Gender Institute Event Series
Present Tending
Arts & entertainment
Present Tending by Rebecca Mayo, Kylie Banyard, Sara Lindsay, Ema Shin, Ilka White and Katie West at ANCA Gallery 8–26 March 2023The six artists in Present Tending share interests in textiles, plant colour, ethics of care, stories and places. Katie West (Yindjibarndi) is based in Noongar Ballardong…
In conversation: Improving the treatment of sexual assault survivors
Seminar
Join the Hon Helen Murrell SC, former ACT Chief Justice, and Katrina Marson, former ACT Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions Senior Prosecutor (Sexual Offences Unit), researcher and author, in conversation about the treatment of survivors of sexual assault in the judicial system…
The Criminalisation of Coercive Control: Victim-Survivor Perspectives
Presentation
Several Australian jurisdictions are presently in the process of criminalising coercive and controlling behaviours. This presentation will draw on the findings of a national survey of victim-survivors' views on the criminalisation of coercive control in Australia, to explore victim-survivor views…
Queer Displacements - Leadership, Partnership & Belonging
Signature event
Queer Displacements Conference - Canberra edition 15-16 February 2023 After the success of the 2019 Sexuality, Migration & Exile conference, the Queer Displacements conference returns to Canberra in 2023 for two events. The Queer Displacements is the first and only conference in the Asia…
End of Year Celebration
Party
Please join us to celebrate all our amazing work in 2022 and to connect with colleagues old and new. Enjoy a bite-size showcase of some of the brilliant work funded by the Gender Institute, followed by festive refreshments. Three-minute presentations from: Elise Klein and Janet…
Extractive Industries and Postcolonial Masculinities
Workshop
This one-day workshop focuses on the changing masculinities in the postcolonial Asia-Pacific, focusing on the extractive industry. In this region, the historical relationships between colonisers and colonised have changed, and new interactions and social connections are occurring between…
Extractive industries and postcolonial masculinities in Asia and the Pacific
Workshop
As extractive capital expands globally, breaking new grounds in areas of contested masculinities, the need to deconstruct the industry’s hypermasculinity and male hegemony becomes increasingly necessary. New multinational companies bring their employees from countries such as China and India, and…