Queery-ing policy studies: using insights from LGBT service users to advance our understanding
In most minority-world countries enormous advances have been made over the past 20 years in achieving greater legal equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people. In many areas of life LGBT people are now legally protected from discrimination. However, this seminar will argue…
WILPF: Security in the Asia Pacific: women’s contribution to peace
Professor Kozue Akibayashi is a feminist researcher and activist. She is a professor at the Graduate School of Global Studies, Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Her research and activism has focused on analysing issues of militarism, militarisation and demilitarisation and decolonisation,…
Gender Institute's 6th anniversary event
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 Schmidt who talked about the relation…
Peruvian Congressman Alberto de Belaunde on human rights and LGBTI challenges in Latin America
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 followed by a Q&A session (note that the…
Scary monsters: the hopeful undecidability of David Bowie (1947-2016)
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 popular culture, few embody the monster quite…
Memoirs of a revolutionary daughter
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 movement opposing the regime.
The status of women in Israel relative to the rest of the world
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 countries, including Australia.Speaker'…
What was eugenics and why does it still matter?
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 encourage healthy reproduction…
Research, work, life and balancing academic careers
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 for Social Justice, ACU, Sydney.…
2015 Civil Society Dialogue on Women, Peace and Security
The third Annual Civil Society Dialogue on Women, Peace and Security marked the 15th anniversary of the landmark United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 by placing a spotlight on issues in some conflict affected communities to amplify civil society voices.The indepth discussions…