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Alliance of Gender Scholars: Meeting
Please join us this Thursday for a casual Alliance catch-up. Bring along anything you want to brainstorm, ask opinions on, talk through or read through! There will be wine. When: Thursday 28th Oct, 4pm Where: Napier, room 108.
Reading Feminism Book Club
Please join us to discuss this month's book, 'Testo Junkie' by Paul Preciado. What constitutes a "real" man or woman in the twenty-first century? Since birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory-made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no longer destiny. Join us to talk sexed bodies, trans subjectivity, hormones, pornography, grief, queer collectivity, experimental life writing and more! When: Wednesday 27th October, 5:30pm. Where: Lower Napier, Room 24.
2021 Barbara Kidman Fellowships: Info Session
On the 15th of October 2021 the Academic Women's Forum and the Fay Gale Centre held an information session for the Barbara Kidman Fellowships. Please see the link for access to a recording of this session. Barbara Kidman Information Session (15th Oct, 2021)
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Fay Gale Lunchtime Seminar Series
Please join us this month for a presentation by Associate Professor Dr Duygu Yengin (School of Economics and Public Policy): "How women's underrepresentation hurts us all: Research based solutions for a collective problem." Feel free to bring along your lunch. When: Friday 22nd October. Where: Napier Room 208 - and online via Zoom. Visit here for more information.
Productive exposures: Vulnerability as a parallel practice of care in ethnographic and community spaces
Fay Gale Centre members Dr Gabby Zizzo, Professor Megan Warin and Dr Tanya Zivkovic have a publication out in the Australian Journal of Anthropology. Titled, "Productive exposures: Vulnerability as a parallel practice of care in ethnographic and community spaces,' the paper examines how a community program working with families identified as 'disadvantaged' in South Australia strategically uses vulnerability as a productive resource and a practice of care. In theorising vulnerability through parallel practices in both ethnographic approaches and this community program, we argue that vulnerability can be leveraged away from negative welfare discourses towards alternative politics of radical care and social change.
Reading Feminism: September Book Club Meeting
Trinh T. Minh-ha's book Woman, Native, Other is this month's read. Join us to talk post-colonial, third world feminist challenges to western feminism's hegemonic centre, subjectivity, the problem of ethnography, and much much more. When: Wednesday 29th September, 5:30pm. Where: Join the Facebook event for this meeting to stay up-to-date with the meeting place: https://fb.me/e/2C1r3ZDi4.
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The Fay Gale Centre Lunchtime Seminars
Please join us this month for a presentation by Dr Nathan Manning and Dr Djordje Stefanovic titled: Beyond Angry White Men: Social Democratic Imaginations as an Alternative to Aggrieved Entitlement. Feel free to bring a long your lunch. Zoom is available. Please contact Nathan for information. When: Friday 8th of October, 1:10-2:00pm. Where: Napier 209.
A Workshop on Gender in the Health Curriculum
The Alliance of Gender Scholars took part in a workshop with Professor Vivienne Moore on Thursday 27th to discuss her efforts to challenge the ideas that our evolutionary biology creates distinctive brains, aptitudes and behaviours in men and women. And that these can unwittingly be reinforced in reproductive health and other subjects, merely through silence. Please email gender@adelaide.edu.au if you know/have any Honours or post-graduate students with a focus on gender who would like to get involved with the Alliance or if you would like to run a workshop/discussion group or presentation with Alliance members.
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The Fay Gale Centre Lunchtime Seminar Series
This months seminar will be presented by PhD candidate Tarmia Klass and will be outlining her research proposal. Her work is titled 'Disruptive Bodies in Discursive Space: An Auto/Ethnographic Exploration of Body Positivity and Fat Acceptance on Instagram.' You are welcome to bring along your lunch. When: Tuesday 24th, 12:30-1:15pm Where: Napier, Lower Ground 19.
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True Selfie: Adelaide Festival of Ideas
Fay Gale Centre Director, Professor Megan Warin, and PhD student Cambrey Payne will be taking part in a panel alongside activist Clementine Ford and writer/director Taryn Brumfitt on the topic of how social media has reshaped our lives and how we view ourselves. Where: Bonython Hall, Noth Terrace, The University of Adelaide. When: Saturday 17th of July, 3:30-4:30 pm. More information here. Link to event registration here.
