Past events
In Conversation with Iola Matthews & Chris Wallace - Winning for Women: A Personal Story
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?

Everyday Revolutions: Remaking Gender, Sexuality and Culture in 1970s Australia
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.

AKE: A Critical Feminist Arts/Research Workshop Series
In this workshop, we explore ways of practically extending critical and feminist social research with art – specifically photography, sociological fiction and zine making.

Queer Displacements - Sexuality, Migration & Exile
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
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

Inspiring Women Reflect: Hon Dame Annette King in Conversation with Hon Ros Kelly AO
The Australian Studies Institute and PwC are pleased to present as part of their Inspirin

Gender and history node discussion group - 14th session
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’.

Talking Across the Economic-Security Divide: Development, Securitization and Infrastructure
This research-practice roundtable will reflect on how academics have engaged with issues of infrastructure-based development in their research and practice.

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

Gender and history node discussion group - 13th session
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.

Gender Institute Celebration

How do CALD Women Perceive Interpersonal Violence?
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.

Gender and history node discussion group - 12th session
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.

Breastfeeding, Work and Women's Health Event
This event celebrates Women’s Health Week and ANU’s commitment to supporting women’s health and wellbeing.

Gender and history node discussion group - 11th session
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.

Motherhood Under the Microscope: Perspectives from the Social Sciences
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.

Engendering the Anthropocene in Oceania: Fatalism, Resilience, Resistance
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?

The Hon. Michael Kirby: Queer-ying Global Challenges & Triumphs
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

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

Making it in the Academic Jungle: Publishing Strategies
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.

Gender and history node discussion group - 11th session
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”’.

Book launch: Research Handbook on Feminist Engagement with International Law
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.

Master Class: Feminism’s Transgender Troubles
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.

Do Faculty Diversity Initiatives Work? Evidence from 600 Schools
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.

Excellence and Gender Equality: Critical Perspectives on Gender and Knowledge in the Humanities and Social Sciences
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.

Gender and history node discussion group - 10th session
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.

The Oocyte Economy: in conversation with Prof Catherine Waldby
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.

SDSC International Security Women Scholars and their Scholarship
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.

Festival: "Young women: Take the lead!"
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.

Gender and history node discussion group - 9th session
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.'

Climate Change Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific: Is Gender Relevant?
Is gender a consideration for your program, project or research? Now is the time to reflect on this.

Treacherous Pathways: Australia's refugee laws and policies and LBGTI Asylum Seekers
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.

Building women’s livelihoods: an evidence-based theory of change
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.

The Green Revolution Narratives of Politics, Technology and Gender by Patrick Kilby
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.

Gender and history node discussion group - 8th session

Human rights movements in PNG: people with HIV, men with diverse sexualities and transgender Papua New Guineans
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.

Adjustment and Recognition in the Reform of Global Institutions: Nuclear Non-proliferation and Beyond
What are the key forces at play in the ongoing adaptation of global governance to power shifts and multilateral retrenchment?

Women in Defence and Security Network (WDSN) Speed Mentoring
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.

Inaugural HRC Lecture in Gender Studies - The Indecent Screen: Prosecuting Indecency on US Television
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.

Loud and Luminous: International Women's Day 2019 Launch and Symposium
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.

Beyond Fishing: Torres Strait Islander women’s connections to solwata
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 International in International Women’s Day: Travelling Feminisms
Join us for an exciting public panel and discussion highlighting the international in International Women’s Day.

Women of Mathematics: a one-day meeting at the ANU
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.

Civil Society Roundtable on Women, Peace and Security
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

SAVE THE DATE: Launch of the sixth report of the Annual Civil Society Dialogue on Women, Peace and Security
Join us for the launch of the Annual Dialogue Report on Women, Peace and Security

Gender and history node discussion group - 7th session
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’.

Japanese military sexual slavery and women’s lives in the Asia-Pacific region today

Second ANU Family Friendly Forum
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?
Gender café: Gender Institute end of year celebration and prize giving ceremony
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.

Gender Institute end of year celebration and prize giving ceremony
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.

International hierarchy, legitimacy, and the founding of Joseon Korea
How is hierarchy created and maintained in international politics?

Happy anniversary? Reflecting on marriage equality
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.

Countering violent extremism and national plans for women, peace and security
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

Inspiring Women of ANU: Pauline Ridge
The Financing of Religion: Exploring the legal questions raised by the financing of religion reveals universal themes concerning the right to freedom of religion, legal neutrality and gender.

Separated Same-Sex Parented Families
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

Gender and history node discussion group - 6th session
To continue our consideration of gender and power, we will discuss a very recent critique of R. W. Connell’s enormously influential concept of hegemonic masculinity in Ben Griffin, ‘Hegemonic Masculinity as a Historical Problem’ (Gender & History, July 2018).

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

Inspiring Women of ANU: Sharon Bessell
Who Counts? Research as a Pathway to More Inclusive Societies: Exploring the potential of research to illuminate the perspective of those who are on the margins

Shaping Australia’s role in Indo-Pacific security in the next decade
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.

Family-Friendly Picnic with the VC
The event celebrates the launch of the ANU Family Friendly Committee and ANU’s commitment to the needs of families and carers at ANU

Gender and history node discussion group - 5th session
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.

After the rule: A symposium on alternative traditions of law, norms and rules
This symposium will suggest new ways of seeing the relationship between interpretation, law, and justice: other spaces and cultural practices, other ways of reading and non-reading, other crystallisations of rules, order and discipline.

Film screening: RBG and panel discussion
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.
Frankenstein: Two hundred years of monsters
A conference in celebration of Mary Shelley’s novel and its monstrous progeny in literature, film and popular culture.

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

The cultural life of cheese: Gender, labour & microbes in US craft production
How do changing understandings of microbes and their relationship to people inform the regulation of both food products and peoples’ bodies?

Is ANU Family Friendly?
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.

Gender and history node discussion group - 4th session
At the next discussion of the Gender and History group, Frank Bongiorno will present for discussion his paper ‘New Light on The Forgotten People: Women and Girls Write to Prime Minister Menzies’.

Women and work in premodern Europe: Experiences, relationships and cultural representation, c. 1100–1800
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)"

Why fathers’ care matters: Enabling gender equity in care and work
Fathers’ participation in caring for young children provides life-long opportunities for fathers, their partners and children. However, there continue to be entrenched social and structural barriers to fathers’ equal participation in care (e.g.

