From 2015 Australian Feminist Studies (AFS) will have new editors, Maryanne Dever and Lisa Adkins.

At this roundtable event they will be talking about the changing relationship between feminist research, the academy and the journal publishing environment. ANU feminist researchers from all disciplines are warmly invited to contribute their thoughts about the future direction of the journal.

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Launch of AFS special issue: Gendered Excellence in the Social Sciences

This roundtable discussion will be directly followed by the Gender Institute Feminist Theory Now Public Lecture, ‘Feminism’s Archive’ delivered by Maryanne Dever, after which we will be celebrating the publication of a special issue of AFS, edited by Fiona Jenkins and Helen Keane, ‘Gendered Excellence in the Social Sciences’. The special issue will be launched by Professor Margaret Jolly.

MARYANNE DEVER is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities & Social Science at the University of Newcastle. She was previously Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies & Gender Research at Monash University and President of the Australian Women’s and Gender Studies Association.  She is co-founder and co-convenor (with Linda Morra) of the Archive Futures Research Network (www.archivefutures.com), an international network of academic researchers and archivists founded 2012. In addition to her research on literary archives, Maryanne is widely published on the history and development of Women’s and Gender Studies and on gender and higher education. She is co-author of The Intimate Archive (NLA 2009) and with Linda Morra is currently co-editing a 2014 special issue of the journal Archives and Manuscripts on ‘Literary Archives, Materiality and the Digital’. She also co-edited (with Lisa Adkins) a 2014 special issue of Australian Feminist Studies on the theme of ‘Gender and Labour in New Times’. From 2015 she will be co-editor (with Lisa Adkins) of Australian Feminist Studies.

LISA ADKINS is BHP Billiton Chair of Sociology at the University of Newcastle, Australia, and was previously Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London. Widely published in the areas of social theory, feminist theory and economic sociology her recent research focuses on the restructuring of labour and shifts to the economy-society relation in post-Fordist capitalism. Publications from this research have appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly, Feminist Theory, NORA: Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research and Australian Feminist Studies. She has also recently contributed to debates concerning the reconstruction of social science through the volumes What is the Empirical? (co-edited with Celia Lury) and Measure and Value (co-edited with Celia Lury). She is convenor of the international research network New Times: Transforming Feminist Political Economies. From 2015 she will be co-editor (with Maryanne Dever) of Australian Feminist Studies.