extending critical and feminist social research with art – specifically photography, sociological fiction and zine making.

Protecting and promoting Australia’s interests in a time of strategic competition - Senator Penny Wong in conversation with Professor Evelyn Goh and Dr Amy King

At our meeting we will have the pleasure of discussing with visiting scholar Kateřina Lišková her article: ‘Sex under socialism: From emancipation of women to normalized families in Czechoslovakia’.

Nat Thomas, aka Nat Solo, is a Melbourne-based artist and writer whose independent practice considers storytelling as the basis of culture.

At our meeting we will use a short piece by Zora Simic to stimulate our thoughts on the issue of intersectionality: ‘What can feminist historians do with intersectionality?’, Lillith 24 (2018): 16-25.

We’re interested in YOUR views, opinions and thoughts on interpersonal violence experience, CALD perspectives, services which are here to address the issues and, barriers and opportunities within the space.

This event celebrates Women’s Health Week and ANU’s commitment to supporting women’s health and wellbeing.

What makes a good mother? What makes a mother at all? Where does motherhood come from? The nature of motherhood has perhaps never been more controversial or debated as it is today.

There may not be anyone more experienced and active in the global field of gender and sexuality. Over his long and multifarious career, Justice Kirby has been celebrated as an international jurist, educator and former Supreme and High Court judge

In this seminar, three prominent women scholars at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Studies address one of the most significant demands of a scholar’s career: academic publishing.

In the Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law, a network of scholars and practitioners from a diverse group of countries contemplate the future of feminist engagement with international law.

U.S. colleges and universities have experimented with dozens of different programs to promote faculty diversity, including anti-bias training, taskforces, mentoring programs, work-life programs, and anti-harassment initiatives.

At this meeting we will continue our consideration of ‘queer’ history/historiography with a reading – Barry Reay, ‘Writing the Modern Histories of Homosexual England’, The Historical Journal 52 (1), 2009 – that discusses histories of desire that resist present-day sexual assumptions.

Join us at this end-of-semester academic career reception to unpack and explore assumptions and challenges surrounding gender in international security scholarship and this academic career path.

At this meeting, Dr Heather Robers - Associate Professor, ARC DECRA Fellow and ANJeL Co-Director at the ANU Law School - will be seeking feedback on an upcoming conference paper titled 'Difference, discrimination and...? Telling a history of women judges in Australia.'

In this talk Professor Seuffert will address issues for refugees who are sexual minorities in Australia’s detention centres in the broader context of International Law and Australia's refugee law and policy.

This book reviews what was known as the Green Revolution in agricultural research from the 1940s to the 1970s and the recurring theme of the forgotten women farmers in all of these processes and that these technical advances were, and still remain, gender blind.

This research draws on interviews by Tim Leach conducted with over 70 people with HIV, men with diverse sexualities and transgender Papua New Guineans on their experiences of discrimination, their thoughts on human rights in PNG, their views on their organisations and on whether donor supports have been helpful or otherwise.

ASPI’s Women in Defence and Security Network (WDSN) and the ANU Gender Institute are delighted to invite you to attend this year’s Speed Mentoring event in Canberra.

Come and join the ANU School of Art and Design to hear some great talks and conversation about women in photography and the photographic arts today. You will hear from long-standing practitioners, curators, educators, and passionate photographic arts community members.

While the knowledge and practices of Indigenous coastal and marine societies has attracted the attention of many scholars, the focus has tended to be on the contribution of men while the activities of women have either been overlooked or, at best, narrowly described

The event will celebrate Women of Mathematics through a range of activities, including a networking lunch, a panel discussion, long (1 hour) and short (20 minutes) research talks, and an official opening (with cocktail reception) of the exhibit "Women of Mathematics" at ANU.

Join us for the launch of the Annual Dialogue Report on Women, Peace and Security

Please join us to celebrate another great year for the Gender Institute! So much skill, hard work and passion has gone into the research, workshops, lectures, dialogues and public outreach our Institute has generated in 2018.

How is hierarchy created and maintained in international politics?

