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SA Women's & Gender Studies Annual Public Lecture 2021
Dr Juliet Watson, President of the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association, will be giving a public lecture in July entitled 'Miscarrying in the Car: Centring Gendered Experiences of Homelessness.' By putting gender at the centre of how we understand homelessness, this lecture will bring to light complexities and dynamics that too often are ignored when exploring this space. Where: Napier 102 lecture theatre When: Thursday, 15 July, 5:30-8:00 pm
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Reading Feminism: June Book-club Meeting
This month we are looking at poetry as a decolonising feminist practice/methodology with two texts, ARCHIVAL-POETICS by Dr. NATALIE HARKIN, a Narungga poet and theorist, and BORDERLANDS/LA FRONTERA by GLORIA ANZALDÚA, a Chicana poet and theorist. Where: Napier 210, The University of Adelaide. When: Wednesday the 30th of June, 5:30 pm.
NTEU - The Carolyn Allport Scholarship
The National Tertiary Education Union's annual Carolyn Allport scholarship is calling for applicants. The scholarship is available for any student undertaking postgraduate feminist studies, by research, in any discipline. $5000 per year for up to three years will be awarded to the successful applicant. If you wish to apply, applicants must be currently enrolled in postgraduate study, by research, at an Australian institution. Further specifics apply. Visit the NTEU website for more information. Application deadline: Friday 30th of July.
2020s Vision - Economic Future of Women in Australia
Centre member Associate Professor Duygu Yengin took part in a very important and relevant panel discussion on the topic of the economic security of women in Australia. Presented by the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre and BPW Adelaide, a recording of the panel can be found here.
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Special Fay Gale Seminar: Courage to Change by Professor Alison Phipps
The Courage to Change: Ending Gender Inequality and Sexual Harassment in Australian universities. The Fay Gale Centre is excited to be hosting a special seminar by Professor Alison Phipps (The University of Sussex, UK). At this Fay Gale seminar, Professor Phipps will address the policies and practices that can enable and support structural and cultural change around issues such as gender inequity, bullying, sexual harassment and violence. This event will generate collective understanding of how change at universities can occur, providing practical steps to create a workplace in which gender equity, diversity and care can flourish. The seminar will also be accessible over Zoom. When: 6 pm, 7th of June, 2021. Where: Adelaide University, Ingkarni Wardli Building, Level 7 Conference Room. Please RSVP for the event here.
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The budget’s still-narrow gender lens: Inside Story
Fay Gale Centre member Carol Johnson, Emerita Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide, discusses the most recent budget and its step in the right direction to acknowledging gender, however narrowly, and the need for significant shifts in Australian culture to really make a difference. Read the article here.
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Reading Feminism: May Book Club Meeting
Join us on for our May book club meeting. May's book is Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis. In this work, a classic of feminist, Marxist, Black and anti-racist theory and theorising, Davis writes a history of women, race, and class in the United States. The book is a crucial example of a work that enacts what we today might call intersectional analysis to interrogate existing worlds in order produce radical new feminist / anti-racist / Marxist visions and futures. When: Wednesday, 26th of May, 5:30 pm. Where: Lower Napier, LG24 Lecture Room, Adelaide University.
Special Fay Gale Seminar: Courage to Change by Professor Alison Phipps
The Courage to Change: Ending Gender Inequality and Sexual Harassment in Australian universities. The Fay Gale Centre is excited to be hosting a special seminar by Professor Alison Phipps (The University of Sussex, UK). At this Fay Gale seminar, Professor Phipps will address the policies and practices that can enable and support structural and cultural change around issues such as gender inequity, bullying, sexual harassment and violence. This event will generate collective understanding of how change at universities can occur, providing practical steps to create a workplace in which gender equity, diversity and care can flourish. The seminar will also be accessible over Zoom. When: 6 pm, 7th of June, 2021. Where: TBA. Please RSVP for the event here.
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Critical considerations of workplace flexibility “for all” and gendered outcomes
A recent co-authored publication from FGC members and Alliance scholars on masculinities and workplace flexibility, "Critical considerations of workplace flexibility “for all” and gendered outcomes: Men being flexible about their flexibility," has been published in the the journal Gender, Work and Organisation. Link here to the paper.
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The Fay Gale Centre Lunchtime Seminar Series
Join us for the third Fay Gale Lunchtime Seminar for 2021. Dr Henrike Hoogenraad will be presenting a talk titled 'Love migration as a gendered practice: Cross-border intimacies and imaginaries of love and happiness among African-Australia couples.' When: Tuesday, 25th May, 1:00-1:45 pm. Where: Napier 210.
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