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Gender Institute's 6th anniversary event
10 May 2017
We had a great time celebrating our sixth birthday on Friday May 5 and thank all ANU staff and students and our guests beyond the ANU for their enthusiastic participation. We especially acknowledge the excellent presentations by Vice-Chancellor Brian...
Peruvian Congressman Alberto de Belaunde on human rights and LGBTI challenges in Latin America
21 March 2017
Peruvian Congressman Alberto de Belaunde is one of the few political figures defending LGBTI civil and gender identity rights in Peru. This talk focuses on the question of human rights, including LGBTI challenges, in Latin America. The presentation was...
Scary monsters: the hopeful undecidability of David Bowie (1947-2016)
06 September 2016
Monsters, because the monster is the outsider template par excellence within social theory. Hopeful, because monsters are quintessentially hopeful, they promise a new dawn, and point to the place of the sacred. Bowie, because of all the figures within...
Memoirs of a revolutionary daughter
20 June 2016
Carmen Aguirre is a Vancouver-based multi-award winning theatre artist, actor, director, and author. Born in Chile, Carmen and her family settled in Canada following the 1973 Pinochet coup, but later returned to South America and joined the underground...
What was eugenics and why does it still matter?
20 June 2016
In the early twentieth century research on intelligence, hereditary disease, behaviours regarded as anti-social, family life and reproductive controls all took shape in the shadow of eugenics, a movement which claimed to apply the science of heredity to...
The status of women in Israel relative to the rest of the world
20 June 2016
In this seminar, Dr Sztokman consideres areas such as wage gaps, political participation, business ownership, personal status issues, women's education, women in the army and reproductive rights to reflect on the status of women in Israel and other...
Research, work, life and balancing academic careers
23 May 2016
This event featured Professor Kim Rubenstein, Acting Convenor of the ANU Gender Institute in conversation with Professor Jenny Nedelsky and Professor Joseph Carens, both from the University of Toronto, and currently Professorial Fellows at the Institute...
