Gender Institute Event Series
World YWCA Day Round the World Breakfast
Fundraiser
An opportunity to come together in honouring the contributions of women leaders in YWCAs and their communities.
Mothers at the margins
Conference
The sixth Australian international, interdisciplinary conference on motherhood will be held at the University of Queensland, 27-30 April. Confirmed speakers include Andrea O'Reilly, Sonya Andermahr and Debra Creedy.
Militarisation and women's lives in later seventeenth-century Nguyen Cochinchina: insights from French missionary sources
Lunchtime seminar
Dr Cooke's paper explores the hitherto invisible life experiences shared by tens of thousands of seventeenth-century Vietnamese women who were military wives and widows.
The regulation of diverse genders and sexualities in post-colonial Burma/Myanmar
Lunchtime seminar
In this study, David Gilbert aims to examine ways in which governmental power intersects and has productive effects within everyday life for people of diverse genders and sexualities in Burma/Myanmar.
The urgency of interdisciplinarity: sooner, not later, we're going to need a cultural science
Public lecture
Public lecture by Distinguished Professor John Hartley, ARC Federation Fellow (2005-10), and Research Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, Queensland University of Technology.
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…
School of History seminar: 'The lust of the eye and the thrill of the flesh'
Seminar
"In this paper, I want to sketch something of the relationship between pornographic film and modernity. Specifically, I want to show how these two terms have been brought together through several decades of scholarship in disparate disciplinary fields. My story is a selective Anglo-American one and…