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16
May
2017
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 . 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...
11
May
2017
Launch of the fourth annual Civil Society report card
In 2012 the Federal Government launched the Australian National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security 2012-2018 (the NAP) as the first step towards implementing United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325). To improve implementation of the NAP, in mid-2013 civil society began a shadow reporting process, the output of which is the Annual Civil Society Report Card ( 2013 Report Card , 2014 Report Card and 2015 Report Card ). The Report Card...
05
May
2017
Gender Institute 6th anniversary event and prize giving ceremony
Join us to celebrate the Gender Institute's sixth year. We will start with an update on the gender equity program SAGE at ANU delivered by the Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt and Pro-Vice Chancellor (University Experience) Richard Baker, followed by the award of Gender Institute Prizes for 2016 for the best PhD and honours theses and the best article published by an HDR student. Morning tea will be served in the Lotus Hall at 10.30. Then...
04
May
2017
Gender and anthropology node meetings
The Anthropology Node of the Gender Institute is comprised of a network of researchers on campus who share qualitative and ethnographic approaches to the study of gender and sexuality. We are motivated by feminist approaches to socio-cultural research, broadly construed, and our Node encompasses an interdisciplinary group of colleagues focusing on gender and sexuality in a range of ethnographic settings. The fortnightly meetings focus on early stages of writing projects, usually engaging with a pre-circulated...
21
Apr
2017
Gender and history discussion group - 1st session
Gender and History node members will commence their 2017 meetings at 12.30pm on Friday 21 April in Fellows Bar (or outside in Fellows Garden if the weather permits). We will discuss Judith Bennett’s 1989 Gender & History article ‘Feminism and History’, reflecting both on our own research and practice and on the trajectory of gender history more broadly. If you would like to join us, please email Dr Karen Downing for a copy of the article.
31
Mar
2017
The perfect woman - the transgender body and queer intimacy in authoritarian Indonesia
2017 Anthropology Seminar Series, Semester 1 Abstract I departed for Indonesia in 2014 to research kin and kin-like relations among those referred to as "national transvestites" - waria. While I had figured that this might provide a more tender picture of the life of a group of people who are often characterised as deviant - sex work, homosexuality, street life, flamboyant femininity - what I found instead were complex forms of intimacy influenced, if not...
28
Mar
2017
Utopia 500
Thomas More wrote a book, coined a word… and changed the world . Since then, Utopia has beckoned to dreamers, thinkers, and critics everywhere. It has appealed to the best in us. But it has also drawn out the worst in us. And 500 years after its first publication, utopia seems as far off as ever. A new collaboration between the ABC , the ANU Centre for Law, Arts and the Humanities, the ANU Gender...
