Gender Institute Event Series
Humanitarian, Gender Based Violence and Conflict Crisis in Tigray, Ethiopia
Women, Peace and Security 2021 Webinar Series
This event is now passed. You can access the recording here. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that a humanitarian catastrophe is ’unfolding before our eyes’ in Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The focus of this discussion is to understand the compounding challenges of the…
The Evolution of an Asia-Pacific Security Cooperation Network: Joint Military Exercises Involving China
Webinar
How has security cooperation changed in the Asia-Pacific? Regional countries have increasingly carried out security cooperation activities with China, despite the absence of formal alliance ties. Yet there is a dearth of systematic data and analysis on China’s security cooperation with the region.…
Breastfeeding: where healthy and sustainable food systems begin
Webinar
Today’s food systems are contributing to several intersecting health and ecological crises of global concern. Recognising this, many are now calling for transformative, and some even say radical, food systems change. The United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) seeks to ‘transform the way the…
The Politics of Nuclear Commemoration in Asia: The China Case
Webinar
In the study of China’s foreign affairs, historians like to suggest that the past is always present. A ‘Century of Humiliation’ in the nineteenth century or fighting the Japanese in the 1930s and 1940s are often referenced. Yet another historic development, namely China’s development of nuclear…
Olympic Women: Panel discussion and film screening
Film screening
This panel discussion brings together experts to comment on the struggle for gender equity in sports, followed by a short documentary film about Brazilian Olympian and soccer icon, Marta Vieira da Silva. The conversation will provide an in-depth gender analysis of the world of elite sport, timed to…
The Australian Magazine as Material Object and Social Network
Public seminar
This seminar brings together interdisciplinary academics and artists whose research engages with Australian magazines, to share and present works in progress. The seminar will involve short, informal presentations by researchers as well as larger roundtable discussions about new methodological…
Recasting Tongan Sovereignty: Land, Gender and Indigeneity
Seminar
Explorations of sovereignty provide insights into the relationships between the nation state and her people. Tonga is often heralded as the only Pacific Island to have remained "sovereign," having avoided formal colonisation. However, this sovereignty relied upon the subjugation of women and women…