Analysing the nightmare: Reflections on rape culture in South Africa
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.

Heal the self, not the system: sexual violence in the global yoga industry
Cultures of Sexual Assault: Public Lecture

Early career transitions in STEM employment: Processes shaping retention and satisfaction

AWHN symposium 2018: ‘The past is a position: History, activism and privilege’
This symposium will be an intellectually exciting, thoughtful and active gathering that critically examine political experiences and ideas in the past, considers the legacies of these in the present, and works towards creating a better future.

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

Inspiring Women of ANU: Carolyn Strange
In this lecture, we welcome Professor Carolyn Strange, from the School of History.

Making it in the military
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?


Paid parental leave and gender norms in the United States and Australia
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.

Family Friendly open meeting
The purpose of this meeting is to hear the community’s thoughts and plan for how to increase ANU Family Friendly concerns
Involving men in ending violence against women: Book launch
"Involving Men in Ending Violence against Women" provides a feminist analysis of men’s motivations for joining violence against women’s movements.

Why the triple talaq must stop: Interrogating a slice of contemporary history in India
In this lecture, Prof Nasreen will show that triple talaq has become an acid test for Indian democracy that aims to offer all women rights equal to that enjoyed by men.

Gender and history node discussion group - 2nd session
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.

The death of this security norm is greatly exaggerated": Beyond the violation/compliance dichotomy
This research seminar is the first of the ‘Women in International Security: Theory and Practice’ Seminar Series 2018-19. Consisting of research, career development, and policy dialogue seminars, this series showcases the work of prominent women in the fields of international security.

Women in media forum at ANU
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.

Being an indigenous woman
On April 13 after the NTEU seminar by Celeste Liddle from 12-1 in Hedley Bull 2, the Gender Institute is sponsoring a panel discussion on Being an Indigenous Wo

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

Gender and history node discussion group - 1st session
During the first meeting of the Gender and History Group, members will discuss Mary Beard's 'Women and Power'

How big is the problem of violence against women? The challenge of intersectional measurement at the global level
Prof Sally Engle Merry will talk about the challenges around how to qualify and quantify violence against women globally.

IWD: Changing the culture of gender at ANU - podcast and transcripts
The podcast and transcript of speeches for the IWD's morning tea panel are now available!
Women's market day garden party
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.

Fifth report of the annual civil society dialogue on women, peace and security
Launch of the Fifth Report of the Annual Civil Society Dialogue on Women, Peace and Security: “Listening to Women’s Voices and Making the Connections to the Women, Peace and Security Agenda”

Inspiring Women of ANU: Professor Simone Dennis
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.

The baby out with the bathwater… disavowal and disappearance of motherhood in 20th and 21st century academic feminism
In this public talk Andrea O’Reilly will introduce Motherhood Studies providing an overview of the development of scholarship on motherhood

Prosecute; don't perpetrate
Ending impunity for sexual violence in armed conflict

Reproduction and family planning in Australia: symposium

Reproduction and family planning in Australia: reception-keynote Catherine Waldby
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 node discussion group - 6th session

Gender and history node discussion group - 5th session
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’

BOSSY 2017 Magazine Launch
128-page magazine will be available in the thousands, plus 3000+ custom and professionally-printed stickers (in five original designs) to give away too

Pregnancy belly casting talk, demonstration and exhibition
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

Queery-ing policy studies: using insights from LGBT service users to advance our understanding
In many areas of life LGBT people are now legally protected from discrimination. However, this seminar will argue that further progress needs to be made to achieve equality, particularly in public policy and policy implementation.

Women making international law: Towards feminist diplomacy
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

Between Moscow, Geneva and Shanghai: The league of nations' campaigns against the traffic in Russian women refugees from the Soviet Union, 1921-1938
This talk will trace the genealogy of the ‘White Russian prostitute’ trope through the investigations of the League’s Traffic in Women Committee and the High Commission for Russian Refugees, detailing the responses of both Soviet and Chinese representatives in Geneva, and in doing so explore the gendered biopolitics of the international response to the interwar Russian refugee crisis.

Gender and history node discussion group - 4th session
The Gender and History node will meet to discuss issues of power, intimacy and gender.

Gender responsive budgeting for breastfeeding
This two-day regional workshop aims to support efforts to improve breastfeeding policies and its funding in national budgets.

Graduate masterclass with Prof Hemmings
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.

Gender responsive budgeting and breastfeeding policies: insights from the Asia-Pacific region
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.

Feminist utopias: past, present, and imagined
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?

Sexual assault and harassment on University campuses: Changing the course
Gillian Triggs, who was until recently the President of the Commission, will be talking about the resulting ‘Change the Course’ report which was published on 1 August 2017.

ARCSHS distinguished lecture series: Margaret Jolly
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 Institute meeting - Changing the Course at ANU, followed by ceremony honouring Gender Institute members
A meeting of all ANU-based Gender Institute members and guests will be held at the ANU for a panel forum and discussion of the Australian Human Rights Commission’s report Change the course: National report on sexual assault and sexual harassment at Australian universities (see below).

Gender and history node discussion group - 4th session
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.

Law, space, and time
Where and when is law? Asking this question means engaging with the boundaries, orientations, perspectives, and scales of law. Setting law in space and time calls for a study of law in context.

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

WILPF: Security in the Asia Pacific: women’s contribution to peace
Professor Akibayashi will focus her presentation on the current security situation in the Asia Pacific region, particularly the tensions in East Asia, and on women’s contribution to peace in the region, including between North and South Korea.

Gender and history node discussion group - 3rd session
Gender and History node members will meet to workshop a conference paper by node member Julie Hotchin.

RSSS Public Lecture Series: Adverse Events - On bad affects and the antidepressant wars
In this lecture Professor Wilson will address the issue of psychopharmaceuticals, harm and adverse effects.

Gender and history node discussion group - 2nd session
Gender and History node members will meet to discuss a draft paper by node member Chris Wallace.
We deserve to thrive: poetry and climate activism
Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner is a Marshall Islander poet and spoken word artist. She received international acclaim through her inspirational poetry performance at the opening of the United Nations Climate Summit in New York in 2014.

President Hilda Heine on climate change crisis in Marshall Islands
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.

Creativity and climate change action
How do we effectively and creatively share calls for environmental stewardship and justice in Oceania with diverse global audiences? Students, artists, writers, scholars and policy makers are invited to participate in this workshop with acclaimed spoken word poet and environmental activist Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner.

