Female-Identifying Researcher at ANU? Interested in building your creativity, communication & confidence? Want to look at your research from a new perspective?

Join ANU alumnus and International Bar Association senior advisor Kieran Pender for an in conversation with Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner Kate Jenkins, exploring how Australia can effectively address sexual harassment in our workplace

In times of health crisis and emergency, implementing the WHO/UNICEF Global Strategy for Infant and Young Child Feeding is more important than ever, but is hindered by lack of priority for investment in breastfeeding policies and plans nationally

Please register to join us online at the registration tab above to learn more about how to progress breastfeeding policy

Please register to join us online at the registration tab above to learn more about how to progress breastfeeding policy

Please register to join us online at the registration tab above to learn more about how to progress breastfeeding policy

Find information on all 6 webinars held this year

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To celebrate IWD at ANU, a group of leading women will come together to share their expertise and leadership on this year's theme - climate change.

Professor Bonnie Honig's recent work reflects her enduring interest in contemporary political theory, democratic politics, and feminism

Professor Rae Frances, Dean of the College of Arts and Social Scienes, will launch Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia edited by Michelle Arrow and Angela Woollacott.

Questions of sexuality and refugee or migration status remain on the margins of queer and refugee movements, policy and support services.

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

This research-practice roundtable will reflect on how academics have engaged with issues of infrastructure-based development in their research and practice.

Developing critical voices in the arts: A writing workshop with Natalie Thomas

At our next meeting we will be considering some aspects of single women’s lives in Australia during the years of the First World War with Emma Bellino’s ‘“Nonsense about the girl of to-day”: Spinsterhood and courtship in the Australian Woman’s Weekly’, 1912-1921, Lillith 24 (2018): 52-64.

Our recent interest in queer histories and the new BBC One drama Gentleman Jack has sparked the choice of reading for our next meeting: Danielle Orr’s article ‘“i tell myself to myself”: homosexual agency in the journals of anne lister (1791-1840)’, Women’s Writing 11, 2 (2004): 201-222.

Who are ‘we’ in the Anthropocene, how do notions of our shared humanity contend with the cascading global inequalities of place, race, class and gender?

In December 2019, the ANU will welcome Professor Sara Ahmed on a short visit sponsored by the Humanities Research Centre.

At this meeting we are privileged to have Dr Sinead McEneaney as our guest speaker. She will be seeking feedback on work she is preparing titled ‘“Not picketing in front of bra factories...”: revolutionary women and alternatives to the “second wave”’.

Just as same-sex marriage is becoming increasingly legalized and accepted in more and more societies, transgender people’s bodies have been emerging as the new frontier of the gender wars not only in public discourse, but also in feminist theory.

This conference explores the intersection of gender equality and academic evaluation of excellence, with a specific focus on the Humanities and Social Science (HASS) disciplines.

In The Oocyte Economy Catherine Waldby draws on 130 interviews---with scientists, clinicians, and women who have either donated or frozen their oocytes or received those of another woman---to trace how the history of human oocytes' perceived value intersects with the biological and social life of women.

Ignite your journey with the festival "Young women: Take the lead!". Empowerment should start early in a career. This conference provides a holistic approach to women's leadership, offering the inspiration to open new avenues and see other perspectives. This day is an opportunity for you to think, understand, engage and challenge pre-conceived notions surrounding women.

Is gender a consideration for your program, project or research? Now is the time to reflect on this.

Trends in gender equality across the world suggest that there has been considerable progress on basic human capabilities of health and education that are conducive to women’s participation in the public domain.

We are delighted to begin a new year by turning our thoughts to queer historiography with Laura Doan’s ‘Topsy-Turvydom: Gender, Sexuality, and the Problem of Categorization’, a chapter from her book 

What are the key forces at play in the ongoing adaptation of global governance to power shifts and multilateral retrenchment?

This talk explores tensions between the media’s function as a spatially networked public sphere and the presumptive privacy of the domestic sphere, between bodies and screens, and between selves and images, and the implications of these tensions, especially for sexual subjects.

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.

Join us for an exciting public panel and discussion highlighting the international in International Women’s Day.

The Australian Civil Society Coalition on Women, Peace and Security (WPS Coalition) is pleased to co-sponsor with the ANU Gender Institute a CIVIL SOCIETY ROUNDTABLE ON WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY with Ms Claire Hutchinson, the NATO Secretary General’s Spec

For our last meeting for 2018 we have the pleasure of workshopping Dr Karen Fox’s upcoming conference paper ‘Gender, Fame, and the Politics of the Past: Unsettling the Heroic in Australia’s History’.

The ANU Family Friendly Committee, PARSA and ANUSA invite staff and students to workshop and refine a set of family-friendly recommendations that the ANU community would like the university to address. It builds on the ANU Community Forum: Is ANU Family Friendly?

The ANU Gender Institute had a fabulous time celebrating another great year for the 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.

Coinciding with the first anniversary of the survey announcement in November 2017, this symposium engages with the legacy of the Australian, as well as international, campaigns for marriage equality.

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.

The speakers will discuss the progress on breastfeeding policies and explore how these experiences can be enhanced by efforts to improve gender equality and women’s economic security.

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.
Podcast now available.

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.

Professor Kathleen Lahey identifies key issues and barriers to women’s economic equality and outlines policy alternatives capable of producing better outcomes for women over their life courses.

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. 

Speakers: 

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.

*Please note the change of venue!
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.

Australian Inspiring Women - Geraldine Cox: ‘Wealth of a different kind’: Sunrise Children’s Villages, Cambodia

Wednesday, 25 September 2013 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm

After reviewing the context of the emergence of same-sex parenting in contemporary Western societies Agnès Fine analyses its different forms as well as the demands that flow from it.

The third in the 2013 Gender Institute Seminar Series, Women in Academia, will be a public lecture presented by Maureen Baker, professor of sociology at the University of Auckland, New Zealand.

In this presentation Dr Juliette Duara discusses India’s recent equality jurisprudence as examples of doctrinal migration/ transplantation.

Seminar and Workshop: A/Prof Maryanne Dever discusses how gender differences in early career academic employment paths and research performance in Australia are shaped by graduates’ family formation and PhD experiences.

In this public lecture, award-winning author Hanifa Deen will explore the domestic and international responses to dissident Bangladeshi writer-in-exile, Taslima Nasreen.

*PLEASE NOTE*: Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.

Please visit the Women in Academia page for information about other events in this series

This lecture by Purnima Mankekar, Associate Professor in Gender Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of California (UCLA) and Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore in 2013 draws on collaborative research on intersections of transnational media, erotics, and identity within Asia and across Asian diasporas.

Masterclass for PhD students and ECRs with Purnima Mankekar, Associate Professor in Gender Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of California in Los Angeles.

In this public lecture, Dame Carol Kidu, will present a personal and anecdotal reflection on the reality of sorcery in the lives of people in 21st century Papua New Guinea. It will draw primarily on her experiences and observations while living in Motu society for over 40 years.