Sanam Naraghi-Anderlini is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the International Civil Society Action Network, spearheading the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership with member organisations active in preventing violent extremism by promoting peace, rights and pluralism

Luke's presentation will explore changing social attitudes and recent trends in same-sex divorce from countries where marriage equality has existed for some time

Dr Caren Grown, Senior Director for Gender at the World Bank Group, is recognized internationally as an expert on gender and development.

Frances Adamson has led the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as Secretary since 25 August 2016. From 2011 to 2015, Ms Adamson was Ambassador to the People's Republic of China.

With the renewed use of slogans such as ‘smash the patriarchy’, and following our discussion earlier this year of Judith Bennett’s ‘Patriarchal Equilibrium’, we would like to continue questioning the analytical value of the concept of patriarchy.

RBG, a documentary directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen, explores the career, legal legacy and life of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the US Supreme Court.

Despite progress, gender disparities in science persist. Women remain underrepresented in the scientific workforce and under rewarded for their contributions.

Is ANU family friendly? Join us for a discussion about ANU’s family friendly policies, and share your thoughts, challenges and hopes for making the university a more family-friendly environment.

Please join Merridee Bailey, Tania Colwell and Julie Hotchin for the launch of their book "Women and Work in Premodern Europe: Experiences, Relationships and Cultural Representation, c. 1100–1800 (Routledge, 2018)"

Deirdre Byrne will comment on the efficacy of some interventions against rape in South Africa, such as the 2016 #EndRapeCulture campaign on two university campuses and the Sexual Violence Task Team Report on rape and sexual violence.

Registration now open for AWHN Symposium 2018: ‘The Past is a Position: History, Activism and Privilege’

In an interactive seminar, the speakers will address questions including: why did they decide on a career in the armed forces? How did they go about pursuing their career paths? What do their jobs entail? How do they combine academic learning with combat and command experience? What are some of the key challenges they face? To what extent are some of these challenges gender-specific?

In both the United States and Australia, women provide the bulk of care for infants, establishing patterns that may have ongoing effects on how mothers (and fathers) balance work and care obligations throughout the childrearing years.

"Involving Men in Ending Violence against Women" provides a feminist analysis of men’s motivations for joining violence against women’s movements.

At the next discussion of the Gender and History group, Dr Karen Downing is going to rehearse and seek feedback on an upcoming conference paper: ‘Weeping politicians’: The power and contingency of men’s tears. 

Women working and studying at ANU are invited to a special forum on Thursday 19 April, to inspire more ANU women to engage with the media.

Professor Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt's lecture is the second the inaugural Gender Institute series Inspiring Women of ANU.

Prof Sally Engle Merry will talk about the challenges around how to qualify and quantify violence against women globally.

PARSA invites women from all across the university to join us for decadent afternoon tea to celebrate the wonderful contributions we make to our university and community.

Please join us for the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences Inaugural Professorial Lecture Series. In this lecture, we welcome Professor Simone Dennis from the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Archaeology and Anthropology.

Ending impunity for sexual violence in armed conflict

An evening reception with Professor Catherine Waldby, Director of the RSSS who will delive a Keynote lecture regarding her most recent research, “Reproduction and Social Order”.

Gender and History group node will meet at 12.30pm on Friday 27 October in Fellows Bar. to discuss ‘Uneasy Juxtapositions: Situating Anti-Feminist and Ambiguously Feminist Women in Gender History and Feminist Theory’

A group of women from the Moree based Mubali: Sea of Bellies program are visiting the Australian National University. To mark the occasion, two consecutive events will take place: “Belly Yarn” Talk by Aunty Paula Duncan and “Belly Yarn” Exhibition Launch

This seminar considers gender dimensions in theories of diplomacy; gender dimensions in diplomatic practices; the changing role of the diplomatic spouse; and sex, sexuality and diplomatic cultures. .I argue that the diplomatic spouse model with women in ancillary, decorative and undervalued roles has morphed into junior diplomats, or celebrity goodwill ambassadors

The Gender and History node will meet to discuss issues of power, intimacy and gender.