Launch of the fourth annual Civil Society report card
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.

Gender Institute 6th anniversary event and prize giving ceremony
Join us to celebrate the Gender Institute's sixth year.

Gender Institute 6th anniversary event
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 anthropology node meetings
Anthropology node of the Gender Institute fortnightly meetings

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

The perfect woman - the transgender body and queer intimacy in authoritarian Indonesia
In this final seminar Benjamin Hegarty will present a description of the concept of becoming among waria, those referred to as "national transvestites" in Indonesia.
Utopia 500
Join Paul Barclay from ABC’s Big Ideas unit as he explores the issues with four renowned public intellectuals from Australia and abroad.

Is modern feminism bringing the change we need?
In this panel discussion, speakers will share their insights on some of the barriers to gender equality and what can be done to overcome them.

Be bold for change: transform your future
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.

Antarctica: 76 female scientists at the end of the earth
If a trip to the southern tip of the world doesn’t teach you some life lessons, then I don’t know what will!

How the personal became political: re-assessing Australia's revolutions in gender and sexuality in the 1970s 2017
This symposium explores events, transformations, policy changes and watershed developments in gender and sexuality in Australia in the 1970s.

Peruvian Congressman Alberto de Belaunde on human rights (including LGBTI challenges) in Latin America
Peruvian Congressman Alberto de Belaunde, one of the few political figures defending LGBTI civil and gender identity rights in Peru, will discuss the question of human rights, including LGBTI challenges, in Latin America.

Divas down under: the gendered reception of European silent film stars in pre-WWI Australia
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.

Addressing gender-based violence at the community level: the role of urban village courts in PNG
Drawing on ongoing fieldwork in three Port Moresby Village Courts, Fiona Hukula considers the role of the Village Court in implementing the Family Protection Act.

Australia’s response to violence against women: progress and pitfalls
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?

Australian women lawyers as active citizens
You are invited to celebrate the launch of the online exhibition Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens.
Gendered innovation in political science
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.

Marilyn Waring and the United Nations System of National Accounts
How can economics aid our understanding of how gender works in society and of the relationship between market and non-market activity?

Restructuring gender inequality in the crisis
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.

Relational autonomy and epistemic injustice
Philosophy is a striking outlier among the humanities for its gender disparities and for the resistance in some quarters of the discipline to feminist concerns.

Women’s absence from positions of decision-making power: feminist conundrums in defining the problem of representation
This lecture considers the best way to tackle the problem of women’s absence from positions of power using a feminist approach.

Gendered innovations in the social sciences
This conference aims to compare the status of gender analysis and feminist research in different social science disciplines and to build persuasive arguments about how and why gender matters in them.

Women in Research Citation Awards
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.
The challenge of social democracy: Don Dunstan and women’s rights in 1970s South Australia
This paper will consider Dunstan’s work towards equality for women, in the context of the Women’s Liberation movement and national reforms.
Ending violence against women: Australia and the region
This seminar will explore current developments in ending violence against women in the Asia-Pacific region and Australia.

Murder, Sex and the Death Penalty in Mid-Twentieth Century Canada: A Preliminary Inquiry
The ‘sex criminal’, with the possible exception of ‘the terrorist’, is the most feared and reviled offender of our time, and murders involving sexual violence frequently lead to calls in abolitionist countries for the return of capital punishment.
Gender equality among barristers before the High Court
This seminar examines the extent to which gender equality among barristers before the High Court has been achieved.

Women careers panel and networking evening
The ANU Circle for Gender Equity in collaboration with The Australian National Committee for UN Women are hosting a Women Careers Panel & Networking Evening.

The possibilities of feminist sociology: a workshop
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?

EVENT CANCELLED: Gender in developing countries
This event has been cancelled.

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

Searching for identity in a multicultural world
Issues like gender equality are intertwined and intrinsically connected to the notion of identity and culture. Thus any discussions on gender must incorporate culture and identity. What does it mean to be a mean or a woman for that matter how do issues like intersectionality affect us, in an increasingly multicultural world?

'Wear it purple day' Gayby Baby screening

Support for breastfeeding mothers in workplaces and childcare services at the ANU
Over a decade ago, leading female academics seeking greater gender equity called for universities to ‘bring babies and breasts into workplaces’. The ANU Gender Institute funded a study into support for breastfeeding mothers at Australia’s national university.
Gendering philosophy: a symposium
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.

Intimate connections: everyday experiences of inter-Asia ties - masterclasses
We are pleased to offer two master classes with outstanding scholars working on the concerns of intimacy within and between Asian contexts, for PhD students and Early Career Academics.

Scary monsters: the hopeful undecidability of David Bowie (1947-2016)
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.

Intimate connections: everyday experiences of inter-Asia ties - workshop
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The gendered experience of seeking asylum
The ANU Circle for Gender Equity is bringing together a panel of fantastic speakers to discuss the gendered experience of seeking asylum.


Thar “SHE” blows? Gender, competition, and bubbles in experimental asset markets
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.

Mentoring with Professor Catherine Eckel
Professor Catherine Eckel will reflect on her involvement in the Committee on the Status of Women in Economics Profession mentoring workshops, and will discuss mentoring more broadly at ANU.

Annual Gender Institute Prizes for Excellence in Gender Research - award ceremony and book launch
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'.

Gender in modern East Asia: an integrated history
Book launch of a new publication by Barbara Molony Janet Theiss Hyaeweol Choi

Women of diaspora: roles and (self)representations
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.
After Stella: taking stock of gender and literature in Australia
This discussion brings figures from across the literary landscape - writers’ festivals, publishing, reviewing, and academia - to discuss what this literary activism has achieved, and what is left to do. Is the gendering of literature in Australia changing, and why?

Roundtable, reception and launch: opportunities for Australia’s Women, Peace and Security agenda post-2015
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
Skin deep: settler impressions of Aboriginal women
Liz Conor will give a seminar on her book, which examines the preoccupations of European-Australians in their encounters with Aboriginal women and the stereotypes and perceptions that seeped into everyday settler-colonial thinking.

The status of women in Israel relative to the rest of the world
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

What was eugenics and why does it still matter?
While the term eugenics has disappeared from our vocabulary, do contemporary reprogenetic policies share anything with this earlier programme?

