Resources
Marshall Islands activist takes creative approach to tackle climate change
28 February 2018
Marshall Islands poet and international climate change activist Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner is in Australia to spread her message about taking a creative approach to climate change activism. In a trip funded by the Australia National University's College of...
STEMM's got talent, but nearly lost it. Here's what happened
31 January 2018
Seven diverse individuals describe why they are giving their talents to science, maths, and medicine, some obstacles they’ve encountered that almost resulted in them being lost from STEMM, and how these were overcome. Also they describe their...
Feminist utopias - Emma Goldman's struggles for utopia: feminism and ambivalence
18 January 2018
Professor Clare Hemmings , Director of the Gender Institute, London School of Economics, says Emma Goldman was a life-long believer in anarchist revolution and the importance of prefigurative engagement with utopian ways of living that such revolution...
Feminist utopias - My feminist utopia; Paradise found in the Pacific?
18 January 2018
Jane Alver , Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, University of Canberra, argues we need greater numbers and collectivity and unity across diversity and explores this prospect by drawing on her research on Pacific feminist civil...
Feminist utopias - The academic as artist and activist
18 January 2018
Teresa Jopson, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Political and Social Change, ANU, says amidst the dystopic climate in neoliberal academia scholars in various parts of the world have resisted through artistic and activist engagements. In this presentation, Jopson...
Feminist utopias - Hope and glimpsing the future in the marriage equality debate
18 January 2018
Dr. Hannah McCann, Lecturer, Gender Studies, University of Melbourne, asks should we be hopeful about the prospect of marriage equality? And, if so, what kind of hope should we adopt as our orientation? Are there certain formations of hope that shut down...
Feminist utopias - The struggle for change
18 January 2018
Dr Elizabeth Reid AO begins her presentation with audio from her ground-breaking plenary speech as part of the Australian Delegation to the World Conference of the International Women’s year, held at Mexico City, June – July 1975. Reid reflects on the...