Professor Clare Hemmings, Director of the LSE Gender Institute, will be giving a Graduate Masterclass in connection with her visit as a speaker at the Feminist Utopias conference.

In this dystopic climate, how can we refocus feminist visions of transforming society across the divides of gender, race, class, ability, and global region? What types of utopias have been conjured in the past? Which promising ones are under construction? Which previous notions might be reconceived and new ones imagined?

Please join us for the next lecture in the series were Professor Margaret Jolly will be speaking on the rise of individualism in relation to sexuality and gender in the Pacific region.

Gender and History group node will meet at 12.30pm on Friday 18 August in Fellows Bar where node member Gemma Betros will lead a discussion on women, work and domesticity in the work of novelist Louisa May Alcott.

Registration is now open for this innovative conference to be held in Canberra, at the Australian National University School of Music.

Gender and History node members will meet to workshop a conference paper by node member Julie Hotchin.

Gender and History node members will meet to discuss a draft paper by node member Chris Wallace.

Join H.E. President Hilda C. Heine as she discusses the threats facing the Marshall Islands, what lessons we can learn from their journey, and what action needs to be taken now.

Launch of the Fourth Annual Civil Society Report Card: hear from senior leaders in government, civil society, academia, as well as our audience to discuss how the next National Action Plan should be developed and what it should include.

The ANU Gender Institute celebrated its sixth anniversary on Friday 5 May 2017 in the China in the World Auditorium and Lotus Hall at the ANU. Event summary and media.

Gender and History node members' 1st discussion group meeting of 2017

Join Paul Barclay from ABC’s Big Ideas unit as he explores the issues with four renowned public intellectuals from Australia and abroad.

To celebrate International Women's Day, Dr Kakenya Ntaiya will visit ANU to deliver a public lecture about her childhood in Kenya and the Kakenya Centre for Excellence, which she founded.

This symposium explores events, transformations, policy changes and watershed developments in gender and sexuality in Australia in the 1970s.

One hundred years ago, female European silent film stars like Asta Nielsen and Henny Porten were a common sight on Australian cinema screens, delighting audiences in defiance of global political tensions.

Australia’s response to violence against women has been escalating during the 2000s. With this ascending activity are we making effective progress to stop Violence Against Women across our country?

This workshop explores gendered innovation in political science. The aim is to identify specific areas in which gendered research has enriched the discipline and sharpened its focus.

How is the crisis restructuring gender inequality? The complex inequalities on which the financial crisis draws, and which the development of global finance exacerbates, intersect in diverse ways.

This lecture considers the best way to tackle the problem of women’s absence from positions of power using a feminist approach.

In partnership with the Australian National University (ANU), Thomson Reuters IP & Science would like to invite you to attend the inaugural Women in Research Citation Awards.

This seminar will explore current developments in ending violence against women in the Asia-Pacific region and Australia.

This seminar examines the extent to which gender equality among barristers before the High Court has been achieved.

What are the possibilities and challenges of feminist sociology in the 21st century? What becomes of the transformative force of feminism when its insights are incorporated into a discipline?

This fascinating panel discussion, hosted by The ANU Circle for Gender Equity, explores the intersections of gender and disability.

The Gender Equity Committee of the Research School of Population Health, with the support of the Gender Institute, is promoting a viewing of the 2015 Australia documentary 

This symposium will explore the forms gendered practices take in the discipline such as philosophy, and consider the relationship between the production of knowledge and the gendered hierarchies of value that shape disciplinary spaces.

This lecture will draw, in particular, on the work of Michel Foucault and George Canguilhem. Once the theoretical ground has been laid for an analytically precise understanding of the monster, the lecture will turn to counter-cultural icon and sublime anti-hero, David Bowie, as a contemporary vehicle for thinking through, and rendering accessible, some key categorical distinctions which the monster brings to crisis.
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The ANU Circle for Gender Equity is bringing together a panel of fantastic speakers to discuss the gendered experience of seeking asylum.