Carmen Aguirre: memoirs of a revolutionary daughter
Research, work, life and balancing academic careers
Professor Kim Rubenstein in Conversation with Professor Jennifer Nedelsky and Professor Joseph Carens.
Careers in the UN: law and gender
The ANU Circle for Gender Equity and ANU International Law Society are proud to host International Human Rights consultant, Jane Aeb
The art of biography: Australian women's lives

Book launch - The politics of gender justice at the International Criminal Court: legacies and legitimacy
Professor Hilary Charlesworth in conversation with Professor Louise Chappell.

Red love across the pacific: political and sexual revolutions of the twentieth century
Visiting Professor Paula Rabinowitz will be in conversation with co-authors Ruth Barraclough (ANU), Nicole Moore (ADFA), and Daniel Sanderson to discuss their contribution to the book Red Love Across the Pacific.

Female leadership in popular culture: the case of Borgen
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.

Reflections on life as a Woman MP: Gender and Israeli Politics
About Dr. Einat Wilf: Dr.

Ted talks and chill
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.

Smashing the glass ceiling: women in finance
The ANU Circle for Gender Equity, in collaboration with the Trading & Investment Collective and the ANU College of Business and Economics (CBE), is hosting a panel discussion titled 'Smashing the glass ceiling: women in finance'. Ruth Med

IWD afternoon tea and welcome to Dr Patricia Plummer
Domestic violence: a panel discussion
The ANU Circle for Gender Equity is running their first event for 2016! This will be a panel discussion focusing on domestic violence, with both male and female speakers who specialise in advocating for the victims of domestic violence and the role of the justice system in the matter.

What are the possibilities of feminist regulation?

Fishy beginnings (we are all bodies of water)
For at least 3.9 billion years, water has been necessary for the gestation of all living beings. Drawing on feminist theory, phenomenology and evolutionary biology, Dr Neimanis asks: how is my body an archive of other watery bodies, anticipating aqueous paths not taken and remembering wet futures yet to come?

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

Between piety, agency and ethical leadership: a critical response to Saba Mahmood
The lecture draws on Foucault’s theory of the ethical subject, to argue that Saba Mahmood fails to theorise female ethical leadership among pious Muslim women, as they breach male domains.

Islam, Gender Relations, and Women’s Agency
A two-day international workshop exploring Islam, gender relations and women’s agency in terms of India–Indonesia connections and comparisons.
End-of-year celebrations and farewell to the Convenor
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 discussions our network has generated in 2015.

Postgraduate conference: Transforming the field of study
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.

White Ribbon Day
25th November is White Ribbon Day – Australia’s only national, male-led Campaign to end men’s violence against women.

New directions in men, masculinities and law
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.
Advancing women in science and engineering: how does Australia compare?
Join two distinguished experts on gender equity in science, Prof. Sharon Bell (CDU) and Dr. Lisa M. Frehill (NSF) to reflect on the current state of knowledge and policy effectiveness in this area.

Data, data everywhere but not a drop to drink
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.

Tax and transfer policies and sex equality: what Australia, Canada and the UK should learn from experience
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.

“The Master’s tools will never dismantle the Master’s house”
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.

Annual Civil Society Dialogue on Women, Peace and Security
The third Annual Civil Society Dialogue on Women, Peace and Security will place a spotlight on the issues in some conflict affected communities and amplify civil society voices.

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

Gender, time & health exploring hour glass ceilings
This seminar will detail research considering the connections between gender, time and health, covering current theories of gender inequality and population health and implications for family mental health.

Men and Part-Time Work
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 subject of feelings
The subject of feelings: the lineage novel and the discourse of emotions in Korea, 17th—20th centuries
Now you see it, now you don't: gender in contemporary policy
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.

Making foetal persons
In this paper, A/Prof. Catherine Mills considers the role that obstetric ultrasound images have played in the constitution of the foetus as person, to open a discussion of the ways that medical technologies are implicated in the legal and social regulation of pregnant women.
Dialogues on Judith Butler and ethics
A symposium with Moya Lloyd (Loughborough) Catherine Mills (Monash) and Fiona Jenkins (ANU).

Interdisciplinary approaches to translocality in Asian and Pacific cultural studies: place, media, mobility
This masterclass will explore approaches and methods in studying translocality in comparative Asian and Pacific Cultural studies. All graduate and honours students interested in interdisciplinary cultural studies are welcome to participate.
The future of whiteness: masterclass for HDR students and ECRs
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?

Gender equity in academia - making it happen
Professor Jennifer Martin discussed the issues and roadblocks women face, outline what universities and individuals can do to make change happen, and highlighted the current Academy of Science "Science in Australia Gender Equity" (SAGE) pilot of the UK Athena SWAN gender equity accreditation system.

Podcast release: Global echoes of rape and resistance
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.

Why should men care about equal opportunities?
Lars Einar Engström's first book was Confessions of a Sexist. In this public lecture, find out why he called himself a sexist and what our organisations can do to tackle it.

Women together: conflict, courage and hope: from DRC to Australia
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 great transformation in South Asia: feminisation of agriculture and food security
This exciting symposium was presented by the ANU Gender Institute, the South Asia Research Institute and the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific.

Professor Kim Rubenstein in conversation with Justice Daphne Barak Erez
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.

The league of remarkable women in Australian science
This exhibition, interactive display and public forum was a registered event for the National Science Week and made possible by the generous support of ANU Gender Institute and the National Science Week – Inspiring Australia Program.

Tania Farha: UN Women public lecture
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.

Conversions: Cakobau, Adi Samanunu and Varani in precolonial Fiji
ANU Gender Institute - Gender and History node 2015 seminar series. Presenter: Vicki Luker, School of History, School of Culture Histoy and Language, ANU

What is gender? Observations from a transgender perspective
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!
Young Women’s Budget Briefing
A live social media panel event where young women were offered an accessible explanation of the federal budget process and its political function, a roundup of the new measures that affected women and the opportunity to ask questions about the current budget and its effects.

Post feminism. Post theory. Post critique?
This workshop aims to rekindle the dialogue between feminist legal theorists and scholars of women, gender and the law.

Flesh and blood: a feminist symposium on embodied histories
The Editorial Collective of Lilith: A Feminist History Journal is pleased to announce a one-day symposium intended to celebrate and build upon the rich tradition of placing the body at the centre of feminist historical analysis.

