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What COVID-19 revealed about gender equality policy framing

Fay Gale member Emerita Professor Carol Johnson recently published an article in the Australian Journal of Political Science. Titled 'What covid-19 revealed about gender equality policy framing,' the piece examines both the Morrison government's gender equality policies as well as the key criticisms of its economic measures. Click here for more information and to see other member publications.

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Fay Gale Lunchtime Seminar

Our next Fay Gale Centre Lunchtime Seminar will be presented by Professor Catherine Driscoll (University of Sydney) along with some members of the ‘Affirmative Feminist Boys Studies Group’. The group was formed to consider how to develop the emerging field of boys’ studies without sidelining the values of feminism and girls’ studies. Led by Professor Driscoll, the research team, which includes academics from the University of Sydney and the University of Technology, Sydney are addressing what Driscoll sees as “The popular sense that an unbridgeable chasm lies between feminists and those concerned about boys [and this] is both a cultural and intellectual problem.” Feel free to bring your lunch or join via zoom. When: Wednesday, 30 March, 12.30-1.30pm. Where: Napier G25. More information (and zoom link) here. 

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Reading Feminism Book Club Meeting: February

Our February book is 'Another day in the colony,' by Professor Chelsea Wattego. We will be meeting after the Annual Fay Gale Lecture by Professor Watego which is happening the same afternoon. If the weather is good we will be meeting outside. When: Feb 23rd, 5:30pm. Where: The University of Adelaide (Barr Smith Lawns). Please see the Facebook event for this meeting to keep up to date with meeting place and other information. Click HERE.

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Fay Gale Annual Lecture: Professor Chelsea Watego

In collaboration with the Academy of Social Sciences, the Fay Gale Centre is honoured and delighted to host Professor Chelsea Watego at the University of Adelaide on February 23rd at 4 pm. Professor Watego is this year’s speaker for the Annual Fay Gale lecture, and her lecture is entitled ‘No room at the Inn’: Rethinking critical race studies and its place in the Australian academy’. This event will be both in-person and live-streamed, but in-house seats are limited due to COVID restrictions.  To register please click here.

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Reading Feminism Book Club Meeting

Welcome to the new year everyone, we are meeting in the last Wednesday of January to kick off the year of reading feminism. The meeting will be centred around reflecting on the previous year of the book club and planning for 2022. When: January 26th. Where: The University of Adelaide, exact location TBA. More details to come! To stay updated please visit and like the facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/readingfeminism21 

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Successful ASSA Workshop Grant:

 In great news to end off the year, The Fay Gale Centre was successful in its application for an ASSA funded workshop - From Theory to Practice: Leveraging Feminist Approaches to Care at a Time of Crisis. Click here for more information: 

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Reading Feminism Book Club

Our final book(s) of the year are Alison Bechdel's graphic novels 'Fun Home' and 'Are you my mother'! Join us to talk about family, queerness, and drawing the feminist archive. we will also spend some time planning our future readings and sharing ideas for the new year! When: Wednesday 15th, 5:30pm. Where: LG24 Napier, or outside if the weather is nice! 

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Academic Emotions: Feeling the Institution

Fay Gale Centre member Associate Professor Katie Barclay has a new book out, published by Cambridge University Press as part of the Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Sense series. Titled Academic Emotions: Feeling the Institution, the book draws on a rich array of writing about the modern academy by contemporary academics and explores the emotional dynamics of the academy as a disciplining institution, the production of the academic self, and the role of emotion in negotiating power in the ivory tower. 

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Fay Gale Centre Book Launch: Posthuman Legal Subjectivity

The Fay Gale Centre is delighted to invite you to the launch of Dr Jana Norman’s book Posthuman Legal Subjectivity: Reimagining the Human in the AnthropoceneJana’s book draws on conceptual fields associated with the new sciences, including new materialisms and posthuman critical theory, to demonstrate that the naturalised hierarchy of humans over nature in the Western social imaginary is anything but natural. It then sets about constructing a counternarrative. It is an original and important analysis of the legal status of the human in the Anthropocene will be of great interest to those working in legal theory, jurisprudence, environmental law and the environmental humanities; as well as those with relevant interests in gender studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, critical theory and philosophy. When: Thursday, November 25th at 5:30pm, Where: Ingkarni Wardli, Level 7. RSVP to: tarmia.klass@adelaide.edu.au

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Fay Gale Lunchtime Seminar Series

We are also to welcome Professor Anna Hickey-Moody (RMIT) to present this month’s lunchtime seminar, titled Belonging, connectedness and well-being in the lives of Australian children.’ This seminar explores belonging, connectedness and wellbeing in the stories of over 300 Australian children. Anna Hickey-Moody will discuss the ways in which children express their feelings of belonging, the human and more-than-human networks that make up their communities and the digital and physical ways in which they maintain connectedness to their communities. When: Friday 26th November, 12-1pm Where: Napier 209 - and online via Zoom. Visit here for more information. 

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