Do women and men behave differently in financial asset markets? Results from an asset market experiment show a marked gender difference in producing speculative price bubbles.

This year's Gender Institute annual event will feature the announcement of the 2015 Gender Institute prizes for excellence in gender research and special guest Federal Sex Discrimination Commissioner, Kate Jenkins will launch the new book 'The Public law of Gender: From the Local to the Global'.

The aim of the workshop is to gather researchers, policy-makers and community members, to explore the gendered dimension to migration across different ethnic groups.

With representatives from government and civil society, this roundtable and audience discussion will examine the opportunities for Australia to shape and contribute to the global debate on the implementation of the Women, Peace and Security agenda

In this talk Dr Elana Sztokman, the 2016 National Council of Jewish Women Australia (NCJWA) Scholar will  look at areas such as wage gaps, political participation, business ownership, personal status issues, women's education, women in the army and reproductive rights to reflect on the  status of

The ANU Circle for Gender Equity and ANU International Law Society are proud to host International Human Rights consultant, Jane Aeb

Professor Hilary Charlesworth in conversation with Professor Louise Chappell.

Patricia Plummer is the 2016 ANU Gender Institute and Humanities Research Centre joint Visiting Fellow and is visiting the ANU from 15th February to 15th April 2016.

The ANU Circle for Gender Equity is hosting a screening of TED Talks focused on gender equity. There will be a small discussion about the talks, popcorn and free food! This event is open to all members of the ANU and the Canberra community.

This postgraduate workshop aims to open up an interdisciplinary conversation on the gendered dimensions of science and technology.

A two-day international workshop exploring Islam, gender relations and women’s agency in terms of India–Indonesia connections and comparisons.

This post graduate conference brings together post graduate research students as well as academics to strengthen the dialogue across all the Social Sciences at ANU and Gender Studies.

This seminar will explore the relationship to the study of men and masculinities within the discipline of law, compared to other field in the social sciences and humanities and highlight the ostenibly gender neutral idea of commitment in corporate legal practice as harbouring distinctive models of masculinity.

This workshop will be led by Dr Lisa M Frehill of the National Science Foundation and will provide participants the opportunity to address data challenges in their own projects. Early career researchers and students are particularly welcome.

Radically engaging with International human rights, intersectional advocacy and embodied sexuality and sexual practice, this workshop dealt with the challenges and intersections of doing academic and policy work which addresses sexuality, sexual practice, gender identity and expression, ethnicity and culture in respectful and inclusive ways.

The authors of this recently published book on people championing equality, from Sydney to Helsinki, discuss their findings.

In this public seminar, Agnieszka Althaber applies quantitative life course methods to analyse occupational characteristics and household constellations that may facilitate transitions into part time employment for men.

The Gender Institute is proud to support The Power To Persuade Symposium: Gender forum. PTP: Gender examines two critical aspects of policy development as they relate to gender equity: evidence and values.

A symposium with Moya Lloyd (Loughborough) Catherine Mills (Monash) and Fiona Jenkins (ANU).

Masterclass for postgraduate students and early career researchers: Is racism constitutive of white identity? If we imagine this to be the case, does it eclipse the scope of future transformations of white identity, making any positive transformation literally unimaginable? What are the future possibilities for white identity?

Catch up now via the podcast. This lecture by visiting Professor Linda Martin Alcoff explores the conditions of echoing and echoability in the context of the epidemic of global sexual violence.

ANU Gender Institute was delighted to welcome Sister Angélique Namaika during her visit to Australia as the guest of Australia for UNHCR. Sister Angélique is the recipient of the 2013 Nansen Refugee Award, UNHCR’s highest human rights prize, for her ground-breaking work with women and girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

The Gender Institute, the Centre for International and Public Law and the ANU Law Students Society welcome students from around the campus, and interested academics to come and hear Professor Kim Rubenstein in Conversation with Israeli Supreme Court Justice Daphne Barak Erez.

ANU Gender Institute, in partnership with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, is pleased to present a public lecture by UN policy specialist Tania Farha.