Body politics in development: competing world views
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 Circle for Gender Equity seminar: healthcare in Africa
The ANU Circle for Gender Equity is proud to hold its second seminar for the semester with the discussion focusing on healthcare in Africa.
Childhood sexuality in early twentieth century sexology and psychoanalysis
ANU Gender Institute - Gender and History node 2015 seminar series: Katie Sutton, Lecturer, German and Gender Studies, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics

Engendering the anthropocene: horizons and rifts in conversations about climate change in Oceania
This lecture reflects on how Oceania and Oceanic peoples figure in dialogues about climate change, globally and in Oceania, and how indigenous knowledge and deep Oceanic histories are simultaneously embraced and marginalized.

Workshop with Dr Kiran Martin, founder of Asha: women innovating in Delhi’s slums
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.

Women in diplomacy
A panel discussion with: The Honourable Penny Wensley AC, HE Mrs Annemieke Ruigrok, HE Dr Clemencia Forero-Ucros and HE Mrs Naela Chohan co-hosted by the ACT Branch of the Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA) and ANU Gender Institute. Catch up on the event with images, wrap up of proceedings and podcast recording.

Gender Institute 4th anniversary
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.

Wives and wanderers in a New Guinea highlands society
This work by the late Marie Olive Reay would have been the first in this vein had it been published when she finished it – back in the mid-60s.

ANU Circle for Gender Equity Meet & Greet BBQ
A BBQ event for old and new members on this Friday at 6pm

Feminist perspectives on medical bodies
This symposium entitled 'Feminist perspectives on medical bodies' is hosted by the Legal Intersections Research Centre, the Feminist Research Network and the Forum on Human Rights Research:
Conversion, tolerance, and the convent of the Nouvelles catholiques in eighteenth-century Paris
The first in the Gender and History node seminar series will be presented by Dr Gemma Betros, Lecturer in European History, ANU.
Conversation with Olivera Simić
Olivera Simić speaks about her new book, Surviving Peace: A Political Memoir, with Susan Harris Rimmer
Light refreshments will be served.
Attrition and Completion in Doctoral Education: A Wicked Problem?
This seminar examines time to completion and completion rates for international and domestic doctoral candidates by gender.

A Celebration of Professor Jill Julius Matthews’ Career
Women’s Studies and Gender Studies @ANU: A Celebration of Professor Jill Julius Matthews’ Career
Reflections on Professor Matthews’ Teaching, Scholarship and Academic Leadership: From Women’s Studies to the Gender Institute (1984-2011)

Relationship Things
YWCA Canberra is excited to mark the International Week Without Violence this October by launching their revamped Relationship Things resource.
Queer theory's queer sex
Distinguished lecture by Professor Robyn Wiegman, Duke University. A co-presentation of Queer Objects symposium and ANU Gender Institute 2014 public lecture series 'Feminist Theory Now'.

Queer Objects: A Symposium with Robyn Wiegman and Annamarie Jagose
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.

Seminar for students with Professor Armelle Le Bras-Chopard
As part of a visit to the ANU Professor Armelle Le Bras-Chopard will participate in a seminar for students, in addition to her public lecture.
Women in the Middle East: Panel discussion
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.
Public lecture: Women and Politics in France
France likes to think of itself as a country that champions liberty. Yet for political and cultural reasons, in comparison with other countries it has been slow to grant political rights to women (women's suffrage, 1944).
'Unmasking Masculinity': Panel Discussion
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:
Voice and agency: empowering women and girls for shared prosperity
Panelists: Jeni Klugman, Elizabeth Broderick, Dame Carol Kidu, Ewen McDonald. Facilitator: Fiona Jenkins.

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

Australian Feminist Studies: roundtable and special issue launch
Invitation to discuss the future of one of Australia's leading journals, and to celebrate the release of a special issue ‘Gendered Excellence in the Social Sciences.
What’s Mr Kipling’s Bakewell tarts got to do with it? Performing gender as a judicial virtue in the theatre of justice
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.
Women, Peace and Security: 2014 Civil Society Dialogue & Reception
Hosted by Australian National Committee for UN Women, the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and ANU Gender Institute.

Beijing +20 Caravan for young women
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.
Women’s Political Participation in China
This lecture takes up the issue of women's political participation in China with particular reference to village committees.
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women, in conversation with Virginia Haussegger
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.

We are all made of stars: establishing equity and diversity within Australian astronomy
The 2014 Astronomical Society of Australia Women in Astronomy Workshop will be hosted at ANU in August. All are welcome, regardless of gender, background or seniority.

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

Sex and Consent: From the personal to the political
This event asks how we should conceive of consent, and how we can promote healthy sexual relationships and non-violence on our campus.
Reproductive Freedom, Torture and International Human Rights: Challenging the Masculinisation of Torture
Part of the Gender Institute 2014 public lecture series 'Feminist Theory Now', co-presented with the Centre for International and Public Law

Women of Science Wikibomb
Beyond the Gender Binary
ANU Circle for Gender Equity presents a panel discussion with Professor Margaret Jolly, Professor Hyaeweol Choi, Amir Pasha Peyrovi and College of Law Sub-Dean Wayne Morgan exploring concepts of gender and gender equity which mov

'Researching Gender, Politics and the Media: Approaches and Methods
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.
Body politics: Media, gender and leadership in Australia, Canada and New Zealand
Professor Linda Trimble on the ways that bodies matter in politics.

Framed? Julia Gillard and the gender wars
*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.

Protection of women in conflict: Chief of Army discusses the London Global Summit
The Centre for Military & Security Law and the ANU Gender Institute are pleased to co-host a Seminar featuring Lieutenant General David Morrison AO, Chief of Army, Dr Susan Harris-Rimmer, Director of Studies at the ANU Asia- Pacific College of Diplomacy and Ms Veronica Fynn, a PhD scholar at the ANU College of Law.

Feminist ripostes to the responsibility to protect doctrine
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.

What do wages do? Feminist theory in austere times
In this public lecture, Professor Lisa Adkins calls for feminist theory to rethink redistributive justice in the light of material transformations to the capacities of resources, including money, to redress injustice and inequality.

On the under-representation of women in academia
Identifying and addressing the causes of the under-representation of women and minorities in academia is a source of ongoing concern and controversy.
Women, peace and security workshop
Applications are invited to attend a workshop on women, peace and security.

New women, modern girls in global Asia - workshop
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.

Women in philosophy: what needs to change?
To be launched by Professor Alison Wylie - this edited volume collects a series of critical essays by leading female philosophers pursuing the question of why philosophy continues to be inhospitable to women and what can be done to change it.

