Gender Institute Event Series
Poverty measurement: What's gender got to do with it?
Lunchtime seminar
Poverty measurement is extremely important, but most contemporary measures of poverty are deeply flawed. One major shortcoming of all existing poverty measures is a lack of gender sensitivity, which includes but is not limited to an inability to reveal the gendered distribution of deprivation,…
Celebrate WILPF's 96th birthday
Public forum
Celebrations for the organisation's 96th birthday will include a panel of speakers from the ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies.
Advancing Women forum
Forum
This is an opportunity for women across campus and beyond to meet, unwind and discuss topics that affect women, their careers and opportunities. Learn, be inspired, encouraged and exhilarated by your colleagues! Meetings alternate between lunchtime (bring your own lunch) and evening sessions…
Slavery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello - 2011 Allan Martin Lecture
Public lecture
Thomas Jefferson enslaved over 700 people over the course of his adult life. Most lived and worked at his famous home, Monticello. Dr Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard University, examines Jefferson's complicated relationship to slavery - what he wrote about it and how he lived it at the plantation that…
Parliamentary Roundtable - Ending gender-based violence in the Asia Pacific
Public forum
The Parliamentary Group on Population and Development is hosting a Parliamentary Roundtable on Ending Gender-Based Violence in the Asia Pacific at Parliament House, Canberra.
The spectacle of 'deviant' sexuality - moral panics, tabloid television and the birth of a new nation
Seminar
Bram Hendrawan from Utrecht University looks at the emergence of moral panics about homosexual people in post-Suharto Indonesia.
Left behind: Migration, householding and women's well-being in rural China
Lunchtime seminar
The starting point for Dr Tamara Jacka's paper is a new body of research that has emerged in China since the mid-2000s, expressing concern about the impact of rural migration on the well-being of the so-called 'left-behind' population, specifically, 'left-behind women'.