IWD: Changing the culture of gender at ANU
International Women’s Day (IWD) is held annually to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Brian P. Schmidt, and a panel of leading ANU women met on March 8th to discuss Changing the Culture of Gender at ANU.
Marshall Islands activist takes creative approach to tackle climate change
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 Asia and the Pacific and its Gender Institute,…
STEMM's got talent, but nearly lost it. Here's what happened
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 contributions, and their wishes for the future.…
Feminist utopias - The struggle for change
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 extent to which her speech reflected a Utopian…
Feminist utopias - My feminist utopia; Paradise found in the Pacific?
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 society. There are contested notions of feminism in…
Feminist utopias - Hope and glimpsing the future in the marriage equality debate
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 queer futures? Drawing on Lauren Berlant’s (…
Feminist utopias - Emma Goldman's struggles for utopia: feminism and ambivalence
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 would surely inaugurate. Yet for all her fervent…
Feminist utopias - Creative women down under – 10 years on: a case study in resilience
Gabrielle Journey Jones, co-founder of Creative Womyn Down Under, says the group develops and supports opportunities for ‘womyn’ to participate in creative experiences, and its vision develops networks and friendships in Australia and beyond. Journey Jones explores what a grass-roots, unfunded,…
Feminist utopias - The academic as artist and activist
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 explores how academics as artists and…
VIDEO - Feminist Utopias - Teresa Jopson
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 explores how academics as artists and…