Standpoint theory and the formation of gender archaeology
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.

Australian women’s history forum
The Australian Women’s History Forum will hold a headline debate in Canberra featuring Dr Anne Summers AO, Professor Angela Woollacott, Professor Kim Rubenstein and others.
Gender Institute third Anniversary Event
Featuring an inspirational lecture and discussion with Sex Discrimination Commissioner Ms Elizabeth Broderick: "Progressing gender equity and the role of male champions of change"

Gender Institute 3rd Anniversary Event
The Gender Institute marked its 3rd anniversary on Friday 21 March 2014 with an inspirational lecture and discussion with Sex Discrimination Commissioner Ms Elizabeth Broderick from the Australian Human Rights Commission.

Our bodies, whose property?
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.

Celebrate International Women's Day and nominate a champion
This event is an opportunity to network, celebrate women and recognise their contribution to the University.

Violence against women: Solutions for the future - a One Billion Rising V Day event
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
Gender Equity at the RSAA and ANU: review and recommendations
This presentation is the outcome of an ANU Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics' Access and Equity Committee research project, funded by the ANU Gender Institute.

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

Encountering legal imaginaries of harm: Towards an ethico-critical practice
This public lecture by Dr Honni van Rijswijk will consider the role of the imaginary as a mode of intervention into processes of interpellation—as the location of a practice of interruption, diagnosis and transformation of legal organisations of harm, and as a point from which to offer alternative versions of relation and responsibility.

The Politics and Aesthetics of Academic Writing
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.

The Origin of Sex and Death
Dr Charley Lineweaver is an astrobiologist interested in the origins of multicellularity, sex and death. Understanding the evolutionary origin of gender differences will give us insight into modern gender issues. Dr Lineweaver will review the various forms of genetic exchange among bacteria and

Not yet 50/50: Barriers to the progress of senior women in the Australian Public Service
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.

The Marriage Equality Act
The Centre for International & Public Law, ANU College of Law, are hosting a Public Seminar to mark the enactment of the Marriage Equality Act by the ACT Legislative Assembly.
Women, politics and the law in Sri Lanka: A discussion with Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena
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.

Looking back on RAMSI: mainstreaming women, peace and security into Australian foreign policy and practice
An event to mark the 13th anniversary of UNSCR1325 on Women, Peace and Security.
Women, Peace and Security in the Asia-Pacific
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.
Workshop for early career researchers: women, peace and security in the Asia Pacific
The early career researchers’ workshop lead by Indonesian expert Kamala Chandrakirana is intended to support PhD and Masters students and ECR researchers at the ANU working on topi
Leaks in the pipeline: separating demographic inertia from ongoing gender differences in academia
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.

Australian Inspiring Women - Professor Fiona Wood: ‘In mind, body and spirit’
Burns surgeon and researcher Professor Fiona Wood will explore her personal and professional quest to deliver scarless healing to all burn injury survivors.

Australian Inspring Women - Matilda House-Williams: Ngambri, Ngunnawal, Wiradjuri elder
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’.

Australia and the implementation of United Nations Security Council resolutions on women, peace and security
The 2013 Annual Civil Society Report Card on Australia’s National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security will be launched by Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash.

Gendering high skilled immigration selection across the OECD
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.

The long revolution in Egypt: women, gender, and creative activisms
Professor Margot Badran: This talk centres on the continuing 2011 Egyptian Revolution (al-thawra al-musatmira) as a new generation of women and men engage in forms of creative activism displaying at once tenacious militant activisms and stunning aesthetic politics.

ANU Circle for Gender Equity
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.
Girl Rising: film screening and panel discussion
Educate girls. Change the World. Film screening and panel discussion with Dr Victoria Mason (Politics and International Relations, ANU) and Dr Fiona Jenkins (Philosophy, ANU and Convener, ANU Gender Institute).

I am a girl: film screening and panel
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.

An in-depth analysis of organizational identification of female ECR academics at the ANU
The fourth in the 2013 Gender Institute Seminar Series, Women in Academia, will be presented by Dr Dirk Van Rooy, Lecturer, Research School of Psychology, ANU

Australian Inspiring Women - Geraldine Cox: ‘Wealth of a different kind’: Sunrise Children’s Villages, Cambodia
Public lecture by Geraldine Cox, A.M.

Adoption by same-sex parents in Western societies
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.

Women in Philosophy: what needs to change?
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.

Academic careers and the gender gap
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.

Women in Academia Workshop: Professor Maureen Baker
This workshop will centre around Prof. Maureen Baker's new book “Academic Careers and the Gender Gap”.

Whither Indian sex equality jurisprudence: doctrinal migration in a post-realist world
In this presentation Dr Juliette Duara discusses India’s recent equality jurisprudence as examples of doctrinal migration/ transplantation.
Why do women research students and early career academics need resilience?
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.

Gender, early career formation and the changes we haven't seen
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.

Modern careers in the Ancient world
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.

The 'female Rushdie': Fallen prose of a fallen woman
In this public lecture, award-winning author Hanifa Deen will explore the domestic and international responses to dissident Bangladeshi writer-in-exile, Taslima Nasreen.

Enhancing gender in research and writing: workshop for graduate students
This workshop is designed for students who would like to enhance the gender aspects of their research and writing.
NOTICE: Stina Powell seminar event cancelled
*PLEASE NOTE*: Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.
Please visit the Women in Academia page for information about other events in this series

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

Erotics, media, and sociality in transnational Asia
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.
The topography of the female self in Indian therapeutic cults
This public lecture examines issues of the female self, language and performance in therapeutic cults in India.

Feminisms, transnationalism and the media
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.
Glass ceilings: Why are they persisting and what can we do about them?
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?

Sorcery: A Reality Beyond Rational Logic
Public lecture by Dame Carol Kidu, former member of Papua New Guinea Parliament and an outspoken advocate against gender violence in Papua New Guinea.

Women in Philosophy: what needs to change?
Catch up on the first seminar in the 2013 Gender Institute seminar series 'Women in academia' via the podcast.

Theorising gender, race and nation
Masterclass for Postgraduate students and ECRs with Professor Jill Vickers.

Women Without Men: Spinsters, widows and deserted wives in the nineteenth century and beyond
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.

From rights to reality: Protecting breastfeeding in workplaces and childcare
Excellence in gender research 2012: Presenting our ANU student prize-winners
Gender Institute award winners will present their research at this special seminar.