What is gender? Should gender exist? How does your gender presentation affect the way you are treated by society? To what extent is feminism supporting transgender individuals? What can we do about these issues? Hear from Transgender individuals uniquely placed to answer these questions! 

This workshop aims to rekindle the dialogue between feminist legal theorists and scholars of women, gender and the law.

Speaker: Dr Wendy Harcourt. This lecture will reflect on over twenty years of engagement in body politics in development exploring the deep contradictions and unease around embodied experiences that profoundly inform yet lie barely visible below the surface of gender and development policy and planning.

ANU Gender Institute - Gender and History node 2015 seminar series: Katie Sutton, Lecturer, German and Gender Studies, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics

The ANU Gender Institute presents Dr Kiran Martin, Founder and Director of Asha (“hope” in Hindi). Asha is a Delhi-based NGO that works in partnership with women in slum communities to improve living conditions and access healthcare, education and financial services.

The Gender Institute 4th Anniversary featured a public lecture from Professor Sally Engle Merry, NYU, followed by a panel discussion. The annual prizes for excellence in gender research were awarded and three new books by Gender Institute members were launched.

A BBQ event for old and new members on this Friday at 6pm

The first in the Gender and History node seminar series will be presented by Dr Gemma Betros, Lecturer in European History, ANU.

This seminar examines time to completion and completion rates for international and domestic doctoral candidates by gender.

YWCA Canberra is excited to mark the International Week Without Violence this October by launching their revamped Relationship Things resource. 

More than two decades after queer theory’s emergence, presenters at this symposium are invited to engage with queer as an object and with the object lessons of queer theory.

ANU Circle for Gender Equity and Diversity Learning Community are hosting a panel discussion on Women in the Middle East to discuss gender roles and women’s rights in society and politics across the region.

The ANU Circle for Gender Equity is hosting a panel discussion on the interaction between gender equity and the construct of masculinity in different cultural contexts. 

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Where is feminism's archive if it is not something that we find fully formed and awaiting our interventions?

In this seminar Professor Leslie J Moran analyses judicial swearing in speeches as ‘live performance’, focusing on the ceremony for Lady Justice Macur during which a box of 'Mr Kipling’s Bakewell tarts’ was presented to the Lord Chief Justice.

The Equality Rights Alliance is hosting a Beijing +20 Caravan for young women in order to discuss current issues and challenges facing women in Australia.

Ms Mlambo-Ngcuka will discuss what UN Women is doing in the lead up to Beijing+20 and how they are working to ensure gender equality is embedded within the Post-2015 Development Framework.

Join speakers from military, governmental, humanitarian and academic perspectives from a range of countries for an interactive and informative panel discussion.

Part of the Gender Institute 2014 public lecture series 'Feminist Theory Now', co-presented with the Centre for International and Public Law

CSW59 Preparation Meeting: Open to all

Postgraduate students and early career researchers at the ANU are invited to attend this Masterclass on feminist media analysis, which explores approaches and methods for analysing media texts and argues that such analysis is crucial for understanding politics and gendered power relations.

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A public panel event on media representations of women in public life and the sexism that many believe contributed to the downfall of Australia's first woman Prime Minister.

In this lecture Dr Harris Rimmer considers recent work exploring the potential for for alignment between the Women Peace and Security Agenda and 'R2P' around the goal of accountability for sexual violence in conflict.

Identifying and addressing the causes of the under-representation of women and minorities in academia is a source of ongoing concern and controversy.

The workshop brings together experts on the gender history of East Asia and will pay special attention to the intersecting influences on New Woman, Modern Girl within the region that came about through the print media, educational institutions, churches and feminist movements.

We are delighted to host former editor of Hypatia journal and US 2013 Distinguished Woman Philosopher of Year, Professor Alison Wylie, as the second speaker in our 2014 public lecture series Feminist Theory Now.

Featuring an inspirational lecture and discussion with Sex Discrimination Commissioner Ms Elizabeth Broderick: "Progressing gender equity and the role of male champions of change"

The first in the Gender Institute 2014 Public Lecture Series, Feminist Theory Now, will be presented by Professor Anne Phillips from the London School of Economics.

