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13
Oct
2017
Pregnancy belly casting talk, demonstration and exhibition
A group of women from the Moree Mubali: Sea of Bellies program are visiting The Australian National University. To mark the occasion, two consecutive events will take place during ACT Mental Health Week : “Belly Yarn” Talk A talk by Moree Community Elder Aunty Paula Duncan on her reflections on the Mubali: Sea of Bellies Aboriginal Maternal Health and Wellbeing project. Followed by a Q and A session with the Moree women. Welcome to Country...
11
Oct
2017
Queery-ing policy studies: using insights from LGBT service users to advance our understanding
In most minority-world countries enormous advances have been made over the past 20 years in achieving greater legal equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. 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. Drawing on insights from queer theory and feminist theory that seek to deconstruct...
21
Sep
2017
Women making international law: Towards feminist diplomacy
Feminist international law scholarship has always insisted on showing the human faces of the state, why constructions of gender matter to the state, and which humans are excluded or silenced by gendered constructions of the state. And so the feminist question posed here is, who is entitled to make international law? This collection contains sustained analysis of women as judges in international courts, women as ‘publicists’ in the academy, and women advocates and political leaders...
18
Sep
2017
Between Moscow, Geneva and Shanghai: The league of nations' campaigns against the traffic in Russian women refugees from the Soviet Union, 1921-1938
The 2005 movie The White Countess , written by prominent British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, tells the story of a beautiful, Russian former-aristocrat forced to flee the Bolshevik revolution who becomes a taxi dancer in Shanghai to feed her family. In its presentation of the noble, martyred, but ultimately redeemed figure of the Countess, the film encapsulates all the elements of an influential interwar paradigm, that of the ‘white’ Russian female migrant in China, forced by...
15
Sep
2017
Gender and history node discussion group - 4th session
The Gender and History group node will meet to discuss issues of power, intimacy and gender with Karen Harvey’s introduction to the edited collection The Kiss in History (Manchester University Press, 2005) as their starting point. If you would like to join them, please email Dr Karen Downing for a copy of the reading.
11
Sep
2017
Gender responsive budgeting for breastfeeding
Monday 11 September, 11.15am to 5.00pm Tuesday 12 September, 9.30am to 4.30pm The first Asia-Pacific regional workshop on Gender Responsive Budgeting for Breastfeeding will be hosted by the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute and School of Regulation and Global Governance on 11 and 12 September. The two day regional workshop aims to support efforts to improve breastfeeding policies and its funding in national budgets. Experts in breastfeeding, health and fiscal policy will draw on their...
11
Sep
2017
Gender responsive budgeting and breastfeeding policies: insights from the Asia-Pacific region
Global progress in improving infant and young child feeding practices has been hindered by a lack of funding of national breastfeeding policies and there are renewed calls at the international level to address funding gaps. In parallel, some thirty countries in the Asia-Pacific region have taken steps to link gender equality and economic policies. This public seminar is a unique opportunity to highlight the progress on breastfeeding policies and associated funding across the region. It...