Engendering kastom and the arts in Vanuatu
Prof Margaret Jolly, ARC Laureate Fellow, School of Culture, History and Language, Australian National University, discusses how kastom and arts have been gendered in Vanuatu.
Roundtable and Discussion: Women in science - How to improve the scoring system of women’s track record “relative to opportunity”
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.

Australia's female veterans from Vietnam to Afghanistan
In this public lecture Dr Samantha Crompvoets presents findings from a three year in depth study into the health and wellbeing of Australia's female veterans.

Violence affecting women and children in Vietnam in the comparative perspective with other ASEAN Countries
This public seminar will talk specifically on the issues of Violence affecting Women and Children in Vietnam.

Conference: ‘Let’s Get Loud!’: Gender, Politics, ACTION
A conference brought to you by the ANU Gender Institute and Vocal Majority. Keynote speakers include Anne Summers AO and Professor Hilary Charlesworth.

Workshop: The power of gender and ethnic boundaries: Examining the representation of women’s experiences of Australia in migrant narratives
A research workshop exploring the gendered dimension to migration and challenging disciplinary boundaries.

Linking women, peace and security in the Pacific: Thinking globally and acting locally
Public lecture by Sharon Bhagwan-Rolls, Executive Director of FemLINKPACIFIC.
Gang rape and the global: Sexual violence in India and beyond
Public panel discussion and book launch.

Gender Institute 2nd anniversary event
The ANU Gender Institute celebrated its second anniversary on Friday 15 March 2013 in the Sir Roland Wilson Building at the ANU with 120 guests attending. Event summary and media.
Celebrate international women's day and nominate a champion
You are invited to attend the annual ANU International Women’s Day celebration. This event is an opportunity to network, celebrate women and recognise their contribution to the U niversity.
One Billion Rising forum
The ANU Gender Institute in collaboration with the Human Resources Division Diversity and Workforce Planning Unit are holding a panel discussion to support this laudable initiative of raising awareness around violence against women and girls.
Feminist scholarship and the public realm 1970-2012
Raewyn Connell invites people to re-think the story of feminist gains and losses in Australia over the last 40 years in terms of the making and re-making of a public realm in Australia, considered as a settler-colonial society with a trajectory through industrialisation to neo-liberal dependence.

Gendered excellence in the social sciences
This two day workshop interrogates the relationship between the disciplines’ incorporation of feminist perspectives and their progress towards gender equity goals. It will probe how feminist activism and scholarship have informed one another.
Women and land and natural resource governance: The south-west pacific in comparative context
This workshop will help to identify an action research agenda to better understand the dynamics of natural resource governance in the region, and what can be done in terms of policy to support more gender equitable outcomes.
Academic Women's Writing Workshop 2012: with Beth Beckmann & Pam Roberts
Register your interest now for a structured and supportive week of intensive writing for ANU academic women staff. Preference is given to participants who can attend for the full week.
The Clare Burton Memorial Lecture 2012: For Love...
Building on the rich legacy of Clare Burton’s research and advocacy for women in the workforce, Jane Caro and Catherine Fox will bring their own take on the idea of “for love…”.
Two steps forward one back, or the reverse: feminism in a fierce new century?
Professor Gita Sen combines a distinguished academic career with policy advocacy and NGO activism. She is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India, and Adjunct Professor of Global Health and Population at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Scholarships: Gender and Water
Tapping the Turn is a conference on water’s social dimensions inspired by a growing interest in more effectively combining scientific research and humanities and social sciences research in water research, policy and program development.
This workshop is being held as a part of the conference.
Have we fallen out of love with women?
What are the real sacrifices that women must make to crack the glass ceiling if there are any and what is the psychology underlying all of this?
Women in science: From high school expectations to academic career
BROADENING WOMEN AND GIRLS’ SENSE OF THE POSSIBLE! (A great chance for Gender Institute members and beyond to network, including lunch):
Afghanistan: First Women’s Empowerment Centre
Ms Nasima Rahmani will discuss the challenges facing women to gain entry to public and private universities, and her work to support women to achieve economic independence and potential leadership positions.

The Court of Chancery: Women, Apprentices and Chancery in 16th century London
School of History Seminar Series: Dr Bailey will explore the extent of apprentices’ and women’s participation in early modern economic activities such as skill training, mentoring, credit agreements and buying and selling.
Afghanistan: First Women’s Empowerment Centre
Ms Nasima Rahmani will discuss the challenges facing women to gain entry to public and private universities, and her work to support women to achieve economic independence and potential leadership positions.

ECR and PhD workshop - Theorising gender and change at the levels of the social order, institutions and relationships
Professor Liz Kelly will facilitate an intensive workshop for ECRs and PhD students on theoretical frameworks that open up differing levels of gender analysis.

Conference: International and cross discipline perspectives – education about violence against women.
Meet a fabulous array of academic clinicians and academics and join ANU and international visitors for a day event focussed on violence against women, and participatory education for researchers, health workers and others working with women in violent situations.

Putting the Her Back in History: Clare Wright In Conversation with Kim Rubenstein
Historian Dr Clare Wright will discuss the making of her recent ABC TV documentary, Utopia Girls: How Women Won the Vote, with the Gender Institute’s Convenor, Professor Kim Rubenstein

Gender equality: a lived reality?
Our very successful Gender Institute Signature Event was presented by Ms Michelle Bachelet, Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UN Women on 24 August 2012 at the ANU School of Music.
On the Critique of Violence within Precarious Life
This paper explores the character of the ethical and political obligation that Judith Butler has argued arises from the shared condition of precarious life.
Gender Institute Seminar Series with Gender Institute prize winners sharing their research on Excellence in Gender Research
On the first anniversary of the Gender Institute in March 2012 we announced the ANU student prizes for undergraduate and graduate work completed in 2011. Join our award winners’ presentation and enjoy a chance to catch-up with members of the ANU Gender Institute.
Engendering governance - from the local to the global
FEMONATIONALISM: Gendered Migrations and Gendered Integration
Dr Farris, an Italian political theorist, works on gender, migration, integration and citizenship, using a sociological and political theory framework.

Tour the particle accelerator with Professor Mahananda Dasgupta
Meet our award winning ANU nuclear physicists Professor Mahananda Dasgupta, the inaugural Georgina Sweet Laureate Fellow, who will take us on a tour of this large facility at the Department of Nuclear Physics and tell us about her work with the accelerator.
Public Lecture by Dr Sara R. Farris: Femonationalism and Islamophobia - their political and symbolic economy
Dr Sara R. Farris is a Lecturer in Political Sociology at the European Studies Department, King’s College London, and Research Fellow at Princeton, Institute for Advanced Study (2012-2013).