One Billion Rising is a global campaign that invites one billion women and those who love them to demand an end to the violence. ANU supports this goal and is proud to host this panel discussion to explore solutions to the unacceptable statistics surrounding violence against women

Karen Mumford, Professor of Economics at the University of York, will explore the relative position of women in academic economics.

Facilitated by Dr Honni van Rijswijk, Senior Lecturer UTS, this workshop examines strategies for writing at the intersection of feminist theory, law, literature and the humanities across all levels of postgraduate study. The workshop will be of interest to scholars working on inter-disciplinary projects that touch upon feminism, law, literature and other humanities disciplines.

Could the research model for this ground-breaking study be extended to look at the situation of women in academia? Three authors of the report will discuss its findings and take questions.

Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena is a Sri Lankan lawyer, journalist and human rights defender who has researched extensively on issues of gender discriminatory laws, good governance and the participation of women in the island’s politics.

This public lecture by Indonesian expert Kamala Chandrakirana addresses the theme of women, peace and security in the Asia and Pacific, and the roles the United Nations, as well as the international community can play to ensure strong roles of women in conflict resolution and peace building.

The fifth seminar in the 2013 Gender Institute Seminar Series, Women in Academia, will be presented by Dr. Allison Shaw and Dr. Daniel Stanton of the Research School of Biology, ANU.

Q&A with Matilda House-Williams, Ngambri, Ngunnawal, Wiradjuri elder: ‘I’m a tough little bugger, I always have been ... and a very proud Aboriginal woman’.

ANU Research Seminar by Dr Anna Boucher, University of Sydney (Department of Government and International Relations), Visiting Scholar, Research School, ANU. Drawing upon feminist economics, industrial relations and sociology, this paper develops new indicators to assess the gender awareness of a range of methods of highly skilled immigration selection including points tested models and employer-selection models across 12 countries and 39 visa classes.

ANU Circle for Gender Equity will be holding an informal launch event directly after the screening of Girl Rising on the International Day of the Girl.

The YWCA of Canberra and the ANU Gender Institute invite you to the screening of ‘I AM A GIRL’, on the eve of the International Day of the Girl Child. Includes a panel discussion with the filmmaker.

Public lecture by Geraldine Cox, A.M.

This workshop explores why professional philosophers are today still overwhelmingly male. Speakers draw on papers from 'Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change?' (forthcoming, OUP) for discussion by a broad range of respondents.

This workshop will centre around Prof. Maureen Baker's new book “Academic Careers and the Gender Gap”.

An opportunity for informal discussions with Maryanne Dever and Beth Beckmann, and for networking with ANU women with an interest in this topic, including past participants of the Resilience of Women Research Students program.

Classicist Prof. Elizabeth Minchin (one of the Gender Institute's ANU Inspiring Women) and archaeologist Dr Catherine Frieman will feature at the first The Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies social event at ANU.

This workshop is designed for students who would like to enhance the gender aspects of their research and writing.

This conference will provide an interdisciplinary platform for scholars and NGO representatives who work in the areas of childhood and education in South Asia.

This public lecture examines issues of the female self, language and performance in therapeutic cults in India.

In many countries, there is a gender wage gap that widens across the wage distribution. This finding - more pronounced in the private than the public sector - has been interpreted as a glass ceiling effect. What explains this effect and what policies could make a difference?

Catch up on the first seminar in the 2013 Gender Institute seminar series 'Women in academia' via the podcast.

The inaugural conference of the relaunched Lilith: A Feminist History Journal will be held on Friday 10 May 2013. Keynote speaker: Professor Carolyn Steedman, University of Warwick.

Gender Institute award winners will present their research at this special seminar.

The convenor of the roundtable, Professor Carola Vinuesa is a member of the recently created NHMRC Women in Science Working Committee, an NHMRC Elizabeth Blackburn Fellow.

This public seminar will talk specifically on the issues of Violence affecting Women and Children in Vietnam.