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.
From ritual sex to sexual individuality: Tradition and modernity in Sambia sexual culture
Professor Gilbert Herdt (San Francisco State University) is a cultural anthropologist, Professor of Human Sexuality Studies and Anthropology, Founder of the Department of Sexuality Studies at San Francisco State University, and Founder of the National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC) in the Unite
Touching, Unbelonging and the Absence of Affect
This lecture is based around the idea of “affect,” which is a concept that has circulated widely in feminist thought if sometimes without clear definition.

A Distant Land by Gender Institute member Alison Booth
The new novel by Alison Booth, ANU academic and author, will be launched at the National Library of Australia Bookshop. Entitled A Distant Land (youtube) Booth’s new novel is set in 1971, towards the end of Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War.
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.
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?
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.
'The Relevance of Feminism for Lawyers Today'
The Gender Institute welcomes law students and others interested to a panel, 'The Relevance of Feminism for Lawyers Today '. Our four speakers will reflect on what feminism has offered them in their experience as lawyers, and what it offers for lawyers today. These speakers have all held various positions as corporate, administrative and pro bono lawyers, and some continue to maintain this experience along with their role as legal academics. Come along with your questions.

Global Poverty and Human Rights: A Workshop with Lucie White
ECR and PhD Workshop
The aim of this half-day workshop is for ANU early career researchers and doctoral students to engage in a reflective dialogue about their own research projects. Lucie will provide comments on individual presentations, and lead a final discussion. Participation is open to early career researchers and doctoral students in the Colleges of Law, Asia and the Pacific, Arts and Social Sciences, Medicine, Biology and Environment.
Critical approaches to gender and justice: A workshop with Sally Engle Merry
Call for papers: ANU early career researchers and doctoral students are invited to submit abstracts for participation in a day-long workshop on Critical Approaches to Gender and Justice with Professor Sally Engle Merry.
Human rights and the rise of indicator culture
Presented by Sally Engle Merry who is a Professor of Anthropology and Law and Society at New York University.
Gender Institute 1st anniversary
Panel discussion on women in science featuring Professor Margaret Sheil, Professor Emerita Lorraine Code, and Professor Susan Scott.
Initial Meeting ANUQ
'ANUQ' (the provisional name) is a group that would provide support for, and channel information to and from, queer-identified employees.
Reaching for Health: the Australian women's health movement and public policy
Book Launch
The book is a history of the controversial feminist women's health movement and its place as part of the health reform movement that began in the 1970s. It traces the impact the movement has been able to exercise on public policy since that time. Friday 10 February, 4-6pm. RSVP to admin.genderinstitute@anu.edu.au.

Men and masculinities - Theoretical and historiographical reflections
This masterclass is offered through the School of History, in association with the conference, Honour Killing Across Culture and Time (7-9 December 2011), convenened by Carolyn Strange,
Graduate Director, School of History.
Women, Leadership and Democracy in Australia
This national conference aims to bring together a diverse range of people interested in women’s history, Indigenous studies, gender studies, political history, political science, democracy, and industrial relations in Australia.
Why Inequalities Matter
In the face of widespread evil and injustice in the world, why should we care about mere inequalities? Brennan argues for the moral importance on inequality paying special attention to the problems posed by micro-inequities.

The Second Sex: The first unabridged English translation
Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier are the translators of the first ever unabridged English edition of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. After their successful tours of the US, France, the UK, Canada and Australia, the ANU Gender Institute is bringing Sheila and Constance to Canberra to talk about their translation and the relevance of The Second Sex today. This event is sponsored by the ANU Gender Institute.

Afternoon tea in support of the Salvation Army Freedom Advocates project
The Gender Institute will host an afternoon tea, with some brief presentations, in support of the Salvation Army's Freedom Advocates project. 2.45pm for 3.00pm start.
World Development Report 2012 - Gender Equality and Development
The Development Policy Centre and the Gender Institute, ANU, invite you to hear Andrew Mason present the findings and recommendations of the World Development Report 2012 and its companion publication on East Asia and the Pacific.
Bioethics, anonymity in donor conception practices and the gender of the gift
Roundtable with Professor Irène Théry from EHESS France, including discussants Dr Anni Dugdale (University of Canberra) and Dr Fiona Jenkins (ANU). Do we need to give access to the right to know the donor’s identity in assisted procreation?
Women's Advancement in Australian Political Science
Prompted by the continuing underrepresentation of women throughout the academic hierarchy in Australian political science departments, this workshop will bring together women working in the Australian political science profession to identify key issues relevant to the advancement of women in the
Public lecture: Gifts money cannot buy
Professor Dame Marilyn Strathern is one of the world’s most influential anthropologists, presenting as part of the conference, '60 years of Anthropology at ANU: Contesting Anthropology's futures'.
Gender in Oceania: Panel and presentations at ANU Anthropology Conference
Panel presentation, convened by Margaret Jolly (ANU)
Gender and The Twelfth National Labour History Conference
In this Twelfth biennial Labour Conference, 15-17, September 2011, Manning Clark Centre, Australian National University there is almost an even divide between men and women as presenters and nearly a third of the papers are by and about women.
Women and the Arab Spring
Two speakers from the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, ANU will speak about Arab Women Amid Political Change.
Lunchtime seminar: The study of violence from a gender perspective
Dr Elena Azaola, CIESAS, Mexico, talks about her research among Mexican inmates investigating homicide from a gender perspective.
Working for women symposium
Working for women symnposium. This one-day multidisciplinary symposium will explore the experiences, relationships and representation of work for women in pre-industrial Europe. Final call for registrations deadline: 8th August.
Progress of the world's women - in pursuit of justice
Join host Kim Rubenstein (ANU College of Law) and panellists Susan Harris Rimmer (ANU Centre for International Governance Justice), Simon Rice (ANU Law Reform and Social Justice Program) and Meghan Cooper (Australian National Committee for UN Women) to discuss UN Women's first major report 'Progr
Governor-General launches ANU Gender Institute
The Gender Institute was delighted to have the Governor-General of Australia Ms Quentin Bryce launch the Institute on Thursday 10 March 2011 in the Law Lecture Theatre at The Australian National University.
